How far along are we with Project 2025?

Brace yourselves: our sobering yardstick of progress of its Key Proposals shows 80% are completed and AI is a magic bullet of acceleration. But legal and popular resistance could change the calculus.

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Updated May 18th —

Dear Resisters,

Below you’ll find the introduction to a comprehensive 25-page progress report we uploaded to the Resisting Project 2025 campaign website. It provides our yardstick measure of how far along Project 2025 is on its big-ticket policy and action items, compared to our initial analysis last spring, which was culled from its nearly-1000-page “Mandate for Leadership” radical right blueprint – the “first” of its four pillars to “dismantle the administrative state.” The yardstick reflects Trump’s efforts to dismantle our democracy and our system of checks and balances, and consolidate his rule into an autocracy.

Our yardstick also very much reflects Project 2025’s fourth pillar, which was known as the still-secret “180-Day Playbook,” designed as a priority implementation guide for the hand-picked temporary “acting” directors and Cabinet members to follow. It also reflects its second pillar, “People are Policy,” which focused on personnel and called for recruiting 20,000 Christian loyalist bureaucratic foot soldiers, plus 5000 lawyers; and pillar three, an online federal administrative crash-course.

As I spent the past two weeks researching this report, looking for evidence of the follow-through, I had to acknowledge what I call the sobering and staggering success of the radical wing of the US Christian conservative movement in implementing their ambitious political administrative coup project. It’s really remarkable and it’s important to acknowledge when our political enemies score big. It’s so important to study and learn from their plan and methods and strategies to date to inform our fight back against the remaining agenda, too.

Luckily, we’re still in earlyish days, despite their dismantling of so much, so fast. What was undone can arguably be rebuilt in the future. And, as you’ll see below, our legal and popular resistance is pushing back on this progress and having a concrete impact. As you read, bear in mind that our assessment reflects only what they have done or tried to do to implement their agenda; it doesn’t fully show the moving target of what they’ve been forced to abandon, or slow, or stop. We haven’t factored in the resistance, in other words.

Since it takes time – days to weeks to months -- for the legal gears of justice to turn, I’m focusing my lens on what things will look like in a few more months, when we can expect a much clearer view. At the end of this post, I’ve included links for tracking the remaining Project 2025 agenda as well. – Anne-christine

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How far along are we with Project 2025?

A sobering yardstick of progress on its Key Proposals shows 80% are completed and AI introduced a magic bullet of acceleration

by Anne-christine d’Adesky

Introduction

A Staggering Acceleration

In early 2024, our campaign editorial team undertook a deep analysis of Project 2025’s huge scope and detailed proposals, and provided an Overview, a summary of Key Proposals (listed below) and a Summary and Chapter Breakdown that provided an overview of its broad ideological agenda, and specific policy proposals made by the authors of each of the conservative blueprint’s 30 chapters – covering all departments of the federal government.

I recently completed a comparative review of the yardstick progress of Trump’s actions since his inauguration and the big-ticket items Project 2025 had proposed. As readers can see, Trump’s team, led by Project 2025 key architect Russell Vought (now in charge at the Office of Management and Budget and, since Feb. 7, helming the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as its Acting Director), has closely followed the plan.

It’s a verbatim implementation of Project 2025.

A quick look at the list now reveals the staggering success Vought et al. have had in implementing their vision of a radical right takeover of our federal government and changes to law and policy in the first 100 days. Our overview does not list many smaller items which remain to be completed. Here are our numbers: out of a total of 194 Key Proposals we listed, 152 have been done, most by executive orders; 15 are in progress; and 27 are not done, and maybe won’t be done, or haven’t yet been done.

That means almost 80% (78.35%) of Project 2025’s KEY proposals (per our analysis) are done.

The bulk of In Progress items are a moving target. These are primarily in Section 4: The Economy, and reflect Trump’s personal battle to impose radical tariffs and wrest control of independent regulatory agencies, including his failure to date to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The Not Done items include efforts to reform policies in the Labor Department that are also meeting stiff opposition. Of course, this yardstick may change as Democrats continue to score legal victories, stopping or reversing some of these actions.

