https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to project 2025 en https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/15/beyond-ballot-rise-competitive-authoritarianism-steven-gardiner In this season finale episode, Koki talks to Steven Gardiner, PRA Principal Research Advisor, to reflect on the first year of Trump’s second term and its implications for U.S. democracy. While the MAGA base remains about 15% of the U.S… Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner 91f76dc8-9dd9-4e42-afb2-fa9022b14f3d https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/18/fight-against-right-wing-appalachian-school-choice-politics-fight-democracy-and-future This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents… Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:53:46 EDT Mary Reynolds, Carol Mason fd441d96-b26c-4e9b-a955-2f3fec583090 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/10/idaho-legislature-memo-opposing-marriage-equality-signals-new-collaboration-undermine On Tuesday, January 7, 2025—just its second day of the session—the Idaho legislature sent a joint House and Senate petition to the United States Supreme Court outlining their collective rejection of its Obergefell v. Hodges decision , which required all… Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:08:17 EST Annie Wilkinson, Steven Gardiner b788eb1d-72c3-4291-a3e9-fdaad4d24825 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/12/trump-administrations-approach-immigration-inspired-bible-book-revelation Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as his ‘ border czar ,’ a first step toward implementing a scorched-earth immigration policy that includes large-scale detention of migrants and mass deportation (perhaps even for American citizens ). While his policies have been… Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:01:27 EST Yii-Jan Lin 167d120f-d33f-4c90-b708-87febc950dd8 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/14/authoritarian-blueprints-revealing-and-resisting-project-2025 In the lead-up to the 2024 general election, PRA hosted a multi-part political education and strategy series for our movement partners on Project 2025’s impacts on gender/reproductive justice and immigration; foreign policy and the administrative state; and racial justice, labor… Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 431715b5-6a6a-4f51-85e5-798096fc79e6 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/22/heritage-foundations-christian-nationalist-project-esther-wont-combat-antisemitism-it On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade”… Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:19:40 EDT Ben Lorber 037428b4-99dc-4570-bdae-c52e060b160f https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/07/love-letter-and-challenge-evangelical-women-our-daughters-documents-devastating-cost Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has always been the case. A two-party system often means choosing the lesser of two evils—deciding which of one’s deeply-held beliefs are nonnegotiables and which can… Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:43:09 EDT Caroline Matas 863fdcb4-93de-44c7-810d-2615fe81b005 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/09/04/we-would-be-wise-pay-attention-trumps-apocalyptic-qanon-posting-spree As many have noted over the past few weeks—at least since his “mega-tantrum” during an Atlanta rally, as The Bulwark ’s A.B. Stoddard put it —Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been behaving erratically. Indeed, although his campaign is reportedly… Wed, 04 Sep 2024 02:44:30 EDT Thomas Lecaque cf8dd415-794a-4722-9d5a-acaf1705997a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/19/want-know-what-public-education-would-look-under-project-2025-just-take-look-oklahoma UPDATE (12:03 pm ET on 8/20/24): This piece has been updated to include information on a recently released undercover video. - eds ” Project 2025 is not some far off possibility for Oklahomans, it has been our reality for some… Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:00:33 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 40448ec0-f1bf-49c0-9761-a717e9486a4e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/29/rising-influence-new-apostolic-reformation-teachings-ominous-sign-us-especially-lgbtq Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting its stride. After his June declaration that “every teacher, every classroom… will be teaching from the Bible,” Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who… Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:48:35 EDT Jonathon Sawyer 5e940aa4-aa08-44ac-b58e-d8e19bf46bb7 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/11/pro-life-theater-open-white-nationalism-and-virility-fear-day-3-natcon The closing day of NatCon 2024 (day 3) opened with a benediction by Reverend Uriesou Brito: a Christian nationalist, staunch defender of Doug Wilson, and Senior Pastor of Providence Church in Pensacola, Florida. Humanity versus unhuman and the Hot Gulag… Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:41:35 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 34ce8754-e58f-4af5-a909-a1a6bcab5764 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/10/white-nationalist-mottos-fate-jews-new-christian-state-and-appeal-heaven-humor-day-2 No friends on the “other side of the aisle”—only enemies In a morning panel of the second day of NatCon 2024, a group of Republican senators hammered home a confrontational message. Sen. Jim DeMint : “There is no reasonable consensus… Wed, 10 Jul 2024 06:29:12 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber f0e00bda-e8a2-4670-935a-2c1be898b490 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/09/persecution-betrayal-and-zero-sum-fight-global-domination-day-1-natcon-2024 The opening day of 2024’s National Conservatism conference was shot through with familiar themes of far-right triumphalism, civilizational war, xenophobia and existential threat. The majority of conference attendees were White, though far from exclusively; majority male, though not entirely; and… Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:35:33 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 74d5a7bb-5eae-478b-9edf-e07d19d4d9d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/08/supreme-court-cleared-way-president-king-rights-prize-50-years-planning During a 1977 series of interviews (for which he was paid handsomely), Richard Nixon, responding to journalist David Frost’s question about Watergate, uttered these fateful words: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” At the… Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:25:17 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 12dc7029-5cca-4873-80cf-62507d38d3c8 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/22/unified-reich-scandal-feature-not-bug-trumps-brand-american-fascism Donald Trump has shown the public many times who he is and in whose political tradition he’s planted himself. With the debate about the accuracy of using the “f-word” (i.e. fascism) in regard to Trumpism ever raging, the former president… Wed, 22 May 2024 04:28:42 EDT Annika Brockschmidt afce541d-cf29-42de-b09e-188d5bd2650e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/03/stop-coup-2025-founder-dangers-heritage-foundations-authoritarian-playbook The Project 2025 plan published by the Heritage Foundation is, in the words of Peter Montgomery , “an unprecedented collaboration among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political infrastructure would enable Trump to make good on his threats”… Fri, 03 May 2024 05:28:40 EDT Daniel Schultz c39343d3-8491-462e-9bde-61d8b1786d04 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/15/project-2025-how-trump-loyalists-and-right-wing-leaders-are-paving-fast-road-fascism Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the… Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:16 EDT Peter Montgomery 9dcb6eb8-09f3-4fc3-89d4-60f5c7caed5a https://politicalresearch.org/2024/02/14/project-2025 Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation coalition launched in 2022, aims to “take the reins of government” during a Republican presidency, and further its authoritarian agenda. Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:45:27 EST Peter Montgomery d3334f54-0e0f-4521-93cb-583242689518 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/24/2023-review-year-one-without-roe-gop-code-red-scotus-gone-wild-and-ray-hope As the New Year approaches and gift guides (and pleas for support) litter our inboxes, let’s take some time to reflect upon 2023. As I’ve previously stated , this is rarely a joyous occasion in my line of work, but… Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:02:43 EST Annika Brockschmidt b379a8b7-7e53-4222-afea-e932631f30ad