In the heart of Phoenix, a fierce determination is shining through the turmoil surrounding Turning Point USA. Amy Rose Lombardo, the event coordinator for the organization’s chapter at Northern Arizona University, is standing firm despite a wave of hostility following the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. This incident occurred during a speaking event at Utah Valley University on September 10.

Speaking to Fox News Digital at Turning Point’s annual AmericaFest conference, Lombardo recounted the barrage of harassment and intimidation she and her fellow chapter members have endured. This disturbing trend has heightened since Kirk’s untimely death, with protesters resorting to increasingly dramatic tactics to voice their disdain.

“We’ve experienced some rather intense protest strategies,” Lombardo explained. She described a particularly unsettling incident where a woman approached their table and left a disturbing note. The note graphically depicted the murder of Charlie Kirk, accompanied by chilling words equating free speech with violence, saying, “only a good Nazi is a dead Nazi.”

A photograph of the unsettling drawing, shared by Lombardo, illustrates a person clutching their neck with blood pouring out—a haunting image meant to intimidate and silence. Despite these aggressive acts, Lombardo and her team remain resolute in their mission, refusing to be cowed by fear.

That note also depicted blood coming out of the neck of a person holding a microphone.

In a second incident, a woman was caught on camera swiping the contents off of the chapter’s table during a tabling event, and then stealing a foam board depicting Ronald Reagan.

“With the table swiper, to be honest with you, that person just came out of nowhere. She was walking back from a direction that normally we wouldn’t see people, but she went and got food at some sort of area on the opposite side of where we were tabling, came around, and you’ll hear in the video my sister says, ‘hey, how’s it going?’” Lombardo recalled.

“And she smiles at us and swipes the table, and leaves,” Lombardo continued.

A student at Northern Arizona University clears a Turning Point USA table and walks off with a poster in September 2025.  (Courtesy: @FrontlinesTPUSA)

Lombardo said the group contacted the Northern Arizona University Police Department, which prosecuted the offender. Court records indicate that the table swiper was charged with theft and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. 

Lombardo was complimentary of the police department and university administration for the handling of the various incidents.

She also remains undeterred, despite the hostility.

“To me, Turning Point means truth, and fighting for what you believe in,” Lombardo said. “Because if we lose all hope, and we just give up on everything, then there’s no way that we’d be able to have a future in America.“

She described the militance of those who oppose Turning Point as motivational, and said that she prays for her opponents because she feels badly for them.

Attendees pray during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Phoenix. (Jon Cherry/AP)

“I hope they find their way out of the hatred that they let run their lives,” she said. “Because at the end of the day, even though I disagree with those people, and they may disagree with me, I believe they are just extremely misguided, and they have just been lied to.”

She encouraged others to step up and fight for what they believe.

“To those people who are not quite sure if they want to step into the movement yet, to those people, I would say if you can’t do it, if you won’t do it, then who else will?”

Since Kirk’s death, political leftists have opposed Turning Point with full force, as interest in the conservative organization has skyrocketed. Other right-leaning groups have also faced a barrage of hatred.

Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, prior to his assassination. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

In one such incident, a teaching assistant at Illinois State University was caught on camera flipping a TPUSA table. He had been arrested only days prior for a similar act. He was later arrested by the FBI for allegedly making online threats against President Donald Trump.

Another repeat offender was accused of flipping a TPUSA table at the University of Iowa, after doing the same to a Young America’s Foundation display prior.

Northern Arizona University declined to comment further.