America's largest teachers union just got caught training educators to defend Antifa and fight the Trump administration.
Now a watchdog group got the slides – and what's inside will make every parent in America furious.
The 3-million-member National Education Association was running a political war room disguised as a professional training session – and nobody was supposed to find out.
What the NEA Leaked Training Slides Actually Say
On February 23, the NEA held a session it called "Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Educators."
It wasn't about free speech.
Defending Education – a national watchdog group that monitors political content in schools – obtained the full slide deck and exposed the operation.
The presentation declares that the Department of Education is "now actively committed to violating civil rights."
It claims "Democracy itself is at stake" because of an "unprecedented push to criminalize speech and political opposition."
Screenshots showed slides defending Antifa – slides with headlines reading "Trump Signs Order Targeting Antifa Movement" and "White House Use of 'Domestic Terrorist' Doesn't Match Legal Reality."
The nation's largest teachers union used a training session to defend the organization Trump designated as a domestic terrorist group.
Teachers were also coached on gender pronoun compliance – told they "can (and should address) students in the way they identify themselves" regardless of what school records say, and regardless of what parents think.
The slides went after Republican-led states by name. "It's not just the Trump Administration… it's Red State governments as well," one slide warned, alongside headlines about banning DEI in schools and Texas moving to "punish" students who protest ICE.
"This is not, in any sense, a training on educator rights," Defending Education investigative reporter Chloe Hunt told Fox News Digital. "It is a political framing of the classroom, in which all Republicans are demonized and conservatives are portrayed as threats to education."
NEA Political Activism Has Been Replacing Education for Years
This isn't a one-time leak. This is a pattern.
The NEA voted down a resolution in 2019 to "rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America." Three million members of America's largest teachers union voted against prioritizing student learning.
That same union spent $22.7 million on politics in 2024 – with 98% going to Democrats. Becky Pringle herself admitted the membership is roughly split three ways politically, which means Republican and independent teachers are having their dues funneled to candidates they'd never vote for.
Federal filings show the NEA sent $500,000 to end standardized testing in Massachusetts, $300,000 to a liberal dark-money vehicle called the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and tens of thousands more to gender ideology curriculum groups.
An NEA employee who went public in January described headquarters as a cult.
"It's crazy, they'll send out this weekly newsletter of 'Trump's a fascist' and blast it to all the states," the employee told Fox News Digital, remaining anonymous for fear of retaliation. "If you are conservative, it's like you just don't say anything, because it's a very toxic environment."
"It's a cult. It's 100% a cult and if you don't have their mindset, you're the enemy."
Congress Moves to Revoke the NEA Federal Charter
Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Mark Harris introduced the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act – legislation to strip the NEA of the congressional charter it has held since 1906.
The NEA is the only union in America with a federal charter. Congress granted it as an honor, with a mission to elevate teaching and promote education. That organization no longer exists.
"From branding President Trump a fascist to embracing divisive gender ideology and walking away from efforts to fight antisemitism, the NEA has become nothing more than a partisan advocacy group," Harris said. "Since the NEA is clearly not prioritizing students, parents, or even teachers, it's time to remove Congress' seal of approval from this rogue organization."
Rep. Mary Miller was more direct: "Becky Pringle has weaponized the nation's largest teachers' union to push a radical political agenda, funneling millions to Democrats while abandoning students, parents, and teachers."
The NEA isn't a teachers union anymore. It's a get-out-the-vote operation for Democrats that happens to employ teachers.
Every classroom in America is downstream of what this organization decides to put in a slide deck. Now you've seen the slide deck.
The charter repeal bill is sitting in Congress right now – and the NEA is counting on you to forget about it by next week. Don't.
Sources:
- Andrew Mark Miller, "Leaked teachers' union K-12 training presentation rails against Trump administration, red states," Fox News, March 18, 2026.
- Chloe Hunt, Defending Education investigative reporting, cited in Fox News Digital, March 18, 2026.
- Federal filings, NEA financial disclosure, American Experiment, January 20, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "NEA federal charter revoke calls intensify from Republican lawmakers," February 3, 2026.
- Rep. Mark Harris and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, National Education Association Charter Repeal Act statements, July 16, 2025.
