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Project 2025 - The Advisory Board List
Jul. 13th, 2024 09:21 amProject 2025 - The Advisory Board List
Full list with hyperlinks and additional information on each organization.
This list is a direct copy and paste from the Advisory Board section from “Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise Project 2025.”. On the document the organizations in the advisory board are listed by alphabetical order with no additional information.
I’ve added hyperlinks to each organization’s website as well as some background information including any notable board members, founding members or staff - especially anyone who worked in the Trump administration.
I’ve also grouped the organizations by type.
Although this entire document is only available for paid subscribers I removed the paywall for the first section. I want as many people as possible to know about the most extremist groups aligned with Project 2025.
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The Project 2025 Advisory Board
The Heritage Foundation’s mission is 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. (from website)
The organization is considered one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the world.
Founded in 1973 originally to promote a pro-business agenda.
Originally created as a conservative response to the Brookings Institution.
“Mandate for Leadership” - Reagan Administration
Much like Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership,” was meant as a blueprint for the newly elected Reagan Administration to help guide them on policy issues.
About 60% of the recommendations suggested in “Mandate for Leadership” were adopted by the Reagan Administration in its first year. Reagan loved it so much he had copies printed for all of his cabinet members.
The Heritage Foundation also had tremendous influence over helping the Reagan administration fill positions in his new administration. This is another similarity with “Project 2025” as one of its goals is to fill government positions with prescreened ideologically radical conservatives.
“Index of Leading Cultural Indicators” written by William Bennett in 1994
This publication was the Heritage Foundation’s first major entry into the culture wars.
The Index tackled subjects such as crime, divorce, children born out of marriage, teenage suicides, and drug use along with other social indicators.
“Index of Economic Freedom” - published in 1995
Wall Street Journal began partnership with Heritage as co-manager and co-editor of Index of Economic Freedom as an annual publication in 1997.
Scandal in 2013 - Jackson Richwine - co-author of Heritage Foundation report on the costs of amnesty for migrants
Richwine was scrutinized for his Harvard University PhD thesis, authored four years prior, where he argued that Latino and Black people had lower I.Q.’s and were intellectually inferior to white people.
He’d also made comments at the American Enterprise Institute in 2008 that were similar to the conclusions he’d made in his doctoral thesis.
Richwine resigned due to the controversy.
Trump’s candidacy - 2015
Originally the Heritage Foundation did not support Trump for president.
The organization only supported Trump after he won the nomination.
Trump’s presidency - 2017
Just like as they had with Reagan and other Republican presidents the Heritage Foundation had great influence over helping the Trump administration fill various positions in his administration.
Some of the several hundred people who received jobs in the Trump administration who were included in a database the Heritage Foundation cultivated were:
Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Jeff Sessions
Post - Trump presidency
Several Trump Administration officials and staff member take positions at the Heritage Foundation.
Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Morgan, Chad Wolf (Cuccinelli and Wolf left in 2021)
Mike Pence also went to work for Heritage
Ukraine War
May 2022 the organization reversed its support for Ukraine
March 2023 - Heritage established a cooperative relationship with Danube Institute in Hungary.
The Big Lie
The president of the Heritage Foundation has publicly said he doesn’t think Biden won the 2020 election.
The organization has promoted false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Project 2025
A collection of proposals to radically change the executive branch of the U.S. government.
The organization is recruiting thousands of staffers for every branch of government.
Some of the policy proposals in Project 2025 include the following:
Boosting fossil fuels while slashing environmental regulations
Dismantling the Inflation Reduction Act
Shutting down the Department of Energy loan programs office
Taking partisan control of the DOJ, FBI and Dept. of Commerce, the FCC, and the FTC.
Dismantling the Dept. of Homeland Security and the Department of Education
The National Institute of Health (NIH) would be shaped by conservative principles.
Cut Medicaid and Medicare
Outlaw abortion
Eliminate coverage of emergency contraception under the ACA
Enforce the Comstock Act - this would criminalize the sending or receiving of abortion medication through the U.S. Mail.
Outlaw pornography
Infuse Christianity into the U.S. government
Remove legal protections against discrimination claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Terminate DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs as well as affirmative action.
Prosecute “anti-white” racism.
Enact draconian anti-immigration laws including mass deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants.
Engage the Insurrection Act of 1807 which would allow the military to participate in domestic policing and assist in the capture of undocumented immigrants.
Increase the use of capital punishment
(This is just a partial list)
Organization led by former Trump Admin. officials who promote Christian Nationalism
Our mission is to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending that flow from its people, institutions, and history, where individuals’ enjoyment of freedom is predicated on just laws and healthy communities. (from website)
I honestly couldn’t tell what this organization did except hire former Trump staffers and cabinet members. It was formed in 2021.
Founded by Russ Vought former Trump Admin. Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Staff members former Trump Admin. - Ken Cuccinelli, Adam Candeub, Rachel Cauley, Jeff Clark, Ashlea Frazier, Paige Hauser, Dan Kowalski, Micah Meadowcroft, Mark Paoletta, Kingsley Wilson
Steve Friend, staff member, FBI Whistleblower who claimed FBI manipulated evidence from Jan. 6th investigation.
