Project 2025 Exposed: The Shocking Plot to Erase Diversity in America

Aug 14, 2024 | Project 2025, a plan for the next conservative president to reshape the government, includes a plot to decimate diversity in America. Michael Harriot, columnist for The Grio and contributing columnist for The Guardian, joins Joy Reid to discuss.

‘Go to Hell’: How Project 2025 Chief Kicked the Guardian Out of Book Event

THE GUARDIAN: Heritage Foundation staff member, introducing Kevin Roberts to the reporter, says: ‘You’ve got two minutes with our best friend Adam from the Guardian’

Kevin Roberts, the head of the influential rightwing thinktank the Heritage Foundation, told a Guardian reporter to “go to hell” at the launch of Roberts’s new book on Tuesday night, then threw the reporter out of the venue, apparently in response to reporting on the organization.

The Guardian was invited last week to Roberts’s book events in New York and Washington DC. They were billed as an opportunity “to celebrate Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America” – Roberts’s new book, which features a foreword by the vice-president-elect, JD Vance. » | Adam Gabbatt in New York | Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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Democracy Now! Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out "Radical Agenda" for Next Trump Term in Undercover Video

Aug 16, 2024 | As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government continue to brag in private about their close ties to the Republican presidential nominee and how they intend to push a radical right-wing agenda in a second Trump administration. In July, Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought met with two people he believed to be relatives of a wealthy conservative donor interested in funding the effort. In fact, he was meeting with two reporters with the U.K.-based Centre for Climate Reporting as part of an undercover sting captured on video. Over the course of two hours, Vought described Trump's disavowal of Project 2025 as mere theater and laid out plans for mass deportations, restricting abortion, gutting independent government bureaucracies, using the military against racial justice protesters and more. The secret plans are "designed to ensure that this kind of radical agenda that the conservative movement has in the U.S. can be implemented from day one," says Lawrence Carter, founder and director of the Centre for Climate Reporting and one of the reporters who spoke with Vought. "They want to make sure that the mistakes from the first Trump administration, as they see them, where not much got done, are avoided this time around.”


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Project 2025 Chief’s Book Urges ‘Burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts

THE GUARDIAN: Revealed: new book by far-right Kevin Roberts calls for conservatives to ‘burn away the rot’ of US institutions

A screenshot taken from this article in today’s Guardian: Kevin Roberts, the president of the rightwing Heritage Foundation, pictured in London in May last year. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims.

The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two days after Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, when Joe Biden called on Americans to “bring down the temperature” after months of heated political battle.

Mixing classical quotes with cliché (“it is time to fight fire with fire”) and metaphors about forest fires and Smokey Bear, Kevin Roberts, president of the far-right Heritage Foundation, advocates “a long, controlled burn” of targets including the FBI, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the New York Times, “every Ivy League college” and even the Boy Scouts of America. » | Martin Pengelly in Washington | Friday, November 8, 2024

The force behind Project 2025: Kevin Roberts has the roadmap for a second Trump term: The ‘cowboy Catholic’ head of the Heritage Foundation is on a mission to align the right behind Trumpism, and has a plan in place to overturn the American government as it exists if Trump returns to power »

Trump’s return to White House means abortion rights face new chapter of peril: A nationwide abortion ban could become a reality, and access to other forms of reproductive healthcare are at risk »

Project 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich

Aug 13, 2024 | If Donald Trump gets back into office, every part of the government will be turned into an arm of his MAGA agenda.

Donald Trump is not only a menace to America, he is a menace to the whole world. – © Mark Alexander

PBS NewsHour : How a Second Trump Presidency Could Impact the LGBTQ+ Community

Mar 27, 2024 | On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has been outlining what he plans to do if elected in November. That includes rolling back the rights of millions of LGBTQ+ people. It’s part of a wider playbook to undo many modern civil rights advances for minority groups. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports.

The Lincoln Project: The Stakes

Jul 31, 2024 | In 2020, Joe Biden created the broadest coalition in American history to defeat Trump. Now in 2024, together with Kamala Harris, we will save our country from this generation’s greatest threat to our democracy, again.

The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times — our democracy depends on it.

Project 2025 Exposed: The Trump Allies Seeking a Christian Nationalist Coup

Jul 30, 2024 | The dangers of Project 2025, the manifesto that would give Donald Trump the authoritarian power to limit your rights, are outlined by Joy Reid. Roughly 140 individuals who worked in Trump's presidential administration are affiliated with Project 2025.

Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the Future of the United States | Four Corners

Jul 15, 2024 | There has never been a US president like Donald Trump — and now he’s back, this time with a detailed plan for his second coming.

Nearly four years after he was cast out by voters and accused of encouraging the American people to assault their own democracy with the attack on the US Capitol, the now convicted criminal wants to rebuild the country in his own image.

Ahead of the US election in November, Four Corners reporter Mark Willacy travels to Washington for the first of a special two-part series. He sits down with White House insiders who witnessed the chaos of Trump’s first term — some who continue to support his vision, and others Trump now considers “traitors”.

Trump wants to reshape the pillars of American democracy and give himself more power.

Willacy goes inside “Project 2025”, the blueprint for a second Trump term and the army of recruits ready to carry out his orders. Meanwhile strategy, security and defence experts warn of the impact another Trump presidency could have on America’s institutions, its democracy, and the rest of the world.


BEWARE! This video contains some very strong language. – Mark