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Aug 8, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Madeline Peltz |John Knefel |Jacina Hollins-Borges |Jack Wheatley |Sophie Lawton |Justin Horowitz | +2 more
Project 2025 is an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration. The effort involves more than 100 partner organizations, a database of potential MAGA staffers, a secret 180-day plan, and its nearly 900-page policy book — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — represents a major threat to democracy. The below PDF is also available here. The definitive guide to Pro...
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton |Jacina Hollins-Borges
Project 2025 partners are trying to woo Black voters to the Republican Party, and some have used misinformation to argue that they’ll be better served by GOP policies than Democratic approaches, such as school choice and voter ID laws. Yet these organizations often support policies that would harm Black communities and some have promoted racist stereotypes about Black families or attacked Black organizations.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Wheatley |Jacina Hollins-Borges |Sophie Lawton
Project 2025 partners are taking a victory lap after the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision in Trump v.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jacina Hollins-Borges
For the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned nationwide abortion protections under Roe v. Wade, Concerned Women for America published an article arguing that “a total elimination of abortion is the goal.” The conservative advocacy group is a partner in The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a wide-ranging plan to provide the next Republican administration with extreme right-wing policy proposals and loyal staff.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jacina Hollins-Borges |Jack Wheatley
MAGA media figures are preparing their audiences to believe that the upcoming presidential debate on CNN will be unfairly biased against Donald Trump. While Trump has already begun saying that the June 27 debate will be rigged against him, right-wing media attacks escalated this week after an interview with Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was cut off on CNN’s This Morning when she refused to stop attacking network anchor Jake Tapper.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton |Jacina Hollins-Borges |John Knefel
At least 22 partner organizations of Project 2025, a coalition of over 100 conservative groups looking to staff the next potential administration of former President Donald Trump, have publicly criticized in vitro fertilization, according to a Media Matters review. Project 2025 is organized by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, and has laid out a radical plan for governance during a second Trump term.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton |Jacina Hollins-Borges |Jack Wheatley
At least 31 partner organizations of the Project 2025 initiative have published written content, supported legal efforts, or had organizational leadership make comments against the use of safe and effective abortion pills, specifically mifepristone, according to a Media Matters review. Project 2025 is organized by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, and has laid out a radical plan for governance during the next Republican administration.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jacina Hollins-Borges |Sophie Lawton
Heritage Foundation senior research associate Emma Waters has written extensively against assisted reproductive technologies, particularly IVF and surrogacy. Her opposition draws on unsubstantiated concerns about possible harms to children who lack access to both biological parents and on biblical teaching about proper procreation.
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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.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jacina Hollins-Borges
On her podcast, RNC co-chair Lara Trump maintains a collection of conservative-branded utility, doomsday prep, and supplement company sponsors. Throughout her show, Trump has promoted election denial and conspiracy theories which claim that Democrats will try to steal the 2024 election.
