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The 2024 election cycle is critical to the restoration of democratic government under the U.S. Constitution, while the Republican-funded
fascist Heritage Foundation 'think tank' promotes their longtime agenda as defined in the 900-page book "Mandate For Leadership".
Even if Project 2025 favorite candidates don’t win in 2024, this plan will continue to drive the thinking of the far right into the future
and they will continue to push for these changes wherever possible.
"[Project 2025] is our biggest threat. You can have Trumpism without Trump. He’s one guy, these groups are powerful and influential "Project 2025 seeks a rapid and almost total takeover of the federal government." Fascism is defined by “one-man rule, based on big lies, nationalist fervor, xenophobia, hatred of marginal groups, "Project 2025 is designed to centralize power in the hands of the president, dismantling the foundations of democracy."
and they are trying to leverage the influence that they do have." — journalist David Corn, Nov 2023
— podcaster Marc Steiner, Nov 2023
displays of militarism, incitement to violence, media manipulation, and persistent lawlessness.”
— political polymath Mark Green
— Amanda Ford, Democracy for America Advocacy Fund
And the local, 'down ticket' elections really, really matter.
The choice each election in the U.S.A. is binary: Not voting BLUE all the time or not voting at all is a surrender to the fascists & racists & the Republican Party.
Fascism, per political polymath Mark Green, is defined by “one-man rule, based on big lies, nationalist fervor, xenophobia, hatred of marginal groups, displays of militarism, incitement to violence, media manipulation, and persistent lawlessness”.
All of these activities are promoted in the recently re-published "Mandate For Leadership" book from The Heritage Foundation [est. 1973] and their "Project 2025" organization, an out-in-the-open scheme to steer the U.S.A. toward far-right autocracy (dictatorship).
Project 2025 encourages Republicans to:
• intentionally spread disinformation;
• overreach executive power;
• weaken checks and balances;
• dismantle all protections against unchecked corporate power;
• quash criticism or dissent;
• promote marginalizing & restricting hard-won rights protections of minorities, specifically LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, women, and people of color;
• eviscerate the many guardrails in place that aim to defend the endangered environment;
• end attempts to enhance equity & racial justice throughout the government and shut down agencies that track progress on this front;
• end efforts to tackle issues such as climate change, and politicize research to back the project’s views on environmental policy, the evils of 'transgenderism', and women’s health;
• politicize independent institutions;
• initiate corruption of elections;
• and stoke violence in daily life and as populist protest.
Project 2025 has already caused legislative attempts to defund the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Education, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). So far in 2024, 11 states have introduced or taken new action on bills to roll back child labor protections.
You do not want further destruction of your rights. Vote very carefully in the upcoming elections.
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Working Minds Philosophy website / Fascism Pages
book "Fascism For Dummkopfs" being written in 2024 
The Heritage Foundation fascist 'think tank' [est. 1973] of Washington, DC
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless – if the left allows it to be.”
— Heritage Foundation president and "Project 2025" leader Kevin D. Roberts, speaking to the MAGA propaganda outlet
"Real America's Voice" about how he and other fascists view the political moment.
entry at Wikipedia •
official website
Project 2025 (officially the Presidential Transition Project) [est. 2022]
a collection of policy proposals to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government at an unprecedented scale
in the event of a Republican victory in the next U.S. presidential election
Project 2025 entry at Wikipedia •
Project 2025 official website
an online course called the Presidential Administration Academy
 | "Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America" [2024] by Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts PhD, Foreword by J.D. Vance book outlines a 'peaceful' second revolution for American voters; the foreword is written by none other than shill-billy Vance, who is full of praise for the author: “Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism. We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.” If the American way of life is to be passed down to future generations, conservatives need to build or take back certain groups; book also names groups that are too corrupt to save and need to be dissolved, such as Ivy League colleges, the F.B.I., the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, BlackRock, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy . . . Kindle Edition from Broadside e-Books [9/2024] for $14.99 Broadside Books 9x6 hardcover [9/2024] for $20.75 |
L i n k s
Stop The Coup 2025 group [est. 11/2023]
"Mandate For Leadership" Book [orig 1981]
Beginning in 1981, The Heritage Foundation has published nine editions. The Reagan-era original is followed by editions of widely varying size:
the First Edition was 3,000 pages in 20 volumes. The page-count shrank down as agenda items 'entered the main-stream conversation'.
