4. Backed by a coalition of over 100 organizations and individuals, at least 2/3 receive funding from the Koch network.
5. Make the Department of Justice cease to be independent from the executive branch, and instead be controlled by the executive branch, thereby destroying the separation of powers.
6. Put Christianity at the center of American Government and society by turning a biblical worldview into federal law.
7. Impose a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.
8. Attack reproductive rights from several angles, such as removing the term “abortion” from all federal laws and regulations, reversing abortion pill approval, punishing providers by withdrawing federal health funding, restricting clinics that provide contraception and STD testing, et.al.
9. Strike any mention of abortion from government laws, policies, and regulations, including every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists,
10, Reinstate the Comstock Act to ban, track, and limit “mail-order abortions”.
11. Restructure Medicaid to avoid providing reproductive health care and penalize providers who do.
12. Restore “religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate” through the Affordable Care Act that would allow employers to deny coverage.
13. Eliminate condoms from Health Resources & Service Administration guidelines because they are not a “women’s” preventative service.
14. Direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to eliminate any programs of projects that are deemed pro-abortion.
15. Undo Title X protections for reproductive health care, which currently provide low-cost contraception, STD screenings and prenatal care to low-income people.
16. Promoting anti-surrogacy positions that “all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them”.
17. Barring nongovernmental organizations receiving U.S. aid from providing abortion services or advocating for legal abortion.
18. Reverse a Buden administration policy that required hospitals to offer abortions in medical emergencies regardless of state bans.
19. End all fetal cell research and “ensure that abortion and embryo-destructive related research…become both fully obsolete and ethically unthinkable”.
20. Immediately review all major FBI investigations “and terminate any that are unlawful or contrary to the national interest”.
21. Project 2025 claims that “the DOJ has become a bloated bureaucracy with a critical core of personnel who are infatuated with the perpetuation of a radical liberal agenda and the defeat of perceived political enemies”.
22. Eliminating the FBI Director’s 10-year term, making him accountable to the President.
23.Complaining that federal law enforcement agencies spend too much time going after parents, instead “calls for a renewal in focus on violent crime.
24. Initiating legal action against progressive prosecutors who refuse to prosecute criminal offenses in their jurisdiction, “crushing the rogue prosecutor movement”.
25. Greater enforcement of the death penalty.
26. “Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military.”
27. “Eliminating three agency offices that are crucial for the energy transition” and reducing funding to different agencies related to renewable energy.
28. Environmental Protection Agency: “Shrinking the agency by firing new hires and eliminating the environmental justice department”.
29. “Rescind all climate policies from its foreign aid programs and shut down any offices or departments connected to the Paris Climate Agreement.”
30. “Recommends reopening the Artic for oil drilling, expanding other drilling projects, and leasing land in western states for coal mining.”
31. “Dismantling the DREAM Act and restricting the DACA program limiting temporary work visas from countries not on the current eligibility list and increasing processing and application fees for migrants.”
32. “Restricting T visas, which are temporary visas for certain victims of human trafficking, and U visas, which are given to victims that occur in the U.S.”
33. “Adding a citizenship question to the national census…attempted in 2019 but which was blocked by the Supreme Court.”
34. “Pursue appropriate steps to assist the Department of Homeland Security in obtaining information about criminal aliens in jurisdictions across the United States, particularly those inside ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’,”
35. “Massive increase in the authority of immigration and Customs Enforcement, including ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.”
36. “Bar U.S. citizens from qualifying for federal housing subsidies if they live with anyone who is not a U.S. Citizen or legal permanent resident.”
37. “Strip hundreds of thousands of individuals, many of whom have been in the U.S. for decades, of their legal protections by repealing all Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations.”
38. “Eliminating the Department of Education, getting rid of all teachers unions, and tearing down regulations on education spending.”
39. “The first sentence of Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Education simply states: ‘Federal education policy should be limited and ultimately, the Federal Department of Education should be eliminated’.”
40. “Advocates for American education through school vouchers, claiming ‘Ultimately, every parent should have the option to direct his or her child’s share of education funding through an education savings account (ESZ), funded overwhelmingly by state and local taxpayers, which would empower parents to choose a set of education options that meet their child’s unique needs’.”
41. “Eliminate the National Education Association’s congressional charter, which allows for the existence of teachers’ unions, calling it ‘a demonstrably radical special interest group that overwhelmingly supports left-of-center policies and policymaker’.”
42. “Remove federal oversight for funds under Title 1 ‘which provides support for low-income districts,” instead handling them as ‘no-strings attached’ state grants ‘with no regulation or oversight’. Federal education funding for students with special needs would ‘also be converted to unregulated block grants.”
43. “Eliminating any policies implemented that support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or so-called ‘critical race theory’, arguing that CRT specifically disrupts ‘the values that hold communities together such as equality under the law and colorblindness.”
44. And so much more.
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Thursday May 9th Meeting #654
Open
If you would like to speak, or simply would like more information about the College of Complexes, contact the Program Coordinators Tom Berry tomberry1@att.net 214-738-3386 ell): John Beesley johnb001@airmail.net 972-931-7770 (home).
NOTE: As too many people are either out of town, or otherwise engaged on Saturday nights, we have changed the College of Complexes, Dallas, to Thursday nights.
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To Disquiet the Minds of the People
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Weekly Free Speech Forum
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Thursday April 25th Meeting #653
Open Forum – Opposing Project 2025
Project 2025 is a comprehensive transition plan by the right-wing think tank Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration. Its extreme agenda represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more:
1. Focusing on packing the next GOP administration with loyalists.
2.Reinstate Schedule F (a Trump era executive order) to make federal employees fire-able at will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil- service protections.
3, Severely inhibit federal protections around reproductive rights, LGBTQ and civil rights, climate change efforts, and immigration. (continued below)
