Abbott moves to bring Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA into Texas schools

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Texas has embarked on launching chapters of Turning Point USA - the conservative youth organisation founded by the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk - in high schools across the state, building on similar efforts in Oklahoma and Florida.

Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor, and other Texas Republicans made the announcement on Monday alongside Turning Point USA (TPUSA)'s senior director, Josh Thifault, at the gubernatorial mansion in Austin.