Project 2025 Resources

You may have heard of Project 2025. Political groups and pundits are raising red flags
about it. News organizations are writing stories. Friends are saying, “have you seen this?” in
online communities. Even President Biden is talking about it on the campaign trail. And for
good reason — it is frighteningly anti-democratic and goes against what the vast majority of
Americans want for our country — so we want to make sure you have everything you need
to explain it to people who know nothing about it – and there are quite a few! It is an 887-page Right Wing plan to change our country and government in the first 180 days of a Trump administration.

The rightwing program spelled out in Project 2025 (www.project2025.org/policy) is written by the Heritage Foundation, always a tool of big corporations. The main thrust is to allow corporations unfettered rights to exploit workers and the environment. It details the first six months of a radical rightwing presidency. Backed by more than 100 conservative organizations, Christian nationalists, corporate oligarchs, and militaristic authoritarians, they mean to change America as we know it, turning America into an authoritarian police state and shredding our most cherished freedoms.

At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.

Dozens more who staffed Trump’s government hold positions with conservative groups advising Project 2025, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller. These groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump’s attempts to remain in power, such as his impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow and two of the legal architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman.

If you want a good summary, start with this:   Project 2025 Explained: Project 2025

Here are some additional resources:

A web page from the AFL-CIO explaining what the Republicans have in store for working people and their unions.