You won't find this on the NY Times homepage, but "If Trump Wins" is very much the kind of journalism we need from the most important news organization in America.
@dangillmor Glad to see it. This article has a more complete list:
"Project 2025...is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more."
"This resource outlines the specific policy and personnel priorities of Project 2025 for the next Republican administration."
You won’t want to miss the June issue of AU’s Church & State magazine! Our cover story details a burgeoning threat to American democracy, church-state separation and the many rights and freedoms that depend on them: Project 2025.
I also encourage you to check out AU President and CEO Rachel Laser’s column with advice for recent graduates: to be your authentic selves – and help others do the same.
Other stories this month include how the alarming strategies of a 1970s anti-LGBTQ+ pop star are still being used in the Christian Nationalist playbook today; a sneak peek into a new book co-authored by AU Board of Trustees member Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood about how mainline Protestants inadvertently helped build Christian Nationalism; and why Americans United is opposed to erecting a statue of the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham in the U.S. Capitol.
Europeans: Please VOTE on June 6-9, that's your chance to influence the make-up of the #EuropeanParliament.
Vote green, vote progressive.
You KNOW the right wingers are raring to push the gas pedal on fossil fuel pollution, turn back the clock on civil rights, increase inequality, etc.
We can do much better than that.
We need an even more ambitious Green Deal. Getting that needs your vote.
"Many of those parties made their intentions public in late April in Budapest at the Conservative Political Action Conference —CPAC Hungary 2024.
Taken together, the agenda for Europe is remarkably similar to Donald Trump’s #Project2025, which would cut environmental spending, gut climate policy and roll back regulations on polluting industries."
A 2nd #Trump admin could #weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.
This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against #America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.
The outline for such a scenario emerges from a thorough reading of #Project2025’s Mandate for Leadership, which specifically proposes a #Trump-friendly recalculation of the systems that sustain American #democracy. The strategy for establishing an American version of Orbán’s “#illiberal democracy” is not spelled out in any particular chapter of Mandate. Rather, it is woven throughout the whole of the document, w/key elements appearing in the chapters on reworking #DHS, the #FCC, & the #FEC.
In Mandate’s chapter on the #DHS, Ken Cuccinelli writes, “Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis / #disinformation efforts. … #Project2025 document declares that “the entirety of the #CISA#Cybersecurity Advisory Committee should be dismissed on Day One.”
…This is just one way that Project 2025’s cabal of “experts” is scheming to thwart honest discourse about #elections & #democracy.
…This is all part of #Project2025’s …vision for restructuring #DOJ so it can be #weaponized by a new #Trump admin when it comes to election-related issues. In Mandate’s chapter on #Justice, Hamilton…proposes reassigning…prosecuting election-related offenses from the #CivilRights Div to the #Criminal Div. Why? So #Republican-generated claims about “fraudulent voter registration,” “mail-in ballot fraud,” &…the various targets of Trump’s #BigLie claims…are “appropriately investigated & prosecuted.”
For those who unaware of the far-right and fascist Project 2025 document that Orange Felon 34 would use —including deporting US citizens, centralizing power in him and abolishing the Department of Education among many other things—here is the entire 920-page document: https://tinyurl.com/5ane29yv
People need to stop saying that #Project2025 was written in #Trump's image. That is not true.
Believe it or not, Trump is a pawn for the conservative far right who wrote the mandate. Trump couldn't care less about Project2025. All he cares about is money and power.
Project2025 will exist with or without Trump. It was written for the NEXT conservative President. That is one of the first sentences in the mandate. Trump's name is mentioned less than a dozen times in all 962 pages. 1/6
Trump raised a record-breaking $34.8 million the day after being convicted of election interference. That's nearly double their previous largest single-day online donation amount.
29.7% were new donors.
This is not a drill. He will get reelected unless people on the left step up to oppose him. And #Project2025 makes it clear how much worse things can get, both domestically and abroad. #VoteBlue
Since MSM is asleep at the wheel 😡, it is incumbent upon we who are more plugged into to what’s happening to assist the #Biden campaign and make friends and family aware of what will ensue if TFG gets elected and implements #Project2025.
A good starting point is sharing this Media Matters Project 2025 guide, which offers a good overview:
"Despite the Biden campaign ramping up its focus on Heritage’s “Project 2025” this year, fewer than one in four Americans say they’ve heard about it, according to new polling shared with Semafor this morning."
-S Talcott
MSM & SM aren't informing viewers & readers about the existential dangers of GOP presidency, esp. #Project2025 *Erosion of democratic norms, use of govt institutions to target pol opponents..., whether it's #TFG or someone else:
Privatization gravy train: INSUR giants use some of that MDCR Advantage$ (ripped off our tax$ last year by an est. $140B over & above what it would’ve caused us if ppl had simply been on real MDCR) to buy legislators & some of it for expensive ads to dupe seniors into joining their programs.
#Project2025 is a nationwide power grab: Forcing birth in all cases, derailing racial progress, dictating school curriculum, unchecked authority, injecting "Christianity" into the military, shredding climate policies & more.
An authoritarian, regressive agenda stripping away rights and freedoms.
"...the Reich meme is not some random mistake. Rather, it is the manifestation of a trolling effort with roots in overt Neo-Nazism that goes back to 2015."
The fascists behind Trump continue to exploit his digital persona, explains @emptywheel
“The campaign — which serially offers statements in response to reporting on #Project2025 claiming that unless something comes from the campaign then it is not official policy — does not control Harp.
Caputo’s source claims that the campaign doesn’t control what comes in and out of Trump’s digital persona. Harp does”