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Project 2025 Is Here.
With Trump’s return to the presidency, Project 2025, a 920-page blueprint for authoritarianism in the U.S., spearheaded by the powerful and extreme far-right Heritage Foundation, is becoming a reality, affecting all Americans and people around the globe.
More than 100 far-right organizations support this plan for autocracy, which is proving to be the source for Trump’s anti-democratic policies, despite his repeated disavowal of Project 2025 during his campaign. Dozens of members of the new administration have direct ties to the effort.
Project 2025’s stated goal is to create an “ideal” America that would see women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, people of color, and others deprived of their hard-won constitutional rights and the erosion of environmental and education protections. It also advocates for a frightening centralization of power in the executive branch, something Trump is keen to achieve. Read GPAHE’s full analysis of Project 2025 and the groups behind it.
GPAHE monitors how Project 2025 is becoming a reality and reports on the ties between the project and the administration, and its impact on the American people and democracy. We track Project 2025 activities at the federal, state, and local levels, and their plans for an authoritarian and Christian Nationalist America.
This week, we look at examples of Project 2025 policies in action from states across the country as the Trump regime continues its assault on democracy.
New Hampshire: The Hunger Gap Hits Home
In Manchester, New Hampshire, a food pantry volunteer’s peaceful Sunday afternoon came to an abrupt halt with an emergency call — three families had run entirely out of food and had nowhere else to turn. “I can’t afford to buy food this week,” a desperate mother explained.
This scene, unfolding with increasing frequency across the Granite State, illuminates the tangible consequences of recent federal nutrition assistance reductions. These Project 2025 policies called for reducing food assistance to nonprofits, and represent a practical test case for broader questions about the government’s role in addressing fundamental human needs.
The funding losses have been sudden and substantial. In March 2025, the US Department of Agriculture cut approximately $1 million from the New Hampshire Feeding New Hampshire program, eliminating roughly $300,000 per year over the next three years designated explicitly for purchasing healthy local food. According to New Hampshire Food Bank’s Executive Director Elsy Cipriani, the negative effects were “immediate.” Further exacerbating the situation, an additional $1 million in food orders placed by social service agencies for the May-July period were canceled by the USDA, affecting critical programs like The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
“The first people to be affected are the people that we serve,” Cipriani said, with families caught between “the choice of paying rent, buying food, buying clothing for the children, and very often, one of the things that they do is they don’t buy as much food as they need because there are other priorities.”
Oklahoma: Misinformation in the Classroom
In the heartland of America, a quiet but profound transformation of education is unfolding — one that bears Project 2025’s Christian nationalist imprint.
Oklahoma’s controversial new social studies standards, which include directives for students to study purported “discrepancies” in the 2020 presidential election, weren’t crafted in isolation. The standards were revised under the direction of state School Superintendent Ryan Walters, who assembled an executive committee featuring Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and a central architect of its Project 2025 initiative.
“The left has been pushing left-wing indoctrination in the classroom,” Walters declared, articulating the rationale behind his revisions. “We’re moving it back to actually understanding history… and I’m unapologetic about that.”
Project 2025 dedicates significant attention to education reform, considering it a critical battleground for reclaiming what its authors describe as traditional American values and combating progressive influences in public education. Apart from election narratives, religious content was added, including “a lot of biblical content that was sort of shoehorned in throughout the existing standards,” Brendan Gillis of the American Historical Association noted.
Oklahoma educator Aaron Baker expressed concern about the state’s education policy shifts, especially in conservative rural districts. “If someone is welcoming the influence of these far-right organizations in our standards and is interested in inserting more of Christianity into our practices as teachers, then they’ve become emboldened,” Baker said. “For me, that is the major concern.”
The resistance to these changes attempted to cross party lines, with Oklahoma Republican lawmakers introducing a resolution to reject the standards, but after pressure from Project 2025 supporter Moms for Liberty, the resolution failed.
“In the last few election cycles, grassroots conservative organizations have flipped seats across Oklahoma by holding weak Republicans accountable,” Moms for Liberty wrote in a letter. “If you choose to side with the liberal media and make backroom deals with Democrats to block conservative reform, you will be next.”
Texas: LGBTQ+ Workplace Harassment Permitted
In a Texas federal courthouse, America’s civil rights framework is being methodically deconstructed, brick by legal brick. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent ruling — permitting workplace harassment of LGBTQ+ individuals so long as termination isn’t the end result — represents a calculated deployment of Project 2025 policy.
