In the days since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a Utah campus event, a new online campaign has emerged—one that its critics say reeks of the very “cancel culture” Kirk once railed against.
A website launched just three days after the killing, dubbed Expose Charlie’s Murderers, claims to have compiled a database of more than 30,000 social media profiles of people accused of mocking or celebrating Kirk’s death. According to its creators, the list is “a permanent and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for violence,” promising to make it filterable by location and industry. Their goal: to get people fired.
The push began when far-right agitator Laura Loomer declared on X that she would make “everyone I find online who celebrates his death famous.” Others quickly took up the call, with supporters branding their efforts as a mission of loyalty to Kirk. Detractors, however, have given them a mocking name: Nazi Karens.
One of the most visible participants is Olivia Krolczyk, a self-described “Catholic, Patriot, Public Speaker,” who bragged about contacting 471 employers of Kirk critics. “My fingers hurt. My eyes hurt. I’ve never had screen time this high,” she wrote online. “But it’s all worth it. All for Charlie.”
Krolczyk, who also insisted she supported “free speech,” was quickly met with backlash. “And you think you’re a Catholic patriot? Shut up, Nazi Karen,” one user fired back.
The campaign has not remained confined to threats. At least two dozen people have reportedly lost their jobs already. Among them: MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd, who was fired after suggesting Kirk’s inflammatory rhetoric may have fueled the climate that led to his death. Professors at universities in Tennessee, Mississippi, and elsewhere have also faced dismissal over online remarks.
Meanwhile, Trump administration officials appear eager to amplify the purge. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has instructed Pentagon staff to monitor social media for critical posts by service members, while the White House has pledged to crack down on foreigners accused of “praising, rationalizing, or making light of” the killing.
Activists like Scott Presler and conspiracy theorist Matt Wallace have gone further, urging supporters to pressure businesses linked to Kirk’s detractors. Wallace even boasted that his team has “already gotten at least 25 people fired.”
But if the campaign’s architects hoped to silence opposition, the backlash suggests otherwise. “Don’t you dare come at me with your hypocrisy,” Ohio restaurateur Aaron Sharpe shot back after being targeted for calling Kirk a “piece of s–t.” Others have seized on the irony that a movement built on complaints about “cancel culture” is now organizing the largest online firing drive in recent memory.
“Imagine whining about free speech every day, then building a blacklist of people exercising free speech,” one progressive user wrote. “MAGA logic is undefeated.”
For now, the “Nazi Karens” show no sign of slowing down. Whether this wave of retaliatory firings fades with grief or cements itself as a permanent online crusade remains to be seen.
