Why are we doing this? Project 2025 is the GOP’s authoritarian roadmap to dismantling a thriving, inclusive democracy for all, and Trump will use it every bit of it!
- TLDR? We’ve reduced Project 2025’s +900 pages to 4, along with (2) great short videos!
- TLDR? We’ve reduced Trump’s equally alarming Agenda 47 here.
- You think this is all fearmongering nonsense? GOP-controlled states are already test-driving Project 2025 agenda.
Here’s a preview of Trump’s associated Agenda 47 overlay, which we describe here.
An Introduction to the fascism of Project 2025
How to identify fascism.
“Fascism uses propaganda as a way of mobilizing a population behind the leader. Fascist propaganda creates an awesome sense of loss, and a desire for revenge against those who are responsible. […] The goal of fascist propaganda is to mobilize a population to violently overthrow multi-party democracy and replace it with the leader.” – Jason Stanley, expert on authoritarianism.
- Pit groups of people against each other
- Demonize vulnerable groups as people to be hated, feared, and seen as a threat to the community
- Criminalize the members of those groups, jail the opposition.
- Use threats of violence to gain power, expand the use of military and paramilitary troops.
- Consolidate power
- Undermine the free press
Its 7 strategies to divide and conquer (stopthecoup2025.org)
- Creating False Conflicts and Oppositions
- Conservatives vs. progressives
- Federal government vs. states
- Administrative state vs. “the People”
- “Regular Americans” vs. “Elites” ie. “woke, globalism, Anti-Americanism, highly educated)
- Gaslighting
- “Claiming to recognize race as a category is in itself racist, a form of discrimination.”
- Claiming Dr. Martin Luther King dream of a “colorblind” nation has been achieved.
- Criminalizing those who discuss race (Librarians, teachers, historians, etc.) and the discussion itself.
- False definitions of “Critical Race Theory” and DEI
- “Great Replacement” theory
- “Claiming to recognize race as a category is in itself racist, a form of discrimination.”
- Bias – Demonizing Specific Groups of People
- “portraying certain groups of people as unnatural, problematic, and less worthy of rights and protection; the rhetoric turns these into groups to be feared, making them less than human.”
- Sexuality/LGBTQ+ Issues
- Transgender issues – criminalizes parents, physicians and teachers, removal of information sources.
- Gender discrimination – reduce discussion to binary gender classifications.
- Reproductive rights – women who want full reproductive care do not fall under their vision of the ideal American family.
- “portraying certain groups of people as unnatural, problematic, and less worthy of rights and protection; the rhetoric turns these into groups to be feared, making them less than human.”
- Appropriating Universal Concepts
- Government support of Christian Nationalist views of broad social concepts, such as family, immigration, patriotism and American values – not wokeism!)
- The Double Standard
- Book banning, although part of the First Amendment, “saves” children.
- Politicization of Government
- Clearing out traditional civil servants, allowing more private section access and decision-making authority
- Religion – inserting language to support wide-spread discrimination by those who claim to be Christians
- Relentless Repetition of Buzzwords
- Inflation, drug overdoses, woke, “normalization of drag queens”, woke-ism, Critical Race Theory, “War on Fossil Fuels”
- Old-Fashioned Hypocrisy – claiming the harmful conservative policies are actually helpful.
- Concentration on abortion, no help for children already here.
- Religiously-based adoption agencies limit services to like-minded parents.
- Punishing single parents for not being married.
- Removing public housing efforts.
Who is behind it?
The Heritage Foundation, a big “O” in the party of “Grifters, Oligarchs, & Polluters,” spent $22 million dollars on their latest version of the Mandate for Leadership – the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, (Project 2025). This is an almost ±1,000-page guide to overthrowing the federal government and ending democracy as we know it. “Orchestrated by a diverse host of conservative organizations, Project 2025 aims to virtually delete all bureaucratic safety stops…”if allowed, [it] will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state.”
