Before Charlie, who was Erika Kirk?
Until a few years ago, no one really knew who Erika Kirk was; all we knew was that she was the wife of the controversial right-wing organisation (Turning Point USA) owner Charlie Kirk. Then everything changed the moment Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah University on September 10th 2025. Within 8 days of his death, Erika became Turning Point USA CEO.
Her background
Her birth name is officially Erika Lane Frantze. She was born in Ohio on the 20th November, 1988. She was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, by her single Catholic mother. She went to Notre Dame Prep School, then she played basketball in college, then studied political science and international relations at Arizona State University. She also has a post-grad law degree from liberty univercity an conservative university in Virginia.
In 2012, she won the Miss Arizona USA title, where she competed in Miss USA. She then went on to work as a model, actress, and director in New York and China. Suddenly, she changed her stance and turned heavily religious and set up a Bible-reading program (Biblein365) and a religious clothing brand/podcast, Midweek Rise Up.
She started dating Charlie Kirk in 2019 after she applied to work at Turning Point USA, and Charlie has said on record that the interview ended up as a date, and they then got married in 2021.
Her rise to power was this her plan all along?
8 days after her husband charlie kirk died, she was made the ceo of Turning Point USA. It was decided by a board meeting vote. The Turning Point chief went on record to say, apparently, this is what Charlie would have wanted. But there is no public record of this being said, and why would someone with no previous experience in executive experience now be in charge of an 85 million dollar a year organisation?
The money and what the taxes are showing
Turning Point USA is registered as a 501(c)(3) charity, which in short means all donations are tax-deductible, funny that isn't it. Of course, another conservative org pays no federal tax, also. In exchange for this, though, they must submit annual returns with the IRS.
Here are the figures we found - Turning Point USA revenue growth
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $78,890 | $51,942 | +$26,948 |
| 2016 | $4.3M | $3.9M | +$446K |
| 2019 | $28.6M | $25.0M | +$3.6M |
| 2020 | $39.8M | $38.4M | +$1.5M |
| 2021 | $55.8M | $47.5M | +$8.3M |
| 2022 | $80.6M | $71.9M | +$8.8M |
| 2023 | $81.7M | $91.4M | -$9.6M |
| 2024 | $85.0M | $81.0M | +$3.9M |
Ok, let's be real, how the hell does a student club go from 79k to 85 million a year? all from donations. In the most recent file, the 2024 990 document, it claims that TPUSA provided firstclass travel and charter travel for all employees.
Their biggest donor is Home Depot co founder bernie marcus, who has donated 1,573,000 between the years 2015 and 2018, and of course, he is a pro-Israel donor in US politics.
TPUSA also have "experience Israel tours" in their own 990 filings. But this next section may make everything make sense because it was all Israel lobby money funding the org... until Charlie started questioning Israel.
Charlie Kirk was in trouble with donors before his death
In the final weeks of Charlie being alive, he started getting into some real bad situations with some of his biggest donors, and that source of trouble was indeed Israel.
Charlie allowed speakers like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly to openly criticise Israel's assault and genocide on Gaza at his July 2025 Tampa TPSUA student summit. What happened afterwards was that all the pro-Israel donors who funded TPSUA harassed him with calls and texts of abuse, and he was then dragged into a meeting at the Hamptons by Bill Ackman (one of Netanyahu's biggest friends in the USA)
A whistleblower and friend of Charlie's who stayed anonymous for protection stated charlie was offered a lot of money directly from Netanyahu. Charlie refused this donation on the basis that he thought Netanyahu was a bully, and apparently, according to this whistleblower, he left the meeting scared.
He left the meeting scared.
This is what gets crazy, the same day Erika Kirk becomes ceo trumps former campaign manager and a Kirk associate registered a company called Clocktower X LLC, as a foreign agent for the state of Israel. The contract that was sent through Havas Media Germany, which was connected to and on behalf of israels ministry of Foreign Affairs, was worth 6 million, which then jumped up to. million. It was required by Salem Media Network (the show hosts of the Charlie Kirk show to display Israeli government messaging.
So this is what's got everyone thinking. In the last days of Charlie Kirk's life, he was seriously against taking money anymore from Israeli lobbies and even denied money from Netanyahu, and why did within days of his death did his wife Erika went against his choices to accept money from people he called bullies and let a new company become registered and integrate with his organisation that were dorectly connected to the israel goverment.
The grooming allegations
Screenshots we found and posted alongside others started doing the rounds of some newfound evidence that in 2013-14, Erika was commenting on a girl's Instagram, including private direct messages.
This is what the comments and messages show.
1: She would comment on the girls' Instagram with overly affectionate comments. No woman in her twenties should be sending someone who's under 15.
2: Erika was exposed to sending this girl physical gifts in the post, which included handwritten messages and chocolate-covered strawberries.
3: One of the most shocking ones was Erika apparently wrote "hold on sweetheart, give me a sex wow period" before apparently correcting herself and saying "sec like S E C sex too but not from you lol" then she added "I don't bat for the other team just yet"
The evidence came from an X account that was last active in 2014, in which it posted as if it was receiving messages in real time and was owned by the girl who kirk was messaging. We then went to Instagram and found the old comments she used to leave.
Isn't it ironic how a woman who now owns her husband's conservative org that is anti LGBTQ and continuously used the word grooming as a weapon was allegedly sending a 14-year-old messages?
The Romanian scandal
Erika Kirk decided she would use Greg Lauire as a head speaker for her nationwide faith tour. Greg is the founder of Harvest Christian Fellowship, which, in short terms, is a mega church in California. But what she didn't tell you is that in 1998, Greg's Mega Church sent Paul Havsgaard to Romania to set up a network of children's homes, which they funded. According to 22 separate reported cases they was some real horrific abuse happening.
According to reports, children were abused and tied to radiators, and video cameras were apparently set up in areas to record children, and older boys were apparently trafficked through bathhouses.
Apparently, before this man was sent to Romania, his sibling warned them he would abuse one of their siblings, but everyone ignored it.
Why the fuck would Kirk, four months after these lawsuits were filed, then appoint this church as the lead speakers of her tour?
What we didn't know and now we do, yes, Erika did run a charity out of Romania, and a lot of people think that Harvest Christian Fellowship are connected, and that's not the case.
We can not find any legal documents or lawsuits stating she ran a charity that ended up abusing kids, and for legal reasons, we won't report on that until we know more, but rest assured, she 100% is tied to a child abuser that was sent to romania, and hes her main spokesperson on her tour, so the issue doesn't leave the table.
FOLLOW THE MONEY AND KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS
TPSUA makes 85 million dollars a year in tax-deductible donations, it pays its owners like a corporation, they fund staff's luxury travel and hotels, they put on ridiculous shows where Erika Kirk comes out like a WWE wrestler, sends moneys to fake companies and threaten everyone with lawyers instead of addressing allegations.
They have built their platform, calling trans people predators. Erika has allegedly messaged and groomed a 14/15 year old and is close with someone who has 22 lawsuits of child abuse against their name.
shes now on the military oversight board and has a salary up to 420,000 from donors.
Someone should be watching, but no one is.