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Project 2025 Is Here: October 2nd
This week, we track how Project 2025 policies target educators through coordinated watchlists and investigations, and examine what State Department nominee Jeremy Carl tried to hide by scrubbing 5,000 social media posts before his confirmation hearing. We also reveal how Young America’s Foundation — a Project 2025 advisory board member — employs a journalism director who explicitly calls for “blood in the streets” while training conservative reporters.
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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New from GPAHE: White Power Rising: The Making of Nick Fuentes and The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes.
Nick Fuentes’ trajectory—from a Catholic honor student to a key figure in the American far right by 2025—reveals how extremist ecosystems thrive online. Banned from mainstream platforms, Fuentes migrated to unmoderated spaces like Rumble and Telegram, where misogyny, antisemitism, and white nationalist ideology could be amplified, monetized, and normalized.
White Power Rising: The Making of Nick Fuentes traces this evolution: from his participation in the Unite the Right demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017, through the development of his Groyper movement, to the creation of his own institutional power via AFPAC, and a massive online following. His rise underscores not just one individual’s radicalization, but the structural vulnerabilities in today’s digital media ecosystem that encourages the normalization of antisemitism and bigotry.
The Sanitization of Antisemite Nick Fuentes details how Nick Fuentes, a longtime white nationalist and antisemite, is being recast as a mainstream commentator. Despite a record of racism, Holocaust denial, and ties to extremist movements, Fuentes is now appearing on major podcasts with Russell Brand and Patrick Bet-David, monetizing his image through platforms like Minnect, and being described by prominent right-wing voices as a “voice of reason.” After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Fuentes strategically softened his rhetoric, gaining goodwill across the right, and reached millions with his stream cast about the murder.
His recent trajectory also reflects a broader shift: extremists moving from online trolling to institutional power. Fuentes now urges followers to run for school boards and hints at his own candidacy, blurring the line between hate movements and mainstream politics.
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Bloomberg – Hate Groups Seize on Trump’s Antifa Order With Online Threats
Extremist groups are exploiting Trump’s move to designate Antifa a terrorist organization after Charlie Kirk’s killing, flooding social media with violent threats and “civil war” rhetoric. Researchers warn the surge could spill into real-world violence. “It’s a watershed moment for America, and all of these different factions are seeing it as how it can be most helpful for them,” said Wendy Via, co-founder of GPAHE. “They wait for moments like this to happen. And then they encourage violent actions, saying it’s all justified.”
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TPM – ‘We Know Better’: Experts Watch in Horror As Trump Admin Hides Record of Right-Wing Violence
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has seized the tragedy to push a false narrative that left-wing groups are the primary threat to U.S. security—despite decades of data showing right-wing extremism as the dominant driver of political violence. Experts warn the administration’s crackdown only fuels polarization. “It’s incredibly depressing. And, I think, it’s quite scary. I just feel like our discourse has completely fallen apart,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of GPAHE. “They’re waving the bloody shirt and trying to rile people up against the left. And I just don’t see how that helps anybody in this rather perilous moment that we’re in.”
