However you feel about Biden, read here Why Trump CANNOT Win the Presidency—READ "Project 2025," a "Blueprint for a soft coup": Inside the far-right plan that could grant unchecked power to Trump [Video & Transcript]

Friends,

WE CANNOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LET TRUMP WIN. We must get the word out on this extremist "planned coup" laid out in Project 2025 in anticipation of a Trump presidency. 

It's being spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation and their large network of neoliberal and authoritarian populist supporters. It is over 900 pages long. Just keyword-search the words "abolish" and "eliminate" to get a sense of just how scorched earth their agenda is.

Do watch the whole video with Velshi on MSNBC (posted below). 

For ease, here is a partial transcript of Velshi's opening comments so that you can get a quick sense of the aims of this far-right leadership and their dystopian vision for the future of our country that we must vigorously oppose.

-Angela Valenzuela

TRANSCRIPT

Project 2025 ‘Blueprint for a soft coup’: Inside the far-right plan that could grant unchecked power to Trump

Velshi: If you have you been keeping up with our show, you're likely familiar with the radical plan of the far right to overhaul our government within the first 180 days of a new Republican administration, the plan known formally as Project 2025. It's spearheaded by the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation. 

The plan is more than 900 pages long and it's filled with far-right policy ideas for dozens of federal agencies. Project 2025's advisory board consists of nearly 100 groups representing various far-right interests, including Trump loyalists, anti-abortion activists, Christian nationalists, opponents of LGBTQ+ rights, and anti-environmentalists. 

The threat that Project 2025 poses to our democracy cannot be overstated.

At the top of the list or plans to consolidate presidential authority, fill the ranks of the Executive Branch with loyalists, dismantle civil rights, and weaken federal agencies that are responsible for a wide array of social services spanning from poverty and education to healthcare and environmental protection. 

It also advances a Christian nationalist agenda, aiming to replace secular education with a Christian curriculum by redirecting funding from the Department of Education which it refers to as a "woke education cartel"—those are their words—and redirecting the money to charter and private schools.

Probably the most troubling aspect of Project 2025 is its plan to grant Donald Trump unchecked power over the Executive Branch, potentially allowing him to weaponized it against his critics, including, including those in the media who he constantly says he's going to target anyway.

Project 2025 is ultimately a blueprint for a soft coup, one that replaces our age-old system of checks and balances with cronyism. What Trump couldn't achieve in his first term, Project 2025 seeks to facilitate by removing obstacles to his authority. This includes an active plan for purging the Executive Branch of any dissent by replacing longtime civil servants with those who pledge fealty to Trump.

The group's database of potential political appointees includes more than 4,000 vetted candidates who are, according to the document, ready and willing to begin "dismantling the administrative state from day one."

In an interview with the New York Times, Trump advisor Russell Vought put it plainly. "What we're trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them."

Doesn't stop there by the way, Project 2025 calls for invoking the insurrection act which would allow presidents to deploy the country's military forces against American citizens who protest their actions, something that is illegal at the moment. 

Additionally, it claims to reverse recent LGBTQ+ civil rights protections, including same-sex marriage. It criminalizes transgender identity, equating it with "pornography." It would designate librarians who promote banned books as "sex offenders." 

It would define life as the beginning—life as beginning at the very moment of conception for the purposes of legal protection. 

These are just some of the things that the religious right plans to implement under Project 2025. And if this alarms you, it should. 

The greatest danger lies in underestimating and dismissing the gravity of this plan, especially because it's already underway. 

Just in March, tucked within a larger spending bill, Congress quietly approved a Project 2025 proposal to ban the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag from flying over U.S. embassies across the globe. 

As abortion, rights advocate, Jillian Kane aptly warns, "There's a line in Tolstoy's War and Peace that's useful for the moment we're in, "Nothing was prepared for the war that everyone expected."