​MTSU, DISBAND TPUSA MTSU CHAPTER AND BAN JOSHUA HAYMES FROM CAMPUS!

On October 19, Turning Point USA hosted ultra right-wing podcaster and friend of warhawk Pete Hegseth Joshua Haymes for their "Pick Up The Mic" tour. Just like Charlie Kirk before him, this is TPUSA and their speakers' opportunity to espouse the most reactionary US Imperialist propaganda​ under the guise of peaceful discussion. Haymes claims Adolf Hitler is misunderstood, slavery isn't inherently evil, crime in black neighborhoods and abortion would be solved with public executions, and that all Muslims should be deported and banned from the country.

Haymes has been quoted as saying:

"If we would just re-institute public executions, [crime] in high density black areas in major metropolitan cities, they would fall to the floor." - October 8, 2026

"The institution of slavery is not inherently evil. It is not inherently evil to own another human being.” - Oct 14, 2025

“Islam and Christian civilization are incompatible; they’ve been at odds with each other for century, millenia, and by the grace of god, modern Christian western civilization will wake up to this fact and put an end to gay race commie globalism that has been importing Mohammedans by the millions into our country once and for all." - March 12, 2026

"[Hitler] put an emphasis on blood and soil. The importance of being a people and having a lineage and having distinctness and particularity as a people and the fact that we should love our people and our place. He did that... The Mustache Man is misunderstood" - August 12, 2026

Haymes makes it no secret that he aims to spread these views on campus during this tour. His YouTube channel is filled with videos clickbait titles such as "I Told A Muslim That We Should Deport The Muhammadans From America. This Is How He Responded" which showcase him spreading this vile rhetoric on college campuses like MTSU.

MTSU has had a history of a white nationalism on campus. In 2017, neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa put up flyers across campus to in attempt to recruit students. In 2018, Vanguard America - another white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization - put up white nationalist posters with the words "Protect White Families" over a Black History Month event poster. Both instances received only a press statement and nothing more.
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In contrast, last year, MTSU's former Assistant Dean Laura Sosh-Lightsy was swiftly terminated for posting on her Facebook account that Charlie Kirk's rhetoric fostered his own assassination. ​

In the battle between imperialist reactionaries and the masses who are against it, MTSU finds itself on the side of ultra-reactionary white nationalism. It is time MTSU students make it known that we do not want TPUSA to continue to harbor figures like Joshua Haymes.

WE DEMAND MTSU & PRESIDENT MCPHEE:

1. DISBAND TURNING POINT USA FROM MTSU

2. BAN JOSHUA HAYMES FROM SPEAKING AT MTSU

Signed,

Southern Youth Solidarity Network (SYSN)

MTLambda

The Greyhounds of MTSU

Southwest Asian North African Student Association (SWANA MTSU)

MTSU Young Democratic Socialists of America (MTSU YDSA)

African Student Organization (ASO)

Asian Student Association (ASA)

MTSU Students for Environmental Action