As was always planned, the conservative movement has moved to eliminate USAID, after crippling it. The main weapon has been Trump’s use of executive orders (EOs) to govern, allowing him to bypass Congress (or try), then tangling with the courts (federal and Supreme) as his actions faced immediate legal challenges. Many EOs have been deemed illegal, but the damage is done – which was also the plan. Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, also a key architect of Project 2025, has been the key driver of implementation, backed by Elon Musk and the team at DOGE.

Not anticipated: The Private Shadow Cabinet

The checklist below doesn’t accurately reflect the role that Musk and other unelected individuals in the private sector have played as a Shadow Cabinet, including Silicon Valley tech titans Peter Thiel of Palantir and others. (See our past reporting on this.) It does call for inviting private law firms to take up federal duties, but the DOGE is a different beast.

The role of private unelected citizens and their introduction of artificial intelligence agents is the magic ingredient that has led to the Trump team’s astonishing and sobering success in implementing Project 2025 at a far greater speed than even they anticipated back in 2022, when they began writing their vision for a radical makeover of America, and a reorienting of its ideology to reflect Christian nationalism.

What wasn’t – or isn’t yet – done?

The checklist below shows a few items marked N – for Not Done – where Trump has declined to implement Project 2025’s suggestions, or faced legal challenges that stopped or reversed a given action – so far. It also shows where Project 2025’s Christian nationalist agenda is advancing, and where we can anticipate it going further. Trump recently created a new White House Faith Office, directed by his longtime spiritual guru, evangelist Paula White-Cain, a “living apostle” of the New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that believes in an end-times theology. She’s busy scrubbing the government of any hints of anti-Christian bias, per Trump’s executive order. Vought, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and Linda McMahon – all Cabinet members – are also radical Christians who are pushing this agenda.

• On May 1, Trump issued an EO to establish a Religious Liberty Commission to help advise White-Cain composed of 14 members chosen by Trump, plus es three ex-officio members (or their representatives): true believers AG Pam Bondi, HUD Secretary Scott Turner, and Vince Haley, a staunch Catholic and now Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, who helped lead Trump’s 1.0’s speechwriting department. Members are to serve a year, with a possible two year extension, or serve indefinitely after their term is up until a successor is named.

In the sections on reforming the Executive Branch and Central Personnel Agencies, for example, Trump hasn’t completely succeeded in taking control of all the independent agencies – but he’s asserted his goal of doing so via executive orders that are being legally challenged. He didn’t eliminate the intelligence services, but he’s downsized them, and fired top officials. That is a pattern we’re also seeing in other sectors.

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The model: Impound, downsize, cripple – then move to shut down

Look at USAID, where Vought and Elon Musk at DOGE gutted the foreign aid agency. They used Schedule F to fire the bulk of its workforce, and used the tool of impoundment – withholding federal funding – to shut down many programs abroad. Now that USAID is crippled, Trump recently called for shutting it down completely. Looking ahead, we can anticipate Trump doing the same in other departments, following that formula: cripple departments by cutting federal funding and programs, fire top leadership, transfer federal workers to become temporary hires, lay off probationary hires, offer incentives to others to quit, and install loyalists.

That way, he can argue that the federal government doesn’t work — and needs to be privatized to be more efficient. That’s where the argument about “waste” that Musk made at DOGE — while breaking into federal databases to seize and centralize all the data — comes in.

While Trump has moved to strike federal funding for abortion services and other aspects of reproductive care for women, he has left birth control alone – for now. But conservatives still hope he may resurrect the ancient Comstock Act to prevent mail order of mifepristone. But the law isn’t on his side, and Trump has seen his resurrections of other ancient laws face strong legal challenges, including the ongoing fight over his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (see immigration section below).

Invisible but also unfolding: Christian Zionism via Project Esther

What’s not reflected in the below checklist is Project Esther, a parallel mini-document released by the Heritage Foundation (which also produced Project 2025), under the leadership of Kevin Roberts, another behind-the-scenes puppet master of this Trump from-within coup. Project Esther is an initiative that spells out the weaponizing of anti-Semitism by the Trump administration, in order to root out any critics of US Middle East policy and our funding of Israel’s scorched-earth war still unfolding in Gaza – deemed a genocide by the International Criminal Court. Project Esther has a two-year plan to complete its goal of eradicating the pro-Palestinian movement in the US.

