By Andra Watkins
On Tuesday, 45 engaged in some political theater. In an effort to disavow Project 2025, he forced Paul Dans to step down from his role at the Heritage Foundation and announced that its policy work was concluded.
THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
For months, I’ve compiled a periodic series called Project 2025: Happening NOW. In red states. In the judiciary. At the Supreme Court. 45’s desperate repudiation changes nothing about Project 2025’s implementation in red state America. It doesn’t revoke the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Chevron, a Project 2025 policy goal. Nor does it change the Supreme Court’s decision on Presidential immunity, allowing for Project 2025’s objective to make a Republican President into a dictator/king.
My inaugural Project 2025 Happening NOW newsletter from 29 April.
From book bans to sex privacy to forced religious indoctrination, this newsletter has something for everyone:
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May 1
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Here’s one for Idaho:
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May 8
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And here’s one for Tennessee:
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May 9
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I spent a week deconstructing Oklahoma’s pending anti-pornography legislation proposed by state representative Dusty Deevers, a stellar name for a porn star. Since Project 2025 calls for a nationwide porn ban, this bill is an example of what that might look like:
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May 16
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In my two-day series on anti-ESG legislation, I covered all the proposed bills red states have put forth to ban ESG. This is Project 2025 policy in action.
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Jul 11
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We could talk about how the Medical University of South Carolina banned transgender care for children AND ADULTS because of obscure language the legislature inserted into a May 2024 bill.
Or how Iowa banned abortion at around six weeks just two days ago.
Or almost everything Ron DeSantis and his cronies in the state legislature and judiciary do in Florida.
Or the 524 anti-LGBTQ bills the ACLU is tracking around the country.
Or Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Or every state that allows school vouchers to be used to pay for religious schools.
Or book bans being tracked by the American Library Association.
A flailing Presidential candidate can denounce Project 2025. The mainstream media can report that it has been disbanded. But that will not stop red states and the judiciary from continuing to implement its dastardly policies.
