Project 2025, a list of resources

Updated Jun. 30, 2025

In this MSNBC interview, Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts is loud and proud about the reasoning behind Project 2025 and its autocratic goals. (Jun. 22, 2024.)

Project 2025, the basics

• Project 2025, chapter by chapter, by Kat C. (This post is an outline of the document, based on Project 2025's table of contents. It includes the 920-page Heritage Foundation documents, a complete set of concise chapter summaries by Stop the Coup 2025, additional brief chapter summaries by Warning Vote: Sounding the Alarm for Democracy, plus a growing list of related articles.)

• Project 2025 - Afterword, by Kat C. (This post is my examination of "Onward," written by Edwin Feulner, a Heritage Foundation co-founder.)

• Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker, a database compiled by Will Dobbs-Allsopp and James Goodwin, Tracking Trump 2.0, a page of the Center for Progressive Reform website. (This chapter-by-chapter breakdown is a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, including the Project 2025 pages on which they appear.)

Project Esther, the Heritage Foundation addendum to Project 2025

I've made an effort to seek balanced coverage of this new threat, but the results were predictable. In their coverage of Project Esther, right-wing publications adopt the same invective and distortions that lace through Project 2025 itself. Reading them is enlightening, but only because they reveal the character of those who want to quash and punish pro-Palestinians in the U.S. If you really feel a need to know, check the Israel National News and the Jewish News Syndicate. Apart from Wikipedia and Heritage Foundation releases, the rest of my sources are left-leaning.

“Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism” is a 33-page plan, available for download here.

• This point-by-point analysis of Project Esther is a Must Watch: The Right's Latest Blueprint for Authoritarian Takeover, uploaded Jun. 2, 2025 to the Leeja Miller channel on YouTube. ("Project Esther is very strategically creating a new terrorist group that is deliberately broad, so it can encompass all student protesters, all pro-Palestinian professors, all organizations that may have given money to a pro-Palestinian cause, all universities or localities that failed to stop pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and all members of Congress that they can claim are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. This, then, gives them carte blanche under the guise of anti-terrorism efforts to do whatever they want while still claiming not to be breaking the law. 'They're terrorists, so their student visas can be revoked, their pro-terrorist speech can be curtailed, their pro-terrorist demonstrations can be banned, and more. The US has proven time and again — especially since 2001 — that we are willing to look the other way if we can be sufficiently convinced that these people are all just terrorists, so their human rights don't matter.")
  RELATED: Factsheet: Canary Mission, by Bridge Initiative Team and John L. Esposito, The Bridge Initiative, Jun. 3, 2025. ("Canary Mission is an organization that aims to document “individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond.” Its website smears Muslim, Arab, and pro-Palestinian students, academics, and organizations by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. The organization publishes detailed online profiles accusing individuals—often with little or no evidence—of supporting terrorism or promoting antisemitism, simply for expressing pro-Palestinian views or criticizing Zionism. Experts and organizations like the ACLU and the Middle East Studies Association have condemned Canary Mission for chilling free speech, threatening academic freedom, and facilitating harassment.")

• Who's the Real Enemy?, by Andra Watkins, For Such a Time As This, May 28, 2025. (Watkins, who also wrote Commentary: Decoding Project 2025's Christian Nationlist language, analyses the broader strategy behind Project Esther. As an example, she substitutes the transgender community for Project Ether's stated objectives.)

• Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to "Rebrand All Critics of Israel" as Hamas Supporters, uploaded May 19, 2025 to the Democracy Now! channel on YouTube. ("Project Esther aims to rebrand all critics of Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters as providing material support for terrorism. So that means that anyone who’s ever participated in a pro-Palestinian protest at a university, for example, is potentially providing material support and should be fired or deported or otherwise ostracized from what they call open society. And there’s not very many Jewish groups involved in this project. There are a few, but the task force that inspired Project Esther was primarily Christian and right-wing organizations.")
  For a transcript of the video, see Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas Supporters, Democracy Now!, May 19, 2025.
  The video refers to The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement, by Katie J. M. Baker, The New York Times, May 18, 2025.

• Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values, by Arno Rosenfeld, Forward, Dec. 6, 2024. ("President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to make fighting antisemitism a priority in his administration. He has suggested that he’s open to at least some of the tactics referenced in Project Esther, including deporting international students who protest against Israel. And the project was assembled by a group that includes the America First Policy Institute, a think tank staffed by some of his top advisers.")

• Project Esther was released less than a month before the Nov. 5 election. (According to Wikipedia, it "is an effort by the American conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation to suppress what it classifies as antisemitism. The effort has received support from a number of evangelical Christian groups but has not gained the support of any major Jewish organizations. It has been criticized by journalist Steve Rabey for actually incorporating antisemitic tropes into its own rhetoric, and by Slate and Haaretz for not addressing right-wing antisemitism.")

• Project Esther: Next chapter of Project 2025 plans destruction of Palestine solidarity movement, by Taryn Fivek, People's World, Oct. 18, 2024. ("Recalling the McCarthy era, even a whiff of sympathy for Palestinians would be enough to label an organization or individual part of the so-called Hamas network. The document notes that essentially any group that seeks to 'unravel the fabric of American society' could be linked to this fantasy network, qualifying it for destruction. Thus, a war against anti-Israel sentiment would likewise be a war against the enemies of the Heritage Foundation.")
  NOTE: Regardless of whether Heritage Foundation actually wields its dreamed-of influence in the new administration, designation as their "enemy" is no small matter. Keep in mind, the foundation is operated and financed by some most powerful men in America.

• Trump-allied Group Behind Project 2025 Unveils Plan to Crack Down on pro-Palestinian Activists, Antisemitism, by Ben Samuels, Haaratz, Oct. 22, 2024. ("'Project Esther,' a document by the architects of the controversial Heritage foundation, says the 'anti-American' protest movement is 'relying on the American Jewish community's complacency.' The document does not address antisemitism on the right."

Agenda 47

• Learn about the basics of Agenda 47 here.

• What Does Agenda 47 Spell for America’s Future?, by Thom Hartmann, The Hartmann Report, Dec. 03, 2024. (“A stark warning about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term...”)

Overviews

In order to make this list more manageable, the Overviews section has been moved here.

Project 2025 is a racist document

This section has been moved to a separate post, here.

For more information about racism and how you can combat it, see On microaggressions, privilege, and systemic racism: A resource for white people

Project 2025's threat to LGBTQ+ and trans rights

• The GOP Has a Master Plan to Criminalize Being Trans, by Brynn Tannehill, Dame, Aug. 14, 2023. ("When they talk about pornography, this includes any content discussing or portraying LGBTQ figures from the children’s books I Am Jazz and And Tango Makes Three to the Trevor Project’s suicide hotline. We know this by looking at how 'don’t say gay' laws have been implemented in Florida: This is literally their model. ... It would also likely criminalize any therapist, doctor, or counselor who provided affirming therapy to trans youth. Indeed, the document makes it explicitly clear they want nationwide bans on abortion and access to affirming care for trans youth, while calling for conversion therapies to be the only available treatments. It could be argued as well that people who are visibly trans in public are pornographic or obscene, because they might be seen by a minor. This understanding of intent is in line with the call to 'eradicate transgenderism from public life.'")

• How Anti-Trans Policies in Project 2025 Could Impact All Families, by Orion Rummler, Them, Aug. 26, 2024. ("War has been declared on LGBTQ+ people — and the idea of protecting children is a linchpin for that war. 'What they want is a very clearly defined society in which straight White men are on top, men earn money and women are subservient,' [Willie] Carver said. That society is built on strict definitions of marriage, family, femininity and masculinity — a binary lens that excludes many Americans and creates a divisive narrative that ascribes value to people based on gender.")

