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Our guest today is Nicole Neely, founder and president of defending education, a national grassroots organization working to restore schools at all levels from activist imposing harmful

agendas. As you can imagine, a defending education has a lot of work on its plate. Defending

education is now out with a new investigative report, which finds national teachers unions have contributed more than

$660 million to far-left organizations and left-wing political groups over the past decade.

Nicole, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Thank you for having me on.

I suppose it's not all that surprising to know that with the state of teachers unions

and the way it's been for some time,

that they're donating the left-wing causes.

But maybe it's the sheer amount of money that really stands out here

and what it's being used for, of course. Yes, I mean, it is jaw-dropping.

My coworker looked at the LM2s for the AFT, the American Federation of Teachers and the National

Education Association at the national level, as well as many of their state affiliates. And that's how we got,

that's how we got to that $ billion dollar amount. We went back 10 years

looking at things. And I think, you know, we were astonished to see some of the line item

expenditures. And I think most teachers would be as well, because not every teacher in America

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