“You do have to steel yourself. You do have to prepare yourself for the next turn of the news cycle, the next development. Every day you see another attack on the rule of law. You see another attack on the constitutional order, and it does require you to toughen up and, for lack of a better phrase, to prepare yourself for what’s coming. And what I hear you say — that is very, very powerful and so very true — you also have to find a community. It’s hard to do this isolated and on your own.”
To Save Democracy, Here’s A Playbook That Works
The Heritage Foundation is the conservative Washington-based think tank that’s best known for spearheading Project 2025, This is the blueprint for President Trump’s second term that called for reshaping the federal government and an extreme expansion of presidential power. The Republican Party supports President Trump in every way possible, including reaching the follow Project 2025 objectives:
1. It proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control – a controversial idea known as “unitary executive theory”.
2. The proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees.
3. The document labels the FBI a “bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization”. It calls for drastic overhauls of the agency and several others, as well as the complete elimination of the Department of Education.
4. Abortion and Family – it proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, and using existing but little-enforced laws to stop the drug being sent through the post.
5. Immigration – Project 2025 authors suggest dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and combining it with other immigration enforcement units in other agencies, creating a much larger and more powerful border policing operation. On this issue, his administration promises to go in a slightly different direction – and potentially much further – than the Project 2025 proposals
Read on to realize that most policy decisions being made come straight from this conservative think tank including Energy, climate and trade and Education, tech and DEI. In addition, even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
The Trump Republican decisions are also influenced by The Federalist Society. It focuses on the legal field, promoting conservative and libertarian interpretations of law and influencing judicial appointments.The Federalist Society played a major role in selecting and steering 234 Trump-nominated judges, including three Supreme Court justices: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. These appointments significantly shifted the federal judiciary to the right.
Despite the successful partnership in stacking the courts with conservative judges, tensions have emerged more recently. Trump has publicly criticized the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, expressing disappointment that some of his appointed judges did not rule in his favor regarding the 2020 election. This has led to speculation that Trump may now view Federalist Society ties as detrimental to potential nominees. In fact some say the next Conservative Civil War is upon us.
Follow the Project 2025 Tracker to see how the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals are on track.
Action Planning
As in the past, actions can take several forms: demonstrations, rallies, donations, petitions, town halls, letters, emails, phone banking, text banking, social media posts, community building, local, state, and federal actions. Join an organization below that has the infrastructure and expertise to fight for our democracy.
Organizations
50501 Movement (50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement)
American Civil Liberties Union – each state has a local division
American Federation of Teachers
Declaration for American Democracy
Indivisible Has local chapters
League of Women Voters Has local chapters
Service Employees International Union
Many, many choices
Join one of the over 200 organizations who supported and organized the No Kings Demonstrations across the United State on June 14, 2025.
Contact your Federal, State and Local Representatives who are in the process of creating legislation in response to each assault.
Join a neighborhood group. Our neighborhood started a FaceBook page for a well loved, law abiding resident who was arrested by ICE when he went to renew his work papers. The neighborhood set up a Go Fund Me for the family, and showed up at each local and county meeting that dealt with supporting ICE . They also involved our Senators (both Democrats). The man was consequently kept in a jail in this state and not deported as of yet. Be present. Be vocal. Be brave.
Next Post: An executive branch assault, legal challenges to date, and organizations that can use your support in the fight
Assaults to Date
Academic Institutions, Climate , DEI, DOGE cuts, Food Banks, Immigration & ICE, Journalism, Justices, OBBA (one big beautiful bill), Medicare, Medicaid, Public Media, Science, Social Security, Tarriffs, Transgender, Voting, War
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