• How Does "Project 2025" Promote Traditional Family Structures and What Are the Implications for Non-Conventional Families?, a page from the website Warning Vote: Sounding the Alarm for Democracy.

• The Project 2025 approach to transgender rights: erase, erase, erase, by Kat C.

Organizations behind Project 2025, parts 1-4

I started my research into project 2025 by compiling as much information as I could find about the organizations behind Project 2025. The result was a four-part series, linked below.

But in the time since I did posted that information, the number of supporting organizations has grown to 110. Newsweek has published the full list here. Their list is complete as of Jul. 11, 2024. No doubt, it will continue to grow.

You can find basic information about the Heritage Foundation in "Who's behind Project 2025 (part 3)." (See below.) But there's one article that needs to be highlighted:

• Heritage Foundation: How a Far-Right Think Tank Gained So Much Influence Over U.S. Politics, by Samantha Riedel, Them, Nov. 1, 2025. (Posted just before the general election, this article is still a must-read — especially if you're still trying to figure out how the hell this happened.)

• Who's behind Project 2025 (part 1), by Kat C. (Includes a list of the organizations covered in this series.)

• Who's behind Project 2025 (part 2).

• Who's behind Project 2025 (part 3).

• Who's behind Project 2025 (part 4).

Additions to 'Organizations behind Project 2025'

Compiling the four-part series involved maxing out the original site's character count three times, which means I can't update them with new information. Until I figure out a solution to this problem, new articles will be added under this heading.

• Center for Renewing America: Likely Trump Chief of Staff Draws Up Plans to Move U.S. to Christian Nationalism in Second Trump Term, by Troy Matthews, MeidasTouch News, Feb. 20, 2024. ("The CRA stated mission is to "renew a consensus of America as a nation under God.'")

• Heritage Foundation: What is the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the terrifying Republican Project 2025 agenda?, by Christopher Wiggins, Advocate, Jul. 30, 2024.
  RELATED: A conservative leading the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution, by Ali Swenson, AP News, Jul. 3, 2024.

Key figures behind Project 2025

• Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years., by Joe Fassler, DeSmog, May 30, 2025. ("Musk’s arrival on the scene helped to launder the reputation of an enormously unpopular playbook, putting techno-utopian lipstick on the Project 2025 pig. By September 2024, Project 2025 was polling at just 4 percent approval, according to NBC News; shared hatred for the Heritage Foundation-backed initiative seemed to be the one thing most Americans agreed on. Musk fundamentally changed the perception of what was essentially the same vision, implemented by the same people. It didn’t take long for the media coverage and public outcry to shift away from Project 2025 and focus on one person above all: Elon Musk. America followed the shiny object. ... Musk’s outsized personality and outrageous behavior have helped to obscure a starker truth: He was never acting alone. His links to key Project 2025 personnel go back years. And those relationships turned out to be central to aligning DOGE’s work with the broader vision outlined in the Project 2025." But Musk's financial backing was also significant: He "secretly funneled at least $43 million to Citizens for Sanity through a nonprofit called Building America’s Future. By October 2022, Citizens for Sanity was running TV ads that aired during the World Series.")

• 6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025, by Joe Fassler, DeSmog, Aug. 14, 2024. (For an interactive map showing how they did it, go here.)

• How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation, by Casey Michel, The New Republic, Mar. 15, 2024. (While I was aware of this meeting when it happened, I underestimated its importance. But this wasn't Kevin Roberts first meeting with Orbán. Combined with Orbán's powerful influence on Trump, his extended history with the Heritage Foundation implies a direct influence on Project 2025 as well.)

• Ex-Trump Administration Officials Involved in Project 2025: Full List, by Flynn Nicholls, Newsweek, Jul. 10, 2024. ("In total, 31 contributors served at various levels in and around Trump's administration.")

• Meet John McEntee, the former (and possibly future)* WH official who brags about pranking the homeless, by Kat C., May 16, 2024.

