Have you heard about this scary thing called Project 2025? We know a lot of people have started talking about it — for good reason — and we want you to have everything you need to know from reliable sources so you can be a part of the conversation.
Project 2025 is a far-right extremist plan for America’s future. A group of Donald Trump’s political allies and supporters, led by the Heritage Foundation, are upset that he wasn’t able to make more permanent changes to our way of life during his term as president. They infused their white Christian nationalist agenda into this plan for him to use if he wins a second term in 2024.
It’s a 900+ page blueprint to remove our government’s checks and balances and give complete power to the president to make policy changes that go against what most Americans want for our country. It’s so unbelievably anti-democratic it will make your head spin. It’s long and full of disinformation, so we don’t recommend going to their website to check it out — that would give them clicks AND your data, which will let them flood you with their online propaganda in the future. Instead, we’ve reviewed it to give you this summary.
Project 2025 aims to:
- Institute a national abortion ban, reverse FDA approval of abortion pills, demand data from states that currently allow abortion, and restrict our access to STD testing, birth control, and IVF.
- End public education by eliminating the Department of Education and by diverting public money to private and religious school attendance.
- Assume that America is Christian and that Christian beliefs should hold a privileged place in society, starting with enforcing a “biblically based” (heterosexual and two-parent) definition of marriage and family.
- Reduce or eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and end programs that address climate change.
- Allow the mass deportation of immigrants, suspend applications for immigration, and reduce protections for immigrants seeking asylum.
- Make it easier to fire government employees. The people behind this are already creating a hiring database of 20,000+ Trump loyalists to pack all levels of the federal government with people who will not check his power. They’re also creating a training academy for them.
- Threaten our national security by gutting the Department of Homeland Security, ending the FBI’s efforts to combat disinformation, and reducing the military’s efforts to counter domestic extremism. And so much more.
As you can see, all the talk and red flags about Project 2025 are justified. It’s scary to imagine this extreme vision for America becoming reality, but knowing about it can help us stop it from happening!
So, what can we do? We’ll talk more in the coming weeks about how to make sure Project 2025 never sees the light of day. For now, if you’re interested in a deeper dive, you can visit our more detailed explainer at https://redwine.blue/project2025/. And stay tuned for next week’s Easy A action!
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