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GPAHE Brings You the Latest News in Far-Right Hate and Extremism
Project 2025 Is Here: August 14th
This week, we look at the latest Project 2025 co-author to be welcomed to the Trump administration, a tense battle for DEI at a Fort Worth city council meeting that reveals the growing grassroots pushback against authoritarian policies, and how Kari Lake wants to see reporters she fired from the VOA be deported.
As authoritarian governance takes hold, GPAHE continues to expose the actors behind this movement, document the policy shifts underway, and provide critical tools for resisting the far-right’s dangerous agenda.
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. We encourage you to explore this series to stay informed and engaged.
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GPAHE Recommends: Trump Is the Heritage Foundation’s Instrument to Bring Orbánism to the US
The Heritage Foundation isn’t just institutionalizing Project 2025; it’s importing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian playbook into U.S. politics, mostly recently seen through the gerrymandering fights in Texas and the undermining of the judiciary. With close ties to Hungary’s government and pro-Orbán organizations, Heritage leaders have co-hosted conferences, signed agreements with state-linked institutions, and embraced policies inspired by Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant laws. Through Trump’s agenda, they aim to dismantle democracy, roll back rights for LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and women, and entrench Christian nationalist rule, an American version of Orbánism.
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GPAHE Highlights: Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson Gains Influence Through Defense Secretary Hegseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s public support for Doug Wilson, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist pastor and co-founder of the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), highlights the growing influence of extremist religious ideologies in U.S. politics. Wilson openly advocates for a patriarchal society, restricting women’s roles in the military, and questioning the legitimacy of the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote. Hegseth, a member of a CREC church in Tennessee, has reposted Wilson’s videos and publicly embraced his teachings, signaling alignment with an extremist evangelical belief system gaining traction within far-right conservative and Christian Nationalist adherents now within the government.
GPAHE has covered both Hegseth and Wilson, documenting their far-right and extremist ideology in our Faith as a Weapon report, which examines Christian nationalism as a growing threat in the U.S. GPAHE tracks how these figures leverage religion to promote anti-democratic, anti-woman, and anti-LGBTQ+ policies. Profiles of Hegseth and Wilson provide in-depth context for understanding their influence on politics and society. With the expansion of Wilson’s CREC network, now spanning over 150 congregations worldwide including a recent outpost in Washington, D.C., CREC plays a key role in normalizing theocratic visions for governance.
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The Guardian – Trump stirs far-right rage despite FBI deprioritizing extremist threat
“What we know is these groups are emboldened and the federal government appears to be abandoning its efforts to monitor and surveil racists and white supremacists,” Heidi Beirich, co-founder of GPAHE said. “They can certainly act with less concern about FBI interference, and we should expect there will be more violence and more activity on the streets from these groups given what the federal government has shut down.”
GPAHE’s take: Donald Trump’s rollback of federal efforts to monitor far-right extremists has given white supremacist groups unprecedented freedom to organize. Surprisingly, even though Trump’s policies, including pardons for January 6 rioters, the reinstatement of Confederate monuments, and aggressive ICE raids, are favored by these groups, many neo-Nazis have turned against him, angered by his alliance with Israel and recent foreign policy moves.
