Conservative Allies Face Death Threats After Charlie Kirk's Murder

A year has passed since Charlie Kirk was killed, yet the conservative voices who stood by him loudest are now facing a fresh wave of danger from left-wing agitators online. Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, and Robby Starbuck have all received death threats since Kirk was gunned down in front of students at Utah Valley University last September. The Turning Point leader was just 31 when a single bullet ended his life. Now, Utah prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old charged with the murder.

Johnson, who has been a longtime associate and friend of Kirk, received a graphic letter at his Florida home only days after the shooting. Maybe someone will blow your head off!!! We can hope! Planning any public engagements? Love to see your head explode and your blood stain the concrete red, the note read. Prosecutors say George Isbell Jr., a 69-year-old from San Diego, mailed it while facing federal charges. The letter attacked Johnson as a white cis Christian Trump advocate and claimed the writer would take joy in widowing his wife and orphaning his four children.

Loomer, a vocal right-wing Trump supporter with over a million followers on X, faced anti-Semitic death threats on that social media platform just a month later. Prosecutors say Nicholas Ray, a 28-year-old from Spring, Texas, targeted Loomer along with other conservative influencers under the handle @zionistarescum. Ray wrote that he would string her up from the Smithsonian and told Babylon Bee boss Seth Dillon you're living on borrowed time after deciding Dillon had helped Israel plan Kirk's murder. Ray started the account five days after the shooting. Florida has since charged him with 12 counts, including terroristic threats and extortion.

Starbuck has received explicit death threats sent to him, and his home address has been posted online. He blames Google's AI chatbot for falsely telling millions of users he was a criminal and a sex abuser. The threats followed the lies. Starbuck is 37. He sued Google for at least $15 million last October. Google tried to get the case thrown out but lost. On July 24, Delaware Superior Court Judge Meghan Adams ruled the suit could go forward, noting that Google has never claimed the statements were true. The case is now headed into discovery where Starbuck's lawyers can demand internal records on how the AI came to invent a criminal record for him.

Then last week an LA podcaster named Benjamin Southworth, 40, was indicted for threatening to kill Trump and for posting the Tennessee home address of the president's lawyer, Jay Sekulow. Many on the right say Kirk's death united conservatives across the country. Yet that unity has done nothing to slow the threats or the violence. Communities face a growing risk where online anger translates into real-world danger against those who speak out. The logic is clear: false accusations and targeted harassment are escalating, not stopping.