(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Sounding the alarm over threats to Democracy, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten is urging her Union’s 1.88 million Members to hit the streets between now and Election Day to defend it.

Specifically, in her keynote address on July 16th to the Union’s Convention, she wants 25,000 Teachers and other AFT Members out on the streets whenever they can - along with phone banking, ringing doorbells, e-mails, voting rights cards and more - to campaign for Pro-Worker Lawmakers and against the oligarchs and billionaires who now rule U.S. politics.

And to make sure those Anti-Working-Class elements, led by Anti-Union Republican President Donald Trump, the Union will recruit an additional and special 5,000-Member brigade to keep a sharp eye on and try to halt intimidation, repression and other tactics of the elite and their political puppets.

She labeled those foes outright fascists.

And it’s not just Trump, Weingarten explained. 

“This election will decide whether we are a country governed by the people or ruled by the powerful. A country of opportunity or oligarchy. A country whose people live in freedom or in fear,” she declared, adding: “Do we want a future in which elections are rigged to maintain one-party control and Government is for sale to the highest bidder? Or one in which every person’s vote matters and Government serves the people? That’s what’s at stake in November (2026).”

And in 2028, when the Presidency will be on the ballot, too, she later added.

“The stakes are very high,” Weingarten exclaimed.

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