Overview
- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a proclamation encouraging every Arkansas high school and college to allow students to start Club America or Turning Point USA chapters.
- At the Governor’s Mansion event, TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk urged students to join or launch chapters and framed the clubs as spaces for civic discussion and expression of political and religious views.
- TPUSA staff said roughly 16% of Arkansas high schools already have chapters and described a goal of establishing a chapter in every high school.
- Democratic student groups denounced the governor’s move as state influence over campus politics and organized a protest of roughly 75 people outside the mansion.
- Videos of a post‑event skirmish show TPUSA supporters shoving and throwing a punch as four protesters were arrested; Arkansas State Police said the investigation is active and additional charges are possible.