The National Education Association just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
For years they denied targeting conservatives, but a leaked training manual exposes their real battle plan.
And a leaked document revealed what teacher unions are plotting against Republicans.
NEA Training Calls Republicans "Racist Villains" Who Use "Dog Whistles"
The National Education Association is hosting a December 2-4 training called "Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy" to teach union members how to fight conservatives, according to leaked documents obtained by Defending Education.¹
The training materials read like a Democrat Party strategy memo, not an education conference.
"Over the last ten years, Republicans in state legislatures have increasingly turned to anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation as a powerful complement to their arsenal of racist dog whistles used to whip up fear and consolidate power," the NEA training packet declares.²
The union accuses Republicans of pairing these attacks with Critical Race Theory opposition, "mobilizing their base with a potent mix of racist and transphobic tropes."³
Read that again.
The nation's largest teachers union just branded every parent who opposes boys in girls' bathrooms as a racist wielding "dog whistles."
In official training materials distributed to three million members.
The documents instruct teachers to "pluralize" gender by saying "our genders" instead of "gender" to normalize the idea of endless gender possibilities.⁴
Teachers are told to introduce their pronouns to groups and encourage others to do the same, saying it "shifts people towards our worldview."⁵
The materials include step-by-step gender transition guides for teachers, complete with sample emails announcing their intent to transition and school-based "transition plans."⁶
But here's the most chilling part.
The NEA coaching manual tells teachers to deploy a "Race Class Gender Narrative" designed to "mobilize our progressive base" while working to "marginalize our opposition."⁷
The instructions explicitly tell union members to "Name the villains who violate our values."⁸
Those villains? You. Your family. Anyone who voted for Donald Trump.
Teachers Unions Chose Left-Wing Activism Over Educating Children
This explains everything parents have been seeing in their kids' classrooms.
The NEA stopped pretending to care about education years ago.
In 2019, NEA delegates rejected a resolution to "rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America by putting a renewed emphasis on quality education."⁹
A teachers union refused to prioritize student learning.
They said the quiet part out loud: education isn't the mission anymore.
Political warfare is.
The NEA and American Federation of Teachers dumped more than $43 million into left-wing political causes from 2022 to 2024.¹⁰
Since 1990, the NEA has funneled 98% of its political contributions to Democrat candidates.¹¹
The union spends twice as much money on political activism as it does representing the teachers paying dues.¹²
Let that sink in for a second.
Your kid's teacher pays union dues thinking the NEA will negotiate better pay and working conditions.
Instead, the NEA takes that money and uses it to call you a racist for not wanting biological males in your daughter's locker room.
NEA President Becky Pringle spent 2025 calling Trump a "fascist" and demanding union members engage in "acts of resistance" against the administration.¹³
At the union's July convention in Portland, Oregon, delegates passed resolutions defending illegal immigration and transgender athletes in girls' sports.¹⁴
The NEA also severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League this year — abandoning the nation's leading antisemitism watchdog while antisemitic attacks hit record highs.¹⁵
This is what your tax dollars fund in government schools.
Not math or reading. Political indoctrination and left-wing activism.
The Reckoning Is Coming for Teachers Unions
Erika Sanzi from Defending Education didn't hold back when she saw the leaked training materials.
"The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the country, and they have decided to vilify half the country in an upcoming training," Sanzi said.¹⁶
"As far as they are concerned, the only reasons anyone could oppose their preferred ideologies are racism and transphobia and they name Republicans as villains, in writing!"¹⁷
Congress granted the NEA its federal charter in 1906 with one mission: "elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States."¹⁸
"Seeing as their leadership — and by extension, the organization itself — has morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education, that charter is no longer defensible," Sanzi said.¹⁹
The Trump Administration fired back hard.
"If the NEA spent as much time focused on improving literacy and math instruction for students as it does on ideological and partisan grandstanding, student achievement might not be at a historic low," said Ellen Keast, deputy press secretary for the Department of Education.²⁰
Translation: Maybe if teachers taught reading instead of pronouns, American kids wouldn't be falling behind every developed nation on Earth.
Republican lawmakers are moving to strip the NEA's special federal charter.
Representative Josh Brecheen (R-OK) is leading the charge.
"Congress established the NEA in 1906 to support America's teachers and strengthen our schools, but it has abandoned that mission in favor of a radical agenda," Brecheen said.²¹
"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."²²
The NEA's federal charter gives them legitimacy they haven't earned and don't deserve.
That special status should be revoked immediately.
Parents figured out the con years ago.
Since 2019, more than one million families fled union-controlled government schools for charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling.²³
They're voting with their feet because they finally understand what the NEA really cares about.
It's not their children. It's not education. It's not even the teachers paying dues.
It's power. Political power to push a radical left-wing agenda while your kids fall further behind in reading, math, and science.
These leaked documents prove conservatives were right all along about what's happening in America's classrooms.
The only question left is whether Republicans in Congress have the guts to do something about it.
¹ Josh Christenson, "Largest US teachers' union to host training that attacks Republicans as 'racist and transphobic,'" New York Post, November 21, 2025.
² "Leaked NEA Training Coaches Teachers To Fight Conservative Parents, Paint Republicans As Racist Threat," Daily Caller, November 21, 2025.
³ "Uncovered docs show top teachers' union guiding gender transitions, bashing conservatives: 'Insane asylum,'" Fox News, November 20, 2025.
⁴ Josh Christenson, "Largest US teachers' union to host training that attacks Republicans as 'racist and transphobic,'" New York Post, November 21, 2025.
⁵ "Leaked NEA Training Coaches Teachers To Fight Conservative Parents, Paint Republicans As Racist Threat," Daily Caller, November 21, 2025.
⁶ Josh Christenson, "Largest US teachers' union to host training that attacks Republicans as 'racist and transphobic,'" New York Post, November 21, 2025.
⁷ "Uncovered docs show top teachers' union guiding gender transitions, bashing conservatives: 'Insane asylum,'" Fox News, November 20, 2025.
⁸ "Leaked NEA Training Coaches Teachers To Fight Conservative Parents, Paint Republicans As Racist Threat," Daily Caller, November 21, 2025.
⁹ "Teaching hate, hiding truth: NEA's real agenda revealed in leaked handbook," Fox News, July 28, 2025.
¹⁰ "A Dairy Queen owner went to war against Biden-Harris officials for this surprising reason," Patriot Pulse, 2025.
¹¹ "National Education Association (NEA)," InfluenceWatch, September 8, 2025.
¹² "Never mind its lies — the NEA is nothing but the Left's piggy bank," Freedom Foundation, April 21, 2022.
¹³ "As NEA commits to fight 'fascist' Trump, lawmakers target union's federal charter," Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, July 17, 2025.
¹⁴ "National teachers' union once again prioritizes political agenda, social activism," American Experiment, July 8, 2025.
¹⁵ Josh Christenson, "Largest US teachers' union to host training that attacks Republicans as 'racist and transphobic,'" New York Post, November 21, 2025.
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ Ibid.
¹⁸ Ibid.
¹⁹ Ibid.
²⁰ Sarah D. Sparks, "Can the National Education Association Win Over Republican Members?" Education Week, July 8, 2025.
²¹ "As NEA commits to fight 'fascist' Trump, lawmakers target union's federal charter," Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, July 17, 2025.
²² Ibid.
²³ "Teaching hate, hiding truth: NEA's real agenda revealed in leaked handbook," Fox News, July 28, 2025.
