Enemies of Your Vote: Understanding Voter Suppression, the College Campus and You.

Voter suppression comes in many forms and is a key tool used to silence the higher ed community. This means that voting when you are a student, an academic or an administrator isn't just an act of freedom. It is also an act of intellectual defiance in the face political forces who see free expression at the polls (and beyond) as a threat to authoritarian goals. Kyle Spencer, a long-time journalist, former NYT contributor, and author of Raising Them Right, the Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and its Plot for Power, spent five years reporting on heavily-funded young radical activists like Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA who have sought to keep the voices of pro-democracy voters on college campuses from being heard inside the election booth. What does this type of voter suppression look like? And how can campus pro-democracy factions message the importance of defying those who seek to silence them?