How Project 2025 Is Rewriting America - Phase II

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Crooked Media

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Project 2025 is no longer just a blueprint—it is rapidly in motion. Over the past four months, the Republicans have begun implementing its sweeping, 900+ page plan to transform America into a Christian nationalist state. We are seeing it unfold in real time: attacks on bodily autonomy, the dehumanization and targeting of immigrants, the erasure of history and DEI initiatives, and deep cuts to essential government programs. In this episode, Stacey sits down with Atlantic staff writer and author of “The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America”, David A. Graham, for an in-depth conversation about the ideology behind Project 2025 and how we can prepare for what’s coming next. Learn & Do More: Project 2025 is a roadmap that lets us prepare ourselves for what’s to come. By understanding the goals laid out in Project 2025, we can leverage our local governments, our civic organizations and ourselves to push back. And remember to share your knowledge with your resistance community.

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1:59.1	Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media. I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.
2:05.6	Before we dive into today's episode, I want to take a moment to talk about choices. People organize
2:14.0	themselves into societies, and those societies choose various ways to make decisions.
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