You can see Project Esther’s agenda unfolding within the executive orders on ending DEI, and the section on Immigration – via ICE arrests of pro-Palestinian student campus protesters and revoking of their visas. Notably, Trump declared anyone expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause to be a proxy domestic terrorist by deeming them sympathetic to Hamas, labeled a terrorist group by the US, making them eligible for deportation.

I’m spotlighting Project Esther here because Trump’s Cabinet-level true believers aren’t just Christian nationalists, but openly Christian Zionists. They unconditionally support Israel in part because end-times Christians believe Jews must be in the Holy Land for Jesus to one day return. Israel’s planned removal of Palestinians from Gaza accelerates that end-times prophecy.

“About half” of Project Esther is complete, estimates NYT

Update: On May 18th, the New York Times reported that Trump 2.0 and GOP actions since he took office again “…appear to mirror more than half of Project Esther’s proposals,” based on its analysis. A Heritage Foundation team recently traveled to Israel — “a victory lap,” per the Times — to review Project Esther’s progress with officials there.

The paper quoted Victoria Coates, an evangelical Christian, former VP for Heritage and former Trump 1.0 national security advisor who’s now in charge of Project Esther and said Trump’s team was now “…starting to execute some of the lines of effort in terms of legislative, legal, and financial penalties for what we consider to be material support for terrorism.” Among her bona fides, Coates helped oversee the Maximum Pressure Against Iran effort by Trump 1.0, and helped initiate the Abraham Accords — also a goal of Project 2025 and now Trump 2.0. She authored the book, The Battle for the Jewish State,” with the subtitle, How Israel and the US Can Win,” that recasts the Middle East battle as a cultural war by the West — a battle plan now being followed. “My recommendation is: Israel has to win,” she says.

In interviews, she makes clear her view that Palestinians are not equals to Israelis in their shared claim (with Christians) to the Biblical Holy Land. In December 2024, she put it more bluntly, telling ILTV Israeli News,: “Palestinians lost the battle with Israel’s founding — someone has to tell them.” (Of note, her husband George Coates is chair of the Commonwealth Foundation of Public Policy Alternatives, a free market think tank, and, as of 2022, served on the board of Donor’s Trust, a dark money entity set up by Catholic activist Leonard Leo that channeled billions to set up Project 2025 and fund 80% of its many advisory groups. There, religious rapture and profit often find common cause. (See our 2024 big Leo story detailing these ties to Trump circle, too).

What does the progress to date reveal?

Underneath the checklist of federal reforms, then, it’s important to see several major currents of ideology.

First is the implementation of executive unitary theory across the government, which reflects Trump’s effort to solidify authoritarian rule and reject democratic ideals – also per Project 2025’s plan. Trump has quickly acted to usurp and consolidate power, supported by a roster of “acting” directors hand-picked by Project 2025 in advance, bypassing the other branches of government, and openly defying the courts to stop him. (They have: many legal cases are underway and are winning). Many legal scholars have noted the US is now facing a constitutional crisis, and this month we’ll see big test cases at the Supreme Court.

Between Autocratic Actions and Breakthrough:

So we have an autocracy-in-the-making, but not yet fully consolidated. We’re between the first stage of initial autocratic actions that began under Trump 1.0 and, now, stage two, with a goal of autocratic breakthrough. These reflect the three classic stages of autocracy proposed by political scientists Balint Magyar. Breakthrough reflects a tipping point at which all institutions are captured by the autocratic leader. Then comes autocratic consolidation into a mature autocracy - like Russia. We’re not in Putin territory yet, just headed there if we don’t stop this train.

Second, we have deregulation. Trump has asserted his authority over federal independent agencies, firing some top Inspectors General, and battling with others. He hasn’t totally won; you can see that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell forced Trump to back down on tariffs, and Trump hasn’t eliminated the Dept. of Commerce, either. With his team in charge, he’s removed regulations on business, following an “America First” approach that blends nationalism, nativism, and unfettered capitalism, assuring massive profits for his allies across various industries.

