If you thought Project 2025 was bad, wait. It continues until 2026.
The Heritage Foundation, the far-right think tank that founded Project 2025, priority For 2026, we don’t call it Project 2026, but that’s basically it.
Officially titled “Restoring America’s Promise,” it is a list of the foundation’s priorities for 2025-2026. Although the book was published in February, it has recently received new attention after a social media post dubbed it “Project 2026.”
“Project 2025 is an initiative of more than 100 organizations convened by Heritage to prepare for the next Conservative government,” a Heritage spokesperson said. Newsweek. “That administration is now in place, so all policy and personnel decisions are left to the president and his team.…No matter what leftist lunatics make up in Blue Sky, there is no Project 2026, and there never will be.”
“Restoring America’s Promise” is fairly short, especially compared to Project 2025, which clocked in at 900 pages. The book has nine sections, including “Countering the Chinese Communist Party,” “Freeing America’s Energy,” “Eliminate Regulation, Inflation, and Spending,” and “Eradicating the Deep State,” a far-right term for career federal employees who are said to be undermining conservative programs.
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The sections most relevant to LGBTQ+ people are “Putting Family First” and “Expanding Educational Freedom.” “Every child conceived has the right to be born to a married mother and father who will love, guide and protect them throughout their lives,” the former says. “But the breakdown of families and the abortion epidemic tear apart our nation’s soul and strip it of its strength and moral authority. Radical ideologies that deny social and biological truths about sexual embodiment, marriage, and the unborn child poison our nation’s courts, culture, and laws.”
The section on education begins: “From the scourge of woke ideas like critical race theory and radical gender ideology to a lack of academic excellence and transparency, our education system is failing our children.” It also calls for promoting school choice (usually subsidizing parents who want to send their children to private schools) and “taking back higher education from the radical left.”
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts also touted what he called “Heritage 2.0” at Turning Point USA’s America Fest last Friday. He said his policy priorities will consist of “American families,” “the dignity of work and the future of free enterprise,” “national security,” and “American heritage and civil rights,” according to the conservative media outlet Daily Signal. He also praised the “tremendous successes of the Trump-Vance administration.” Although Donald Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025 during his presidential campaign, his administration has implemented many of Project 2025’s ideas.
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But the Heritage Foundation may be on the verge of collapse.
Conservative publications report that Roberts used the term “Heritage 2.0” in a recent email to staff after several key Heritage employees and board members recently left the company. national review I will report it. national review The headline of the article was “The Collapse of the Heritage Foundation.”
At least a dozen employees resigned or were fired Reuters I will report it. According to , this included almost the entire legal and economic departments. National Review.
What stuck with some was Roberts’ support for podcaster and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his show in October and expressed their “mutual opposition to U.S. support for Israel, which is at odds with the views of many conservatives,” Reuters notes. Carlson said his position is not anti-Semitic. But Fuentes said “organized Jews” were undermining white culture and said he respected Adolf Hitler.
Roberts later posted a video in which he claimed a “toxic coalition” was attacking Carlson. He later apologized for using the term, which some Jews consider anti-Semitic. He told Heritage staff he did not support Fuentes but wanted to “convert” some of his followers, Reuters reported.
Robert P. George, a prominent legal scholar, resigned from the board after demanding the retraction of Mr. Roberts’ video, which had not yet been released. politiko I will report it. Josh Blackman, a staff member who contributed to Project 2025, said: resignation letter He said he left because the video “aligned the Heritage Foundation with the rise of right-wing anti-Semitism.”
“The Heritage Foundation, once synonymous with free markets, the rule of law, and a strong national defense, has largely abandoned or downgraded those things in pursuit of newer populist ideological trends in an apparent forced attempt to stay in the good graces of new right-wing power brokers.” National Review.
Many of those who left went on to the next place. Promoting American Freedomfounded by former Vice President Mike Pence. national review calls Advancing American Freedom “an organization resolutely committed to markets, constitutionalism, traditional values, and peace through strength, and without a track record of anti-Semitism.” But a quick look at its website reveals that it is just as anti-LGBTQ+ as other right-wing groups and opposes things like “gender indoctrination.”
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