• Russell Vought, The Bureaucrat Who Could Make Trump’s Authoritarian Dreams Real, by Isabela Dias, Mother Jones, November/December 2024 issue. ("For Vought, politics is downstream from religion. He sees a strong presidency as a way to bring forth a Christian nation. Vought opposes abortion and has referred to transgender identity as a 'contagion.' He has suggested migration policy should be rooted in Judeo-Christian principles, with immigrants tested on their readiness to 'assimilate.' ...Vought wants to infuse the next conservative administration with the values of Christian nationalism—the conviction that the United States is bound to the teachings of Christ, from which all else follows.")

• Russell Vought: Trump-Aligned Think Tank, Denying Policy Plans, Gives Voice to Christian Nationalist Views, by Jack Jenkins, Word & Way, Feb. 22, 2024.
  This article refers to Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration, by Alexander Ward and Heidi Przybyla, Politico, Feb. 20, 2024.

• Russell Vought: Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers., by Beth Reinhard, The Washington Post, Jun. 8, 2024. ("[Steve] Bannon ... touted Vought and his colleagues as 'madmen' ready to upend the U.S. government at a recent Center for Renewing America event.")

Project 2025 has global implications

• How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, a page of the Guttmacher website, October 2024. (Project 2025's "far-reaching recommendations would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive health care, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally." See item 7, "Impact on Reproductive Health Worldwide.")

• ‘This is not trivial stuff’: Project 2025’s plan to ally the U.S. with authoritarians worldwide, uploaded Sept. 28, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. ("Project 2025 intends to use U.S. foreign assistance programs to push conservative culture wars worldwide, conditioning aid on restricting abortion and pulling all funding for climate change. Jeremy Konyndyk, who worked in the U.S. Agency for International Development under President Biden & Obama, says the culture war obsessions in this chapter would ally the U.S. with authoritarian countries around the world.")

• Colonization in disguise: Project 2025’s global reach , uploaded Jun. 23, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. ("Project 2025 ... includes an international framework with dangerous implications for women and LGBTQ communities around the globe. Under the guise of Christian values, American conservatives are pressuring countries reliant on foreign aid to adopt anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ legislation. 'They’re going to use reproductive policies as well as policies on LGBTQ people to try and control different nations around the world,' says Anthea Butler, an MSNBC analyst and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 'The U.S. government under the guise of Christian nationalism, [is] trying to infiltrate countries and control them.'")
  The linked video includes references to the following articles:

  • Women in Kenya Are Using Knitting Needles to End Their Pregnancies. Blame Donald Trump., by Neha Wadekar, Mother Jones, Oct. 8, 2020. ("The president has given fringe anti-abortion groups unprecedented influence.")

  • Trump’s Legacy Is a Global Alliance Against Women’s Rights, by Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy, FP, Jan. 20, 2021. ("U.S. conservatives have forged dangerous ties on abortion with reactionaries abroad.")

  • Biden Pressures Guatemala to Withdraw from Pro-life Document; Senate Responds, by Lisa Correnti, C-Fam (Center for Family and Human Rights). April 4, 2024. (The document in question is the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family, "an anti-abortion joint statement [which was] signed by persons from 34 countries on October 22, 2020. The United States rescinded its signature three months afterward.")

• Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world , by Emma Shortis, The Conversation, circa May 2024. (Shortis, a senior researcher in International and Security Affairs at The Australia Institute, examines Project 2025 from a global perspective. In particular, she focuses on climate issues, foreign policy, nuclear weapons, and planned changes in America's role in world affairs.)

Probable outcomes

(e.g.: will forced sterilizations increase?)

• 5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation upload. (This is the Heritage Foundation's gleeful plan for our future, presented in their own words. Like the "Mandate" itself, their overview is filled with misinformation, twisted facts, and open bigotry.)

• No one talks about how the GOP's destruction of our civil service will effect average Americans — but it will, by Kat C., posted May 1, 2025.

