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“Thin, fertile, and conservative”: Inside Turning Point USA’s conference for conservative young women

The push and pull of modern anti-feminism

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Madeline Peltz
Jun 18, 2025
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About halfway through the Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Grapevine, Texas, I got a talking to from Turning Point USA comms.

Andrew Kolvet, the organization’s chief spokesman, peeled me away from the line of young women I was speaking to warn me that he had gotten complaints about me, though he couldn’t name what they were beyond “weird questions”, an…

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