FROM PROJECT 2025 TO PROJECT 2029: How We Resist an Authoritarian Takeover and Turn Public Administration into a Force for Equity and Justice
This toolkit offers a road map to respond to the threat posed by Project 2025 to equitable, democratic and accountable public institutions, particularly our federal agencies, as well as longer-term strategies for turning public administration into a force for equity and justice.
Project 2025 poses a profound authoritarian threat to democratic governance and our vision of a just, equitable, and multi-racial democracy. It seeks to dismantle the core democratic and increasingly equitable functions of public administration and turn federal agencies into instruments of repression, with disastrous consequences for communities of color, workers, immigrants, middle- and working-class families, women, and LGBTQ+ people.We prepared this toolkit because we cannot afford to ignore Project 2025’s plan to “deconstruct the administrative state.” Without democratic, accountable institutions to implement our policies and enforce our rights, we cannot build the just society we envision. When we push transformative policies to advance racial equity, we depend on systems of public administration capable of turning those policies into equitable and just realities.To prepare our resistance to an authoritarian takeover, this toolkit shares strategies that can help block Project 2025’s power-grab. To counter the far-right threat in the long run, we must address and eliminate the injustices that fuel authoritarianism and fail our multiracial democracy. This toolkit offers ideas for turning public administration into a force for equity and justice and reviews progress made in recent years.With this toolkit we seek to plant seeds for a collective Project 2029 driven by the movement for a multiracial democracy.