books entry at Wikipedia
| "Mandate For Leadership: Principles To Limit Government, Expand Freedom, and Strengthen America" [orig 1981] by The Heritage Foundation
9th edition 887-page Heritage Foundation pb [4/2023] out of print/used 8th edition Heritage Foundation hardcover [2020] out of print/used 7th edition Nov 2016 in 3 volumes 6th edition 2005 was just 156 pages long Heritage Foundation pb [1/2004] out of print/used 5th edition 2000 4th edition 1996 was edited by Stuart M. Butler & Kim R. Holmes 3rd edition 1988 was edited by Charles L. Heatherly & Burton Yale Pines 3rd edition Rowman & Littlefield Publng pb [12/1988] out of print/used 3rd edition Heritage Foundation hardcover [12/1988] out of print/used 2nd edition 1983 was edited by Richard N. Holwill 1st edition 1981 was 3,000 pages in 20 volumes Heritage Foundation hardcover [1981] out of print/used read the full 2023 text as .PDF file {920 pages, 6.77MB download}
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"Project 2025 Blueprints" trilogy [2024]
 | The chilling reality of Project 2025: it is a radical political agenda being pushed by a powerful cabal of politicians and special interests
"Project 2025 Blueprints: Exposing The Hidden Dangers of The Radical Agenda For Everyday Americans" [#1 July 2024] by Carl Young Kindle Edition from indep [7/2024] for $4.99 indep 10x7 large print pb [7/2024] for $13.98 indep 10x7 large print hardcover [7/2024] for $24.98 "Project 2025 Blueprints: Why You Must Reject This Radical Agenda" [#2 July 2024] by Carl Young Kindle Edition from indep [7/2024] for $3.99 indep 10x7 large print pb [7/2024] for $13.98 indep 10x7 large print hardcover [7/2024] for $24.99 "Project 2025 and The Global Stage: Implications For American Foreign Policy and International Relations" [#3 July 2024] by Carl Young Kindle Edition from indep [8/2024] for $1.99 indep 9x6 large print pb [7/2024] for $13.99 indep 9x6 large print hardcover [7/2024] for $24.99 |
Other Media
2021 article "The Far-Right Playbook For American Authoritarianism" on the Global Project Against Hate & Extremism website
Project 2025 is an authoritarian roadmap to dismantling a thriving, inclusive democracy for all •
read full article
 | "U.S.A. 2025: How Republicans Could Take Over and Transform America" [2023] by Geoff Locander author seems to provide an objective analysis of the history and potential for a fascist takeover in America 170-page Kindle Edition from BookBaby [3/2023] for $7.49 150-page BookBaby 9x6 pb [5/2023] for $14.99 |
April 2024 article "Project 2025 Threatens Not Only Workers’ Livelihoods, But Also Their Very Lives"
The right-wing plan aims to gut everything from anti-discrimination protections to child labor standards.
read TomDispatch article online at Truthout
 | "Antidemocratic: Inside The Far Right's 50-Year Plot To Control American Elections" [2024] by journalist David Daley Book reveals a hidden history, from the bowels of Reagan’s D.O.J. to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today. Kindle Edition from Mariner Books [8/2024] for $15.99 Mariner Books 9x6 hardcover [8/2024] for $24.97 |
watch 8/2024 Joy Reid interview [6:03] of MajGen Paul Eaton, US Army Retd - from VoteVets
watch 9/2024 Joy Reid "Project 2025 Exposed" - 14 episodes on YouTube
Co-Conspirators
A.L.E.C. (American Legislative Exchange Council) [est. 1973] is based in Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
Alliance Defending Freedom [est. 1994] - anti-LGBTQ+ hate group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom
American Center for Law and Justice [est. 1990] - Xian, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Muslim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Center_for_Law_%26_Justice
The American Conservative Magazine [est. 2002] co-founded by white nationalist Pat Buchanan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Conservative
American Family Association - for biblical worldview training [est. 1977]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association
America First Legal Foundation [est. 4/2021] - founded by Nazi sympathizer & former Trump advisor Stephen Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)
The American Principles Project [est. 2009] - anti-LGBTQ+, against critical race theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Principles_Project
Center for Family & Human Rights [est. 1997] led by Austin Ruse - U.N. consultant, anti-LGBTQ+ hate group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Family_and_Human_Rights
Center for Immigration Studies [est. 1985] - anti-immigrant hate group
co-founded by historian Otis L. Graham & eugenicist John Tanton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies
The Claremont Institute for The Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy [est. 1979]
Senior Fellow key election denier John Eastman
Senior Fellow Glenn Ellmers
2019 fellowship to Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute
Concerned Women for America [est. 1978] - anti-feminist, Xian nationalist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-education
founder Beverly Jean Davenport Ratcliffe LaHaye [1929-2024]
president/CEO Penny Young Nance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerned_Women_for_America
Conservative Partnership Institute [est. 5/2017]
founded by Jim DeMint, now chairman
president Edward Corrigan
senior partner Mark Meadows, since 1/2021
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Partnership_Institute
Family Research Council [est. 1981/83] - anti-LGBTQ+ hate group
founded by evangelical Xian leader James Dobson
president Tony Perkins, since 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council
FreedomWorks [est. 2004]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomWorks
Heartland Institute [est. 1984] - leading voice in the climate crisis denial movement
funded by tobacco companies Philip Morris, Altria, and Reynolds American; by pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly; by insurance companies
State Farm, U.S.A.A., and Diageo; and by political foundations Castle Rock, Sarah Scaife, John M. Olin, Lynde & Harry Bradley, Donors Trust, and the Koch Brothers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute
Hillsdale College [est. 1844] in Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College
Liberty University [est. 1971] in Lynchburg, Virginia
co-founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. [1933-2007]
campus life is rife with unreported crimes, including sexual assault; curriculum includes spurious creationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University
Moms For Liberty [est. 1/2021] - an anti-government far-right extremist group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_for_Liberty
Tea Party Patriots [est. 2009] - election denial group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Patriots
Texas Public Policy Foundation [est. 1989] is based in Austin, Texas
against public education, pandemic health measures, transgender healthcare for young people, Islam, and critical race theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_Foundation
Turning Point USA [est. 2012]
advocates white nationalist and antisemitic policies on education campuses; received major funding from Republican donor Foster Friess [1940-2021],
Bernard Marcus, Richard Uihlein, and Donors Trust; important officials include SCOTUS wife Ginni Thomas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA
Young America’s Foundation [est. 1969]
former governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker, president since 2/2021
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation
Fascism Comparison
Warning Signs vs. Project 2025 vs. Agenda 47
The 14 Warning Signs of Fascism was created in 2003, the 922-page Project 2025 book grew over time,
and Trump's Agenda 47 was posted beginning in 2023.
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