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Hey, everybody, thanks so much for joining us right here for another episode of The Right

View.

And now we're joined by the founder and president of defending education.

Nikki Neely, Nikki, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Can you tell the people watching about two reports that your group just released, because I want everybody to start from the jump paying attention? Yes, we dug into union expenditures at the national and the state level. So looking at the NEA, AFT, national, you know, in California,

in Florida, New York, places like that, just to see what exactly they are spending their money on

because they take dues out of the paychecks of teachers. And what is that going towards? Is that

going towards advocating for better time, more preparation, more classroom materials, or is it going

towards nakedly progressive political things? And we found out, more classroom materials, or is it going towards nakedly

progressive political things? And we found out, surprise, surprise, it was the latter, and a

staggering amount thereof. So tell me about some of the things that you found, how much money

are we talking about? Give us the scope. Yes, we are talking about combined over $1 billion, which is astonishing.

So at the national level, it was about $670 million, and at the state level is about $340 million.

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