WASHINGTON—When Blake Neff first started working with Charlie Kirk in 2022, he doubted the conservative activist’s message would land with its intended audience.
“I was like, ‘Young people are all libs. This is just not going to work,’” Neff told The Epoch Times.
Then he saw the fruits of Kirk’s labor: scores of debates on college campuses; the mastery of social media; huge, in-person events such as AmericaFest; in 2024, Turning Point Action’s get-out-the-vote operation in purple states, which helped swing the presidential election for President Donald Trump.
Kirk, who worked to change minds across America, also changed the mind of someone much closer to him….