Project 2025 - April 24th Update

[Celerity]

https://globalextremism.org/post/project-2025-april-24th-update/



This week we look at Project 2025 supporter Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) troubles in Arizona, where its senior fellow, State Rep. Austin Smith resigned amid forgery accusations, and two TPUSA employees admitted to guilt in a 2023 attack on a university professor. We’ll also hear reactions from Project 2025 supporters to President Biden’s Title IX update, and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss as she pushes Project 2025’s agenda to a Heritage Foundation audience.

Turning Point USA’s Senior Director Austin Smith Accused of Forging Signatures in Reelection Bid

Longtime “election integrity warrior” Austin Smith, an Arizona State Representative out of Surprise, resigned as senior director with Project 2025 supporter Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and gave up his bid for reelection on April 18, 2024. Smith stands accused of forging signatures on his nominating petition for his reelection bid. Citing financial concerns, Smith chose to quit the race and resign from his position at TPUSA, a staunch supporter of Project 2025, rather than fight the charges.



It’s bound to have been a difficult farewell for the former chair of the Arizona Young Republicans Federation, leaving behind both the political career that gave him clout and the organizations that he had spent years bolstering. Smith embraced TPUSA’s ultra-conservative vision wholeheartedly and considered TPUSA founder and president Charlie Kirk a personal friend. According to his website, Smith’s history with Kirk goes back to at least 2016, when Smith was instrumental in convincing Kirk to move the organization’s headquarters from Chicago to Arizona. Kirk and Smith shared far-right political beliefs, including hardline, anti-immigrant and anti-abortion stances.

Smith’s devotion to TPUSA and its political arm Turning Point Action ran deep, and he was one of Kirk’s most powerful lieutenants, dedicated to spreading TPUSA’s Christian Nationalist agenda far and wide. “After four years working directly under Charlie Kirk—one of America’s foremost conservative fighters—Austin helped him to run Students For Trump, a 501(c)4 project of Turning Point Action. In his capacity there as National Field Director, Austin organized a state-of-the-art effort, creating college chapters on over 300 campuses, amassing over 750,000 doors knocked—effectively reaching millions of voters with President Trump’s America First message,” Smith wrote on his campaign website.



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[Turbineguy]

1. The bright side is

that a nuclear war with Russia or China won't be needed.