Seattle’s UW Professors Shift to Private Emails to Hide Their Political Campaigning
4th September 2025
In a new op-ed Seattle talk radio host Jason Rantz exposes how University of Washington faculty—through the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)—are deliberately trying to keep their political organizing out of public view. The evidence comes from an email circulated by Abraham Flaxman, a UW professor, forwarding AAUP leadership’s warning that:
“Emails that are sent to an employer-issued email address could be accessed by the employer or be subject to records requests from legislators or members of the public, putting our members’ privacy at risk.”
As Rantz points out, this isn’t about privacy in the ordinary sense—it’s about making sure “taxpayers—or the media—[don’t learn] about the ideological activism they push under the guise of academic freedom.”