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This story has been co-published by The Guardian
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Our friends at @correctiv.org have published a story on a similar subject – why financial firms are reversing their climate commitments.
📝 @gabrielakeller.bsky.social, @gesasteeger.bsky.social
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Read our full investigation and explore the interactive map of the ties: buff.ly/KZ4eck9
Reporting by @joefassler.bsky.social
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"It’s stunning. I don’t think any historian of the religious right could have predicted just how swiftly these types of individuals would come to power, and the degree to which a president would lean heavily on them," one expert told us.
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This matters because Americans overwhelmingly rejected Project 2025. A pre-election survey showed 4% approval. Trump wouldn’t touch it. Yet the plan's architects and allies now run the executive branch.
"Personnel is policy," as the Heritage Foundation likes to say.
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Even DOGE connects back. We show that Elon Musk secretly donated $43 million to a subsidiary of Stephen Miller's America First Legal in 2022—long before Project 2025 was public. Today Musk’s DOGE has been carrying out Project 2025’s vision.
buff.ly/FfblMPg
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The America First Policy Institute was supposed to be separate from Project 2025, but our reporting shows deep entanglement. Eight current cabinet officials worked at AFPI, including:
👉 Brooke Rollins (Ag Sec, former CEO)
👉 Linda McMahon (Ed Sec, former board chair)
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Tim Dunn, a Texas oil billionaire, emerges as a crucial connector. His Convention of States project wants to permanently shrink government through constitutional amendments.
Four cabinet members have endorsed it. They're already 18/34 states toward calling a convention.
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Our investigation uncovered three seemingly separate centers of influence that are actually deeply intertwined with Project 2025:
🔹 Tim Dunn's Convention of States (constitutional rewrite)
🔹 America First Policy Institute (Trump's "shadow cabinet")
🔹 Elon Musk's DOGE
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Russell Vought, now OMB Director, literally wrote Project 2025's playbook on seizing executive power. His goal: "break the bureaucracy to presidential will."
He previously complained that federal employees kept telling him his ideas were "illegal."
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VP JD Vance tops our analysis with connections to at least 5 Project 2025 groups. He's been pushing this agenda since 2021:
"Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat. Fire every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people."
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The scope is breathtaking: More than 50 high-level Trump officials have links to Project 2025 groups. That includes 17 of 24 cabinet-level positions.
As one expert told us: "It shows the incredible bad faith of Trump's denials."