Teachers union bosses have been using the classrooms to push their radical agenda for years.
Now someone finally recorded what they say when the cameras are supposed to be off.
What those union bosses said on that recording is the most dangerous thing they have ever been caught saying.
What the Leaked Video Shows Chicago Teachers Union Leaders Actually Said
On May 14, a far-left Milwaukee publisher called Rethinking Schools hosted a private webinar for union leaders from Chicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles to strategize against the Trump administration.
The North American Values Institute obtained and released the footage.
Jackson Potter, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, told the group Trump is "setting the stage for some kind of military coup – whether it's calling for martial law or the Insurrection Act, or not seating representatives if they lose in November."
Then he said the quiet part loud.
"It's going to mean that we've got to replicate some of the things we've seen our siblings do in other countries that are effective at challenging and defeating authoritarians," Potter said.
Most Americans haven't been to a protest, Potter noted – and said getting them there was the job.
Maya Suzuki Daniels of United Teachers Los Angeles told the group that postcards and rallies aren't cutting it anymore and asked how to force politicians to listen by "putting ourselves in harm's way."
Marcia Howard, president of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, explained what was already built.
Keep secret group chats running, Howard said – and if someone gets arrested, burn it and start another one.
Then she told the group exactly who she is.
"We burned down an entire police precinct," Howard said. "And did not rebuild it. I have taken six city streets and have not returned it. We don't say no justice, no peace. We say no justice, no streets. And I dare them to arrest me."
This is who is running American classrooms.
Chicago Teachers Union and Minneapolis Federation of Educators Have Been Coordinating Radical Protests Against Trump
Potter is not a fringe activist who wandered into a webinar.
He is the elected vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union – reelected in May 2025 – and runs one of the largest teacher locals in the country.
Howard has been openly coordinating obstruction of federal law enforcement for months.
Fox News reported earlier this year that Howard admitted Minneapolis teachers, their administrators, and elected officials are all active in anti-ICE group chats used to block federal agents.
"Our bosses are in the Signal chats with us," Howard said. "Our elected officials are in the chats with us."
She is daring anyone to stop her.
The Illinois Policy Institute found that fewer than 22 percent of Chicago voters approve of the Chicago Teachers Union – and that was before Potter went on camera calling for Americans to adopt foreign tactics for toppling governments.
While Union Bosses Plan Violent Protests Chicago Students Still Cannot Read
Chicago Public Schools is sitting on a $734 million budget hole.
Fewer than 22 percent of eighth graders in Chicago read at grade level.
The CTU struck in 2019 and again in 2022.
They kept Chicago kids out of classrooms longer during COVID than almost any major district in the country.
Every time these union bosses chose street warfare over students, another class of children fell further behind.
That is the real record of the people now talking about replicating what foreign movements did to take down governments.
Rethinking Schools marked the May 14 session as private.
They were not expecting the footage to go public.
What that footage shows is not burnout or frustration or activists blowing off steam.
It shows veteran organizers with a permanent infrastructure, secret group chats designed to keep running even after arrests, and union leaders openly telling each other that Americans need to be pushed toward tactics they would never accept today.
Potter said it himself – most Americans have been to a baseball game but not a protest.
His job, as he sees it, is to fix that.
These people are on your tax dollars, in your kids' schools, and on private calls planning what comes next.
The only question left is whether anyone is going to do anything about it.
Sources:
- Jeff Charles, "Teachers' Union Leaders Plan Violent Protests While Schoolchildren Can't Read," Townhall, May 20, 2026.
- "No Justice, No Streets: Teacher Union Leaders Praise Disruption," NAVIK12 Tracker / North American Values Institute, May 2026.
- "Less Than 22% of Voters Approve of Chicago Teachers Union," Illinois Policy Institute, August 2025.
- "Inside Teachers' Union May Day Dress Rehearsal," Fox News, April 17, 2026.
- "Minneapolis Teachers' Union Chief Admits Elected Officials in Anti-ICE Signal Chats," Fox News, February 2026.