📢 Stop Project 2025: Mobilize for Change
🗽We are uniting in purpose to defend our rights, freedoms, democracy, and rule of law. Join us to push for Freedom over Fascism and Stop Project 2025.
What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a clear and present danger to our rights, freedoms, democracy, and rule of law.
It is an initiative spearheaded by conservative groups in the United States to prepare a comprehensive plan to take control of the federal government in the event of a Republican victory in 2024 or any future presidential election. The project involves:
A detailed roadmap (a 900+ page document) for implementing conservative policies across various government agencies and departments.
Deregulation of government, moving from People Power elected leaders to an authoritarian rule led by a "supreme leader" or dictator
Fires thousands of government employees and replaces them with conservative loyalists
Implements thousands of policies to impose a radical ideology on the masses
The overarching goal is to rapidly and effectively reverse many of the policies implemented by previous administrations and to ensure long-term conservative influence on the federal government.
Who is behind this effort?
The KOCH family funded this effort by donating 22 million dollars, and the Heritage Foundation is leading it. Here is a link to view a map of some of the 100+ organizations coordinating these efforts to implement Project 2025 and subject America to an autocratic and theocratic rule. There is reporting that former President Trump is attempting to distance himself from Project 2025 and that someone removed the leadership from Project 2025. Despite these reports, the threat to our rights, freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law is real and needs our attention.
What is the impact on our communities?
The most significant impact that Project 2025 will have on our communities is to place all Americans under Authoritarian rule. Our freedoms, rights, democracy, and the rule of law would all be controlled by an authoritarian leader and their cronies. The ultimate goal is not to represent Americans but to control every one of us. America would fall to a dictatorship.
Here is a brief list of the harms it would cause to our communities:
Gives the next Republican GOP President "Supreme Powers."
Fires 50,000 federal workers and replaces them with loyalists
Militarizes law enforcement
Replaces public education with Christian education
Criminalizes people based on their race, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, identity, age, pronouns, race, religion, ethnicity, abilities, and the money in their bank account. Exceptions made for the ‘Supreme Leader’ and loyalists.
Ends reproductive freedom.
Defunds all affordable housing efforts and shifts to a privatizing model with a rollback of efforts to protect renters and property owners
Dismantles environmental protections
Criminalizes immigrants
Here is a detailed list of the harms it would cause to our communities:
Civil Rights:
Ends same-sex marriage.
Ends no-fault divorce.
Cancels all LGBTQ+ rights and federal protections.
Ends LGBTQ+ health programs.
Legislates a "Biblically based" definition of marriage and family, asserting heterosexual couples are superior.
Removes "sexual orientation" and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) from federal laws and eliminates DEI offices.
Promotes capital punishment.
Blocks transgender people from serving in the military.
Restricts transgender rights.
Ends the Fair Housing Act.
Bans pornography.
Dictatorship:
Consolidates executive power under the president.
Gives the president absolute total power without accountability.
Purges approximately 50,000 nonpartisan civil servants, replacing them with loyalists.
Reclassifies non-partisan civil service workers as political appointees under presidential control.
Puts the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI under the president's direct control.
Deploys the military in the U.S. against protesters.
Overrules mayors and governors in blue cities and states to impose the MAGA agenda.
Economy:
Puts the Federal Reserve under presidential control.
Increases tariffs, leading to higher inflation.
Guts Dodd-Frank banking regulations, increasing the risk of large bank failures.
Privatizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ends the FDIC, meaning bank deposits will no longer be insured against loss.
Education:
Ends public education and diverts public money to private and religious schools with vouchers.
Eliminates the Department of Education (DOE).
Requires teaching Christian Nationalist religious beliefs in public schools.
Ends free school lunch programs.
Bans Black and gender studies.
Defunds the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR.
Environment:
Ends programs addressing climate change.
Eliminates much of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Cancels regulations to reduce environmental harm.
Increases oil drilling, coal mining, and natural gas extraction.
Deregulates big businesses and oil companies.
Stops expanding the electrical grid for wind and solar energy.
Cuts renewable energy funding.
Removes the U.S. from international climate agreements.
Stops climate change research.
