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Project 2025 Is Here: January 14th

This week: Heritage published its blueprint for federally subsidized “marriage bootcamps” run by churches. The White House rewrote January 6 as a peaceful stroll. And U.S. forces dragged Nicolás Maduro from his residence in a raid that Project 2025 had been telegraphing since 2023.

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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New from GPAHE: Remigration: How A European Ethnic Cleansing Proposal Devised by White Supremacists Became Official Trump Policy

“Remigration,” a concept rooted in neo-Nazi ideology and tied to the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, is no longer confined to the far-right fringe. The idea reframes ethnic cleansing as policy, promoting the forced expulsion of non-white people from Western countries. Once driven primarily by European extremists such as Austria’s Martin Sellner, the concept is now reflected in U.S. politics as Trump’s rhetoric increasingly mirrors its themes, calling for mass expulsions and framing national identity in racial terms. This dangerous idea is being put into practice through escalating immigration enforcement actions, including aggressive ICE operations and detention practices, that have already produced abuse, violence and death. Reports of State Department interest in a remigration office, and a DHS post invoking “remigrate,” illustrate how an idea devised by white supremacists is now being embraced by the Trump administration.

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New from GPAHE: Peas In A Pod: The Budding Alliance between the GOP and AfD

The alliance between Germany’s far-right AfD political party and the U.S. GOP is deepening. From a New York gala that celebrated AfD leadership alongside prominent white nationalist figures to coordinated meetings in Washington with Republican lawmakers, the AfD has positioned itself as a welcome foreign partner by prominent conservatives. AfD and the GOP align on mass deporations, Islamophobic messaging, “Great Replacement”-style narratives, and socially extremist agendas. While German authorities warn the AfD poses an extremist threat to the country, the Trump administration and its allies are elevating the party’s profile in the United States, helping normalize a transnational far-right partnership that pushes rhetoric and policy ideas once confined to the far right fringe.

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GPAHE Recommends: White Nationalism and the Rise of DHS and ICE Violence

For years, GPAHE has warned about the dangerous alignment between federal immigration enforcement and extremist ideology. Today, that alignment is clearer than ever. As tensions rise in several cities following the fatal shooting of Renee Good—a 37-year-old mother of three killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis – ICE and DHS are not only escalating dehumanizing tactics on the ground but openly adopting rhetoric and narratives online rooted in white supremacist and neo-Nazi worldviews.

Here is some of GPAHE’s research documenting these developments:

DHS’ Racist Social Media Posts Beloved by Neo-Nazis and Other Extremists, and They Know It

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been posting recruitment content featuring explicitly racist and fascist imagery—memes and aesthetics long associated with neo-Nazis and the “fashwave” subculture.

Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Response to Immigration Challenge

Trump has embraced the ideas of European white supremacists and neo-Nazis, implanting them in U.S. policy. A Trump Thanksgiving post invoked “reverse migration” and “remigration”—terms rooted in these ideologies—while DHS echoed the language online.

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WIRED: Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore

The Proud Boys aren’t flooding the streets during the current wave of anti-ICE protests because, for many far-right extremists, they don’t need to. Trump’s militarization of ICE and DHS, the administration’s embrace of white nationalist rhetoric, and DHS recruitment posts echoing extremist messaging have convinced white supremacists that their goals are being carried out by the government itself. “They are very enthused about what’s happening, because for many of them, [ICE and the DHS are] following what their blueprint would have been anyway,” says Wendy Via, co-founder of GPAHE.

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