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niyad

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Wed Mar 6, 2024, 05:24 PM Mar 6

Project 2025: The Right's Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women

(absolutely frightening, important read)


Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women
2/8/2024 by Carrie N. Baker
With careful planning, conservatives today are working to make their policy priorities permanent—no matter what happens in future elections.



Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, during a news conference on government funding with the House Freedom Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Wealthy right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a detailed plan for the next Republican president to use the executive branch of the federal government to attack the rights of women, LGBTQ people and the BIPOC community, by eliminating the agencies and offices responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and placing trained right-wing ideologues in staff positions throughout the federal government.

Called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—or “Project 2025,” for short—the plan has “four pillars”:

an 887-page policy agenda,
a presidential personnel database of vetted conservatives,
a Presidential Administration Academy to train these people to achieve the Project 2025 policy agenda, and
a 180-day playbook, which is what they hope to achieve in the first 180 days if Trump takes office in January 2025.

To develop this plan, the Heritage Foundation organized a broad coalition of over 90 conservative organizations—a who’s-who of groups that have led attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender studies, the Equal Rights Amendment and #MeToo initiatives. The coalition includes Concerned Women for America, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Eagle Forum, the Susan B. Anthony Foundation, Moms for Liberty, AAPLOG (the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists), Students for Life of America, Alliance Defending Freedom, First Liberty and Turning Point USA.



The white male leadership team of Project 2025. (“About Project 2025,” The Heritage Foundation)

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Led and funded by multi-billionaires, such as oil moguls Charles and David Koch, conservatives have fought for years to cut taxes, deregulate business, ban abortion, eliminate civil rights protections as well as public health and environmental regulations, privatize government institutions such as public schools and prisons and eliminate welfare programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and food assistance. In 2017, Donald Trump enacted many of these policies, which were later reversed by the Biden administration. With careful planning, conservatives today are working to make their policy priorities permanent, no matter what happens in future elections.


https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/

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Project 2025: The Right's Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women (Original Post) niyad Mar 6 OP
It means... 2naSalit Mar 6 #1
Sadly true. niyad Mar 6 #2
They want control over every breath we take. 2naSalit Mar 6 #3
The full article has a lot of information on how the right plans to take way all rights for women and LGBTQ+. Lonestarblue Mar 6 #4
See Brett, starve the children for my daughter's volleyball court, Farve. Bluethroughu Mar 6 #5

Lonestarblue

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4. The full article has a lot of information on how the right plans to take way all rights for women and LGBTQ+.
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 06:18 PM
Mar 6

It touches briefly on using TANF money to promote marriage. That money is intended yo keep people from going hungry, yet today red states use those fund ps to buy cars, pay for speeches, and other irrelevant activities so that only 22 cents of every TANF dollar goes to the poor. The rest is pork for Republicans. Voters need more of these articles.

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