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The Plot to Rewind American Progress

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Politics, News, News Commentary, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Ali Velshi, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Ms. Magazine’s Kathy Spillar, The New York Times’ Maureen Farrell, U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois, and MS NOW senior national security reporter David Rohde.

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0:00.0

It's back. My Project 2025. Actually, it never went away. If you thought that the Heritage Foundation,

0:12.5

the group behind the radical governing blueprint known as Project 2025 was finished

0:17.8

dismantling American democracy, think again. Now they're turning their sights even more

0:22.5

keenly on America's women. The same movement that drafted a plan to remake and undo much of the

0:29.3

federal government has now unveiled a chilling new manifesto, one that is aimed at making it harder

0:33.6

for women to work, harder for them to live independently, and easier to push them back

0:38.2

into financial dependence on husbands or fathers. This is not hyperbole in the same way that Project

0:44.7

2025 wasn't hyperbole, though plenty of critics dismissed it as such, especially as Trump himself

0:50.1

disingenuously disavowed it. One year into Trump's second terms, groups tracking his administration

0:57.1

say that roughly half of Project 2025 has already been implemented. That includes dismantling

1:02.7

federal diversity and inclusion programs, dramatically expanding immigration enforcement,

1:07.1

rolling back environmental protections, eliminating federal funding for public broadcasters like NPR and

1:12.4

PBS and so much more. That blueprint also called for authorizing military troops to help seal the border,

1:20.1

removing immigration enforcement protections from places like schools and churches and dramatically

1:24.3

expanding immigration detention facilities. If there's one lesson to take

1:29.0

from all of this, it's this. Do not underestimate the determination of this movement or its

1:35.0

hostility toward liberal values and the expansion of democratic rights for groups that they see

1:40.2

as outsiders. And they see women as outsiders. Their latest documents, saving America by saving

1:49.1

the family, a foundation for the next 250 years. You've got to give it to these people. They think big.

1:54.4

It was published in January. Its purported goal is to reverse the country's declining birth rate.

2:00.0

And you can't physically force women,

2:02.1

if you can't physically force women to have babies, which is what abortion restrictions aim to do,

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