For years, Randi Weingarten has insisted that the American Federation of Teachers exists to defend educators. We now know what that defense actually looks like. According to a new Freedom Foundation report, the union president and her inner circle siphoned more than $1.4 million in union resources to write and promote her latest book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers," a 300-page screed that smears American conservatives, parents, and school choice supporters as enemies of democracy.

Let that figure sit on the page. Teachers in red states, blue states, and every district in between were forced to bankroll a personal manifesto by a woman who already collects a salary well over $400,000 a year. Many of them have never voted for a Democrat in their lives. Many of them are the very people Randi calls fascists in print. None of them signed up to pay for a ghostwriter, a publicist, a book tour, or a vanity hardcover. They signed up for representation. Instead, they got Randi's reading list.

This is the scandal hiding in plain sight inside America's second-largest teachers union. AFT dues do not go to the classroom. They do not go to professional development. They do not defend good teachers........

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