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Professors on Turning Point USA's watchlist tell their stories

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA created what it calls a Professors Watchlist that documents details about instructors it says promote “leftist propaganda.”

Many of the nearly 50 Illinois professors on the list say they have faced online threats, including, in some cases, threats of death and sexual assault.

WBEZ ‘s Mawa Iqbal reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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