SEARCHING FOR "PROJECT 2025"
Ten online articles for investigating Project 2025
I sat down tonight to write some more about Project 2025 and decided that the first thing to do was a Substack search using apostrophe brackets to restrict the search specifically to only “Project 2025” results to see who else might be writing about the extremist Republican movement conservatism plan to take over the Federal Government by way of administrative warfare.
I was quite surprised to see no mentions visible anywhere in the returned results; I clicked through the results and Ctrl-F searched through the first 10 results and only found two mentions of Project 2025, this was surprising and motivated me to then go to Google and do a site specific search of Substack which when typed looks like the following query when entered-
“project 2025” site:substack.com
This brought back approximately 248 results, many of which were multiple mentions within what appeared to be less than 30 different Substack publications many of which were mentions in comments as well as in the linked to Substack articles.
If these results are in any way indicative of the general public’s awareness of the dangers posed by Project 2025, then I will be so bold as to say our liberal democracy is in grave danger for sure.
So with these results in mind I have decided for tonight to post links to ten different online articles that all focus in some way or another on either Project 2025 or some other closely related or integral subject matter that helps to explain what for all purposes is a counter-revolution against Democratic Liberalism, all in service of installing a Government that will serve the wealthiest of individuals and organizations that are all in lockstep with an overall theocratic oriented agenda, in order to create an illiberal society that is rooted in the lunacies of the fixed/closed mindsets of transcendentalism.[It came to my attention that Transcendentalism is too narrow and specific a term to use in this case; my primary focus in using this term is that it is closely related to the idea of “spiritual thinking” in that for many proponents of religion all knowledge comes from one source only and that source is a deity. You might be familiar with the expression asserted by many Christian types that “the bible says it I believe it that settles it” this type of thinking falls under the epistemological category of fixed/metaphysical thinking, as opposed to naturalistic/developing thinking. Apologies once more for writing late at night on the fly.]
The following articles are listed chronologically from the most recent to the oldest. Two of the articles are pay-walled, unfortunately, while two others have free article reading limits.
The Australian Financial Review [Pay-walled]
July 21, 2023
A second Trump administration readies for power
The institutions of the new right expect Donald Trump to be the next president, and this time they will be prepared.
(13 printed pages long)
This article discusses the America First Policy Institute which is a “friendly competitor with Project 2025.
The Washington Spectator
February 22, 2021
One major player in the events leading up to the assault on the Capitol was the Council for National Policy, an influential coalition of Christian conservatives, free-market fundamentalists, and political activists. Over the previous year the CNP and its members and affiliates organized efforts to challenge the validity of the election, conspired to overturn its results, and tried to derail the orderly transfer of power. This is an account of the measures they took, leading up to the deadly January 6 insurrection. (page 2)
(28 printed pages long)
This article discusses the involvement of the Council for National policy whose most immediate past President of the Council for National Policy was William L. Walton who is also a board member of the Heritage Foundation and one of the authors of The Mandate for Leadership, the Conservative Promise. Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project.
Religion Dispatches
August 9, 2021
What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?
The end-of-the-world vision at the heart of the new Republican orthodoxy may help explain a further observation: The people who attend these kinds of religious nationalist gatherings—the activist backbone of the Republican Party—are in no mood to back down from the January 6th attempt to subvert the presidential election through a brutal and disgraceful attack on our Capitol. Sometime around January 7, some parts of the mainstream wisdom coalesced around the idea that the Republican Party now had a chance to separate itself from the anti-democratic elements within. That moment has passed. There will be no reckoning within the Republican Party over Donald Trump’s attempted coup, and any Republican who tries will be excluded from gatherings like these. (Page 6)
(8 printed pages long)
This article presents some important perspectives and discusses the involvement of Dominionism, “extreme money” [dark money] and the “Ziklag Group” the extravagantly rich individuals who are using the Christian nationalists groups and individuals to create a pathway to take dominion of the country by the so-called virtuous individuals “blessed” with great wealth.
The New Yorker [Limited number of free article reads]
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie
Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.
August 2, 2021
One of the movement’s leaders is the Heritage Foundation, the prominent conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. It has been working with the American Legislative Exchange Council (alec)—a corporate-funded nonprofit that generates model laws for state legislators—on ways to impose new voting restrictions. Among those deep in the fight is Leonard Leo, a chairman of the Federalist Society, the legal organization known for its decades-long campaign to fill the courts with conservative judges. In February, 2020, the Judicial Education Project, a group tied to Leo, quietly rebranded itself as the Honest Elections Project, which subsequently filed briefs at the Supreme Court, and in numerous states, opposing mail-in ballots and other reforms that have made it easier for people to vote. (pages 8-9)
(36 printed pages long)
A must read article for anyone looking to investigate the money networks, think tanks, and other organizations actively working to take control of the country.
Sludge
November 22, 2022
Trump-Backed MAGA Hub Growing Rapidly, Tax Docs Reveal
The Conservative Partnership Institute, whose leaders include former Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell, saw its funding balloon with more than $45 million in donations last year as it spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud.