“Called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—or “Project 2025,” for short—the plan has “four pillars”:
- an 887-page policy agenda,
- a presidential personnel database of vetted conservatives,
- a Presidential Administration Academy to train these people to achieve the Project 2025 policy agenda, and
- a 180-day playbook, which is what they hope to achieve in the first 180 days if Trump takes office in January 2025.
To develop this plan, the Heritage Foundation organized a broad coalition of over 90 conservative organizations—a who’s-who of groups that have led attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender studies, the Equal Rights Amendment and #MeToo initiatives.”
The 4 stated goals of the 2025 plan
- Restore the Patriarchy: “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.”
- Small Government: (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green has just admitted that the GOP is incompetent at running “Big Government) “Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.”
- Isolationism: “Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.”
- Christian Nationalism values: “Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls ‘“’the Blessings of Liberty.’”
The main contradictions of the plan
- “The authors of “The Conservative Promise” claim to support equality, while advocating for dismantling the government agencies that enforce laws ensuring equality, such as Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.
- They claim to support freedom and liberty, while advocating for a total ban on abortion, rolling back the rights of LGBTQ people and closing the border.
- They claim to support free speech, while advocating for banning any mention of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from schools and other societal institutions.
- They claim to support the working class, while calling for tax cuts for the rich, elimination of labor protections and deregulation of big business and the oil industry.“
How effective are they to achieving their goals?
We are not being alarmist or exaggerating!
- President Reagan implemented or initiated 60% of the 2,000 proposals of the 1981 Mandate for Leadership in his first year of office.
- President Trump – 1st term – implemented over two thirds of his version. Click here for the list!
- President Trump – 2nd term – With the immediate removal of a real civil service, he will be able to implement nearly all it, along with his Agenda 47, his own vengeful and often unconstitutional overlay. (Read the TLDR version here.) Cowed congressional members will help with the rest. I
We are working on uncovering and broadcasting the key points of these manifestos, so people understand what will happen if Trump, or any GOP presidential candidate takes office.
Action #1: Here is Project 2025 and Trump’s Agenda 47. Join our volunteers and experts and help us translate word salads and locate the poison pills.
- TLDR (Too long, didn’t read)? We’ve reduced Project 2025’s +900 pages to 4, along with (2) great short videos!
- TLDR? We’ve reduced Trump’s equally alarming Agenda 47 here.
- You think this is all fearmongering nonsense? GOP-controlled states are already starting on the Project 2025 agenda. See our updating list of repressive bills and laws by state.
| AGENDA 47 – Trump’s own revenge-flavored frosting on the Project 2025 authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism cake. | ||
| PROJECT 2025 CHAPTER TRANSLATIONS – Work in progress! | ||
| A NOTE ON “PROJECT 2025” | ||
| FOREWARD – A PROMISE TO AMERICA | 1-17 | |
| Section 1: Taking the Reins of Government | ||
| 1 | WHITE HOUSE OFFICE | 23-42 |
| 2 | EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (Need an expert/research here!) | 43-67 |
| 3 | CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: MANAGING THE BUREAUCRACY | 69-85 |
| Section 2: The Common Defense | 87-90 | |
| 4 | DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (Need an expert/research here!) | 91-131 |
| 5 | DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Overall analysis of immigration issues by Vanessa Frank, Immigration Attorney. | 133-169 |
| 6 | DEPARTMENT OF STATE Overall analysis by Miriam Mack | 171-199 |
| 7 | INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (Need an expert/research here!) | 201-234 |
| 8 | MEDIA AGENCIES | 235-251 |
| 9 | AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 253-281 |
| Section 3: The General Welfare | 283-287 | |
| 10 | DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | 289-318 |
| 11 | DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | 319-362 |
| 12 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND RELATED COMMISSIONS (Need an expert/research here!) | 363-416 |
| 13 | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY | 417-448 |
