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(165,898 posts) Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:37 AM Wednesday

Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts

Source: The Guardian

Tue 6 Jan 2026 15.54 EST
Last modified on Tue 6 Jan 2026 17.04 EST

A major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state on Tuesday challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the September killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The Texas American Federation of Teachers, which represents approximately 66,000 public school employees, is asking a federal court to block the Texas Education Agency and its commissioner, Mike Morath, from continuing investigations that the union argues violate teachers’ free speech protections.

The legal challenge centers on a 6 September letter Morath sent to school superintendents across Texas, instructing them to report educators who made what he termed “reprehensible and inappropriate” remarks about Kirk, who was shot and killed on 10 September while speaking at Utah Valley University. The union argues this directive has triggered a sweeping crackdown on constitutionally protected speech.

“Public school teachers and other employees do not surrender their first amendment rights simply by virtue of their employment,” the lawsuit reads.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/texas-charlie-kirk-social-media

Link to SUIT (PDF viewer) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VZVZ8I7ueQ01I0dgSYJtEWUxo_uLX-gx/view

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Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:02 AM

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And, we are done.

They can do that, but that is akin to going to Satan to get him to cool things off.

Again, I suggest that the entire public school faculty just up and strike. All of them. Then, we get to watch as the state scrambles to figure out how to keep the schools open as the MAGA faithful start screaming about having to be around their own kids for more than a few hours each day. Sure, they might find enough people to staff a few schools, but they will not be able to keep enough of them open. Considering that most of the MAGA faithful cannot afford anything private, and since federal law states that kids have to go to school for whatever time period that law states, it will be interesting to see how those 'cowboys' handle it.

Or, if they even try.

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