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Project 2025 Is Here: April 15th
This week, we look at the architect of Project 2025 toasting the man who coined the term “alternative right” and pledging Heritage’s institutional muscle behind a magazine whose pages have defended David Duke and published the work of white supremacists. We also look at the White House purging immigration judges who won’t rubber-stamp deportations, and Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator keynoting a conference thrown by a radical climate-denial group and Project 2025 contributor, the Heartland Institute.
Our blog series provides essential updates on how Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint is being enacted. Now you can view all of our Project 2025 blog posts in one convenient place on our website, including our Project 2025 page in Spanish to ensure broader access for Spanish-speaking audiences following these developments. We encourage you to explore this series to stay informed, engaged, and up to date on how this agenda continues to unfold.
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New from GPAHE: Climb Every Mountain: How Christian Nationalism Seeks to Conquer American Democracy
A billionaire-backed Christian nationalist movement is rapidly infiltrating multiple facets of American life. Known as the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” Chrisian nationalists and their allies behind Project 2025 are embedding religious control across government, education, media, and four other areas of American society. Meanwhile officials like Russell Vought, Mike Johnson, and Pete Hegseth advance policies in line with the mandate targeting reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and church-state separation, marking a sweeping, coordinated push to remake the United States into a theocratic system.
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New from GPAHE: Orbán’s Election Failure Results in Outcry and Silence From the Far Right
Viktor Orbán’s electoral loss represents a turning point with far reaching global implications. HIs loss is a shock for the transnational far-right networks that had long positioned Hungary as a model to emulate. The outcome signals a potential democratic reopening after years of institutional erosion, suggesting that authoritarian drift can be reversed through collective political action.
In a statement by GPAHE, Wendy Via, emphasized the significance of the moment: “Hungary’s voters have demonstrated that even deeply entrenched illiberal systems can be challenged, and that democratic institutions, however weakened, can still be reclaimed. Globally, especially in the U.S., Orbán’s loss carries symbolic weight: a reminder that democratic erosion is not inevitable, and that accountability, even after prolonged decline, remains possible. The Trump administration and all those behind Project 2025, who are close allies of Orbán’s, should take note that preliminary authoritarian wins do not dictate the outcome of a nation. It is the people and our Constitution that define our democracy, and the American people will not ultimately accept a system devised by anti-democratic actors who want to forcefully create a nation where only certain people have basic human and civil rights.”
At the same time, reactions from Orbán-aligned networks ranging from frustration to conspiracy narratives to notable silence among prominent figures, show how much these movements relied on his continued rule. Some framed the loss as illegitimate or temporary, while others declined to publicly acknowledge it altogether. The moment exposes a destabilized international far-right infrastructure now scrambling to recalibrate its messaging and alliances after losing one of its central anchors.
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New from GPAHE: American Ultras: How Fight Culture is Uniting Far-Right Extremists
“Forest Fights” in rural Virginia illustrate how far-right extremists are drawing together a cross-section of white supremacist networks, signaling a shift in how these movements recruit, train, and coordinate. Groups such as the Wolves of Vinland, Active Clubs, and the Hammerskin Nation are using staged combat events, filmed and circulated online, not only to build cohesion across generational and organizational lines, but to normalize a militant culture rooted in violence. Modeled in part on European hooligan traditions and amplified by neo-Nazi Active Clubs, these events merge propaganda, physical training, and transnational networking into a shared ecosystem that increasingly frames political conflict in violent terms.
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Fast Company – Trump posted an AI image of himself as Jesus. This time even his supporters are pushing back
The backlash to Donald Trump posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, particularly among his Christian nationalist supporters, highlights a rare MAGA breaking point. But as Wendy Via, co-founder of GPAHE, has warned, much of the administration’s rhetoric draws on older extremist ideas, including “a decades-old European concept centered on the expulsion of nonwhite people and immigrants deemed ‘unassimilated.’” That same framework has surfaced explicitly in official messaging, including the promotion of “remigration,” a term associated with far-right efforts to forcibly remove immigrant populations. The backlash now underscores how long such themes have circulated with little resistance, until they crossed into perceived sacrilege, raising the question of what else has already been normalized without consequence.
