What is Project 2025?

Have you heard of Project 2025? If not, you better learn fast. It’s the GOP’s 900-plus page conservative manifesto aimed at dismantling the federal government and the Democratic Party has no answer for it. Here to talk about 2025 is Anne Nelson, who read the entire document and is traveling the country to educate communities about the dangers that lie ahead if Trump wins in November. 

Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr

Guests: Anne Nelson

Producer: Mike Hull

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About the guest

Anne Nelson is a prize-winning journalist and author who has published extensive work on human rights and resistance to dictatorship. Her most recent book is Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. She is a graduate of Yale University and a research scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.  

Suggested reading

Here is a Project 2025 breakdown in case you don’t have time to read the whole document (Washington Spectator)

Watch the Bad Faith documentary that delves into Project 2025 (interview with documentary filmmakers in Mother Jones)

Project 2025 Is An Attack On Black People (The Seattle Medium) 

How a Second Trump Term Will Redefine Foreign Aid (Foreign Policy)