What is Project 2025?
Understanding this new threat to our rights.
What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a dangerous policy playbook for the next Republican president. It could threaten basic freedoms by gutting checks and balances and consolidating power in the office of the president, like other authoritarian governments.
Project 2025 includes a long list of policies, including aggressively limiting abortion nationwide, increasing taxes for middle-class families, and disenfranchising voters by rolling back provisions of the Voting Rights Act. It’s a sweeping agenda that would reach every part of our lives.
Why would anyone push such a radical agenda? It all comes down to money and power. The people behind Project 2025 want to seize and hold power, and hand kickbacks to their billionaire backers.
Who is behind Project 2025?
Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and funded with $22 million, has over 100 right-wing partners and close ties to members of Trump’s first administration. At least two-thirds of the partner organizations receive funding from the Koch network or conservative activist Leonard Leo.
What does this mean for voting rights?
Project 2025 poses a significant threat to our rights and the foundations of our democracy. Specifically targeting our voting rights, it seeks to suppress voters through tactics designed to disenfranchise marginalized communities. The project aims to reduce polling stations in minority areas and restrict mail-in voting. The project also seeks to implement policies that allow state legislatures to override federal election outcomes.
The threats to voting rights are just part of the plan – Project 2025 aims to let the next Republican president rule over us instead of representing us. The sweeping agenda would also viciously restrict abortion care, disempower the LGBTQ+ community, and end all programs addressing climate change.
What can I do?
Project 2025 poses an immediate threat to our everyday lives, and voters must understand the truth. Share this article and talk to your friends about how Project 2025 endangers our rights and freedoms.