• Trump's allusions to eugenics: A harbinger of renewed forced sterilizations?, by Kat C., posted May 13, 2024.

• Project 2025 Is Already Here, by Gillian Kane, In These Times, Apr. 25, 2024. ("Core aspects of the far-right plan to overhaul U.S. government are already being put into place, through an anti-abortion influence campaign overseas.")

• What is Schedule F, and why is Project 2025 so focused on reinstating it?, by Kat C., Jun. 7, 2024.

Religious cults, 7MM, and Project 2025

In order to make this post easier to navigate, I’ve moved this section to a separate location.

But before you scroll past this notice, please consider giving the linked information a moment or two of your attention. Christian Nationalists might not be "Christian," but they are driven by a deep-seated desire to control the rest of us through religion. Their adherence to a Bible-based belief system — however twisted — is the driving force behind their reactionary political views. For example, their end times belief is a major factor in their refusal to address climate change.

Unsurprisingly, Project 2025 is laced with references to their beliefs and religiously-motivated threats to our democracy.

Project 2025 and adult privacy

• What does Project 2025 have to do with kink-based social sites?: an answer, by Kat C.

• Will Dusty Deevers' anti-porn legislation put romance authors in jail?, by Kat C., Feb. 10, 2025.

• Project 2025 Creator Threatens “Gay Furry” Hackers in Disturbing Texts, by Talia Jane, The New Republic, Jul. 11, 2024. (If you think we'll be immune to whatever happens in a Trump administration, think again. Public responses from Heritage Foundation executive Mike Howell say it all.)

Related threats to democracy

• Will History Repeat Itself? Forecasting CRA Use in a Second Trump Administration, by Steven J. Balla and Sarah Hay, Regulatory Studies Center - The George Washington University, May 3, 2024. ("The 115th Congress used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) an historic 16 times at the beginning of the Trump administration in 2017. We take a look at the regulations targeted by that Congress to get a sense of the policy areas most likely to be challenged if former President Trump wins reelection this fall.")

Trump trackers

• Tracking Project 2025. ("Project 2025 Tracker began as a humble spreadsheet created by /u/rusticgorilla, combined with /u/mollynaquafina's vision for making this information accessible to everyone through a dedicated website." To see the extent of changes by agency, click "Start Tracking.")

• Project 2025 Tracker, a database that includes Project 2025 objectives, their statuses, and the percent of progress made by each agency. ("Project 2025 Tracker began as a humble spreadsheet created by /u/rusticgorilla, combined with /u/mollynaquafina's vision for making this information accessible to everyone through a dedicated website." Documentation includes Project 2025 page numbers.)

• Tracking the Harm of DOGE Cuts, a page of the Center for Law and Social Policy website. *"CLASP’s interactive data tool, is designed to help users explore and document the proposed reductions to federal programs under review by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This sortable, filterable spreadsheet compiles program-level information on funding changes—either proposed or enacted—during the current administration.")

• Musk Watch - DOGE Tracker, created by Judd Legum. (The tracker's most recent update was May 6, 2025. However, Legum continues to write about Musk on his Substack: Musk Watch.)

• DEI Watch: Tracking Corporate Accountability, created by DeShuna Spencer, founder and CEO of kweliTV. *("This guide is broken into three categories: 1} DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts (one *asterisk if scaled back or two *asterisk if adversaries); 2} COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3} FUNDERS - organizations that donated significantly to Trump's 2024 campaign or inauguration. Each company is hyperlinked to the source of this data for full transparency.")
  RELATED: While you're there, take a moment to read the About and Resources pages.

• Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration,AP News. ("Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.")

• Another Trump Disaster: Tracking his worst. ("AnotherTrumpDisaster.com makes it easy to find some of the very worst disasters Trump is causing for everyday Americans. We organize his actions under broad issue categories and explain their impact on people in simple language. We provide links if you want to learn more, and you'll also find links to other sources of information on the many awful things he is doing.")

• Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker, a database compiled by Will Dobbs-Allsopp and James Goodwin, Tracking Trump 2.0, a page of the Center for Progressive Reform website. (The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies." This chapter-by-chapter breakdown is a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, including the Project 2025 pages on which they appear.)

Understanding MAGA

"Already some of you have gotten angry, feeling this gut-level revulsion at any attempt to excuse or even understand these people. After all, they're hardly people, right? Aren't they just a mass of ignorant, rageful, crude, cursing, spitting subhumans?... It feels good to dismiss people, to mock them, to write them off as deplorables. But you might as well take time to try to understand them, because I'm telling you, they'll still be around long after Trump is gone." ~Jason Pargin [Emphasis mine.]

• Why We Believe in Gods - Andy Thomson, uploaded Apr. 24, 2009, to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science channel on YouTube. (This video was posted 16 years ago, back when Richard Dawkins was still a darling of the atheist community. In the last couple of years, Dawkins' darker side has come to the fore. He might have been brilliant as a representative of atheism, but that's been overshadowed by his vocal transphobia. These days, he's just another old bigot who should have stopped talking years ago. In other words, I'm not recommending his channel. However, the information presented by Andy Thompson is worth considering, because the human propensity for anchoring itself to a religion is part of our overarching MAGA problem.)

• How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind, by Jason Pargin, Cracked, Oct. 12, 2016. (In this difficult but important read, the author draws from his experiences rural area where he grew up. He digs past the stereotypical MAGA mindset, explaining why America is so deeply divided between rural and urban areas. "The rural folk with the Trump signs in their yards say their way of life is dying, and you smirk and say what they really mean is that blacks and gays are finally getting equal rights and they hate it. But I'm telling you, they say their way of life is dying because their way of life is dying.")

  • For an audio version: Seth Andrews reads Pargin's article in Rural Folk VS. City Snobs: Does Geography Help Explain MAGA?, beginning at 3:19. Andrews uploaded his video Aug. 11, 2025, to TheThinkingAtheist channel on YouTube. (After reading the article, Andrews adds his own thoughts in a call-in discussion with listeners, including his own experiences as an Oklahoma resident and former evangelical.)

• The Cult of Emotion: Charismatic Christianity Under the Microscope, uploaded Jul. 11, 2025, to the Leaving the Message channel on YouTube. (This conversation between two practicing Christians includes a lot of in-group references, along with some important but obscure history. It's not directly related to MAGA. However, if you listen for the broad strokes, you'll gain a better understanding of the indoctrination and manipulation that shaped so much of the MAGA mindset. Moreover, a large segment of MAGA is deeply entrenched in evangelicalism and other high-control religions, which sets them up for further manipulation by political charlatans like Trump. In case you're short on time, the most useful information is in the first 30-40 minutes.)

  • For clarification: Both speakers make frequent references to "YWAM," the Youth With a Mission organization.

• What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains, uploaded Jul. 7, 2025, to the Dr Russell Razzaque channel on YouTube. (""Steven Miller is sort of sympatico with the MAGA base because fundamentally, what they're about is being marinated in this sense of resentment towards other social groups who seem to be overtaking them. That sense of resentment is what overwhelms them. And ... the only medicine they have for that — the only balm they have to calm that down — is to see those people pushed down. That makes them feel good, and that is why they don't necessarily cheer policy, they cheer cruelty."")

Democratic leadership's belated plan to fight back

• House Democrats prepare to highlight right-wing 'Project 2025' plans, by Ja'han Jones, MSNBC News, Jun. 11, 2024. "Democrats launched a task force [on June 11] designed to shed light on 'Project 2025,' a right-wing policy wish list Republicans have developed for a second Trump term."

Voting information

• I Will Vote. (Check your voter registration status, register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and learn more about voting in your state or while living abroad. There's also a hotline number.)