The case was brought by the State of Texas and the Heritage Foundation, the architect of Project 2025, and the ruling’s implications may stretch far beyond the district boundaries of Northern Texas, where the case was decided. Invalidating Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance, a federal document meant to advise employers, may well persuade other states to do the same as the Trump regime works to take control of the EEOC through firings and new political appointments.
The May 15, 2025, ruling strikes directly at federal administrative protections by invalidating “all portions of the EEOC guidance that defines ‘sex’ to include ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity,'” along with entire sections addressing those subjects.
“This ruling is more than a legal victory. It’s a cultural one. It says no — you don’t have to surrender common sense at the altar of leftist ideology. You don’t have to pretend men are women. And you don’t have to lie to keep your job,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a statement. “Heritage is doing exactly what the conservative movement needs to do: stop apologizing, start suing, and take back institutions.”
Alaska: Community Lifelines Severed in Remote Villages
In Alaska’s remote villages, community libraries are cultural fortresses against isolation that are now imperiled by the Trump regime’s March executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a move straight from Project 2025’s playbook for eliminating “unnecessary” federal agencies.
“Our grant no longer serves the interest of the United States,” recounts Jamie Katzeek of Klukwan Library, where hours plummeted from 35 to just four weekly — an 89 percent reduction rendering the once welcoming space a ghost of its former self. The $150,000 enhancement grant that funded traditional Chilkat weaving workshops vanished alongside a vital $10,000 operations allocation.
The consequences cascade beyond Klukwan. Pedro Bay’s library staff face unemployment and Bethel’s Kuskokwim Consortium Library contemplates closure. For communities with limited connectivity, these institutions provide critical digital infrastructure. “People don’t have internet at home,” explains Teressa Williams of Utqiaġvik’s Tuzzy Consortium Library. “They rely on us for everything.”
Montana: Federal Cuts Reshape Town’s Future
In Hamilton, Montana, the implementation of government reduction strategies aligned with Project 2025’s vision is now an economic reality. This town of 5,000, long sustained by federal employment, confronts the impact of Washington’s downsizing ambitions and the tension between policy decisions and the community’s reality.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Bitterroot National Forest headquarters anchor Hamilton’s economy, where alternative employment pays modestly despite housing costs approaching $600,000. Current tallies show at least 25 lab employees gone, with 14 more expected by June, while the Forest Service has shed between 30 and 40 positions from its 208-person workforce.
The ripple effects are already evident. City Center Motel owner Mary Casper reports $15,000 in lab-related bookings — 10 percent of annual revenue — vanished following a post-inauguration travel freeze. “This is the small-business, Main Street American economic impact,” she observed.
Hamilton reflects America’s polarized discourse on government scope. At a public session, 200 residents delivered a message contrary to the region’s conservative voting patterns: Protect federal jobs.
Even County Commissioner Jeff Burrows, acknowledging fiscal imperatives, questions the practical outcome: “If you’re going to reduce the number of people, you are going to see a service reduction, and what are people going to tolerate?”
Tennessee: Nashville’s Big Ass Immigration Blues
Over Mother’s Day weekend, immigration enforcement actions in Nashville, in which an estimated 200 people were detained, disrupted operations at restaurants owned by vocal Trump supporters, including the establishment bearing musician Kid Rock’s name.
Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse was among several Nashville eateries that found themselves short-staffed during a busy Saturday night when managers instructed undocumented kitchen staff to leave the premises to avoid rumored ICE raids. “Around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home,” one anonymous employee told the Nashville Scene. “Events at the Ryman, Ascend, the Savannah Bananas’ baseball game all let out, and it was crazy busy. But there was no one in the kitchen to cook the food.”
Several establishments owned by Steve Smith, a conservative restaurateur, Trump golfing buddy and donor, were forced to curtail operations when their kitchen staff fled or were sent home.
Best known for his late ‘90s hit song “Bawitdaba,” Kid Rock, a longtime Trump ally who recently visited the president in the Oval Office, quickly distanced himself from the restaurant operations. “Clearly I do not have anything to do with day to day operations at my Honky Tonk,” Kid Rock wrote in a social media post. “That being said I 100% support getting illegal criminals out of our country no matter where they are.”
