Stop Project 2025 - October 21, 2024

🗽Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Join us to push back and hold our leaders accountable.

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🗽Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Join us to push back and hold our leaders accountable.

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Stop Project 2025 News Briefs - October 21, 2024

Why Project 2025 Is Bad News for Wounded Veterans Like Me

• Common Dreams By Mark Foreman

  • In 1968, when I was twenty years old, I volunteered to serve with the Marines in Vietnam. I was trained to be a Navy Corpsman (medic) and attached to the Marines. I was only in Vietnam five weeks before being seriously wounded. I was with a company of 83 Marines when we were given orders to go to the top of a mountain, where we became completely surrounded by 1500 North Vietnamese Regulars. It is impossible for me to describe what it was like to be the target of 1500 machine guns firing all at once.

Florida Students Are Already Living Project 2025’s Dark Promise

• Mother Jones

  • If you want a glimpse into what Project 2025’s education agenda might look like if implemented nationwide, look no further than Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has already been leading book-banning, inflaming culture wars over LGBTQ rights, and dismantling comprehensive sex education.

Why Project 2025 has public health officials worried

• MSNBC

  • Cohen: 'I don't understand why they would even do this. Are they trying to be Michael Cohen?'

Project 2025 ex-director denounces Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’

• The Guardian By Robert Tait 

  • The former director of Project 2025, a conservative plan to overhaul the US government, has blamed “violent rhetoric” from his former boss Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation thinktank, for the blueprint’s downgrading as Donald Trump has sought to publicly distance himself from it.

Opinion: Think Project 2025 isn't happening? Trump's recent interview says otherwise.

• USA Today

  • Republican nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he has nothing to do with the controversial Project 2025. At the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he said he didn’t know who was involved in creating it, and wasn’t going to read it. It's something he has repeated over and over and over. So why is he prepared to bring one of its writers into his potential presidential administration?

Trump's protests aside, his agenda has plenty of overlap with Project 2025

• ABC News By Bill Barrow 

  • Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore. “I haven’t read it.

Statement on Project 2025

People Power United declares Project 2025 is a clear and present danger to our rights, freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law.

In response to recent MAGA shenanigans to enact Project 2025, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:

“Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.

People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.

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Trump’s Project 2025 Will Give Extreme MAGA Republicans Total Control

• Donald Trump’s Project 2025 is a blatant power grab that aims to give extreme MAGA Republicans unchecked authority. They plan to use this power to criminalize abortion, undermine the middle class, and dismantle Social Security and Medicare.

• Under Trump’s Project 2025, Republicans intend to impose a nationwide abortion ban and create a national registry to monitor women’s pregnancies and miscarriages. They even threaten to imprison doctors and nurses who provide essential care.

• If enacted, Project 2025 would also gut the Affordable Care Act, leading to higher healthcare costs for everyone and a loss of protections for pre-existing conditions. Workers would lose their right to overtime pay, and middle-class families would face tax hikes—all while wealthy corporations receive new handouts.

• Republicans' Project 2025 includes a detailed plan to dismantle Social Security and Medicare as we know them. This means slashing benefits for seniors and allowing Big Pharma to charge exorbitant prices for medication.