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A union of higher education professors broke more than 100 years of precedent to endorse a far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n

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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has given its first political endorsement in the organization\u2019s 110-year history to El-Sayed, Democrats\u2019 nominee for Senate in Michigan. A significant portion of El-Sayed\u2019s primary vote share came from Ann Arbor and East Lansing, Michigan, the homes of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, respectively.<\/p>\n

The organization\u2019s president, Todd Wolfson, responded to backlash by pledging to get more political, not less.<\/p>\n

Wolfson doubled down on X after being criticized for the decision, writing, \u201cApparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to organize.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Apparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening. We\u2019re going to organize.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Todd Wolfson (@ProfTWolf) July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Under Wolfson\u2019s leadership, the AAUP has increased its commitment to political activism. AAUP Vice President Rotua Lumbantobing, who was elected to AAUP leadership alongside Wolfson as part of the \u201cUnited Faculty for the Common Good\u201d slate of candidates, described how the group\u2019s current leadership was \u201cbuilding a stronger, more militant, AAUP\u201d in a March 2025 interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission is to transform the organization into a fighting force,\u201d Lumbantobing told the interviewer.<\/p>\n

During its June 2026 biennial meeting, the first since President Trump took office, one reporter wrote that it \u201cfelt like a political war room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a normal moment, and this could not be a normal convention,\u201d the AAUP said on its website of the meeting. \u201cHigher education is under coordinated political attack, our democracy is under siege, and the institutions our members have built their lives inside are being hollowed out from above and weaponized from outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

AAUP members voted for a number of socialist-aligned resolutions at the biennial meeting and the group pledged to participate in political campaigns as a way to \u201cbuild power\u201d and \u201cresist authoritarian policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AAUP will support and participate in coordinated political and public campaigns, including legislative advocacy, mass mobilization, and public education efforts, to resist authoritarian policies at the local, state, and federal levels,\u201d stated one resolution.<\/p>\n

The union also committed itself to advancing a \u201cbroad agenda for democracy, racial justice, economic justice, and the public good,\u201d writing in its resolutions that \u201crecognizing that the future of higher education is inseparable from the struggle to build a more just and inclusive society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mia McIver, executive director of the AAUP, said the group had partnered with a Democratic Socialists of America project to further the group\u2019s \u201cwidespread organizing\u201d in a March 2025 interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also going beyond this and are partnering with the Emergency Workers Organizing Committee, a joint project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and Democratic Socialists of America, to support widespread organizing for dignity, respect and workplace safety,\u201d McIver told Ms. Magazine.<\/p>\n

The AAUP was founded in 1915 as a professional society for professors focused on defending academic freedom and has since morphed into a politically charged union that champions far-left social causes. The group sued the Trump administration to protect diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates in higher education, has pledged to fight transphobia, and strives to be \u201cpart of the solution\u201d needed to dismantle so-called systemic racism in higher education.<\/p>\n

Wolfson is a professor at Rutgers University, a public university in New Jersey. He is also a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, a far-left teachers union known for championing gender ideology, Black Lives Matter, and organizing ICE protests during school hours.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the AAUP joined forces with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to create the largest alliance of higher education professionals in the nation. The two unions announced a joint policy platform in April 2026 to wage war against the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cfar right extremist attacks on American higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration\u2019s far right extremist attacks on American higher education and secure a strong future for public colleges and universities,\u201d states the AAUP website.<\/p>\n

The policy calls higher education a \u201cpublic good\u201d that should be \u201cfree\u201d to all and lays out a societal vision that includes implementing a progressive tax system, ensuring educators have collective bargaining rights, and ending \u201cright to work\u201d laws.<\/p>\n

Wolfson has a long history of political activism and co-founded two grassroots activist groups in Philadelphia, PA, called the Media Mobilizing Project and the 215 People\u2019s Alliance, according to his posted on the Rutgers University website.<\/p>\n

The Media Mobilizing Project was an independent media project inspired by the tactics of the Zapatistas, a far-left political and guerrilla military movement in Mexico, with the goal of \u201cbuilding our own media in the hope of connecting mass social movements,\u201d as stated on the Internet Archive copy of its website. The Media Mobilizing Project is now called the Movement Alliance Project (MAP) which \u201cexists to help build a coordinated, cross-sector, multiracial, working class movement in Philadelphia that can transform our city and state to one that prioritizes people\u2019s needs over capital,\u201d according to its website. MAP received $300,000 of funding from George Soros\u2019 Foundation to Promote Open Society between 2019 and 2021, according to public financial documents. Wolfson was the board president of MAP in 2019 and 2020, public documents show.<\/p>\n

The 215 People\u2019s Alliance is a \u201cgrassroots, movement-building organization dedicated to building multiracial, working-class power in Philadelphia,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

