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JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics
The Guardian
09/16/2025
A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was endorsed on Monday by JD Vance.
The US vice-president guest-hosted Kirk’s podcast on Monday and said that people who “see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder” should “call them out”. He added: “Hell, call their employer. We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.”
In the past few days, numerous workers across various different fields ranging from colleges to an airplane pilot have been fired for their comments on Kirk’s death.
An anonymous website that began collecting reports of anti-Kirk “political extremism” said it had received more than 63,000 submissions. The website was originally named “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” but rebranded Monday to the “Charlie Kirk Data Foundation”. The group has previously said it had been targeted by hackers and “leftist attacks”. Its website was down on Tuesday.
Trump allies have sought to link Kirk’s killing – without evidence – to what they say is a coordinated leftwing “terror” movement that supports political violence, funded by progressive and liberal charities. This has led to fears of a draconian crackdown on free speech.
In his podcast, Vance said the administration would “work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country”.
The vice-president was joined on Kirk’s podcast by Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, who also vowed to crack down on what he called the “vast domestic terrorist network” he blamed for Kirk’s death.
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, homeland security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he said. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