| 14 | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES | 449-502 |
| 14 | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from Dr. Leslie-Lynn Pawson, Ventura Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. | 462-470 |
| 15 | DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT | 503-516 |
| 16 | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR | 517-544 |
| 17 | DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | 545-579 |
| 18 | DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND RELATED AGENCIES | 581-617 |
| 19 | DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Need an expert! Still appears to be butt-sore that Trump wasn’t able to sell all our roads and bridges to private industry to exact tolls from us til the end of time. Also sad about EVs. And CA. Wants to reduce fuel economy levels and force CA into line.) | 619-640 |
| 20 | DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Need an expert/research here!) | 641-655 |
| Section 4: The Economy | ||
| 21 | DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (Need an expert/research here!) | 663-689 |
| 22 | DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (Need an expert/research here! Lots missed, not understood) | 691-751 |
| 23 | EXPORT-IMPORT BANK (Need an expert/research here!) The Export-Import Bank Should Be Abolished The Case of the Export-Import Bank | 717-730 |
| 24 | FEDERAL RESERVE (Need an expert/research here!) | 731-743 |
| 25 | SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (Need an expert/research here! | 745-764 |
| 26 | TRADE: (Need an expert/research here!) The Case for Fair Trade The Case for Free Trade | 765-823 |
| SECTION 5: Independent Regulatory Agencies | 825-827 | |
| 27 | FINANCIAL REGULATORY AGENCIES (Need an expert/research here!) | 829-843 |
| 28 | FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (Need an expert/research here!) | 845-859 |
| 29 | FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION | 861-867 |
| 30 | FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (Need an expert/research here!) | 869-881 |
| ONWARD! | 883-887 |
Action #2: Tell your legislators to call out the GOP’s Project 2025 as a danger to democracy to and specifically get protections from its authoritarian agenda passed! (More actions in process!)
- LGBTQ Rights Action: The GOP is bullying minorities in America for political gain. Where have we seen this tactic before?
- Health care Action: The GOP is lying about Medicare to enrich their corporate donors.
- Immigration Rights Action: We need immigrants as much as they need us! Don’t let Republicans crash our economy!
- Reproductive Rights Action: Project 2025’s goal is to ban abortion and contraceptives nationwide.
Action #3: Commit to Voting BLUE from top to bottom of your ballot and urge others to do so as well. Any vote for today’s Republican party is a vote for all of Project 2025.
Think Orban! “The electoral road to breakdown is dangerously deceptive… People still vote. Elected autocrats maintain a veneer of democracy while eviscerating its substance. Many government efforts to subvert democracy are ‘legal,’ in the sense that they are approved by the legislature or accepted by the courts.” – Political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky:
The U.S. to now rated as a “democracy in decline.” Also called “democratic erosion,” “democratic backsliding,” “democratic regression,” and “autocratization,” we are experiencing slow but steady partial and incremental losses, rather than a coup. Despite moments of apparent stability or equilibrium, experts point out two major examples of this erosion:
- Strategic manipulation of elections. This is not “voter fraud,” which is almost non-existent here. This refers to increasingly extreme election manipulation – election procedures that make it harder to vote (like inadequate polling facilities) and reducing representation through gerrymandering.
- Executive aggrandizement. The United States has seen substantial expansions of executive power and serious efforts to erode the independence of the civil service. In addition, “checks and balances” are being eliminated by an extremist judiciary.
The experts agree. To stop our further slide, we need to WIN every election that prevents Project 2025 from being implemented, so install your vote into the firewall, and not off the side!
Resource Library – Article and Videos!
- Videos
- Collections of Resources
- Project 2025
- (Project2025.org) Policy papers – (original source)
- (Berkeley Political Review) Project 2025: Democratic Doomsday
- (Jenniferrpovey.medium.com) A Quick Analysis of Project 2025
- Project 2025: A Blueprint for Authoritarianism (Global Project against Hate and Extremism – GPAHE)
- (Mother Jones) Inside the Republican Plot to Dismantle US Environmental Policy
- You think this is all fearmongering nonsense?
