A Turning Point USA chapter president at the University of Texas at Dallas was violently assaulted with a metal bike lock by a trans-identifying student earlier this week — in a shocking act of political aggression that the mainstream media will likely pretend never happened.
Paige Neumann, the young conservative who leads the TPUSA chapter, was on campus Monday doing what TPUSA does best: standing up for freedom, truth, and common sense. That’s when Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen — a 20-year-old biological male who now goes by “Alyssa” — launched an unprovoked and vicious attack caught on video.
.@TPUSAStudents Chapter President, Paige Neumann, and her secretary, Grace, were assaulted today while tabling at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The attacker (pictured below) struck Paige in the head with a metal bike lock, hitting her with enough force to shatter her phone.… pic.twitter.com/kNdFk35U5l
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) March 25, 2025
Nguyen, clearly enraged, can be seen grabbing his bicycle, whipping around, and swinging a heavy metal bike lock at Neumann and her fellow students. According to TPUSA, the impact was so forceful it shattered Neumann’s phone and left her with a painful head injury. Another student, identified only as Grace, also had her phone destroyed in the chaos.
If this had been the other way around — if a conservative student had swung a blunt weapon at a liberal activist — it would be international news. MSNBC anchors would be crying on-air. The DOJ would be investigating it as a hate crime. But because it was a violent leftist attacking a young conservative woman, there’s nothing but crickets from corporate media.
Nguyen was arrested the same day and booked into Collin County Jail. He now faces two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of assaulting a peace officer, and one count of trying to grab a cop’s weapon. Good.
But what about the university? Where is the leadership condemning political violence on campus? Where is the diversity office — usually so quick to decry “hate speech” — when actual, literal violence is committed against a conservative?
Appearing on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday, Neumann detailed the horrifying incident. “It did hit the back of my head,” she explained. “If he would have aimed a little bit lower, I could have been paralyzed. I think he wanted to kill me.”
Think about that. This young woman, standing peacefully with her student group, said “zero words” to her attacker. She wasn’t yelling. She wasn’t taunting. She was simply present — and that was enough to make her a target.
Let’s not sugarcoat it: this was a hate crime. A targeted, premeditated assault on a conservative woman because she dared to speak freely and exist publicly as a member of a right-of-center student group. We’ve reached the point where free speech on college campuses can literally get you assaulted with a deadly weapon — but only if you’re on the Right.
Now Neumann says she’s still in pain and plans to get X-rays to determine the full extent of her injuries. And while the legal system moves forward with charges against Nguyen, conservatives are once again left asking: when will our students be protected on college campuses? When will left-wing extremism be taken seriously?
This didn’t happen in Portland. This happened in Texas. A so-called red state. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
It’s time to call this what it is — political terrorism. And unless universities start enforcing zero-tolerance policies against violence, the radical Left is going to keep pushing, keep escalating, and keep trying to silence dissent with fists and bike locks.
But make no mistake — conservative students aren’t going anywhere. They’re tougher than the Left gives them credit for, and thanks to fighters like Paige Neumann, they’re not backing down.
America’s youth deserve better than campuses run by cowardly administrators and overrun with unhinged activists. Our side plays by the rules. The other side swings bike locks.
Enough is enough.
