Overview
Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s ~920-page policy-and-personnel blueprint (“Mandate for Leadership”) for a second Trump administration — the master document the wiki’s authoritarian-playbook coverage repeatedly references. It functions less as an organization than as a coordinated implementation agenda: a list of executive actions, agency restructurings, and pre-vetted personnel now being executed.
Key Facts
- Authorship / scale: authored by former Trump-administration officials in partnership with the Heritage Foundation; ~920 pages spanning 30+ federal agencies. (Wikipedia, ACLU)
- Implementation pace (Feb 2026): the Center for Progressive Reform / Governing for Impact tracker found the administration had initiated or completed ~53% of Project 2025’s domestic administrative agenda — 283 of 532 tracked actions — within ~12 months of inauguration; community trackers put the figure near half of the full agenda. (CPR tracker, 19th News)
- “Project 2026”: the Heritage Foundation released a successor set of 2026 policy priorities extending the blueprint. (Axios)
- Wiki framing: treated as the “comprehensive policy and personnel blueprint for a second Trump administration,” and the “broader anti-LGBTQ+ project KOSA fits within.”
Newsletter Relevance
Project 2025 is the connective document behind several patterns the wiki tracks separately: Regulatory Weaponization, Federal Power as Political Instrument, Retroactive Executive Protection, and the Bad Internet Bills Campaign / anti-LGBTQ legislative wave are, in many cases, specific line-items of the same blueprint. Its measurable implementation rate (~53% in a year) is the rare quantitative handle on the “authoritarian playbook” thesis — it converts a vibe (“they’re following a plan”) into a tracked percentage with a named source, which is exactly the kind of falsifiable anchor the newsletter prefers over assertion.
Connections
- Heritage Foundation — the authoring institution
- Donald Trump — the administration executing it
- Regulatory Weaponization / Federal Power as Political Instrument / Retroactive Executive Protection — patterns that are, in part, Project 2025 line-items
- KOSA / Bad Internet Bills Campaign — the internet / anti-LGBTQ agenda it encloses
Source Appearances
- Referenced across the wiki’s domestic-power and internet-bills clusters as the master blueprint
Open Questions
- Does the ~53% implementation figure hold up to scrutiny (what counts as “implemented”), and how does it compare with the Project 2026 successor agenda?
- Which Project 2025 line-items have been blocked — by courts, Congress, or Coalition Fracture-style intra-GOP dissent — versus executed unchecked?
Web Sources (researched 2026-05-31)
- Wikipedia, ACLU (overview); Center for Progressive Reform + 19th News (implementation tracker); Axios (Project 2026 successor)