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Project 2025 aims to restrict human rights and withdraw from international bodies like the United Nations. They want to promote a text-based interpretation of treaty obligations and prioritize issues like human life, women's health, and national sovereignty. They support the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which opposes sexual and reproductive health rights. The project also targets USAID, calling for a complete overhaul and elimination of diversity efforts. They want to remove references to gender and abortion from agency materials. Project 2025 is led by the far-right think-tank Heritage Foundation, which has a history of promoting radical politics and opposing LGBTQ rights and critical race theory. Other supporting organizations include the ACLJ and ADF, which have anti-LGBTQ agendas. restricting human rights and exiting international bodies. Project 2025 takes great issue with current human rights frameworks and would withdraw from the United Nations and other international bodies. It claims that international organizations are used to promote radical social policies as if they were human rights priorities, and that the next administration must promote a strict text-based interpretation of treaty obligations that does not consider human rights treaties as living instruments. It wants to return to the Trump administration's focus on forging consensus among like-minded countries in support of human life, women's health, support of the family as the basic unit of human society, and defense of national sovereignty, as conceptualized in the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women's Health and Protection of the Family, which was spearheaded by Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The Geneva Consensus is not a UN document and has no international legal standing, but rather was forged between primarily authoritarian states that seek to undermine sexual and reproductive health and rights, in particular access to safe abortion services, worldwide, and restrict the rights of the LGBTQ plus community. Amnesty International USA said the signatories were willingly endangering people's health and lives and others accused the signatories of being motivated by a desire to undermine established international institutions and undermine women's rights. The text's language affirming the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society has clear meaning for countries that restrict LGBTQ plus rights, many of whom signed onto the Declaration including Egypt, Hungary, and Uganda. For the project, the Geneva Consensus should guide all U.S. foreign policy engagements, and the government should not and cannot promote or fund abortion in international programs or multilateral organizations. A large section of the project targets the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, as no longer supporting pro-life and family-friendly policies and undermining the project's view of religious freedom. The agency would be completely overhauled to abandon its current divisive political and cultural agenda that promotes abortion, climate extremism, gender radicalism, and interventions against perceived systemic racism. The agency needs to be de-radicalized, cancel all DEI efforts, eliminate the chief diversity officer position and issue a directive to cease promotion of the DEI agenda, including the bullying LGBTQ plus agenda. It intends to rename USAID offices related to gender equality and women's empowerment and to appoint to the position of senior gender coordinator and unapologetically pro-life, renaming the post as Senior Coordinator of the Office of Women, Children, and Families, and eliminate the more than 180 gender advisors and points of contact embedded in missions and operating should remove all references, examples, definitions, photos, and language on USAID websites, in agency publications and policies, and in all agency contracts and grants that include the following terms. Gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender diverse individuals, gender aware, gender sensitive, etc. And also remove all references to abortion, reproductive health, and sexual and reproductive rights and controversial sexual education materials. This effort will end the promotion of gender radicalism which allegedly causes resentment by tying life-saving assistance to rejecting the aid recipients own firmly held fundamental values regarding sexuality and produces unnecessary consternation and confusion among and even outright bias against men. USAID must stop U.S. foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry. Other international organizations the project suggests the U.S. resign from include the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Profiles of Project 2025 Organizational Supporters. The far-right think-tank Heritage Foundation is coordinating many elements of Project 2025 and hosting the website and materials, including the 900-page mandate for leadership, the conservative promise, which describes in-depth their plans for reforming the next presidential administration. The project is led by Heritage's Director Paul Danz and Associate Director Spencer Cretien, both former Trump administration officials. To advise on and push the Project 2025 agenda, Heritage has assembled a coalition of more than 80 and growing far-right groups involved in everything from spreading hatred against LGBTQ communities, immigrants, Muslims and people of color to propagating medical disinformation, climate change denial, election denial and rejecting women's bodily autonomy. In recent years, the Heritage Foundation has moved further and further to the right, leaving its Reaganite history behind during the Trump years for more radical politics. At least 66 current employees and alumni served in Trump's administration. An example of this increasing extremism is Heritage's attack on the Black Lives Matter movement, with senior fellow Mike Gonzalez releasing in 2021 BLM, the new making of a Marxist revolution. A press release for the book asserts that BLM leaders are avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life, they seized upon the video showing George Floyd's suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency. In 2021, Heritage pushed Republican controlled states to ban or restrict critical race theory, something not taught in public schools, and sought to persuade congressional Republicans to put anti-critical race theory provisions into legislation such as the annual defense spending bill. The proposed 2023 defense spending bill included these provisions, along with the reduction of LGBTQ plus rights and women's health care. A final bill has not been passed as of November 2023. Heritage has fiercely opposed transgender rights, including hosting several anti-trans events, developing and supporting model legislation against transgender rights, and made claims about transgender youth health care and suicide rates contradicted by numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies. Heritage is a climate denier. Heritage has also promoted false claims of electoral fraud. Hans von Spakovsky, who heads its election law reform initiative, has long spread alarmism about voter fraud, for which there is little to no evidence, among conservatives. His work, which claims voting fraud is rampant, has been discredited. In 2021, Heritage Action ran television ads in Arizona to promote the false claim that Democrats want to register illegal aliens to vote. The American Center for Law and Justice Action, ACLJA. ACLJA is the C4 arm of the American Center for Law and Justice, an anti-LGBTQ plus group run by longtime Trump attorney J.C. Kulow that was originally founded by Pat Robertson, one of the founders of America's Christian Right. The ACLJA promotes conservative Christian laws in Africa, including support in Uganda for criminalizing homosexuality. It is also anti-Muslim. In November 2010, the ACLJA asked that the Department of Justice investigate the Congressional Muslim Staffer Association's weekly prayer session on Capitol Hill, alleging that the organization demonstrated a pattern of inviting Islamic extremists with ties to terrorism to participate in these events. ACLJA also attempted to stop the construction of an Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center, by appealing to New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission. Alliance Defending Freedom, ADFADF has long worked to restrict LGBTQ plus rights both domestically and abroad through ADF International. Launched in 1994 by 35 Christian Right leaders, ADF has worked for decades to undermine the rights of women and the LGBTQ plus community. It has pushed to eliminate access to contraception and abortion, advocated for the criminalization of sexual acts among consenting LGBTQ plus adults in the U.S. and abroad, pushed conspiracies about a homosexual agenda destroying societies, falsely argued that LGBTQ plus people are more likely to be pedophiles, worked to deny rights to transgender people, developed model legislation to allow the denial of goods and services to LGBTQ plus people under the guise of religious freedom, and lobbied for the appointment of judges to uphold its agenda. ADF is listed as an anti-LGBTQ plus hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its former CEO, Michael P. Farris, a Trump ally, was instrumental in crafting an effort to overturn the American 2020 presidential election. ADF has been unusually successful in its legal efforts, bringing cases to the Supreme Court that have overturned LGBTQ rights and abortion protections. ADF is currently awaiting a Supreme Court decision on its appeal of a federal court ruling upholding state-level bans on conversion therapy for minors. ADF represented a Tennessee Christian adoption agency that refused services to a Jewish couple, sparking outrage from the faith community, who in a letter wrote, Alliance Defending Freedom is parading itself as a Christian organization while coming into our local communities spreading messages of hate and division. They've gone so far as to deny a child two loving parents due to their Jewish faith. As faith leaders, we must speak in one voice condemning groups seeking to distort holy scriptures and to justify an agenda that brings harm to our communities and contradicts God's commandments to love one another. This is a distortion and corruption of the Christian faith. A 2014 post on its website read, Alliance Defending Freedom seeks to recover the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries, indicating it would like to go back to medieval times. American Family Association, AFA The AFA stated vision is to be a leading organization in biblical worldview training for cultural transformation and among its core values is the belief that true morality flows from biblical principles and directs people to the manner in which God intends them to live. AFA has advocated strongly against LGBTQ plus rights, same sex marriage, and allowing members of the LGBTQ plus community to serve in the armed forces. The group frequently equates homosexuality with pedophilia and argues that there's a homosexual agenda afoot that is set to bring about the downfall of American, and ultimately, Western, civilization. In one October 2004 article, the AFA journal suggested that gay influences are leading to a grotesque culture that will include quick encounters in the middle school boys restroom. Its principals over the years have made many disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ plus community, such as Brian Fisher's 2010 comment that, homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the brown shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. They are also rabidly anti-Muslim with AFA leader Tim Wildman writing in 2012 that Islam is, in fact, a religion of war, violence, intolerance, and physical persecution of non-Muslims, having also advocated against Muslim immigration to the US. The AFA is listed as an anti-LGBTQ plus hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. America First Legal, AFLAFL was founded in 2020 by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who crafted many of the administration's punishing anti-immigrant policies, including child separations from their immigrant parents. Miller has a long track record of interacting with white nationalists and spreading their views. AFL's tagline is fighting the lawless left and it has brought dozens of federal lawsuits challenging efforts to remedy racial disparities, support LGBTQ plus students, and to expand early voting. The American Conservative, TAC co-founded in 2002 by Pat Buchanan, author of rabidly anti-immigrant screeds rooted in white nationalism, TAC features articles that are associated with the very far right paleoconservative movement. In October 2023, TAC published a piece defending conversion therapy, the dangerous and discredited practice of trying to change LGBTQ plus people's sexual orientation. It has also published rabidly anti-trans pieces. Historically, the magazine has been hardline on immigration and isolationist and was touting the America First agenda long before Trump did. Some of TAC's writers are or have been fellows at the Pro-Victor Orbán Danube Institute, funded by the Hungarian government, which the European Parliament has declared is no longer a democracy. The president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, spoke at TAC's October 2023 annual gala. The American Principles Project, an anti-LGBTQ plus organization, AP has funded political campaign ads that reflect the organization's opposition to civil rights protections for LGBTQ plus people. The group opposed same-sex marriage and is particularly focused on anti-transgender legislation. In 2017, AP ran anti-transgender robocalls in a district where the Democratic candidate was a transgender woman. In 2021, AP's head Terry Schilling co-authored a USA Today op-ed criticizing the proposed Equality Act that would expand civil rights protections for the LGBTQ plus community, arguing that transgender women should not compete in women's sports. AP wants to eliminate transgender health care completely for both children and adults. AP was also active in the campaign against teaching critical race theory in schools. They also advocate for the use of a gold standard instead of paper currency, a position mostly held by anti-government extremists. Center for Family and Human Rights, CFAMCFAM is led by Austin Ruse, who has railed against abortion and voiced support for laws criminalizing homosexuality. Ruse supported Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, which criminalizes free speech with regard to LGBTQ issues, and called the law a noble quest for human rights, signing a joint statement in support of it. CFAM is listed as an anti-LGBTQ plus hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has had its share of scandals. In 2015, Monsignor Anthony Frontiero resigned from the organization's board of directors in protest when Ruse commented, the hard-left human-hating people that run modern universities should be taken out and shot. He was speaking about a female student at Duke University who works as an actress in the pornography industry. Ruse blamed Duke's women's studies department, claiming that the student learned this there. Ruse said this was a figure of speech and issued a formal apology. CFAM has consultative status at the UN. Ruse and CFAM have been lobbying against sexual and reproductive health rights, abortion, and equality for LGBTQ plus people at the UN and abroad for years. In 2012, Ruse and CFAM even helped block a UN treaty protecting the rights of people with disabilities because, the groups claimed, it was pro-abortion. Center for Immigration Studies, CISCIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham and Eugenie Sist and white nationalist John Tanton in 1985 as a spin-off of the Anti-Immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform. Reports published by CISCIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration, fact-checkers, and news outlets, and immigration research organizations. The organization had significant influence within the Trump administration, and its proposed policies were the inspiration for the Muslim immigration ban. CISCIS has repeatedly published white nationalist and anti-Semitic writers, employed an analyst known to promote racist pseudoscience, and published reports that hype the criminality of immigrants. CISCIS is listed as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its principals have often made bigoted statements about Muslims and immigrants. In 2014, CISCIS executive director Mark Krikorian said on a radio show, we have to have security against both the dishwasher and the terrorist because you can't distinguish between the two with regards to immigration control. In 2010, he wrote, my guess is that Haiti's so screwed up because it wasn't colonized long enough. In 2015, he decried the EU's immigration policies, saying they would lead to a scenario like that portrayed in the horrifically racist novel, The Camp of the Saints, where immigrants are depicted engaging in a murderous, violent spree across France. The novel, extremely popular among white nationalists, was published in the US by CISCIS founder John Tanton. The Claremont Institute, TCI in recent years, TCI has had on staff one of the key election deniers advising Trump in 2020. Institute senior fellow John Eastman aided Trump in his failed attempts to overturn the election results and has now been criminally indicted in Georgia for his efforts. The Institute caused controversy by granting a fellowship in 2019 to Pete Sackett conspiracy theorist Jack Pazzebisi. In 2020, Slate described TCI as a racist fever swamp with deep connections to the conspiratorial alt-right, citing Pazzebisi's fellowship and the publication of a 2020 essay by Eastman that questioned Kamala Harris's eligibility for the vice presidency. In 2022, their publication The American Mind featured an editorial by Raw Egg Nationalist, an author affiliated with the neo-Nazi publishing house Antelope Hill. In 2021, Claremont senior fellow Glenn Ilmers wrote an essay in The American Mind arguing that the United States had been destroyed by internal enemies and that a counter-revolution was necessary to defeat the majority of the people who can no longer be considered fellow citizens. According to Ilmers, most people living in the United States today certainly more than half are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term. Concerned Women for America, CWA founded in 1979. CWA was launched by conservative Christian activist and author Beverly Leahy as a counter to the National Organization for Women and the Equal Rights Amendment. It is anti-feminist, Christian nationalist, a defender of traditional gender roles, and tightly tied to attacks on the LGBTQ community coming from the far right, featuring articles against drag shows and pride events on its website. The group claimed in October 2023 to have 500,000 members and more than 400 chapters. Leahy was married to the late minister Tim Leahy, author of the best-selling left-behind fiction series adapted from the Book of Revelations and depicting the end times. She was also a co-founder of the highly influential Far-Right and Secretive Council for National Policy, of which CWA's current CEO Penny Nance is a member. Nance states in her bio that she served on Trump's Life Advisory Council. According to her biography, Leahy founded CWA to promote biblical values for women and families, first through prayer, then education, and finally, by influencing our elected leaders and society. The group moved from San Diego to Washington, D.C. in 1987, giving it greater access to the federal government. Most of its focus has been on outlawing abortion, promoting traditional families, condemning pornography, working to remove sex education from schools, rallying against same-sex marriage, arguing for religious exemptions, national sovereignty, and against secular education. It has several state-level chapters. Over the years, CWA has employed anti-LGBTQ-plus activists, including Peter LaBarbera, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center designated anti-LGBTQ-plus hate group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality and a reporter and editor for the conspiracy site WorldNetDaily, Robert Knight, one of the drafters of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, and Matt Barber, formerly with the anti-LGBTQ-plus group Liberty Council and then the owner of the virulently anti-LGBTQ-plus website barbwire.com, which is no longer active. Leahy herself was rabidly homophobic, having published a booklet in 1991, The Hidden Homosexual Agenda, which warned that accepting LGBTQ-plus equality would bring an end to Judeo-Christian values and destroy the family. She defamed LGBTQ-plus people as having a compulsive desire for sexual fulfillment without lasting commitment and also claimed that they recruit children. A former senior fellow at CWA's Beverly Leahy Institute, Janice Shaw Krause, claimed that LGBTQ-plus people are prone to domestic violence, spreading disease, and that their relationships don't last long. CWA opposed the Violence Against Women Act, claiming that it creates new protections for homosexuals. In order to receive federal grants, CWA said in 2012, domestic violence organizations have to agree to embrace the homosexual agenda, a conspiracy theory manufactured by the Christian right in which they argue that LGBTQ-plus people are going to destroy the family and society. CWA has also claimed that hate crimes are fabricated to undermine efforts supportive of hate crimes legislation, which CWA opposes. As of November 2023, CWA is running a pledge for presidential and down-ballot candidates to sign affirming that they will deny the rights and existence of transgender people. Conservative Partnership Institute, CPI Deep in the Election Denial Movement, CPI is chaired by former South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint and has on its staff former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who was indicted in Georgia on charges of attempting to subvert the 2020 election results. In advance of the 2022 midterms, the network published materials and hosted summits across the country with the aim of coordinating a nationwide effort to staff election offices, recruit poll watchers and poll workers, and build teams of local citizens to challenge voter roles, question postal workers, be ever-present in local election offices, and inundate election officials with document requests. The effort is an extraordinary investment in sustaining and bolstering the false narrative that Trump lost the 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud. CPI's key election integrity staffer is Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who played a central role in Trump's legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election. Mitchell participated in Trump's infamous January 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where Trump attempted to coerce Raffensperger to find the extra 11,780 votes Trump needed to win the state. Mitchell filed a lawsuit to block a subpoena calling for her to testify in front of the House Select Committee probing the January 6 insurrection, as she was in contact with Trump that day. When reports of her role on Trump's call with Raffensperger surfaced in 2021, Mitchell resigned from her two-decade-long career with the law firm Foley & Lardner and joined CPI two months later. Family Research Council, FRC—originally a part of the Christian Right powerhouse focus on the family—FRC, which is technically a church, has lobbied against abortion, embryonic stem cell research, divorce, and many LGBTQ plus rights, including anti-discrimination laws, civil unions, same-sex marriage, and adoption. FRC is listed as an anti-LGBTQ plus hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has been condemned by professional organizations including the American Sociological Association for Peddling Anti-Gay Pseudoscience to falsely conflate homosexuality and pedophilia, and to falsely assert that the children of same-sex parents suffer from more mental health problems than those in traditional homes. FRC holds that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed and that it is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects. Contrary to all medical science, FRC also contends that there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn. In 2010, FRC spent $25,000 to lobby Congress against approving a resolution denouncing Uganda's plan to execute those engaged in same-sex relations, RES 1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-Homosexual Promotion. FRC claimed that they had not intended to kill the resolution, but rather to change it and remove sweeping and inaccurate assertions that homosexual conduct is internationally recognized as a fundamental human right. At the time Uganda was considering what came to be known as the Kill the Gays Bill, which would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for sexual relations between persons of the same sex, Uganda passed such a bill in 2022. FRC has published many anti-transgender statements, and in 2022 said that leftists are openly avowing pedophilia as the next sexual minority, aka sexual perversion, to achieve legitimacy. In 2001, FRC's head Tony Perkins, standing in front of a Confederate flag, gave a speech to the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group that advocates against miscegenation and whose website once referred to black people as a retrograde species of humanity. The Heartland Institute, T a leading voice in the climate denial movement, T once put up billboards in Chicago featuring a photo of the unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, whose mail bombs killed three people and injured 23 others, asking the question, I still believe in global warming, do you? They withdrew the billboards a day later but did not apologize for the campaign, which was also to feature Charles Manson, Fidel Castro, and Osama bin Laden asking the same question. It has also been involved in efforts to deny the health effects of smoking, to repeal mandates on renewable energy, and to privatize education. Moms for Liberty, MFL founded in 2021, MFL was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, as an anti-government group in 2023. According to the SPLC, MFL used their multiple social media platforms to target teachers and school officials, advocate for the abolition of the Department of Education, advance conspiracy propaganda, and spread hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ community. The group's activism first centered on campaigning against pandemic measures in schools, including mask and vaccine mandates. In its short existence, MFL has also advocated against school curricula that mention LGBTQ plus rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination. They have also called for banning certain books on these topics from school curricula and libraries and have disrupted school boards as part of their advocacy. The group has ties to other extremists including the white supremacist Proud Boys and the rabidly anti-LGBTQ plus group, Gays Against Groomers, Tea Party Patriots, TPP and Election Denial Organization, TPP was heavily involved in the Stop the Steal movement that advocated Trump had the election stolen from him, and TPP leaders were outspoken after the 2020 election, claiming without evidence that there had been widespread fraud and that the election results should be overturned in favor of Trump. TPP got its start in 2009 as tea parties were popping up nationwide, organizing against the Affordable Care Act and other aspects of Obama's presidency. It received considerable help from Freedom Works, a conservative advocacy group once funded by the Cook Brothers. After 2020, it took up issues around election infrastructure, recruiting poll workers, promoting propaganda like the film 2,000 mules that alleges the 2020 election was rigged, and supporting so-called election integrity efforts. Tea Party Patriots were among about a dozen groups that included Stop the Steal and Turning Point Action listed on the website of the March to Save America, the pro-Trump rally that took place before the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. In a statement, co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said her group did not fund the rally and denounced the violence that followed it. TPP has engaged in medical disinformation as well, hosting and funding an America's Frontline Doctors event promoting use, contrary to all legitimate medical advice, of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID. Texas Public Policy Foundation, TPPF TPPF says its mission is to promote liberty, opportunity, and free enterprise in Texas and beyond. TPPF pushes stronger border measures and has co-produced a documentary called Cartel Country that blames the Biden administration for the border crisis. TPPF advocates putting parents in charge of their children's education, generally rails against public education, rejects pandemic health measures, is against transgender health care for young people, and rejects carbon taxes. In 2021, the organization put out a now-deleted tweet with an image labeled How to Identify Critical Race Theory in the Classroom. Among the things identified were terms like anti-racism, programs that promote equity, diversity, and inclusion, movements like Black Lives Matter, and facts in American history including colonialism and colonizer. TPPF fellow, fellow Carol Swain, wrote a fawning book about white nationalists and claims Islam is dangerous. In 2021, Swain at a TPPF event, spoke of how critical race theory threatens the nation. CRT has Marxist roots, she said. It's un-American. It's using the grievances and sufferings of people to advance an agenda that has very little to do about them, I believe that the ultimate goal is to destroy America. Since Trump started spouting election lies, TPPF has become involved in the issue, and it lists securing the integrity of election results as one of its prime issues. In January 2021, Texas Congressman Michael McCaul and TPPF announced the formation of the Election Protection Project, which they claim is an effort to bolster ballot integrity in the Lone Star State and nationwide. The project aims to ensure proper identification is provided for in-person and mail voting, strengthening vote-by-mail security, encouraging a better path of communication between state and county officials and ensuring maintenance of voter rolls. During the effort's launch, TPPF's Vice President of National Initiatives, Chuck DeVore, said, How can we ensure that we minimize the number of people on the lists who are either deceased or who moved out of state? How can we ensure that the people on the list should be on the list in other words that they're citizens and that they're eligible to vote? Turning Point USA, TPUSA led by Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA has been described as the mega-youth wing of the conservative movement. Kirk perennially stokes racial resentments and uses divisiveness to build his youth movement. There have been repeated associations with white nationalist and anti-Semitic actors, and TPUSA college chapters have been called out for their blatant racism. Typical was Kirk's calling George Floyd a scumbag after his murder at the hands of police ignited racial justice rallies across the country in 2020. Kirk once vowed to never politicize his religion, but he now says the church should accept its rightful role as counselor to and moral authority of the government. Parroting the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, Kirk also said Biden intentionally let Afghanistan fall because he wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently. Kirk has toured college campuses raging at schools that teach about racism. According to CNN, TPA paid Kimberly Guilfoyle $60,000 to introduce her fiancé, Donald Trump, Jr., in a speech lasting less than three minutes at the January 6 Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C. In July 2021, Turning Point Action hosted a rally to save our elections in Phoenix where Trump spoke for almost two hours, repeating his false allegations of voter fraud. Arizona's fake slate of electors included Tyler Bowyer, who of Turning Point USA. Turning Point Action, TPA, the C4 arm of the group, has a sordid history in terms of its online activism. In September 2020, it was reported that TPA had paid young people in Arizona, some of them minors, to post Turning Point content on their social media accounts without disclosing their affiliation with Turning Point, and that Turning Point had given them specific instructions on how to make minor alterations to the content to prevent detection that it came from the same source. The posts cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process and made light of the pandemic. Full list of Project 2025 Organizational Supporters 1792 Exchange American Family Association America First Legal American Accountability Foundation American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists American Center for Law and Justice Action American Conservative Alabama Policy Institute Alliance Defending Freedom American Commitment American Compass American Cornerstone Institute American Council of Trustees and Alumni American Principles Project American JurisLink ALEC American Main Street Initiative American Moment American Family Project Americans United for Life AMAC Action California Family Council Calvert Task Group Centennial Institute Center for a Secure Free Society Center for Military Readiness National Center for Public Policy Research Native Americans for Sovereignty and Preservation Noah Webster Educational Foundation Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs The Palm Beach Freedom Institute Palmetto Promise The Patriot Foundation Trust Project 21 Black Leadership Network Pacific Research Institute Patrick Henry College Personnel Policy Operations Public Interest Legal Foundation Recovery for American Now Foundation Republicans Overseas Foundation Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, STARS Stop Abusive and Violent Environments Students for Life of America Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Tea Party Patriots Teneo Network Texas Public Policy Foundation The American Redistricting Project Turning Point USA Young Americas Foundation
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