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Are you ever wondering how your kids are getting into all of these crazy political fights,

whether walking out of school, these things are being organized?

You've got all of these ballot initiatives that are being organized

and your children are actually getting pulled into that too. But how is it all getting funded?

You might be surprised to learn that a lot of that money is coming actually out of your pocket because

it's the teachers unions and the teachers are paid by you. And you may

think the teachers are making these choices on their own. But oftentimes they either don't have

the choice as to whether or not they're going to pay the teacher's union or the pressure

is so great if they don't that they're kind of forced to. It's like a peer pressure

thing. So we wanted to bring on Nikki Neely. We've had her here before. She's the president and the

founder of parents defending education. And they've just come out with a new report of where all

of that money is being spent by the teacher's union in the political world.

Nikki, thank you so much for being on.

Thank you for having me.

Absolutely.

So I have been talking about this for a long time.

I mean, especially amongst friends.

Like, we actually had a friend who was a part of who was a teacher and was pushing back on paying the

dues to the unions and like I said got so much pressure from other teachers and in a very

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