Phoenix's Role as Turning Point USA's Home Base

Showing 98 Phoenix, Arizona videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Phoenix is Turning Point USA's home base, the city where AmericaFest draws its largest crowds each year, growing from roughly 13,000 attendees in 2023 to more than 30,000 by 2025, and where Charlie Kirk's memorial service filled a stadium with 100,000 people in over 90-degree heat months after his assassination. The city carries personal history for the organization beyond its headquarters: Tucker Carlson has described a 2012 lunch meeting in Phoenix that first convinced him Erika Kirk, then working locally after winning Miss Arizona, was a future leader, the same year Andrew Breitbart's death helped inspire Charlie Kirk to found Turning Point USA in the first place. Dream City Church and other Phoenix-area congregations became recurring venues for Kirk's discussions of faith with pastors like Allen Jackson and David Engelhardt, covering everything from spiritual warfare to a satanic conference scheduled in nearby Scottsdale. After Kirk's death, Phoenix also became the setting for some of the more candid interviews about his life and the organization's future, with close friends and colleagues like Andrew Kolvet and Alex Clark sitting for extended conversations there about what Turning Point USA looks like under Erika Kirk's leadership.