Braxton Mitchell’s involvement with Turning Point, a nonprofit founded by Charlie Kirk, dates back to 2018.

The organization, which Kirk founded in 2012 at age 18, operates with a mission to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.”

Mitchell, now a 25-year-old Republican state legislator representing Columbia Falls, landed on the organization’s radar for his work organizing a walkout at Columbia Falls High School. After the Parkland school shooting in 2018, students across the country called for an end to gun violence. But Mitchell took a different tact. He coordinated a pro-gun walkout, advocating for the Second Amendment and mourning the victims of the shooting, he said. Afterwards, Mitche

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