🛑 STOP PROJECT 2025, New Task Force Congress Mems. Stop Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

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- "Democrats Target Pro-Trump 'Dystopian Plot' With Stop Project 2025 Task Force." 'We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late,' said Rep. Jared Huffman, who is spearheading the new task force. Common Dreams, June 11, 2024. Ed.
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A group of congressional Democrats on Tuesday launched a task force aimed at spotlighting and combating the threat posed by Project 2025, the sprawling far-right agenda crafted by allies of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Spearheaded by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), the Stop Project 2025 Task Force "will serve as a central hub for pro-democracy Members of Congress, civil society, and affected communities to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this right-wing plot to undermine democracy," Huffman's office said in a press release.

"Project 2025 is more than an idea, it's a dystopian plot that's already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will," said Huffman.

"This is an unprecedented embrace of extremism, fascism, and religious nationalism, orchestrated by the radical right and its dark money backers."

"We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late, " the congressman added. "Through this task force, leaders across the ideological spectrum and experts in every policy area that's under attack are uniting to protect democracy as we know it. Trump and those behind Project 2025 are ready to turn America into a theocratic regime if they get the chance—and we are going to be ready to stop them." The congressional effort was launched with the backing of several prominent Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)—the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee—and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

"Project 2025 is Donald Trump's blueprint for destroying our democracy," said Jayapal.. "This far-right roadmap for a 'post-constitutional' America would make January 6th extremism a governing ideology." Project 2025 is led by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, and former top Trump administration officials.. The Stop Project 2025 Task Force represents a coordinated attempt by Democratic lawmakers and outside advocacy groups to raise public awareness of the far-right plot to rip away fundamental freedoms and mobilize against it ahead of the critical November rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden...
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