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.
Cao said at last weeks Republican convention:
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.
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!
We’ll be on the lawn outside of Brazos Tacos from 5-7pm on Thursday July 11, for canvassing, phone banks, text banks, and postcard writing. Hopefully, we will be meeting every Thursday thereafter through October 31.
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!