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     Why is Project 2025 important and why should we be concerned? It’s because Project 2025 is the blueprint for what MAGA conservatives hope to accomplish in a second Trump term. And because they are better prepared to implement their ideas in a second term than they were for the first Trump term. Trump and company were surprised to win in 2016 and the chaotic start to his first term showed that they were not organized to take advantage of their win. A second term will likely be different. Individuals like Russel Vought, Trump’s OMB director and one of the  architects of Project 2025, now have the experience to more effectively use the reins of government to achieve their ends. In combination with recent Supreme Court decisions, implementing Project 2025 will undo critical progressive gains and damage our democracy.
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     Here are some of the goals of Project 2025 that should cause alarm. Although Trump now wants to deny any connection to Project 2025, his own Agenda 47 shares many of the same objectives. Both documents threaten to:

  • remake the federal workforce to allow the appointment of Trump loyalists,
  • enact strict immigration policies that include large-scale deportation,
  • slash climate change and environmental protections to favor fossil fuels,
  • eliminate civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ individuals,
  • restrict access to reproductive health services including abortion and contraception,
  • privatize successful healthcare programs such as Medicare and cut needed education programs like Headstart,
  • jeopardize the independence of the FBI and the DOJ to allow Trump to politicize the justice system

The ballot box is our protection against the threat of Project 2025 to our progressive and democratic values. We need to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. Reject Project 2025! Vote Blue!

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