Jul 28, 2026 · 13 min · 10 segments
A leading voice in the fight for education freedom is Corey A. DeAngelis. DeAngelis is a Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at Americans for Fair Treatment, and a prominent…
Corey DeAngelisGuest
Siena RoseHost
So I wanted to talk about, you know, the American Federation of Teachers, the congressional investigation into what AFT is doing.
And it looks like the Freedom Foundation did some more digging after initially in September 2025, I uncovered on Twitter after looking at the Facebook account of Feldman Strategies, which was the PR firm for the American Federation of Teachers.
They were bragging about how Randy Weingarten hit the New York Times bestseller list.
So I did a little bit of digging into their LM2 and saw that there was a payment of $171,000.
It's like, okay, well, so she's paying, using union dues, a PR group to promote her book to get her on the bestseller list and then going to go around and brag about it.
So I'm thankful that the Freedom Foundation did a little bit more digging, went down the rabbit hole and found that...
And you'd think if they spent that much money, $1.4 million, of course she's going to hit the bestseller list, but you'd think she'd do a better job on her book cover.
I posted on X as well that she was bragging to her members in a meeting about how she was bullying target executives, telling them that, hey, you better come out against immigration enforcement.
And if you don't, aha, we own seven percent of your target stock in our pension funds.
That sounds like some sort of breach of fiduciary duty if I've ever seen one.
And so Congress should either investigate her for that and couple that with the investigation into the $1.4 million and promoting her vanity project, her book, or they should do a separate one looking into that as well.
So I wanted to talk about, you know, the American Federation of Teachers, the congressional investigation into what AFT is doing.
And it looks like the Freedom Foundation did some more digging after initially in September 2025, I uncovered on Twitter after looking at the Facebook account of Feldman Strategies, which was the PR firm for the American Federation of Teachers.
They were bragging about how Randy Weingarten hit the New York Times bestseller list.
So I did a little bit of digging into their LM2 and saw that there was a payment of $171,000.
It's like, okay, well, so she's paying, using union dues, a PR group to promote her book to get her on the bestseller list and then going to go around and brag about it.
So I'm thankful that the Freedom Foundation did a little bit more digging, went down the rabbit hole and found that...
And you'd think if they spent that much money, $1.4 million, of course she's going to hit the bestseller list, but you'd think she'd do a better job on her book cover.
I posted on X as well that she was bragging to her members in a meeting about how she was bullying target executives, telling them that, hey, you better come out against immigration enforcement.
And if you don't, aha, we own seven percent of your target stock in our pension funds.
That sounds like some sort of breach of fiduciary duty if I've ever seen one.
And so Congress should either investigate her for that and couple that with the investigation into the $1.4 million and promoting her vanity project, her book, or they should do a separate one looking into that as well.
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