📢 Resist Project 2025 News — October 4, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today
🗽Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Read the latest updates and join us to hold our leaders accountable.
🗽Every action counts in the fight against Project 2025 and the slide towards fascism. Today in Resist Project 2025 we’re featuring October 4, 2025 news and critical calls-to-action.
Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Read the latest updates and join us to hold our leaders accountable.
Stop Project 2025 News Briefs
💰 Project 2025 Architect Takes Credit for Shutdown Cuts
Trump praised Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, for orchestrating deep spending cuts that triggered the government shutdown. Vought’s blueprint seeks to gut social safety nets and reengineer federal priorities around Christian nationalist ideology. Economists warn it’s an intentional sabotage of government capacity. Bloomberg
🎙️ How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government
Russell Vought, Trump’s former budget chief and architect of Project 2025, weaponized bureaucracy to serve far-right goals. By hollowing out federal institutions, he has paved the way for ideological control over government functions. This episode exposes how “starving the state” became a strategy to consolidate power. The New Yorker
👶 ICE Accused of Paying to Deport Children
Internal ICE records show payments for the removal of unaccompanied children, raising moral and legal alarm. The report details financial incentives tied to deportations, suggesting systemic cruelty in how immigration enforcement operates. Advocates call for urgent congressional investigations. The Intercept
🧷 ICE Used Zip Ties on Children During Chicago Raid
The New Republic reports that ICE agents zip-tied children during a Chicago apartment raid—part of a nationwide escalation of violent tactics. Witnesses describe terrified families and children restrained for hours. The story underscores how Trump’s immigration crackdown has normalized state violence against the innocent. New Republic
🌍 Global Alarm Over U.S. Democratic Backsliding
There is growing international concern as the U.S. slides toward authoritarian governance under Trump’s second term. Allies warn that the erosion of checks and balances threatens global stability and democratic norms. Experts describe the situation as “a test for the world’s oldest democracy.” BBC
🏘️ Trump’s “Shutdown Hero” Faces Backlash at Home
Russell Vought’s suburban neighbors condemn his role in the shutdown and call his extremist agenda “abhorrent.” Once seen as a quiet bureaucrat, Vought has become a driving force behind dismantling democratic institutions. Mother Jones
🧠 Trump Lies About Project 2025, But His Actions Expose the Truth
In The Hill, Lindsey’s Lens debunks Trump’s claim of ignorance about Project 2025. Despite denials, his administration’s policies mirror its extremist playbook—from purging civil servants to weaponizing agencies. The op-ed warns Americans to stay vigilant against deceit masked as “reform.” The Hill
🚨 The United Police State of America
The expansion of domestic policing under Trump is described as a “United Police State” where surveillance, deportations, and dissent suppression converge. The article documents collaboration between ICE, local police, and private tech firms. Civil rights advocates warn that this machinery is dismantling the very foundations of liberty. The Intercept
Together, we can Resist and Stop Project 2025
When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren't serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.
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Project 2025 is Harming Americans
Project 2025 is an extreme, authoritarian agenda that threatens American democracy, freedoms, and civil rights. Backed by conservative mega-donors like the Koch family and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 aligned groups, it lays out a 900+ page plan to centralize power under the presidency and permanently dismantle the federal government as we know it.
The plan would replace 50,000 nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists, grant the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve, and criminalize protest through militarized policing. It seeks to ban abortion and contraception, end LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and defund labor, environmental, and disability protections. Promoting Christian nationalism, it would erase the separation of church and state, suppress voting rights, and silence dissent—paving the way for a permanent far-right dictatorship.
Summary of Harms:
Dismantles democracy and installs authoritarian rule
Criminalizes dissent and minority communities
Ends reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights
Defunds public healthcare and education
Destroys labor, environmental, and disability protections
Increases tax burdens on working people
Erases civil rights and church/state separation
Suppresses voting and opposition voices
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