Club America meeting sparks protest, counterprotest

   Posted Nov. 8, 2025

O.K. Truhlar

Cub Reporter

Adults on Facebook organized a protest in support of Club America, a controversial new club based around late right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk's ideals. 

The club first met on Oct. 8, with around forty students in attendance. Junior Julie Partida said most of the students weren’t genuinely interested in joining the club, but just wanted to see what it was about. The meeting was cancelled around 20 minutes after one of the founders went to security and said they felt unsafe. 

According to the Vice President of Club America Maxwell Geokjian, students who showed up harassed the founders, threw away and stole $60 worth of snacks, and made them feel unsafe. 

Partida said everybody at the club was peaceful and had very positive “vibes”. 

After the first meeting, adults on Facebook arranged a protest in support of the club founder. An estimated forty adults showed up in support of the club on Oct. 15. The club’s meeting for that day was cancelled. 

A crowd of students gathered after about ten minutes across the road in their own protest. This lasted around thirty minutes until most of the students had crossed the road and started fairly peaceful discussions with the adult protesters. 

Students talked to protesters about racism, transitioning, economics, and other highly politicized topics. Television news station KATU 2 ABC showed up an hour into the event and interviewed student Micah Coleman and protester James Saint. They filmed the protest for about fifteen minutes before they left. The conversations quickly got more heated as protesters left. In the last half hour conversations took a turn towards much less civil verbal altercations.

“The club doesn’t have a place at David freaking Douglas,” said Partida.