Harmeet Kaur Dhillon, Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, has defended far-right causes through her law firm Dhillon Law Group Inc.

President-elect Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks making extremist appointments to his upcoming administration. Several of these nominees have made explicitly bigoted statements and aim to push an authoritarian and Christian Nationalist agenda which will dehumanize, and subsequently target, marginalized groups like immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, women, and religious minorities.

The nomination of Michael Anton, a Project 2025 contributor and the Jack Roth Senior Fellow in American Politics at the Claremont Institute and Lecturer and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College (both Project 2025 advisors), as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, signals a significant shift in conservative foreign policy planning, particularly through his connection to the Claremont Institute and to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.

The nomination of Pete Hoekstra to the position of U.S. Ambassador to Canada signals Trump’s continued willingness to promote those with anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and anti-LGBTQ+ views.

Doug Collins, tapped by Trump to lead Veterans Affairs, has a robust history of targeting women’s and the LGBTQ+ community’s civil rights through anti-abortion initiatives and legislation aimed at same-sex marriage.

Kash Patel, a former senior fellow at Project 2025-supporter the Center for Renewing America and Donald Trump’s controversial pick for FBI Director, has outlined a vision for American law enforcement that reads like a revenge fantasy.

Brooke Leslie Rollins, Trump’s nominee for secretary of agriculture who has little experience in the field, is a long-time advocate of far-right causes beginning with her fifteen-year stint at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) where a number of far-right activists, including Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.

Sebastian Gorka, recently nominated by Trump to the position of deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism, has a long history of anti-Muslim bigotry and ties to far-right groups both in the United States and abroad.

Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to the role. Bondi’s history of targeting Trump’s political opponents, who Trump himself dubbed as “vermin,” is a significant cause for concern in light of Trump’s vows of retaliation. Bondi has, in recent years, demonstrated her loyalty to Trump, a key requirement for nomination, and her ability to become Trump’s primary political weapon.