Unpacking the Pro-Trump Plan to Overhaul US Government “…The Forces Behind Project 2025 – Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts launched Project 2025 in April 2022, a few months before Trump officially announced his reelection campaign. Since then, the number of groups backing the initiative has grown. As of now, Project 2025’s advisory board and so-called “coalition partners” include: the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), a nonprofit that aims to connect conservative applicants to congressional jobs and is led by Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows; Turning Point USA, a far-right student advocacy group that is led by Charlie Kirk; America First Legal, a legal advocacy group that supports conservative-backed lawsuits and is led by Trump stalwart Stephen Miller. (According to a June 2024 Politico report, Miller was part of private meetings with Trump to help him prepare for upcoming televised debates against Biden.)  Furthermore, in May 2024, Reuters interviewed what the news outlet described as unnamed Trump allies working on a plan to restructure the Department of Justice (DOJ) and fill currently nonpartisan jobs there with people who identify as conservatives. While the allies group wasn’t named, Reuters reported it was tied to Project 2025. Lastly, many authors of the roughly 1,000-page document outlining Project 2025’s policy proposals have connections to Trump. They include Ben Carson, William Perry Pendley, Jonathan Berry, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Rick Dearborn, Adam Candeub, Ken Cuccinelli, Mandy Gunasekara, Dennis Dean Kirk, Gene Hamilton, Christopher Miller, Bernard L. McNamee, Mora Namdar, Peter Navarro, Roger Severino, Paul Dans, Kevin Roberts, among others.”

• See also The New Yorker, Inside the Trump Plan for 2025 [unpaywalled]. A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President’s return to the White House.
• See also Thomas Zimmer, Democracy Americana: “This essay is the fourth entry in an ongoing series on Project 2025 and the planning operations for a future rightwing regime. Part I focused on the ideas, ideologies, and grievances fueling the project – the radicalizing siege mentality on the Right. Part II offered a detailed dissection of the concrete policy agenda and strategies to impose a reactionary vision on the country. Part III situated “Project 2025 in the broader context of the Right’s history since the 1930s and explored why a second Trump presidency would be operating under completely different conditions from the first – conditions that make it much more likely for these radical plans to succeed.”
• See also People (yes that People) – What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word ‘Gender’ to Public Education. Trump’s allies started Project 2025 as a blueprint for marrying church and state at the highest levels of government if he’s elected.