The tax filing also reveals that CPI has been building up its network, giving more than $3.9 million last year to its partner organizations, many of which it launched in 2021 and are also controlled by individuals in the Trump administration orbit. At the forefront of CPI’s giving is its partner the America First Legal Foundation, founded by former Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller, which was issued a donation of $1,334,105 for “mission and program support.” From his position in the White House, Miller worked to “purge” government agencies of those he perceived to be less than loyal and cited the white nationalist website VDARE in advancing anti-immigration policies. Miller describes his legal group as the right’s answer to the ACLU. (pages 5-6)
(14 printed pages long)
Detailed report describing the flow of monies between many of the actors and agents involved in the efforts to subvert elections and install Trump back into the White House.
Monitoring Influence
Conservative Partnership Institute
[Undated, appears to have been written in the second half of 2022]
The Conservative Partnership Institute Is A Key Nexus Of Trumpworld’s Efforts To Roll Back Voting Rights And Push Dangerous Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories In The Wake Of Its Attempted Insurrection
CPI has been called an “extension of the Trump infrastructure” and “the most powerful messaging force in the MAGA universe.” CPI and its nearly one dozen affiliate groups employ a “who’s who” of Jan. 6, earning it the title of “the insurrectionists’ clubhouse.” (Page 2)
(16 printed pages long)
The Conservative Partnership Institute is the de facto home of the Freedom Caucus, and is led by Mark Meadows. It is also a Project 2025 advisory board member.
Politico
Trump returns to D.C. this week. These former advisers are plotting the comeback.
The former president is going to appear at his allied think tank, which is outlining a vision that could, if all goes to plan, serve as a platform for a future administration.
July 25, 2022
Rollins, Kudlow and others haven’t discarded their project, though. Instead, they turned it into a blueprint for a new non-profit, the America First Policy Institute, often described as a “White House in waiting.” (Page 3)
(9 printed pages long)
Discusses the origins of the America First Policy Institute, a “friendly” competitor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
The Heritage Foundation
2025 Presidential Transition Project Forms Advisory Board With Leading Conservative Partners
June 24, 2022
The conservative movement is coming together, setting a broad vision and assembling the ideas and team to restore America post-Biden. In November 2024, the people of the United States will deliver a potentially once-in-a century reform mandate at the ballot box. Project 2025 seeks to ensure the country will be prepared. Project 2025 Advisory Board members had the following to say about the launch of the project:
(8 printed pages long)
Press release from the Heritage Foundation announcing the formation and providing details about Project 2025’s advisory board, listing the first 25 members and discussing some of the objectives it also provides statements from eleven of the members about their participation.
Rolling Stone
Michael Flynn and the Christian Right’s Plan to Turn America Into a Theocracy [Limited number of free article reads]
As Alex Jones put it, “We’re gonna win in the end because… God WINS!
November 21, 2021
Though theocratic views range from a desire to simply elect “godly” leaders to a militant call for a nation-state governed entirely by Old Testament law (including a return to the practice of stoning), some form of theocratic thinking now runs through a large swath of the populace. As of August 2021, a national Public Discourse and Ethics survey found that 39 percent of Americans agree that the founding documents are divinely inspired, 34 percent believe that the success of America is part of God’s plan, and 25 percent believe that the federal government should go ahead and formally declare the U.S. a Christian nation. (Page 5)
(14 printed pages long)
The New York Times Magazine [Pay-walled]
How One Conservative Think Tank Is Stocking Trump’s Government
June 20, 2018
By placing its people throughout the administration, the Heritage Foundation has succeeded in furthering its right-wing agenda.
(19 printed pages long)
Discusses the beginnings of Project 2025 and the involvement of the Heritage Foundation in providing the Trump Administration with hundred of partisan employees all trained and aligned with the aims, goals, and objectives of movement conservatism’s plans to take over the Federal Government. Well worth reading.
There is more where this all came from.
(Edited to add, two minor typos corrected and image changed for clarity of topic.| A second edit was made to the entry about the Council for National Policy for grammatical correction. |“Date added in for NYT article. | Clarification regarding use of specialized terms. I really should know better by now than to write and post late at night. Apologies for any confusion caused.)
Robert Rei October 1, 2023
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley
Excellent resources. Thank you.
My concern is that we (me) in Substack, in our own echo chamber. While I am glad to be well informed my reach is limited. I feel that it’s critical to invest in mass media, in all venues, TikTok, billboards, TV, podcasters, street pamphlets etc with huge warnings and info on the reality that’s arrived. We need to be ageless in venues but I feel we need to be Especially vigilant in the venues of the young voters. They have no idea what they are about to lose.
Thank you.
I’ve asked many folks over the past two years if they had ever heard of Project 2025. Without exception, none had. A few were interested in learning more and we’ve continued the dialogue. Most folk fell into the categories of too busy to think outside of their day to day activities, or CFFG is their choice for a myriad of reasons.
It’s not clear how to close such a wide information gap in the time remaining.