- (NYTimes) Heritage Foundation Makes Plans to Staff Next G.O.P. Administration – No matter the Republican, the effort has set a goal of up to 20,000 potential officials in a database akin to a right-wing LinkedIn.
- (Ahmed Baba) What Is Project 2025 And Why Is It So Dangerous?
- (Warning Vote) Warning Vote – Sounding the Alarm for Democracy
- (Ahmed Baba) “Institutionalizing Trumpism”: Heritage Foundation President’s Revealing Project 2025 Interview.
- (getfree_mvmt) What is Project 2025
- Trump’s 10-point plan of power-grabbing and revenge if re-elected:
- (axios) Behind the Curtain — Scoop: The Trump job applications revealed
- The Role of Christian Nationalism in Project 2025 (GPAHE)
- Gutting The Civil Service (aka “The Deep State”)(and why this is key to Project 2025)(GPAHE)
- Ending Racial Equity Efforts (including CRT and DEI)
- (Media Matters) A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
- (Stopthecoup) A Reader’s Guide to Project 2025
- (Stop the Coup) How Project 2025 Will Affect Me. UNPACKING PROJECT 2025’S PROPAGANDA –A RHETORICAL STRATEGY OF LIES, GASLIGHTING, AND BIAS
- (warningvote.org) Warning Votoe – Sounding the Alarm for Democracy
- (MotherJones) Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country – “We did it quickly and we did it quietly,” said the executive director of Heritage Action.
- (guardian) Dark money groups push election denialism on US state officials – Groups have created incubator of policies that would restrict ballot access and amplify election fraud claims
- (Protect Democracy) What is the Big Lie?
- Agenda 47
- (donaldJTrump.com) Agenda 47 – (original source)
- (Barron’s) ‘Agenda 47’: What Trump Has Promised If He Wins In 2024
- (nymag.com) Trump’s Most Unhinged Plans for His Second Term
- (nymag.com) Trump plans to Use Nixon Trick to Steal Power From Congress
- (nymag.com) Trump and DeSantis Are on a Mission to Destroy the Civil Service
- (WaPo) Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term – Advisers have also discussed deploying the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.
- (axios) Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab
- (axios) Behind the Curtain — Exclusive: How Trump would build his loyalty-first Cabinet
- (NYTimes) Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans – If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them.
- (Rolling Stone) ‘Dictator’ Trump Plans to Deploy Massive Number of Troops on U.S. Soil – In his first term, Trump’s plans to send troops to “war” on the southern border were thwarted. This time, he’s talking about sending up to 300,000 there
- (cmsny.org) Mass Deportations Would Impoverish US Families and Create Immense Social Costs
- (Roosevelt House) Without Undocumented Workers, the U.S Economy Would be a Disaster
- (PBS) What ending DACA could cost the U.S. economy
- (Wapo) The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.
- (PBS) 4 myths about how immigrants affect the U.S. economy
- (Rolling Stone) This Is What Would Happen if We Repealed Birthright Citizenship
- (Immigration Impact) Ending Birthright Citizenship Could Put All Americans’ Nationality in Jeopardy
- (fmreview) Statelessness: a forgotten human rights crisis
- (axios) Exclusive: Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white people
- The real poison in our blood.
- (Nation) What Is the History of Fascism in the United States? In Fascism Comes to America, Bruce Kuklick traces the shifting meanings of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.
- (TeriKanefield) Why Some Prefer Oligarchy and (What’s Russia got to do, got to do with it? )
- (Newsweek) Dear Supreme Court: Just Say No to an American King | Opinion
- (talkingpointsmemo.com) Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’
- (NYTimes) So, You Think the Republican Party No Longer Represents the People
- (PBS) What is Christian Nationalism and why it raises concerns about threats to democracy.
- (Cap20) Christian Nationalism Is ‘Single Biggest Threat’ to America’s Religious Freedom
- (theguardian) Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street: Trump spells out migrant plan – Trump White House 2.0 would mean a vast, legally dubious roundup of up to 11 million people and pit state against state
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