Project 2025 Is Officially Here — How to Fight Back
A recap of Project 2025 and how to counter its fascist policies
This article’s headline is not clickbait, it is the sad reality, and we need to be ready. I read the 900+ page Project 2025 fascist manifesto so you don’t have to. And over the coming weeks I will provide resources to navigate that fascist plan, with action items on how to fight back. Indeed, MAGA Republicans have made no secret of their intent to enforce Project 2025, and we must remain informed. Let’s Address This.
I have already published these detailed pieces on Project 2025. In fact, most of these were published before Biden stepped down. Below, I share the link to the full article, as well as an excerpt I wrote from each of those articles to summarize its main points.
With Project 2025, we are beyond mere arrival of fascism in America—we are on the cusp of full blown fascism. Project 2025 seeks to fully transform the United States into a banana republic and theocracy—both concepts repugnant to a U.S. Constitution committed to secular governance and equal access under the law. And given the success these right wing extremists have had in taking over the United States Supreme Court and hundreds of members of the United States Congress, it would be unwise to dismiss them as unserious in their attempts to win back the White House.
Project 2025 disregards life, common sense, and science, and views essentially all abortion and reproductive access as evil. Based on what it defines as “biblical values,” Project 2025 ultimately seeks to ban abortion altogether through defunding access, criminalizing access, and denying young people basic education and knowledge of how their own bodies work. It is dead set on transforming our secular government into a theocratic Christian nationalist fascist state. One in which women do not have the fundamental human right of personal autonomy, nor do physicians have the common sense ability to practice medical science according to actual science, not evangelical theocracy.
Project 2025 views DEI as the source of all ills in America. It is dead set on returning our government and business hiring practices to the Jim Crow era, a time when Black people, Asians, Latinos, and women had no meaningful opportunity for an equal shot at admission, a job, a loan, or a promotion. A Project 2025 administration will absolutely further normalize discrimination against people of color and women, not to mention LGBTQ+ Americans. And Project 2025 absolutely will fine, punish, and arguably imprison for alleged racial discrimination anyone who even mentions the concepts of DEI. It is imperative, therefore, that we do not allow this fascist manifesto to become American policy.
Project 2025 fears a public education system that calls for meaningful racial justice and accountability, one that holds a mirror up to the injustices of white supremacy, and one that demands equal access to education for children of all races and socio-economic classes. It not only bans teaching about DEI, it demands prosecution of universities and employers who enact DEI practices. Throughout the manifesto, Project 2025 calls for a ban on any instruction that teaches about race or racism in the United States. In short, an education system under a Project 2025 administration would mean a gutting of public education, a transfer o wealth to predominantly white, predominately wealthy families for private school vouchers, an advancement of Christian nationalist theocratic education, a ban on teachings of racial justice, a green light for even violent anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and an exacerbation of existing racial segregation and underfunding of majority Black and Latino institutions.
What Should We Be Doing Right Now?
With the election behind us, we must activate, organize, and invest if we hope to enact meaningful change for justice in the next election. Let’s break down what that looks like with specific action items.
Activate: Get involved in your local politics. Whether it is your local Democratic committee, your local school board, or your local city council, get involved. Show up to the next meeting, meet your local elected officials, and understand the local issues impacting your community. Google is your friend in finding a local calendar of events. Use it. All politics is local, and it is critical you get involved locally.
Organize: Next, bring friends with you. You are the best ambassador for justice in your friend group—lead by example. Grab even one friend and drag them with you to the next school board meeting, city council session, or town hall in your local community. We need to build organizational capacity, and means each one reaches one to get involved. (And when your friend comes to the second meeting, it is their opportunity to reach one more and bring them with).
Invest: Finally, invest your time and your money into the people and organizations doing the front line work. If you have time to volunteer, make phone calls, knock doors, and sign petitions (e.g. like this one to expand healthcare access), do so. If you have the financial resources to donate to candidates committed to justice, donate to organizations working to protect our democracy, or to support writers and human rights lawyers working to stop fascism in America (e.g. like yours truly), do so. We may not have the billions of dollars in dark money from corporate autocrats, but we have strength in numbers and every individual donation has a lasting impact.
These are three small but effective steps to begin to right our ship. By meaningfully activating, organizing, and investing, we give ourselves the real opportunity of enacting transformational change in our politics. It will not happen over night, but what seems impossible today will appear inevitable tomorrow. Stay tuned for more updates on Project 2025 and calls to action to fight back.
As for me, I will be doing everything in my power over the next four years to stave off fascism in the United States, and I cannot do it alone. I invite you to support my work and advocacy by subscribing below. Thank you for your trust and partnership.
Thank you, sir. I read P25 as well for my readers and made comparisons to autocratic regimes, past and present. Victor Klemperer, a Jewish scholar, wrote a series of diaries in 1930s and 40s Germany. “I Will Bear Witness.” Leading up to the election, I warned. As of January 21, 2025, I too will bear witness.
Thank you as always for your clear vision and words! Your readers appreciate you!