Randi Weingarten has resigned from the Democratic National Committee, where she has been involved as a member for over two decades.

Wait, you say. Randi Weingarten? The head of the American Federation of Teachers? The union leader? Randi Weingarten was part of the DNC, while also being the president of one of the largest teachers’ unions in the country?

Why yes, THAT Randi Weingarten. Apparently, she had backed a different candidate for head of the DNC, and Ken Martin (who got the job) knew it. This led to conflict, and now her resignation.

Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year, Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Mr. Martin subsequently removed Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, a powerful body that sets the calendar and process for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process.

In her resignation letter, dated June 5 and obtained on Sunday evening, Ms. Weingarten wrote that she would decline Mr. Martin’s offer to reappoint her to the broader national committee, on which she has served since 2002. She had been on the Rules and Bylaws committee since 2009.

“While I am proud to be a Democrat, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more and more of our communities,” Ms. Weingarten wrote in her resignation letter to Mr. Martin.

Ms. Weingarten is an influential figure in the Democratic Party and the leader of a union that counts 1.8 million members.

So, for 23 years, Randi Weingarten has been involved in Democrat politics not just in her role as AFT president – which she has been since 2008 – but as a member of the DNC itself, including being part and parcel of the committee that controls PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Funny how this has not really come up in media stories about Weingarten’s cozy relationship with Democrats, huh? That’s quite the corrupt bargain that ol’ Randi had constructed for herself!

campaign contributions from the American Federation of Teachers to Democrats:

1994: 99.4%
1996: 99.1%
1998: 98.9%
2000: 99.2%
2002: 99.3%
2004: 98.0%
2006: 99.1%
2008: 99.1%
2010: 99.4%
2012: 99.4%
2014: 99.0%
2016: 99.7%
2018: 99.8%
2020: 99.6%
2022: 99.97%

money laundering.

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 15, 2025

Randi delivers the votes – and the financial support – of the AFT to Democrats. Then she made sure, as part of the DNC, that the teachers’ unions remained a top priority for Democrats, advocating for pay raises and other benefits. Then when the Democrats came through for the teachers, Randi made sure that the union came through for the Democrats. While I can find no evidence that she was ever paid for being a DNC member or as part of the Rules and Bylaws Committee (which does not publish a roster of committee members on their website, as far as I can find – only current leadership – and no names are listed on the charter and bylaws from 2022, which are still in effect), it is still insane that Weingarten would have ever had a role within the DNC, especially as she benefited personally and financially from her participation there. And when she spoke at the Democratic National Convention just last August, she identified herself as “president of the AFT and a public school teacher” – not as a DNC committee member. (She really shouldn’t even call herself a “public school teacher” either, since by her own admission, she has not been teaching in a classroom since 1997.)

And her lack of disclosure about her role at the DNC doesn’t even BEGIN to discuss her insane manipulation of the CDC during COVID, thanks to her buddy Joe Biden.

She was literally given the power to rewrite CDC policy by the Biden Administration so she could keep schools closed to negotiate higher union contracts.

Randi Winegarden is the number one villain of Covid. https://t.co/87UDHygSQq

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 16, 2025

There is certainly plenty of room on the podium for the worst actors during COVID, and Randi Weingarten was especially monstrous – not just for the absolute lack of care when it came to students, but for her pathetic attempts to rewrite history and defend her role in gutting public education during COVID. I don’t think I have enough words to express my deep loathing for what Randi Weingarten did to public school students – at least, not ones that have more than four letters.

But what is behind her resignation right now? Well, Randi Weingarten was apparently a supporter of David Hogg. Hogg has now been shoved out of DNC leadership after ruffling too many feathers (fundraising for his own PAC, telling the truth about Joe Biden, saying he would work to vote out Democrat incumbents, and giving Ken Martin the sads that no one knows who he is), so he’s now out on a technicality of those same bylaws that Weingarten worked on. Hogg has refused to run again, so he’s going to be replaced. Weingarten, as we can tell from her resignation letter, is frustrated with Martin for “not enlarging the tent.” I don’t think she’s worried about reaching across the political aisle – I think she’s concerned about what David Hogg might do to incumbents. It may be a “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” strategy, and Martin is clearly trying to take control of the situation. Is that why there are more reported resignations?

MORE DNC NEWS: Lee Saunders, the president of AFSCME, is also out at the DNC.

This amounts to the exit of two of the highest-profile union leaders aligned with the Democratic Party.

The Times reported Randi Weingarten's exit earlier.

W/ @reidepstein https://t.co/pH7w9SxlND https://t.co/RjlnHVNA3a

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) June 16, 2025

With two big union leaders leaving the DNC (again, why do they have roles there anyway?), it would seem the national party is in more disarray than ever. Not that the unions will actually abandon the Democrats as a party, but the infighting has begun to spill out into public view. Will Martin be able to “right the ship” with Hogg gone, even if he loses people like Weingarten and Saunders? I don’t know, but I’m going to make sure I have the popcorn handy.

Featured image: Randi Weingarten in February 2020, photo by Keith Mellnick via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, CC BY 2.0