Does the Democratic Party Know What Time It Is?
Exploring Project 2025: The Command & Control Center of Movement Conservatism
Project 2025 its true motivations, networks, and operations, is hiding in plain sight. There is actually a vast wealth of information accessible online that can be cobbled together into a fitting shoe that well represents the real objectives and purposes behind the “Presidential Transition Project.”
For now and to help me weave everything together I am simply going to leave these items here for anyone interested in what I am working on dissecting, exploring, and understanding to have access to and use of for their own explorations to see if areas of concerns or interests to them might be discovered in conjunction with Project 2025.
My objective is to expose the connections that demonstrate in a clear manner a direct correlation between the current Republican Congress’s hyper-partisanism (especially the Freedom Caucus,) Project 2025, and efforts, both legitimate and illegitimate, to secure an elected Republican President who ideally is on board with Christian nationalism. This mission to explore and investigate Project 2025 was started with the following post:
Below are some threads to follow. It is my hope that others will join me in this investigation.
The following statement from Leonard Leo sets the tone with its allusion to a theory of foxhole networking.
Leo’s own statements about Teneo suggest that his plan for the group extends well beyond achieving near-term political victories.
“When you’re fighting a battle for the heart and soul of our culture, you want to know you’re in the trenches with someone you can trust, someone you know, and someone who will have your back,” Teneo’s “Community Vision” report quotes Leo as saying. “We don’t win unless we build friendship and fellowship with other people — and that’s what you’re doing here with Teneo.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents
Amanda Covo, CEO of Teneo answers some questions during an interview with the Bradley Impact Fund, a significant source of dark money with fingerprints on nearly every aspect of movement conservatism’s efforts of the last several years.
Q: How have you built such a tight-knit community of leaders?
Our Founder Evan Baehr was so brilliant in building Teneo to be an organization of leaders committed to supporting one another in their pursuits to advance our shared mission.
Teneo events are designed with that purpose in mind: building connective tissue among networks of friends that can be operationalized toward projects of mutual interest and concern.
Leonard calls this the foxhole theory of networks. The idea is that there is nobody you would rather share a foxhole with than your closest friends—and, equally, that time spent in the trenches produces a level of trust and intimacy that can be put into action to advance our ideas.
https://www.bradleyimpactfund.org/blog/in-their-words-a-conversation-with-teneo
A starting place for understanding the extreme importance and aspect of what is probably movement conservationism’s greatest, most influential, and empowering Networking system, the Teneo Network.
a chilling exposé of a little-known organization which is quietly supporting, training, and placing law students in key internships in order to promote them into the judiciary. The group promoting these students -- Alliance Defense Fund via the Blackstone Legal Fellowship -- is a key connector between the fundamentalist Christian right and the libertarian right…Throughout the Blackstone Legal Fellowship website, in tax forms, on YouTube videos, and in radio interviews, the Alliance Defending Freedom has described the mission of the fellowship program to indoctrinate law students with a specific worldview. Blackstone Legal Fellowship.There really is a vast right-wing conspiracy with no separation between the so-called libertarian wing and the theocratic wing. Not only do they coordinate at the top levels, but they are also actively working to inculcate young people with their view that there is no barrier between church and state by actively pursuing law students and offering them a paid fellowship to learn how to bend American law and the constitution to suit a fundamentalist Christian world view…In 2007 while still at Yale Law School, Evan Baehr was one of those rising stars who received a Blackstone Fellowship. According to his testimonial on the Blackstone site, "the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, through its lectures, discussions, and reading materials, revealed to me a cohesiveness and integration of the Christian worldview—philosophy, theology, and political theory—that I had previously not understood. It lucidly presented the coherence of apologetics, theology, exegesis, history, legal philosophy, and political advocacy.”..Baehr's bio on his personal website is quite impressive. In addition to working for Peter Thiel on a 'political data company' (likely Palantir Technology, though it's not mentioned), he's worked for Facebook and been featured on conservative news outlets. But it's his non-profit connections that are most interesting…Baehr also established and currently serves as chairman of a non-profit organization by the name of Teneo, Inc.
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/how-blackstone-fellowships-build
As can be seen in recent months the Teneo network is coming under scrutiny.
Published:April 28, 2023
Records Request to Virginia Attorney General’s Office for Communications and Meeting Records Related to Solicitor General Ferguson’s Membership in Teneo Network
Records request to the Virginia Attorney General’s Office seeking emails, text messages, and meeting records related to Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson’s membership in the Teneo Network.
Below is mention of Jim DeMint a Heritage Foundation alumnus and ally who unrealized by many was one of the most significant individuals behind the creation of Project 2025 with key players across the movement conservatism spectrum and most especially in collaboration with Becky Norton Dunlop another Heritage Foundation alumnus as well as a former Regan Administration employee as Ronald Reagan’s deputy assistant for presidential personnel.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is joining the Conservative Partnership Institute, a group run by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint that operates as a "networking hub" for conservatives, sources familiar with his plans tell Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/27/mark-meadows-conservative-group-job
Project 2025, its advisory board currently composed of 68 member organizations, and the numerous high profile individuals all engaged in efforts to impose an illiberal, Christian nationalist, epistocratic government need to be exposed and brought to light for the larger public to see, know, and resist in every way, so as to deny movement conservatism and its proponents from subverting and ultimately supplanting liberal American democracy with an unwelcome enslavement to illiberalism and Christian nationalism.
This is a continuing effort and this post represents a bare touching of a fingernail to the chalk board and is still far and away from making even the barest scratch, but once the scratching starts it will be extreme in its raw exposure of a vast complex of complicities. Time is quickly running out and this is also true for Republicanism which is why they know what time it is. The Republican code phrase focused on knowing what time it is was first discussed by
at the following post:
We the People Must Prevail against, over, and above the menace and scourge of conservative proponents of illiberalism and the pedagogy of its transcendentalist mindsets’ bent on subjecting free people everywhere to their authoritarian, fascistic order.
Robert J. Rei, July 23, 2023
This article’s subject continues at the following post:
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley