Project 2025 Synopsis with a list of sectors it attacks
(Source: American Civil Liberties Union)

In 2022, The Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank, and 140 former Trump staffers authored Project 2025 -- a roadmap for how to replace the rule of law with ring-wing ideals.Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that opposes abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity. Project 2025’s largest publication, “Mandate For Leadership,” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda.Project 2025 includes a long list of extreme policy recommendations touching on nearly every aspect of American life, from immigration and abortion rights, to free speech and racial justice. A number of its recommendations rely on support from the executive branch and from Congress. Many other initiatives are outright unconstitutional.

Project 2025 calls for hundreds of individual policy changes that will impact our constitutional freedoms, and every aspect of our lives.

Project 2025's policies impact a wide range of individuals and groups within the United States. Areas targeted by Project 2025 include:

Immigrants: The project advocates for mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, and dismantling the asylum system. It also proposes restricting pathways to legal immigration, increasing detention resources and targeting legal immigrants who show dissent to the Trump administration (or who are arrested simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time).
LGBTQ+ Individuals: Project 2025 aims to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ people, legalize discrimination, to only recognize two genders – male and female, prohibit gender affirming care for minors, exclude transgender people from the military and from disaster assistance.
Women and Those Seeking Reproductive Healthcare: The project proposes banning abortion medications, restricting access to emergency contraception, and potentially criminalizing those who send or receive abortion medications. It also calls for increased monitoring of pregnancies.
Civil Servants: Project 2025 suggests eliminating job protections for thousands of federal employees, replacing them with political appointees who are loyal to the administration.
Institutions of higher learning: under the stalking horses of DEI or antisemitism, the administration seeks to impede independent critical thought and dissent on campuses.
Low-Income Individuals and Families: The project proposes cuts to social safety net programs like SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid, and ending programs like Head Start.
Individuals and Groups Participating in DEI Initiatives: Project 2025 explicitly calls for the erasure of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and activities. This includes: LGBTQ+ people (see above), women and people of color.
Individuals Engaged in Lawful Protest or Dissent: The project suggests invoking the Insurrection Act to suppress protests and target political opponents.
The Environment & Climate Change. As the Trump administration goes about gutting the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments of government with responsibility for regulating and reporting on ecological disasters and climate change.

The above list is suggestive, not exhaustive. Further, the Trump administration has made it clear that it intends to achieve its ends by abusing its authority by using violence against people dissenting and expressing contrary opinions–including deploying the National Guard and even US Marines to attack protesters; the wholesale ignoring of judicial court orders it disagrees with; disregarding the laws when it comes to surveillance; wide scale voter repression and attacking free speech in the country’s classrooms and education system.