How Teachers’ Unions Moved $1B Into Democrat

The receipts are in. If you’re a trainer who has ever written a dues verify and assumed it was going toward better pay, stronger advantages, or a first rate contract, read fastidiously. A new report from Defending Education has blown the lid off one of the most brazen political money machines in American historical past, and your money is in it.

Since August 2015, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have funneled a mixed $669,324,912.33 in member dues and PAC funds into left-wing political entities, far-left nonprofits, and Democratic campaigns. Fold in state and local associates, and the full surpasses $1 billion.

Rhyen Staley of Defending Education put it plainly:

“Show me your budget and I will show you what you value; and what the teachers unions value is political power and advancing a left-wing, social justice agenda. Gone are the days of unions just advocating for higher wages, better working conditions, and good health insurance; they are a political machine focused on fomenting a political revolution.”

The big money tells the story. The State Engagement Fund, a Democratic Party infrastructure vehicle, acquired $60,525,000. The For Our Future Action Fund took $44,732,078. The Senate Majority PAC acquired $32,655,000. The House Majority PAC obtained $25,842,790. The Strategic Victory Fund, created in 2020 explicitly to defeat Donald Trump, acquired $19,300,000.

On top of all that, the unions pumped over $85 million immediately into Democrat Party entities at every degree of authorities, not counting a single greenback in particular person candidate contributions. The Biden Victory Fund acquired $923,500. The Hillary Victory Fund obtained $444,250. The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation collected $725,000, with another $400,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative.

This is the wholesale conversion of trainer paychecks into a Democrat Party slush fund.

The ideological line objects are worse. Media Matters for America acquired $700,000. The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a darkish money vehicle in the Arabella Advisors community, acquired $4,433,000. Color of Change and its PAC obtained $3,310,000. Planned Parenthood Votes acquired $350,000.

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The NEA paid the Trevor Project $100,000, an group whose chatroom was described as a “Pandora’s box” of disturbing content that inspired minors to conceal gender transitions from their dad and mom. The Trump administration defunded the group last 12 months by cutting a $26 million federal contract. The unions cut a verify immediately to race theorist Ibram X. Kendi for $7,418. They paid Gender Inclusivity LLC $29,250. They funneled $1,755,000 to the Midwest Academy, a group at the moment training activists for the May Day 2026 mobilization. This just isn’t a union defending lecturers. It is a political equipment funding the ideological transformation of American life.

Perhaps most cynically, the unions spent massively to kill college alternative. Support Our Schools Nebraska, which repealed a college alternative law, acquired $4,298,076 from the NEA. Protect Our Schools Kentucky acquired $7,215,000 to battle voucher laws. Public Schools Strong acquired $4,137,500 to marketing campaign against college alternative in Colorado. Save Our Public Schools obtained $5,400,000.

The partisan fingerprints at the local degree are just as damning. The Ohio Education Association gave $2.9 million to the Ohio Democrat Party and $23,249 to the Ohio House Republican Alliance, a ratio of 125 to 1. The Chicago Teachers’ Union funded the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus, the Chicago Alliance Against Racial and Political Oppression, and the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus. Its expense data show zero {dollars} to the Illinois Republican Party. Not one cent.

Nicole Neily, Defending Education’s president, was equally blunt:

“Educators are victims of a bait-and-switch: instead of their dues going to advocate for increased pay or improved working environments, they’re being spent advancing a hard-left political agenda, underwriting causes such as climate change, gender activism, and abortion.”

A billion {dollars} spent. Not on lecturers. Not on college students. Not on school rooms or salaries. On political energy. The only query left is whether or not the lecturers who have been robbed will finally demand their money back.

Editor’s Note: President Trump is combating to guarantee America’s youngsters get the training they deserve.

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