Tag Archives: Project 2025

Axios reports: House Democrats’ campaign arm is leaning hard into Project 2025 in the final stages of the election, launching billboards in more than two dozen districts blasting the conservative blueprint for a second Trump presidency, Axios has learned. Democrats have increasingly tried to tether Republicans to the plan as their polling shows it to be one of the most …

The Guardian reports: The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to former colleagues who spoke to the …

The Washington Post reports: Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign posted a list of her policy positions on her website Sunday, as the latest polls show her locked in a tight race with former president Donald Trump. Titled “A New Way Forward,” the page outlines her agenda on the economy as well as immigration and foreign policy. On each issue, the …

CBS News report: Spectators at the University of Michigan football game against Texas on Saturday will be reminded of a different rival before the game: Ohio State. At the Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, an aerial banner paid for by the Democratic National Committee will read: “JD Vance <3 Ohio State + Project 2025.” Fans at four separate college …

The Indiana Capital Chronicle reports: A survey sent to Noblesville area voters from a national conservative think tank contends election fraud is on the rise as part of illegal attempts to steal elections. The D.C.-based Heritage Foundation also claims to be nonpartisan, though its website highlights conservative views numerous times. The survey and two-page letter also include inflammatory language such …

“I can’t tell you how many MAGA people that I work with, really the hardcore, the most based, who are huge RFK Jr. fans. And they kind of were always kind of talking about it. But, remember, RFK Jr. went and interviewed for a job in 2016 at Trump Tower. “So, you know, their relationship goes back years. Some of …

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump and JD Vance may have avoided talking about Project 2025 but Tim Walz is determined to make the controversial conservative guidebook the focus of the touted first prime time vice presidential debate on October 1. After agreeing to take part in the proposed CBS debate, Walz went on the attack and made it clear …

The Guardian reports: A JD Vance-introduced book by a leader of Project 2025, the vast and controversial hardline rightwing plan for a second Trump administration, will be delayed until after the 2024 election. “There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our …

USA Today reports: “Really, it’s kind of a white supremacist manifesto,” said Michael Harriot, a writer and historian who wrote an article earlier this month titled: “I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America.” And a closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern: A USA …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Among its many sweeping calls for change in American government, a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards. “Break up NOAA,” the document says, referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

The Guardian reports: Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group. Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that …

The Meidas Touch reports: Heritage Foundation President and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts has a new book coming out, and Donald Trump’s running-mate JD Vance wrote a very enthusiastic foreword and review promoting his work, and even urged people to buy the book on his Twitter page before he was chosen as Trump’s running mate. Donald Trump and his campaign …

Via press release from GLAAD: One of the first to depict the potential effects of Project 2025, “The Pledge” is set in public school classroom in September 2025 and features a federal government representative overseeing a teacher who is leading her young students while they recite a revised Pledge of Allegiance, reflective of the values espoused in the more than …

“He can invoke something called Schedule F, which allows him to fire federal employees at will. He should have done it in the first term, but there was a lot of question about it. And we need to fire thousands of federal employees, especially the ones that have been working against our interest and working against the interest of the …

The New Republic reports: Self-described “gay furry hackers” behind a group dubbed SiegedSec on Wednesday released text exchanges between Heritage Foundation executive Mike Howell and a member of the hacker group. The texts followed a leak of nearly two gigabytes of data from The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation’s blog site. In the texts, Howell appears apoplectically humorless, oscillating between …

CNN reports: Six of Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in …

Cyberscoop reports: An established cybercrime group with a track record of attacking political targets posted on Tuesday roughly two gigabytes of data from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said it released the data in response to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a set of proposals that aim to give …

“Well, he’s not running for president is he? I mean our candidate is Donald Trump. I didn’t hear Donald Trump say that. “Donald Trump’s running on common sense, on restoring common sense versus the lunacy of the last four years and the far left and the shadow government that now is running our country.  “Think tanks do think tank stuff, …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller claimed he has “never been involved with Project 2025” in a post on X on Saturday, however, a video on the Project 2025 YouTube channel says otherwise. Following in former President Donald Trump’s footsteps, Miller tried to deny he has had any involvement with the plan, that has been described as, …