One year ago this week, Turning Point USA founder and conservative icon Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University.As the anniversary approaches, his closest allies are still grappling with the tragedy after losing their friend and leader in the prime of his life.Andrew Kolvet, the spokesman for Turning Point USA and a close friend of Kirk's, called the past year "the most challenging year of my life.""Not only did we live through the tragedy of losing Charlie in such a public, horrific way, but we've had to navigate the months afterwards, and try and pick up the pieces and keep charging forward, because I think there would have been a temptation for anybody to just be mired in grief and go into the fetal position after something like that happened.But we also understood that Charlie meant so much to so many people that we had to push forward and keep going," Kolvet told Fox News Digital.TYLER ROBINSON TO FACE TRIAL IN CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION AS JUDGE KEEPS DEATH PENALTY ON TABLEIt has been nearly one year since the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Kolvet, who first met Kirk in 2017 and began working for him in 2018, said he didn't expect a cottage industry of conspiracy theories to emerge from Kirk's murder, but he said he also didn't expect that stories from all over the country from people whose lives Kirk impacted would continue flooding in nearly a year later.Kolvet recounted the story of an Indiana student and high school Turning Point chapter president who clashed with a mother while handing out bracelets."And she was like, 'You know, Charlie taught me how to stand up for myself and I won't back down.And I'm here because I was inspired to get involved by Charlie, his life and his death, and I won't back down," Kolvet said.He continued, "And to see that kind of grit, like a happy warrior from our students and to see their enthusiasm and their willingness to stay engaged, stay fig...