The American Association of University Professors and Todd Wolfson did not respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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A union of higher education professors broke more than 100 years of precedent to endorse a far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has given its first political endorsement in the organization\u2019s 110-year history to El-Sayed, Democrats\u2019 nominee for Senate in Michigan. A significant portion of El-Sayed\u2019s primary vote share came from Ann Arbor and East Lansing, Michigan, the homes of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, respectively.The organization\u2019s president, Todd Wolfson, responded to backlash by pledging to get more political, not less.Wolfson doubled down on X after being criticized for the decision, writing, \u201cApparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to organize.\u201dApparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening. We\u2019re going to organize.\u2014 Todd Wolfson (@ProfTWolf) July 31, 2026Under Wolfson\u2019s leadership, the AAUP has increased its commitment to political activism. AAUP Vice President Rotua Lumbantobing, who was elected to AAUP leadership alongside Wolfson as part of the \u201cUnited Faculty for the Common Good\u201d slate of candidates, described how the group\u2019s current leadership was \u201cbuilding a stronger, more militant, AAUP\u201d in a March 2025 interview.\u201cOur mission is to transform the organization into a fighting force,\u201d Lumbantobing told the interviewer.During its June 2026 biennial meeting, the first since President Trump took office, one reporter wrote that it \u201cfelt like a political war room.\u201d\u201cThis is not a normal moment, and this could not be a normal convention,\u201d the AAUP said on its website of the meeting. \u201cHigher education is under coordinated political attack, our democracy is under siege, and the institutions our members have built their lives inside are being hollowed out from above and weaponized from outside.\u201dAAUP members voted for a number of socialist-aligned resolutions at the biennial meeting and the group pledged to participate in political campaigns as a way to \u201cbuild power\u201d and \u201cresist authoritarian policies.\u201d\u201cThe AAUP will support and participate in coordinated political and public campaigns, including legislative advocacy, mass mobilization, and public education efforts, to resist authoritarian policies at the local, state, and federal levels,\u201d stated one resolution.The union also committed itself to advancing a \u201cbroad agenda for democracy, racial justice, economic justice, and the public good,\u201d writing in its resolutions that \u201crecognizing that the future of higher education is inseparable from the struggle to build a more just and inclusive society.\u201dMia McIver, executive director of the AAUP, said the group had partnered with a Democratic Socialists of America project to further the group\u2019s \u201cwidespread organizing\u201d in a March 2025 interview.\u201cWe\u2019re also going beyond this and are partnering with the Emergency Workers Organizing Committee, a joint project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and Democratic Socialists of America, to support widespread organizing for dignity, respect and workplace safety,\u201d McIver told Ms. Magazine.The AAUP was founded in 1915 as a professional society for professors focused on defending academic freedom and has since morphed into a politically charged union that champions far-left social causes. The group sued the Trump administration to protect diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates in higher education, has pledged to fight transphobia, and strives to be \u201cpart of the solution\u201d needed to dismantle so-called systemic racism in higher education.Wolfson is a professor at Rutgers University, a public university in New Jersey. He is also a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, a far-left teachers union known for championing gender ideology, Black Lives Matter, and organizing ICE protests during school hours.In 2022, the AAUP joined forces with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to create the largest alliance of higher education professionals in the nation. The two unions announced a joint policy platform in April 2026 to wage war against the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cfar right extremist attacks on American higher education.\u201d\u201cThe AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration\u2019s far right extremist attacks on American higher education and secure a strong future for public colleges and universities,\u201d states the AAUP website.The policy blueprint calls higher education a \u201cpublic good\u201d that should be \u201cfree\u201d to all and lays out a societal vision that includes implementing a progressive tax system, ensuring educators have collective bargaining rights, and ending \u201cright to work\u201d laws.Wolfson has a long history of political activism and co-founded two grassroots activist groups in Philadelphia, PA, called the Media Mobilizing Project and the 215 People\u2019s Alliance, according to his curriculum vitae posted on the Rutgers University website.The Media Mobilizing Project was an independent media project inspired by the tactics of the Zapatistas, a far-left political and guerrilla military movement in Mexico, with the goal of \u201cbuilding our own media in the hope of connecting mass social movements,\u201d as stated on the Internet Archive copy of its website. The Media Mobilizing Project is now called the Movement Alliance Project (MAP) which \u201cexists to help build a coordinated, cross-sector, multiracial, working class movement in Philadelphia that can transform our city and state to one that prioritizes people\u2019s needs over capital,\u201d according to its website. MAP received $300,000 of funding from George Soros\u2019 Foundation to Promote Open Society between 2019 and 2021, according to public financial documents. Wolfson was the board president of MAP in 2019 and 2020, public documents show.The 215 People\u2019s Alliance is a \u201cgrassroots, movement-building organization dedicated to building multiracial, working-class power in Philadelphia,\u201d according to its website.The American Association of University Professors and Todd Wolfson did not respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nAmerica\u2019s Professors Break Century-Long Precedent To Go Full Socialist - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"America\u2019s Professors Break Century-Long Precedent To Go Full Socialist - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A union of higher education professors broke more than 100 years of precedent to endorse a far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has given its first political endorsement in the organization\u2019s 110-year history to El-Sayed, Democrats\u2019 nominee for Senate in Michigan. 