This story is crossposted from my WokeAF Substack but because it’s so important I decided to post it here as well.
If you have been paying attention to independent media no doubt you have heard about Project 2025. This is the 900 page Christian Nationalist manifesto put out by the Koch-owned Heritage Foundation that many are saying is a plan to immediately transform America into a totalitarian state and elevate Christianity as the official state religion while relegating LGBTQ+ people, non-Christians, and Democrats to second-class citizen status, or worse.
Just the other day the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, threw down the gauntlet by stating “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Read those words again. If they don’t send a chill down your spine then nothing else will. This is a plan for a RADICAL transformation of the administrative state, beginning with purges of tens of thousands of Federal Civil Servants who have devoted their lives to making the government run smoothly and effectively and replacing them with tens of thousands of loyal MAGA footsoldiers.
And they are already recruiting those footsoldiers today who are being pre-screened for their loyalty to Trump. Here are some samples from a 2020 questionnaire potential candidates were given in case Trump won again and are being used for Project 2025 recruitment:
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"What part of Candidate Trump's campaign message most appealed to you and why?"
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"Briefly describe your political evolution. What thinkers, authors, books, or political leaders influenced you and led you to your current beliefs? What political commentator, thinker or politician best reflects your views?"
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"Have you ever appeared in the media to comment on Candidate Trump, President Trump or other personnel or policies of the Trump Administration?"
Project 2025 gets its muscle from 80 partners, including Turning Point USA, led by MAGA star Charlie Kirk; the Center for Renewing America, headed by former Trump budget director Russ Vought; and American Moment, focused on young believers for junior positions.
“It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.“
—Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project
Trump insiders relish rebuilding the team with purists. But the truth is, they have no choice: Many more-traditional Republicans quit the first administration in frustration or were fired by tweet. And some former advisers are talking to prosecutors or are charged with crimes.
Even the Biden/Harris campaign is ringing alarm bells about Project 2025, and specifically about Kevin Roberts’ direct and blatant threat of violence should anyone attempt to oppose this fascist takeover of the Federal Government.
Finally the mainstream media is sitting up and taking notice. They have steadfastly refused to acknowledge the threat that Project 2025 poses to democracy in this country and have chosen instead to focus on President Biden’s age and, shall we say, less than stellar debate performance last week. Even the New York Times paused their Biden bashing to report on Kevin Roberts’ open threat.
So what are some of the policy proposals of Project 2025?
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Eliminating LGBTQ rights
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Eradicating federal funding for DEI programs
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Purging the government of apolitical civil servants
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Removal of the United States from the Paris Accords and repealing all climate change mitigation efforts
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Eliminating the checks and balances built into three branches of government in favor of expanded control by the executive branch
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Ending reproductive freedom and replacing the Department of Health and Human Services with the “Department of Life”
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Replacing the Department of Homeland Security with a 100,000-worker-strong immigration department, militarization of the border and an end to refugee programs
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Fundamentally altering American diplomacy in favor of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ agendas and abandoning international organizations and traditional diplomatic and security alliances
This is not a joke nor is it hyperbole. The MAGAs have taken the gloves off and have openly stated their intentions to permanently transform this country into what they see as their perfect Conservative utopia. They want to “take the country back” from the “radical Left” that they see as an impediment to their fascist ambitions.
But as of today most of America hasn’t even heard of Project 2025 with only 8% . However in June Congressman Jared Huffman of California announced a Stop Project 2025 Task Force.
Congressman Huffman said: “Project 2025 is more than an idea, it's a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will.
“We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late.”
“House Democrats are dedicating taxpayer dollars to launch a smear campaign against the united effort to restore self-governance to everyday Americans,” replied Mr Roberts in an early June statement. Obviously with his recent statements we cannot give him the benefit of the doubt.
Project 2025 Directly Attacks the LGBTQ+ Community
Project 2025 aims to gut protections for the LGBTQ community, which its organizers believe exists in opposition to the “traditional American family” and its Christian nationalist underpinnings. The Project would prioritize families “comprised of a married mother, father, and their children,” and would eliminate any federal policies that promote LGBTQ equality or that assist single mothers.
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) reports that the project claims falsely that, “Only heterosexual, two-parent families are safe for children, and that, ‘All other family forms involve higher levels of instability (the average length of same-sex marriages is half that of heterosexual marriages); financial stress or poverty; and poor behavioral, psychological, or educational outcomes.’ (Their data on the length of marriages is false).”
They continue with more lies:
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Transgender people are an “ideology” and their existence is linked to pornography and the “sexualization of children.”
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“Children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.”
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Transgender health care for youth is child abuse.
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Education texts related to race, gender, and LGBTQ identities are “noxious tenets.”
By the numbers:
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“LGBT” is mentioned 12 times
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“LGBTQ” is mentioned 6 times
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“Christian” is mentioned 7 times
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“Religious freedom” is mentioned 26 times
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“Gender ideology” is mentioned 8 times
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“Woke” is mentioned 35 times
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“DEI” is mentioned 39 times
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“Abortion” is mentioned 199 times
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“Critical race theory” is mentioned 21
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“Gender” is mentioned 111 times
This is a five-alarm fire, folks. Republicans are taking their anti-woke ideology and transforming it into a fascist agenda that aims to RADICALLY transform this country into something completely unrecognizable to most Americans. Their goal is to elevate Christian Nationalism to the highest echelons of power and We The People WILL suffer as a result. It is incumbent upon every one of us to tell EVERYONE we know about this agenda because the media is absolutely failing at their job. And unless we turn up this November en masse and vote against these people, it’s all over.
And that is not hyperbole.