Third – and the big surprise: we have seen a major acceleration of privatization, via the creation of a parallel structure, DOGE, and the installation of Musk, with his employees from X and Space X on board, and with allies including Peter Thiel as private citizens helping out. These private individuals are calling the shots as key advisors, unelected, not vetted by Congress, and unaccountable to the US public.

They have de facto gained control of our government by installing their copyrighted AI technology tools and agents to gain access to the financial and personal data of the American public, which they can now control. Data is power. It can serve as a weapon and means of power, enrichment, and control. The result is that Trump’s government also reflects a circle of very wealthy private citizens, or an oligarchy. Many of them, along with his Cabinet members, are billionaires. We are becoming a plutocracy.

The US as a business

By gutting the federal government and bankrupting its programs, Trump’s appointees now plan to run the government through their private tech systems, and treat it as a business. The model that’s being developed is akin to a corporate structure, where the American public, like Congress, will have far less say in its operations unless the actions taken below are slowed, or reversed in the future, via litigation. Musk has made no secret of his desire to retool the federal government system and database like his social media platform, X, using DOGE’s massive capture (some argue it’s theft) of the personal and financial data of every American. The data is the key to Trump’s continuing consolidation of power, and provides a remarkable weapon to manipulate and attack not only markets and programs, but target and control messaging, including disinformation, and importantly, capture votes.

Or a mafia state?

Many pundits have compared Trump’s manner of ruling to a mafia state, where loyalists act to seek and retain approval of the Don. The model being built also reflects the steps being taken that allow Trump’s circle to use their access to enrich themselves – a model of massive corruption. We’ve already seen this play out as Trump insiders made millions trading shares as Trump ruled on tariffs, including Attorney General Pam Bondi. Insider trading investigations are underway. Under the sections below on trade and commerce, a story of government corruption is playing out.

At the end of our checklist, I’ve provided links to a different Project 2025 Tracker by an ally group. As Vought et al. continue to advance their kept-secret 180-Day Playbook, we will also keep track of the remaining agenda. Watch for another big round-up at the six-month mark.

You can also listen to a podcast conversation I had a few days ago about where we stand now with Dean Obeidallah at The Dean Obeidallah Show. – Anne-christine d’Adesky.

Section 1. Taking the Reins of Government

Chapter 1. The White House

X Put an “activist” conservative White House Counsel in place.

• Trump named loyalist David Warrington to be WH Counsel; he is a Washington, DC, based lawyer who represented Trump during the House select committee’s investigation into the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

• Trump himself stated his position on X on Feb. 12, asserting his plan to rule with impunity, in open disregard of existing laws, Congress, or the courts: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

• “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal,” echoed Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, now back as head of the Office of Management and Budget where he has overseen Trump 2.0’s radical right dismantling of the government.

X Invite outside conservative legal advice to White House Office.

• Trump used the threat of withholding federal funds to ink deals with top ten private law firms who agreed to provide pro bono work for the White House worth millions; this also means the firms avoid doing work for competitors – neatly removing critical legal resources for progressive groups in important legal battles.

X Consider limiting mainstream press access to the White House.

• On Feb. 26, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced a new partisan policy where the White House would take charge of its briefings, not the White House Correspondents Association – a break from tradition. Right-wing bloggers have been invited to join the press pool wile mainstream news outlets were demoted. At one point, the Associated Press was banned until it won a legal challenge to regain access to the briefings.

Chapter 2. Executive Office

X Flex the untapped statutory powers of the OMB to control funding of offices.

• Trump immediately put Russell Vought, key architect of the Project 2025 playbook to reshape the federal system, back in as head of OMB, then began expanding his and the OMB’s authority over other federal agencies.

X Put OMB Program Associate Directors who are conservative loyalists in charge of vast Resource Management Offices and replace career officials with new deputy PADs.

N Make the National Security Council a part of the White House, unaccountable to other offices.

• Even before January 20, incoming Trump officials including Fla. Rep. Mike Waltz, tapped to be head of the NSC, moved to purge the NSC of any Biden holdovers, nonpolitical appointees, and career intelligence officials. Trump then fired Waltz on May 1, and said he would nominate Waltz to be UN ambassador, and put Secretary of State Marco Rubio in as interim NSC head.

