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11/25/2024

In the news: Project 2025 and the incoming Trump administration

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous and abysmal” plans, even though some were written by his former aides and many allies.

11/09/2024

Not everyone (okay, that's an understatement!) wants to dig through a 900-page tome to learn about what is proposed in Project 2025. So how about a fiction approach? One is the book, "2025: A Novel," by David Pepper. It's a vivid illustration of the impacts such policies will have on people. And now there's a podcast based on David Pepper's book providing a fictional recounting of the first year of Trump's second administration with Project 2025 in place. The audio podcast is "Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal." It's available on all the podcast platforms,including Spotify and YouTube.
One place to find the podcast is here: https://art19.com/shows/trumps-project-2025/episodes/1279583a-8d64-4cdc-83b9-852f5b749ee0

11/04/2024

Project 2025
‘Sounding alarm for 10 years’: Mississippi residents warn of Project 2025 ramifications
In the state with a conservative majority in power, many of the project’s proposed policies are making life difficult, with ‘cruelty the point’, say activists

In the state with a conservative majority in power, many of the project’s proposed policies are making life difficult, with ‘cruelty the point’, say activists

10/30/2024

ProPublica is out with another article and private videos from a chief architect of Project 2025. 
“Vought goes much further in these speeches about his plan to villainize nonpartisan gov’t workers.

He wants to demoralize them. Or as he says, “We want to put them in trauma.””

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

10/26/2024

The independence of science and scientists is under threat by Project 2025, and the scientists at the Scientific American are speaking up!

Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence

10/21/2024

Shockingly, what may seem at first glance to be over the top is actually accurate. Project 2025 is extreme.

Project 2025 is a policy blueprint created by far-right​ “think tank” Heritage Foundation. Its goal is to “institutionalize ​Trumpism” in America.

10/15/2024

The National Women's Law Center's Kenna Titus posted an analysis of the impact of Project 2025 on abortion and women's health issues last week.

So, you’ve heard Project 2025 is bad for abortion and now you’re scared. News reports are essentially saying, to quote the iconic Leah from Love Island USA Season 6, “whatever you’ve heard about me Project 2025, times it by a million and if you think it’s bad, make it worse.” Well, the f...

10/11/2024

Politifact and PBS fact-check claims by liberals that Project 2025 would break up NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which administers the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center. So, what's the truth, and what would be the impact if that was done? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/fact-checking-what-project-2025-says-about-the-national-weather-service-and-noaa?fbclid=IwY2xjawF1dBdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYPtxi65DKHBfXd4R3rNPUJidw1jQ_AuWjXTXYgAteh9BpoRY1FoO7B2UA_aem_sBReHopUVHicwSWOkFL54Q

As Florida braced for Hurricane Helene, some weather and politics observers were mad about Project 2025.

09/26/2024

VoteVets examined the proposals in Project 2025 for transforming the U.S. Military into a force to control America. Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eason explains how it would work. Understanding What PROJECT 2025 Means For Our Military

This is Donald Trump's roadmap for turning our US Military into his own MAGA Military.A lot has been said about Project 2025, but not nearly enough about wha...

09/20/2024

Democracy Docket explains in this article from last April just how important the races for state legislatures are to preserving democracy.

Opinion | Just as in 2020, to focus exclusively on federal races, and ignore the very real threats in battleground states legislatures is shortsighted.