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The Associated Press reports: The think tank behind Project 2025, the conservative blueprint linked to President-elect Donald Trump, is launching an effort to back Trump’s imperiled selection for secretary of defense in its latest attempt to wield influence in the incoming Republican administration. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The left is already going crazy because of Vought’s connection with Project 2025, because — look, Project 2025, to be very clear here, a lot of their ideas were just classic MAGA ideas. A lot of them were just classic. CHARLES GASPARINO (GUEST): I mean, all of them. I mean, I’ve read …

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial. Anti-abortion groups had been lobbying Trump’s HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to select Roger Severino, a longtime anti-abortion …

The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, naming a veteran Republican regulator who has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises to slash regulation, go after Big Tech and punish TV networks for political bias. Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission, is expected …

Axios reports: House Democrats are strategizing ways to put a damper on the Trump administration’s sweeping plans while their party still retains some control in Washington, Axios has learned. Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash) said one plan is to propose a raft of executive orders President Biden could issue to “protect existing structures,” such as shielding career civil …

The Guardian reports: A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims. The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two …

ProPublica reports: A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants “in trauma” in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term. In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, …

Rick Hutzell writes for the Baltimore Banner: You could hear the spittle fly as the Heritage Foundation shouted out its latest intellectual assault on the Naval Academy. All over Ruth Ben-Ghiat and a lecture the midshipmen likely will never hear. She’s a New York University historian with a book on what happens to the military when authoritarians take power. She …

The New York Post reports: A conservative watchdog has unveiled a list of “radical leftist” officials working in or with the Department of Homeland Security — as immigration and the crisis at the southern border remain a top issue on the ballot this presidential election. The American Accountability Foundation launched a website Wednesday titled “The DHS Watchlist” featuring over two …

The Washington Post reports: The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book. “If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, …

“I’ll also mention this about Project 2025. The left doesn’t yet understand that that personnel database isn’t going anywhere because I’ve had a half dozen governors, as you would appreciate, come to me and say Kevin, when all of this blows over, we would love some recommendations from these 110 organizations who’ve come together to do this.” – Heritage Foundation …

Axios reports: House Democrats’ campaign arm is leaning hard into Project 2025 in the final stages of the election, launching billboards in more than two dozen districts blasting the conservative blueprint for a second Trump presidency, Axios has learned. Democrats have increasingly tried to tether Republicans to the plan as their polling shows it to be one of the most …

The Guardian reports: The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to former colleagues who spoke to the …

The Washington Post reports: Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign posted a list of her policy positions on her website Sunday, as the latest polls show her locked in a tight race with former president Donald Trump. Titled “A New Way Forward,” the page outlines her agenda on the economy as well as immigration and foreign policy. On each issue, the …

CBS News report: Spectators at the University of Michigan football game against Texas on Saturday will be reminded of a different rival before the game: Ohio State. At the Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, an aerial banner paid for by the Democratic National Committee will read: “JD Vance <3 Ohio State + Project 2025.” Fans at four separate college …

The Indiana Capital Chronicle reports: A survey sent to Noblesville area voters from a national conservative think tank contends election fraud is on the rise as part of illegal attempts to steal elections. The D.C.-based Heritage Foundation also claims to be nonpartisan, though its website highlights conservative views numerous times. The survey and two-page letter also include inflammatory language such …

“I can’t tell you how many MAGA people that I work with, really the hardcore, the most based, who are huge RFK Jr. fans. And they kind of were always kind of talking about it. But, remember, RFK Jr. went and interviewed for a job in 2016 at Trump Tower. “So, you know, their relationship goes back years. Some of …

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump and JD Vance may have avoided talking about Project 2025 but Tim Walz is determined to make the controversial conservative guidebook the focus of the touted first prime time vice presidential debate on October 1. After agreeing to take part in the proposed CBS debate, Walz went on the attack and made it clear …

The Guardian reports: A JD Vance-introduced book by a leader of Project 2025, the vast and controversial hardline rightwing plan for a second Trump administration, will be delayed until after the 2024 election. “There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our …