• A National Security Presidential Memorandum broke down barriers between the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, building on Russell Vought’s Project 2025 recommendation “to consolidate the functions” of both bodies. Stephen Miller’s role is being elevated, and he may be tapped for the NSC director position (as of May 10).

X Seek to completely reverse Biden administration climate change policies.

• Trump signed EO 14013 to reverse all Biden climate policies and also removed top Biden officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and in other climate-related positions.

X Eliminate the Gender Policy Council and end all federal discussion or support for gender and LGBTQ+ identity, transgender care, and reproductive health, including abortion.

• This was done via EO 14020, which also established that the US government would only recognize two sexes, male and female.

Chapter 3. Central Personnel Agencies - Managing the Bureaucracy

Personnel:

X Support merit-based performance evaluations of federal workers.

• Trump implemented a number of EOs on Jan. 20 to support merit-based performance evaluations and begin a purge of nonpartisan federal officials and probationary workers.

X Reward managers and employees who implement conservative policies.

N Make MSBP main arbiter of federal personnel dispute cases, not EEOC.

• Trump has moved to reform the Merit Systems Protection Board by firing a key MSPB member, Cathy Harris, and tried to remove 5000 probationary agricultural workers, but both moves were reversed via legal challenges.

X Use Schedule F to remove 50,000+ career employees and prior administration holdovers.

• Trump resurrected Schedule F (and later revised it to be Schedule Policy/Career to fast-track the federal worker purge.

X Give the President the power to fast-track personnel appointees, with empowered Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

• ,Via the Schedule Policy/Career EO, Trump shifted final authority over these dismissals from the OMB to himself (the President) – further consolidating executive control.

X Restore Trump-era Executive Orders to boost management rights vs. union power.

X In Coast Guard and military posts, “re-vet” promotions and hirings during Biden Administration; rehire personnel let go for refusing Covid vaccination, offer back pay.

X Reduce US Secret Service budget; reassign USSS personnel to ICE, Justice; emphasize protection roles.

N Eliminate the Office of Intelligence and Analysis:

• Trump has opted to downsize, not yet eliminate, the Intelligence agencies. On May 2, Trump revealed his plan to downsize the CIA and other spy agencies by 1200 personnel. On May 14, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she would shift oversight of the spy agencies to her office.

X Hire more Schedule C/political legal appointees to the Office of General Counsel to assure consistency of legal viewpoints in response to Congressional requests.

N Only political appointees from Office of Legislative Affairs should speak to Congressional staffers; all requests to pass to OLA:

• This is a moving target: James Braid is a seasoned Hill veteran, JD Vance ally, and former Freedom Caucus policy director, who was tapped to head the OLA and insure Congress backs Trump on key legislation. He has moved to tighten OLA communications to Congressional offices.

Civil Rights:

X Reduce size, authority of Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; put it and Privacy Office under Office of General Counsel, eliminate their access to review, advise on intelligence products:

• On March 21, Bloomberg Law reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was dismantling its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL). A Feb. 13 overview of Trump’s reform of the OCR in the area of education found that “the department announced plans to close civil rights investigations related to book banning, opened several new Title IX investigations over gender-inclusive school policies, while the White House released an executive order threatening to withhold funding for schools that promote so-called `discriminatory equity ideology.’”

Read the full yardstick report of Project 2025’s progress in all 30 departments here.

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Reversing the tide: Some Measure of our Resistance

There is no question: Trumpism is Project 2025 on steroids. But the numbers are also changing and that is critical to focus on. As I wrote in an analysis of the battle at the 100-day mark, Trump and Co. have won many of the first rounds by firing off the flurry of his executive orders on so many fronts. But the consortium of the now 450+ organizations in the resistance hub, Democracy 2025, have moved very quickly, too. (And we’re in that hub, via our umbrella NGO, GenDemocracy). That includes many legal groups who are leading successful litigation to both slow and stop Trump’s actions. The fact is, litigation takes longer than a stroke of a presidential pen to weaponize an executive order.

