Project 2025 is a product of the Heritage Foundation, an organization that describes its mission as working to “formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” They have been around since the early 1979s, and they’ve been a powerhouse on the far right since that time.

Project 2025 is the Heritage' Foundation’s strategy for rapidly implementing their priorities immediately after a Trump-Vance election. Perhaps most important, as their website shows, they are staffing up for that transition, to make sure that they control the agenda. Remember how disorganized and crazy Trump’s 2017 transition to power was? This project seeks to ensure that such events don’t happen again, because Trump’s essential chaos left space for resistance. Read more here: https://www.project2025.org

(For a laugh, here’s John Oliver’s take on it.)

The politics of the thing have been evolving…

And yet, given the resources and planning (and general GOP support) that has gone into Project 2025, we still need to take it seriously. Here are summaries from the Washington Post and the BBC.

Because Project 2025 is so sweeping, more specific dives into its implications are also helpful.

• For Texas-specific information, see this fact sheet from the Center for American Progress.

• The same organization has also done a deep dive into the implications for reproductive rights, which received support (a retweet!) from Planned Parenthood.

• Here is a Wired article about how Project 2025 will affect election security.

• The Brookings Institute produced a podcast about project 2025, AI, anti-trust, and public radio.

• Members of public unions are also worried.

• and, according to Scientific American, scientists should be worried too.