October 2025

In a recent private email exchange about Zohran Mamdani’s (D) New York City mayoral candidacy, a top aide to AFT President Randi Weingarten drew parallels to what happened when teachers union-backed Brandon Johnson was elected mayor of Chicago. Since his victory, Johnson’s approval rating has plunged to the 20s. “Winning an election,” his aide warned, “does not

As a Los Angeles Unified School District parent during the pandemic, I had a front row seat as my fellow Democrats and their teachers union allies lit the match that turned a global health crisis into an education inferno. I watched my daughters isolate at home every day during the school closures, logging onto the