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A significant portion of El-Sayed\u2019s primary vote share came from Ann Arbor and East Lansing, Michigan, the homes of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, respectively.The organization\u2019s president, Todd Wolfson, responded to backlash by pledging to get more political, not less.Wolfson doubled down on X after being criticized for the decision, writing, \u201cApparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to organize.\u201dApparently our first endorsement has upset some people. Good. Higher ed, academic freedom, research, collective bargaining, and the idea of college as a public good are under attack. AAUP isn\u2019t going to respond by pretending politics isn\u2019t happening. We\u2019re going to organize.\u2014 Todd Wolfson (@ProfTWolf) July 31, 2026Under Wolfson\u2019s leadership, the AAUP has increased its commitment to political activism. AAUP Vice President Rotua Lumbantobing, who was elected to AAUP leadership alongside Wolfson as part of the \u201cUnited Faculty for the Common Good\u201d slate of candidates, described how the group\u2019s current leadership was \u201cbuilding a stronger, more militant, AAUP\u201d in a March 2025 interview.\u201cOur mission is to transform the organization into a fighting force,\u201d Lumbantobing told the interviewer.During its June 2026 biennial meeting, the first since President Trump took office, one reporter wrote that it \u201cfelt like a political war room.\u201d\u201cThis is not a normal moment, and this could not be a normal convention,\u201d the AAUP said on its website of the meeting. \u201cHigher education is under coordinated political attack, our democracy is under siege, and the institutions our members have built their lives inside are being hollowed out from above and weaponized from outside.\u201dAAUP members voted for a number of socialist-aligned resolutions at the biennial meeting and the group pledged to participate in political campaigns as a way to \u201cbuild power\u201d and \u201cresist authoritarian policies.\u201d\u201cThe AAUP will support and participate in coordinated political and public campaigns, including legislative advocacy, mass mobilization, and public education efforts, to resist authoritarian policies at the local, state, and federal levels,\u201d stated one resolution.The union also committed itself to advancing a \u201cbroad agenda for democracy, racial justice, economic justice, and the public good,\u201d writing in its resolutions that \u201crecognizing that the future of higher education is inseparable from the struggle to build a more just and inclusive society.\u201dMia McIver, executive director of the AAUP, said the group had partnered with a Democratic Socialists of America project to further the group\u2019s \u201cwidespread organizing\u201d in a March 2025 interview.\u201cWe\u2019re also going beyond this and are partnering with the Emergency Workers Organizing Committee, a joint project of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and Democratic Socialists of America, to support widespread organizing for dignity, respect and workplace safety,\u201d McIver told Ms. Magazine.The AAUP was founded in 1915 as a professional society for professors focused on defending academic freedom and has since morphed into a politically charged union that champions far-left social causes. The group sued the Trump administration to protect diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates in higher education, has pledged to fight transphobia, and strives to be \u201cpart of the solution\u201d needed to dismantle so-called systemic racism in higher education.Wolfson is a professor at Rutgers University, a public university in New Jersey. He is also a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, a far-left teachers union known for championing gender ideology, Black Lives Matter, and organizing ICE protests during school hours.In 2022, the AAUP joined forces with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to create the largest alliance of higher education professionals in the nation. The two unions announced a joint policy platform in April 2026 to wage war against the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cfar right extremist attacks on American higher education.\u201d\u201cThe AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration\u2019s far right extremist attacks on American higher education and secure a strong future for public colleges and universities,\u201d states the AAUP website.The policy blueprint calls higher education a \u201cpublic good\u201d that should be \u201cfree\u201d to all and lays out a societal vision that includes implementing a progressive tax system, ensuring educators have collective bargaining rights, and ending \u201cright to work\u201d laws.Wolfson has a long history of political activism and co-founded two grassroots activist groups in Philadelphia, PA, called the Media Mobilizing Project and the 215 People\u2019s Alliance, according to his curriculum vitae posted on the Rutgers University website.The Media Mobilizing Project was an independent media project inspired by the tactics of the Zapatistas, a far-left political and guerrilla military movement in Mexico, with the goal of \u201cbuilding our own media in the hope of connecting mass social movements,\u201d as stated on the Internet Archive copy of its website. The Media Mobilizing Project is now called the Movement Alliance Project (MAP) which \u201cexists to help build a coordinated, cross-sector, multiracial, working class movement in Philadelphia that can transform our city and state to one that prioritizes people\u2019s needs over capital,\u201d according to its website. MAP received $300,000 of funding from George Soros\u2019 Foundation to Promote Open Society between 2019 and 2021, according to public financial documents. Wolfson was the board president of MAP in 2019 and 2020, public documents show.The 215 People\u2019s Alliance is a \u201cgrassroots, movement-building organization dedicated to building multiracial, working-class power in Philadelphia,\u201d according to its website.The American Association of University Professors and Todd Wolfson did not respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.","og_url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171","og_site_name":"Blue Route Journal","article_published_time":"2026-08-10T22:07:52+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c"},"headline":"America\u2019s Professors Break Century-Long Precedent To Go Full Socialist","datePublished":"2026-08-10T22:07:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171"},"wordCount":1042,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e26b347875ff38bb1d61b01933ab9226.avif","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171","url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2171","name":"America\u2019s Professors Break Century-Long Precedent To Go Full Socialist - 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