On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was murdered after being shot through the neck by a sniper. While his ignoble death was heinous, it was the logical end result of a man whose career was defined by his efforts to legitimise extremism and accompanying violence. Since his passing, Kirk's followers and allies have taken to rewriting history and portraying the man as being a moderate conservative whose only fault was his desire for respectful debate. Far from that image conjured by his followers, Kirk rejected seeking either compromise or common ground with his political opponents, often instead whipping up a mob to go after his opponents or deceptively editing his videos in an effort to attack his opponents' credibility, in an effort to grow his audience. Kirk sought to radicalise youth into undertaking an authoritarian vision of America, one purposed to bring violence upon his political opponents, one that had been aligned with the personal project of his patron and mentor, Robert Mercer. This project was entirely dedicated to the destruction of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that ushered in legal protections for Americans regardless of their race. These goals and his enduring intent to enact them are clearly observable in the various racism scandals of senior Turning Point organisers
This is the real Turning Point USA, where this sort of racism is only disavowed when you get caught. This is the real face of Charlie Kirk's organisation.
Thus, it must be said that Kirk was a snivelling, valueless coward who was notorious for recruiting racist extremists and even foreign assets to his organisation, Turning Point USA, and for using his platform to justify and incite violence against those he deemed his political enemies by inciting his audience against those targets he deemed his enemies. Kirk created an environment of permissibility for political violence by supporters of the MAGA movement and its sympathisers abroad, and offered adherents the opportunity to act with minimal consequences for their violent undertakings.
Predictably, a figure who has amassed an audience primed for violence being assassinated has resulted in an outpouring of calls for revenge by similarly-minded extremists. This has ranged from nonspecific calls to "war" against anyone deemed to be a critic or political opponent of Kirk's, to much more specific declared intentions to commit acts of violence against Kirk's critics. Naturally, these responses are coming from individuals with known histories of supporting political violence against their perceived enemies, as well as incitement against specific targets deemed to be adversarial to the goals of the MAGA movement. One such figure, Chaya Raichik (otherwise known as Libs Of TikTok) has had over twenty bomb threats connected to her online posts, which are frequently laden with grievances towards LGBTQ2S people and often attempt to portray her targets as ultimate evils that must be stopped or disrupted by any means necessary, the most common theme being the portrayal of such institutions as being involved in child sexual abuse. Such targets include children's hospitals, schools, libraries, and businesses. Others now involve declarations of intent to instigate the total annihilation of their political opponents, including drawing favourable comparisons of the Republican Party to the NSDAP.
Let's be clear: these are calls for mass political violence. They are not really related to Kirk's assassination, about which nothing is known. It is people who have been looking for a reason to call for Democrats to be killed and their cities bombed, and found a pretext. https://t.co/x4pLK4djan
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 11, 2025
Kill Lists
However, one specific kind of campaign has piqued my interest. Kirk's followers have since taken to formulating a kill list of Kirk's critics, the premise of which being to accuse those critics of being retroactively responsible for Kirk's murder regardless of the fact that no one knows who Kirk's killer is or what their motivations are. Instead, the purpose of the list is quite obviously to harness the energized mob of Kirk's supporters to target the man's critics for the purposes of intimidation and incitement to violence against said critics. While attribution of this list is currently unknown, the first individual to promote and name the list is none other than neo-Nazi Othman Mekhloufi, a political operative of the Republican Party and the Conservative Party of British Columbia. Coincidentally, Mekhloufi was covered in my previous article concerning the Dominion Society, in which he participated in a Twitter Space alongside Daniel Tyrie, members of the neo-Nazi paramilitary network Diagolon, and the neo-Nazi essayist Fortissax. During that Space, Mekhloufi elaborated on the role neo-Nazi organisations play in pushing more moderate parties in increasingly radical directions. Further evidence suggesting Canadian involvement in the list is the fact that journalist Rachel Gilmore is the first entry.
Gilmore is a frequent target of threats and sexual harassment from supporters of Diagolon and the Dominion Society, and her entry betrays the list's purpose as a means of target selection and incitement, rather than as a documentation project elucidating on how Kirk came to be murdered. Indeed, the "evidence" of Gilmore's retroactive responsibility in Kirk's death are Gilmore's explicit condemnation of Kirk's murder and speculation on the potential for Kirk's supporters to become further radicalised and turn to violence. Given the fact that she is receiving a torrent of abuse and threats against her safety, Gilmore's speculation is wholly vindicated. Moreover, Mekhloufi's relationship with the Dominion Society and Diagolon proves this list is simply a tool for enacting a vendetta carried by neo-Nazis against their critics.
Gilmore has since begun receiving further threats against her person from neo-Nazi accounts.
Another notable aspect of these developments is that Conservative politicians are among the first individuals to place a target on Gilmore's back, specifically for her speculation of retaliatory violence that is already being announced by Kirk's supporters. Chief among them being former Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer, whose campaign was directly tied to The Rebel, a website that has been implicated in inspiring multiple acts of right-wing terrorism around the world and that has a history of hiring several individuals tied to Generation Identity, and organisation banned as a terrorist entity in France, in addition to promoting said organisation multiple times on its website (which has since been scrubbed).
Andrew Scheer should be censured for his participation in targeting the free press for their criticisms. His actions are precisely what he is accusing others of.
What Andrew Scheer, Diagolon, and others are doing is pure incitement against the press for the crime of criticising their behaviour. They are accusing Gilmore of precisely what they are doing in that given moment, and indeed, what they have a long history of doing to critics and members of the press. These accusations are a classic example of accusations-in-a-mirror, a propaganda technique that incites against a subject by accusing the subject of doing exactly what the accuser is either doing, or intends to do. Beyond incitement, this technique is designed to avoid culpability and to deter public scrutiny of their actions onto the subject, who more often than not is not simply innocent of those accusations, but doing the opposite of what those accusations entail.
Further adding to this disturbing reinvigoration of the violent right-wing, Diagolon is explicitly invoking past acts of antisemitic violence in order to drum up support for their campaign. This signals an intent to mobilise their newfound support and energy towards demonising minorities, particularly Jews, and further exacerbating the conditions for violence against them.
Here, Diagolon leader MacKenzie can be seen delighting in the potential for future violence.
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