Frontlines TPUSA Manager and reporter Brandon Drey discussed his team’s growth, along with certain nuances of their work, with Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff Thursday on the Charlie Kirk Show.
Drey discussed the importance of covering protests and interviewing protesters–especially the rawer and grittier side of such demonstrations–which is something avoided often by mainstream journalism outlets.
“They would cut away from these protests and these riots and show mostly peaceful side of things,” he said of the mainstream media.
Notably, the growth of Frontlines and its impact has increased steadily since its establishment in 2022.
“We’ve grown into this nationwide network of videographers and journalists emphasizing truth, objectivity and integrity through the Turning Point lens,” Drey said. “Our videos are often going viral: we’re picking up content that the mainstream media is being forced to recognize because of its virality.”
“You guys put yourself in some really radical positions,” Kolvet said, with Frontlines having boots on the ground all throughout the US.
They then discussed the work of Frontlines reporters like Jonathan Choe, Kevin Kalb, Savanah Hernandez, Julio Rojas, Bronson Alford, Kalen D’Almeida, Monica Paige, and Vicki Richter, along with their specific skillsets and beats as journalists.
Kolvet asked about how reporters are deployed amid the team’s growth and how they discover leads.
“We’ll look at potential protests and planned riots online to see how big they’re going to get based on social media engagement. We’ll go on Reddit, we’ll go on Bluesky… we’re looking on X, we’re looking on Instagram,” Drey said.
Throughout their reporting, the team has observed the tactics of left-wing protesters at length, described as repetitive and inflexible.
“It’s the same song over and over again,” Drey noted. “They have the same talking points, they’re not evolving, they’re not changing their tune, they’re not thinking outside of the box, they’re not letting anybody poke a hole in their argument.”
Several Frontlines journalists won Telly awards for their reporting in 2025
