Project 2025 contributors have left a long “trail of racist writings [and] activity,” according to a new USA Today report, based in part on Accountable.US research. The MAGA blueprint for a conservative administration outlines “how to regulate and control people of color,” according to experts quoted in the story. Project 2025 authors have a track record of espousing bigoted views.

Project 2025 would gut our system of checks and balances. The fact that they consulted racists and white supremacists to develop this plan is further evidence of just how un-American these proposals are. Carrk continued, the idea that the next conservative administration might replace 50,000 government experts with extremists and bigots should concern every American.”

Tony Carrk, Executive Director of government watchdog Accountable.US

Among the controversial contributors to Project 2025 are:

  • Stephen Moore, who was forced to withdraw as the Trump Administration’s nominee to the Federal Reserve over his long history of sexist comments. Moore has, among other things, said that white males were the “new oppressed minority on college campuses,” and that Black families are replacing men with a “welfare check” and increased earnings for Black women make men “financially expendable.” Read more.
  • Jason Richwine, a resident scholar at the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies, argued in his PhD dissertation that, “IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population,” due to “underclass behavior.” He resigned from the Heritage Foundation after this research led to public scrutiny, but that did not stop Heritage from tapping him a decade later to contribute to Project 2025. 
  • George Fishman, Fishman’s colleague at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote an article titled “Exploiting Mass Immigration to Displace Blacks: The Early Twentieth Century’s Great Replacement Theory.” Fishman pits “native-born Black citizens” against Latino immigrants and uses Black opposition to 1920s immigration policy to justify current-day immigration restrictionism. 
  • Richard Hanania, who penned a trove of racist ideas under a pen name, including supporting eugenics and opposing “race-mixing.”
  • Corey Stewart, who, the article reports, has “long associated with white supremacists.”

USA Today also highlighted an Accountable.US analysis from May that found seven of the organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board have been designated as extremist or hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

Accountable.US launched its Expose Project 2025 campaign to uncover the sprawling dark money network and extreme figures behind Project 2025 effort threatening our democracy. Learn more at ExposeProject2025.org.

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