The importance of fact checking and reading critically

• On Bluesky, Shayan Sardarizadeh is "a BBC journalist and fact-checker" who uses his profile to correct misinformation. (For example, in this post, he fact-checks an AI-generated picture that purports to show Trump and Epstein in a compromising situation. Sardarizadeh asks readers to "flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest.")

• Quackwatch. (From Wikipedia: "Quackwatch is a United States-based website focused on promoting consumer protection and providing information about health related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. It primarily targets alternative medicine, questionable health claims, and practices it considers pseudoscience."Media Bias/Fact Check gives Quackwatch a rating of "Pro-science, high factuality.")
  RELATED: Quackwatch's subsidiary site is Naturowatch, "The Skeptical Guide to Naturopathic History, Theories, and Practices."

• Hysterical over nothing? Yeah, right…, by Kat C. (When a right-leaning publication says "calm down," check between the lines. Chances are, they're leaving out a few important details.)

• How to Spot 16 Types of Media Bias (This article definitely qualifies as "no holds barred." All Sides doesn't hesitate. No media outlet is immune to their criticism — no matter where it sits on the left-right spectrum.)

• Truth matters: Remembering the Mariel boatlift, by Kat C., May 14, 2024.

• Is 1440's Daily Newsletter the Unbiased News Source It Claims To Be?, by Jack Izzo, Snopes.com, Feb. 1, 2024. (In this article, which focuses on the nature of bias in journalism, Snopes.com concludes, "[R]egardless of personal opinions about 'unbiased-ness,' both Snopes' investigation and the Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart found that 1440's newsletter generally sticks to the facts and does not favor one political leaning over another.")

The importance of fact checking and reading critically

Plagiarism

• How to Find Plagiarism, by Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today. (I'm including this new subhead under fact-checking, because accusations of plagiarism are sometimes weaponized against public figures and other political targets. "How to Find Plagiarism" is part one of Stop Internet Plagiarism. Although Bailey focuses on empowering authors to protect their own work, his techniques are useful to anyone who needs to detect plagiarism — or to rule it out. I've also used some of these techniques to track down the original source of articles.)

Fact checking claims about Project 2025

• Project 2025 and post-election propagandists make extravagantly inaccurate claims about government spending. You can find the real numbers at USAspending.gov, "the official open data source of federal spending information, including information about federal awards such as contracts, grants, and loans."

• So. You say I should do more research? Okay, sure. Why not. :P, by Kat C. (Trump claims he knows nothing, but the evidence says otherwise.)

• What we can VERIFY about Project 2025, by Kelly Jones, Verify, Jul. 9, 2024.

• Trump's Name Appears 312 Times in Project 2025 Document?, by Aleksandra Wrona , Snopes.com, Jul. 10, 2024. ("The answer is, not exactly.... If you're relying solely on a word search, then sure it does. But in reality, "Trump" appears in several contexts, including one time as a verb. So....)

• No, Project 2025 doesn’t propose eliminating Social Security benefits, by Megan Loe, Verify, Jul. 10, 2024. ("Contrary to online claims, Project 2025 doesn’t call for ending Social Security benefits. But the Heritage Foundation has advocated for changes to the program.")

• No, Project 2025 doesn’t propose eliminating overtime pay, by Libby Stanford, Verify, Jul. 8, 2024. ("Project 2025 recommends overtime pay adjustments and calls on Congress to amend federal overtime rules, but it doesn’t advocate for the elimination of overtime pay.")

• See also: Hysterical over nothing? Yeah, right., by Kat C.

Reclaiming our deleted government websites

• The information in this section has been moved to a separate post.

• See also: Hysterical over nothing? Yeah, right…, by Kat C.

Fact checking the historical record

Reclaimed deleted documents

The information in this section has been moved to a separate post.

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For more information — including topic-by-topic overviews — see Project 2025, chapter by chapter.

For post-election information about resistance and protest, see Trump won. Now what?