Left-Wing Activists Stage Mock Assassination of Charlie Kirk Outside TPUSA Event
Organizers instructed participants to “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
A group of far-left activists descended on Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit over the weekend, intent on heckling attendees, ridiculing the event, and creating as much disruption as possible. The three-day summit, which began Friday at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, took place under heightened security after months of organizing by activist groups opposed to the event.
The security concerns were not merely hypothetical. Just one week before the summit, authorities arrested a Texas man accused of threatening to bomb the gathering and kill TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk in a series of social media posts.
Local media outlet KSAT reported:
A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika Kirk ahead of her appearance next week at a Turning Point USA event downtown.
Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.
San Antonio police investigators said Wenske replied to an April social media post about the group’s three-day women’s leadership summit by writing, “I know exactly where to bomb.”
In a separate post within the same thread, Wenske wrote, “I can’t wait to be the valet for her escort,” a warrant for his arrest states.
An email from an account registered to Wenske stated, “Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event,” according to the warrant.
By far, the most grotesque spectacle of the weekend occurred when an activist dressed up as Charlie Kirk and staged a mock reenactment of his assassination in front of attendees. Frontlines, TPUSA’s media arm, reported that protesters had been “chanting that Kirk ‘deserved to die’ all morning outside of the event.”
While there is no indication that the protesters had any connection to Wenske’s threats, the timing made the mock assassination all the more disturbing. With a credible threat against Kirk still fresh in attendees’ minds, turning the murder of her late husband into political theater demonstrated a striking lack of basic human decency.
Footage of the disturbing display can be viewed below.
SAN ANTONIO- A radical leftwinger is dressed as Charlie Kirk and is re-enacting his assassination in front of attendees of TPUSA’s women’s conference.
They’ve been mocking Charlie’s assassination and chanting that he “deserved to die” all morning outside of the event.… pic.twitter.com/vfPzsdnCxl
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Frontlines posted video showing the activists assembling before marching toward the Rivercenter. Some waved pride flags, while others carried an eclectic assortment of homemade signs bearing slogans such as “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” “Erika Pedophile Protector,” “It’s Right to Rebel,” and even a quotation attributed to Mao Zedong: “To die for the people is weightier than Mt. Tai, but to die for the fascists, exploiters, and oppressors is lighter than a feather.”
Taken together, the collection of messages was less a coherent political statement than a jumble of grievances, slogans, and ideological talking points. If the demonstrators were attempting to communicate a unified purpose, it was not immediately apparent.
HAPPENING NOW: Far-left activists are preparing to march towards the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter to protest @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk.
Organizers have been plotting this for months — ever since TPUSA announced the Women’s Leadership Summit.
They claim the event “actively… pic.twitter.com/9jcHpVYF79
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Frontlines reported that the protesters wore costumes like the Grim Reaper and The Handmaid’s Tale and were told to make as much noise as possible to “disrupt the event.”
Organizers instructed participants to “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
MARCHING ORDERS: Anti-TPUSA protesters dressed in costumes like the grim reaper and The Handmaid’s Tale are following the organizers instructions before marching toward the Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, TX.
“Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make… pic.twitter.com/8wMZ1ZHj2F
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
WATCH: Mob of far-left protesters flips off our team covering the Women’s Leadership Summit outside the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter — after organizers instructed the anti-TPUSA crowd to bring noise makers to disrupt the event.@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/Cp6FjUyudE
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Inside the venue, a heckler interrupted TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk’s speech, which she handled like a champion. After she urged the audience to put their faith in God, a heckler shouted, “Erika Kirk protects pedophiles! Erika Kirk protects pedophiles!”
Kirk stopped her speech and addressed the woman: “It’s important to remember that happiness comes and goes — and I pray that you find it.”
Erika Kirk got heckled by a brave woman today pic.twitter.com/fkGSFGAxaV
— Jamison Daniel (@AntiquarianMuse) June 6, 2026
These people are evil.
There’s no way around it.
We are surrounded by people who wish us dead and will dance in our graves when we die or when they kill us.
I’m not sure we can turn this around as a country, but we certainly cannot share it with them.
They want us dead.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 6, 2026
This is going to look great on their resume on the way into the trash can. Way to burn down your future. Perhaps that is why they hide like the ancestors in the KKK. Attacking a widow and a peaceful movement makes them feel important?
— Danny Pennington (@oldmaninahat2) June 6, 2026
Frankly, it was unclear what, precisely, these activists were actually protesting. According to Frontlines, organizers claimed the TPUSA summit “‘actively harmed feminist movements’ and insisted that ‘hateful obstructions to feminism’ are not welcome in San Antonio.”
Whatever the protesters hoped to accomplish, however, it is hard to imagine they changed a single mind. Reenacting the assassination of a political opponent is not an act of persuasion, nor is it a meaningful form of protest. It is cruelty masquerading as political expression. The spectacle was pointless, needlessly provocative, and profoundly callous — particularly given that it targeted the legacy of a man whose widow was hosting the event. If the goal was to demonstrate moral superiority, the protesters achieved precisely the opposite.
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What a bunch of losers and the billionaires paying them are even bigger losers.
Norman Vincent Peale is unknown to the rabid leftist, and their actions reveal the heartless, selfish Fascist underneath the guise of “equality”.
Wait, why is be as loud and obnoxious as you can so special here? They’re always loud and obnoxious. When are they not loud and obnoxious? It is their defining characteristic. That and violence.
You want these spoiled children anywhere near power? The rest of us don’t.
Hate and violence are the only things that the utterly vile, evil and wretched communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat criminal organization and its goose-stepping and subversive band of fifth columnist fanatics, have to offer.
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