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Project 2025 Analysis by Heather Cox Richardson
Project 2025 is the Republican blueprint for national change – and disruption – if the Trump ticket wins. Historian Heather Cox Richardson, who writes a very popular Substack column, “Letters from an American”, recently commented on Youtubeon the purpose of Project 2025, VP Candidate JD Vance’s ability to focus (as Trump is incapable of) and implement the project, and many troubling aspects of the project.
For example, Richardson states that while Republicans oppose a national abortion ban, Project 2025 supports a national fetal personhood bill, and she says,”The second a sperm meets an egg, that fertilized egg, before implantation by the way, has all the rights of a full-grown human being.” She stresses what could happen: such a law could rule out abortion, IVF, several types of contraception, and it raises questions in some states where it is already happening about the consequences if someone miscarries and whose fault is the miscarriage. Congress would have absolute power to pass such a bill into law under the 14th Amendment and supersede any state’s rights, she says.
Richardson also noted that today’s Republicans want to impose widespread federal-employee firings and other restrictions and rights violations favored in Project 2025 and in the extremist, far-right platform approved by the Republican Party. They believe “not everybody is created equal, and that some people are better than others, and they have the right and maybe even the duty to rule the rest of us.”
Watch the entire YouTube video for some good insights and talking points on the un-American, undemocratic Project 2025.
Note: you can subscribe to Richardson’s Substack column to get her insightful thoughts; it has a free level and paid level.
Hung Cao at the Republican National Convention Trash Talks Senator Tim Kaine
Cao said at last weeks Republican convention:
“I’m running against Hillary’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine. He is a weak man in a dangerous world…..Kaine is a career politician with millions to show for it. I’ve been a warrior with scars to prove it.” (per Youtube video)
The Kaine Campaign notes that Cao:
1. Is a democracy denier who has not only peddled conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, he’s pledged to release and even compensate convicted January 6th insurrectionists.
2. Opposes women’s reproductive rights, supporting legislation that would drastically and cruelly limit abortion access all across the country (and even compares abortion to the Holocaust).
3. Refuses to accept the reality of the climate crisis, saying he doesn’t think climate change is real and even called the entire concept a “boogeyman.
Trump VP Pick, JD Vance, is a Threat to the US
From Axios: Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called [Sen. JD Vance’s] selection as Trump’s VP on the ticket “alarming” and a “direct threat to American values and rights,” citing Vance’s anti-abortion positions.
[Vance] won election to the Senate in 2022, and has distinguished himself as a staunch opponent of funding for Ukraine and a rare GOP advocate for organized labor, as well as one of Trump’s most loyal allies.
The Biden campaign was quick to go after Vance for saying the 2020 election “had a lot of problems” and that, had he been vice president in 2021, he would have told states to send multiple elector slates.
Chihamba African-American Arts Celebration (7/27)
Cville Dems will have a table at the Chihamba African-American Cultural Arts Festival on Saturday July 27 at Washington Park. The Festival (the 33rd Annual, always the last Saturday of July) runs from 10:30am-7:30pm and features music, dancing, and vendors; stop by, say hi, and have some fun!
Coordinated Campaign’s Cville Canvass Launch Event is Sunday July 14! (but don’t forget Saturday July 13)
The Coordinated Campaign would really love to get a big turnout when Sen Tim Kaine comes to join canvassers on Sunday, July 14; Say hi to Tim and go knock some doors with him!
Charlottesville Canvass Launch WITH SENATOR TIM KAINE (Sunday 1pm-4pm)
BUT… you can also do some Saturday canvassing too, to practice up and show him your “A” game (or do Saturday if you can’t make Sunday!):
Charlottesville Saturday Canvass (Saturday 1pm-4pm)
The new office address again is:
Charlottesville Democratic Coordinated Office
1410 Incarnation Dr., Ste. 203
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Either day, check to weather to see if you’ll want to bring water, sun lotion, water, a hat, and maybe some water…