Repeals tax subsidies for clean energy, including credits and tax breaks for green energy companies.
Federal Government Damage:
Puts the Federal Reserve under presidential control.
Reduces Congressional oversight by moving it to the Executive branch.
Eliminates multiple agencies, including FDA, NOAA, NWS, Economic Development Administration, Homeland Security, and the Department of Education.
Freedom and Rights:
Restricts freedom of speech and the press.
Removes the freedom to assemble or protest.
Healthcare:
Repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Privatizes or ends Medicare.
Ends Medicaid.
Immigration:
Deports approximately 15 million immigrants using the military.
Deports "Dreamers" and ends the DACA program.
Ends birth-right citizenship.
Lowers legal immigration limits.
Builds detention camps for adults and children at the border, separating families.
Bans Muslims from entering the U.S.
Reduces visas for immigrants seeking asylum.
Continues building the southern border wall.
Judiciary:
Fills the Supreme Court and lower courts with extreme right-wing judges.
Decimates the rule of law.
Poverty:
Ends programs to help community members experiencing poverty
Requires people to work to obtain SNAP benefits (food stamps).
Ends student loan forgiveness.
Criminalizes unhoused members of our community
Racial Justice:
Ends government programs that promote equality in hiring, job promotion, housing, etc.
Bans books about slavery.
Ends the Fair Housing Act.
Stops federal agencies from collecting data about racial inequality.
Religion:
Ends the separation of church and state.
Infuses fundamentalist Judeo-Christian values throughout the government.
Taxes:
More tax cuts for the rich and higher taxes for everyone else.
Extends the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Changes individual income tax to two flat rate taxes – 15% and 30%.
Slashes tax on capital gains and dividends from 20% to 15%.
Slashes the corporate tax from 21% to 18%.
Adds a national sales tax.
Takes control of the IRS.
Repeals taxes in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Voting:
Suppresses voting.
Women’s Rights:
Rejects the idea that abortion is healthcare and eliminates HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force.
Likely imposes a nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions.
Bans abortion pills and prosecutes prescribing doctors and people who mail pills.
Cancels FDA approval of mifepristone.
Bans contraceptives and IVF.
Tracks miscarriages, stillbirths, and abortions with "abortion surveillance."
Prohibits travel for abortion.
Bans abortions for military personnel and their families.
Bans terms like "abortion," "reproductive rights," "sexual orientation," and "gender equality" from laws.
Ends Medicare payments to Planned Parenthood and for abortion or gender-affirming care.
Interprets EMTALA so it doesn’t apply to protecting emergency abortions.
Criminalizes families seeking In vitro fertilization (IVF)
Workers' Rights:
Raises the retirement age for Social Security.
Privatizes or ends Social Security
Ends IRAs
Guts the National Labor Relations Act, denying workers the right to unionize and removing worker protections.
Eliminates overtime for workers earning above $35,000.
Allows employers to categorize workers as "independent contractors," denying them benefits and protections.
Dismantles safety protections and exempts small businesses from OSHA fines.
Exempts states from Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) child labor laws.
What can we do to Stop Project 2025 and Mobilize for Change?
There are several things that we can do as People Power United members to affect change, and here is list of powerful actions we can take:
Add your support by signing on to our Freedom Over Fascism Pledge
Learn about Project 2025
Visit, Share, and Bookmark this page. It is our resource on Project 2025 and it will be updated as needed.
Share with friends, family, and community members what Project 2025 is, what some of the plans are for a future America under Project 2025, and ways that they can Stop Project 2025 to mobilize for change
Visit, Share, and Bookmark this page. It is our resource on Project 2025 and it will be updated as needed.
Attend a Stop Project 2025 training or host a training.
Join us at People Power United for an upcoming event
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Additional Resources
White House statement on Project 2025: https://joebiden.com/project2025/
Project 2025: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Stop the Coup: https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/
The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025: https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/
Shared by our member Sharon:
https://x.com/cardon_brian/status/1838636416357798314?t=F7Xvfs72QFtwceHtCS18lw&s=03
https://newrepublic.com/article/186334/house-democrats-project-2025-hearing
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