Universities have become hostile territory for conservatives.
One campus just proved how bad things have gotten.
And Rutgers exposed for going after conservative students with one shocking weapon.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025 at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves across America.
Conservative students everywhere vowed to continue Kirk’s mission of exposing leftist radicalism on college campuses.
But they couldn’t have predicted what happened next at Rutgers University would expose the Left’s playbook for silencing dissent.
TPUSA students target Antifa-linked professor
The Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers University launched a petition calling for the removal of history Professor Mark Bray.¹
Students identified Bray as the author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," in which he advocates "militant anti-fascism" and pledges that at least half of his proceeds will go to the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund.²
The petition describes Bray as an "Antifa financier" and argues that his employment endangers conservative students on campus.³
"With the current trend of left-wing terrorism, having a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus is a threat to conservative students," the petition states.⁴
The timing wasn’t coincidental. President Trump had just designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization following Kirk’s murder.⁵
Bray’s 2017 book had already made him a lightning rod. In it, he wrote that "at the very least 50 percent of author proceeds will go to the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund which is administered by more than three hundred antifa from eighteen countries."⁶
The fund has allegedly supplied legal support to suspected Antifa members charged with terrorism and attempted murder at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, according to the petition.⁷
"Why is Rutgers employing an advocate of political violence?" national Turning Point spokesperson Andrew Kolvet asked.⁸
Bray fled the country to Spain earlier this month after writing on BlueSky that he "received multiple death threats" and "doxing" after the petition gained publicity.⁹
He claimed he was targeted because of Trump’s executive order, not because of any actual threat he posed. But the TPUSA students weren’t buying it.
University weaponizes bureaucracy against conservative leaders
Here’s where things get interesting. After the petition gained traction, Rutgers suddenly discovered a "compliance matter" with the TPUSA chapter.¹⁰
Two Turning Point chapter leaders, Megyn Doyle and Ava Kwan, were the driving force behind the petition. They’re now facing removal from their positions for supposedly not being "properly registered as officers."¹¹
The university confirmed its investigation Monday but conveniently didn’t mention the petition or Bray.¹²
"Two Turning Point chapter leaders were not properly registered as officers in accordance with university procedures and therefore were not involved in any organizational onboarding processes offered by the university," Rutgers stated.¹³
The timing reeks. These students operated their chapter for months without any problems. They challenge a radical professor, and suddenly the administration discovers registration issues?
Kwan saw right through it. "Based on the timing of this investigation, this reads as a weaponization of procedure against Megyn and I as a result of our public opposition to self-proclaimed Antifa affiliate, Mark Bray," she told Fox News.¹⁴
Kwan, who also has been doxed, believes the petition is the real reason she and Doyle are being investigated.¹⁵
"Ava Kwan is a graduate, and I am a student from a different campus, so that is why they want us removed," Doyle explained. "We have not been notified why we have been investigated all of a sudden, and this has only been happening because of opposition towards Mark Bray."¹⁶
Karima Woodyard, Rutgers’ director for student involvement and leadership, sent an email demanding the chapter hold new elections to remove Doyle and Kwan from their positions.¹⁷
The excuse? Doyle is a Newark student and Kwan is a graduate student, making them "ineligible" to hold executive board positions in an undergraduate student organization for the New Brunswick campus.¹⁸
"Please proceed with holding elections for those positions in accordance with your organization’s constitution to ensure compliance with university and student organization policies," Woodyard wrote.¹⁹
Meanwhile, the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution 110-4 supporting Bray and affirming supposed academic freedom.²⁰
Conservative students across America need to pay attention to what just happened at Rutgers. This is the blueprint leftist administrators use when you challenge their radical professors.
Step 1: Conservative students expose radical professor Step 2: Professor plays victim and flees Step 3: University investigates the students, not the professor Step 4: Bureaucratic technicalities get weaponized to remove conservative leaders Step 5: Faculty senate rallies behind the radical while students face consequences
Bray gets to keep teaching from Spain while drawing his New Jersey taxpayer-funded salary. The students who exposed him face removal from their leadership positions.
The message is clear. Universities will protect radical professors who donate money to groups linked to terrorism. But conservative students who dare to question them? Those students get investigated and removed.
Doyle put it best when she told Fox News: "The only way that you can make a difference is by speaking out, start with a petition, start by addressing these concerns before you have a Rutgers administration like ours trying to take you down."²¹
Conservative students at Rutgers stood up for what Charlie Kirk spent his life building. Now they’re paying the price for daring to challenge the radical Left’s grip on higher education.
¹ Leona Salinas, "Rutgers investigates TPUSA chapter behind petition against Antifa-linked professor," The College Fix, October 21, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats," CBS New York, October 10, 2025.
⁶ "’Dr. Antifa’ Rutgers professor announces move to Europe after TPUSA petition calls for his firing," Fox News, October 7, 2025.
⁷ Salinas, "Rutgers investigates TPUSA chapter."
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ "Rutgers leader demands TPUSA officers be ousted after they called out Antifa-linked professor," Fox News, October 15, 2025.
¹⁵ Salinas, "Rutgers investigates TPUSA chapter."
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ "Rutgers Moves to Oust TPUSA Officers Who Challenged Antifa-Supporting Professor," Townhall, October 15, 2025.
¹⁸ "Rutgers leader demands TPUSA officers be ousted," Fox News.
¹⁹ Ibid.
²⁰ "Rutgers stands by Antifa historian after Turning Point firestorm," NJ 101.5, October 18, 2025.
²¹ "Rutgers conservatives who challenged ‘Dr. Antifa’ say they’re being punished as university backs professor," Fox News, October 18, 2025.