So now, as we move through the next 100 days, the measuring stick of ultimate progress on Project 2025’s goals may shift. All our yardstick shows is what Trump’s administration have managed to do so far – via executive orders, mostly. The final calculus will reflect litigation and popular resistance which is also exploding.

Our yardstick definitely shows that Trump won the big first explosive round using EOs and new speed-multiplying AI agents, and his administration has quickly done devastating damage to our government and democracy. But, he has not captured the courts, even with a conservative majority placed on the highest court. In fact, several were hand-picked by Catholic activist and judicial maker Leonard Leo, who gave his list to Trump, and he’s stacked the federal courts, too. You can read our big 2024 Special Report about the ties of Leo to Project 2025 and Trump’s Cabinet.

Yet the justices are demonstrating a level of fidelity to the rule of law on a case-by-case basis.

We are also seeing a focus on law from the federal judges, and at the state level, which is why Trump has started attacking and threatening lower court judges. We’ve also had some bad losses, including an ignoble ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold a ban on transgender military service. But as I wrote days ago, on the legal front, as legal experts have reported, we are consistently winning more than losing.

Another SCOTUS victory:

The latest example of a win was yesterday, May 16^th, when a majority of the Supreme Court justices– again – issued an unsigned ruling pausing Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants and ordered a lower court to determine the legality of using the Alien Enemies Act. Furious, Trump declared on social media: “The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do,” and called it “a bad and dangerous day for America.”

The legal challenges are being tracked by a number of legal and pro-democracy organizations, including by Just Security, Public Citizen, among many others, and by mainstream newspapers. Below is a quick view of the bigger cases, per The Washington Post’s Legal Tracker, updated as of yesterday:

Source: Washington Post

Other Trackers:

Many groups are tracking Trump’s Executive Orders, and some are tracking specific orders in sectors, such as tariffs. A large number of private legal firms provide ongoing analysis for their clients, investors, and companies. A full list of Trump executive orders can be read in the Federal Register. You can track tariffs at the Trade Compliance Resource hub managed by ReedSmith.

You can also track progress of Project 2025’s remaining agenda:

A detailed overview of Project 2025’s progress that is applying AI analytics to track items can be seen at the ‘Project 2025 Tracker project. As of May 16th , it was tracking 313 proposals: 149 had not been started, 98 were “done,” and 66 were “in progress,” per its analysis. The Tracker includes smaller and larger items on Project 2025’s menu within federal departments and agencies. The project also provides visual maps and charts to help viewers grasp the scope of progress by department – again, based on AI reads of the data.

“Progress by Agency – The Top 10”

Below is its “Progress by Agency – The Top 10” chart, as of May 14^th. It shows the greatest progress has been made at the DHS, followed by Education, HHS, Energy, DOJ, Labor, USDA, Treasury, Interior, and EPA.

Code: The most common Tag sizes represent frequency, while colors indicate completion rate (red = 100%, green = 0%)

Chart: Project 2025 Tracker

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Editor’s Note – and a caveat:

Our campaign cannot provide a comparative comment on the Project 2025 Tracker versus our yardstick of the Key Proposals because we are not comparing the same lists. Notably, our overview yardstick analysis was done only by humans; it does not involve AI and is limited to the bigger-ticket items on the menu, not the fuller list of items cited by the Tracker. You can read our campaign’s fuller list of main Project 2025 proposals by agency in our individual chapter summary and breakdown – one for each of the 30 federal departments.

It’s also on our website under the Project 2025 information section where we also have a list of Project 2025 authors of each chapter with their bio info. Many of them are now in the Cabinet, and their ideas are being manifested in Trump’s EOs, so it’s worth reading about them to understand the deeper agenda they are advancing and their ties to the larger far-right world and radical Christian nationalist one.

Credits:

Our initial 2024 analysis of Project 2025 was done by myself and writer-editor Sally O’Driscoll; with help from Megan McLemore, and reviewed by volunteers on our editorial team.

Looking ahead, we will provide an updated analysis at month six when Project 2025’s unfolding secret “180-Day Playbook” deadline is reached. Let’s hope the yardstick looks very different by then, showing more legal pauses, full stops, and reversals of policy as our resistance to autocracy grows daily. – Anne-christine d’Adesky

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