Trump involved with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025

Secret video: Project 2025 author says Trump “blessed” the “second phase” of their agenda “Behind closed doors, chief Project 2025 architect Russ Vought confirmed Donald Trump has ‘blessed’ the work of Project 2025 architects as they work on the ‘second phase’ of their dangerous MAGA blueprint,” Floyd said in a press release shared with Truthout. “Trump’s … Read more

Leader of Project 2025 delays book with forward by JD Vance until after the election

Project 2025 leader’s book with JD Vance introduction delayed until after election But in his introduction to Roberts’s book, Vance called the Heritage Foundation “the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump”. Read more at The Guardian Delayed publication of Heritage president’s book reflects Project 2025 shell game A … Read more

SCOTUS Didn’t Go Nuclear On Abortion In 2024. It’ll Have Plenty Of Options To In 2025

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing group behind many high-profile abortion challenges (including the one to mifepristone), giddily listed in a brief for that case the abortion rights and protections for women and LGBTQ Americans that may be open to attack in a Chevron-less world. They included the lifting of mifepristone restrictions, the government’s reading … Read more

Trump and Project 2025 – work is already done and ready to go

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Big Display Of Killing Project 2025 Most importantly, the work that Project 2025 was doing is basically already done. It assembled a 900-page blueprint for a radical far-right agenda for Trump II and became a clearinghouse for potential personnel in a second Trump term. Perhaps a better way to phrase … Read more

Kamala Harris is the worst nightmare of America’s far right | opinion

What’s the underlying goal here? The same as in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale – authoritarian fascism organized around male dominance. In this worldview, anything that challenges the traditional male roles of protector, provider and controller of the family threatens the social order. Strong women and LGBTQ+ people also weaken the heroic male warrior. Brutality, force … Read more

Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei

Roberts gained notoriety this year as the leading force behind Project 2025, a foundation plan backed by more than 100 conservative groups that seeks to radically upend a broad range of policies if Trump gets elected again, from limiting abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights and dismantling the Department of Education, to ending diversity programs and … Read more

JD Vance writes foreword for Project 2025 leader’s upcoming book

Reed Galen, a Republican operative turned director of JoinTheUnion.us, a “coalition of pro-democracy organisations”, told the Guardian: “Project 2025 is Maga’s endorsed blueprint for turning America into an authoritarian state. “That Trump’s running mate is introducing [Roberts’] book personally only proves that his protestations [of no links to Project 2025] are an indication of how … Read more

JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender – opinion

Vance is staunchly opposed to abortion, and has suggested that it is wrong even in cases of rape and incest. He has compared the evil of abortion to that of slavery, and opposed the Ohio ballot measure ensuring the right to abortion in 2023. He also was one of only 28 members of Congress who … Read more