Audrey McCabe

Jun 24, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Charis Hoard |Jasmine Geonzon |Audrey McCabe

At least 34 of the over 100 partner organizations of Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan to guide the next GOP presidential administration, have spread misinformation about contraceptive methods or championed limiting access to contraception, largely on religious grounds. Helmed by the right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 lays out conservative policy priorities for if Donald Trump were to return to the White House.

Jun 24, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton |Jacina Hollins-Borges |Jack Wheatley |John Knefel |Charis Hoard |Jasmine Geonzon | +1 more

Organizations involved in Project 2025 — a broad effort from more than 100 groups within the conservative movement to provide staffing and policy positions to a second Donald Trump administration — have advocated for extreme rollbacks to reproductive rights and access to healthcare.

Jun 13, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Audrey McCabe

Newsmax host Greg Kelly insisted on his show that the “fake news” has published “hundreds and hundreds” of stories about Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake speaking at a campaign event in front of a Confederate battle flag. He then pulled up a photo of Lake at a separate campaign event and claimed that it was the photo used by the media to “smear” Lake. Lake was recorded speaking in front of a Confederate flag at a campaign event hosted by the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizona, on May 31.

Jun 5, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Audrey McCabe

Right-wing media conglomerate Salem Media has retracted and apologized for Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote’s conspiracy theory-laden “documentary” 2000 Mules after settling a lawsuit with a Georgia voter falsely accused by the film of committing fraud in the 2020 election. Before halting distribution of the film and removing it from its platforms, Salem Media provided a platform to widely circulate its election integrity misinformation throughout the right-wing media ecosystem.

Jun 4, 2024 | mediamatters.org | Audrey McCabe

As Project 2025 maps out its conservative agenda for the next GOP presidential administration, several of its partner organizations have employed figures involved in efforts to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss — and others have already begun sowing distrust in American elections ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Led by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 lays out staffing and policy priorities for Trump’s potential return to the White House.