Rutgers University professor and "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" author Mark Bray is releasing a new book recounting his decision to flee the United States with his family in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, while portraying modern America as consumed by a "fascist present."Bray’s forthcoming book, "Unpunctuated Death Threats: Notes from a Fascist Present," is scheduled for release Jan.19 and chronicles the professor’s departure for Spain after he allegedly received death threats and had his home address circulated online.The publisher explicitly connects Bray’s decision to leave the political atmosphere following Kirk’s murder, saying that "in the wake of" the assassination, Bray took threats against him seriously and attempted to leave the country with his wife and two young children.CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION: TIMELINE OF UTAH CAMPUS SHOOTING, TYLER ROBINSON CHARGEDMark Bray, a Rutgers assistant professor of history, waits in a hotel room in Newark, N.J., before a planned flight to Spain on Thursday, Oct.
9, 2025.(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated Sept.
10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University during his "American Comeback Tour."The publisher says federal agents stopped and questioned Bray at the airport before the family eventually made it to Spain, highlighting that the incident "left him a wreck.""Unpunctuated Death Threats is an intimate journey to the heart of how this Trumpian moment and the new fascism it has birthed — a world of far-right influencers, social media soldiers, and networked violence that chased the author into hiding — has shockingly made the United States a place to flee from," the book description reads."With fascism resurgent and genocide raging in Gaza, Bray turns anew to his Jewish identity in search of answers."Last October, members of Rutgers’ Turning Point USA chapter launched a petition, spearheaded by students, to remove Bray, citing concerns over hi...