MoveOn Urges Action Against Project 2025

MoveOn Urges Action Against Project 2025: A Call to Protect Social and Political Safeguards

MoveOn is urging members to sign a petition against Project 2025, a detailed plan by the MAGA movement for a second Trump presidency, which aims to eliminate social security, Medicare, corporate regulations, environmental protections, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. House Democrats have formed the Stop Project 2025 Task Force to oppose this agenda. The plan, backed by the Heritage Foundation, outlines authoritarian changes that could reshape America. The petition demands Republicans in Congress state their positions on Project 2025. The call to action emphasizes the importance of raising awareness and fighting back against this plan before the November election.

Why is MoveOn urging members to sign the petition against Project 2025? Because they believe the plan poses significant threats to various social and political safeguards in the United States. Here are the main reasons provided:

1. Elimination of Key Programs: Project 2025 includes proposals to eliminate or severely cut Social Security, Medicare, corporate regulations, environmental protections, LGBTQ+ rights, and abortion rights. MoveOn sees these as fundamental protections and social safety nets that are crucial for many Americans.

2. Authoritarian Shift: The plan is viewed as an attempt to centralize power and impose a far-right agenda, which MoveOn believes could lead to authoritarian governance. They argue that it threatens the democratic principles and civil liberties of the United States.

3. Awareness and Accountability: By signing the petition, members can help raise public awareness about Project 2025. MoveOn also wants to pressure Republican members of Congress to publicly state their positions on the plan, holding them accountable for their support or opposition.

4. Preventing Potential Damage: MoveOn emphasizes the importance of stopping Project 2025 before it can be implemented. They believe that if Trump or a similar candidate wins the presidency in the upcoming election, this plan could be enacted, leading to widespread changes that would negatively impact various aspects of American life.

5. Mobilizing Opposition: The petition aims to galvanize opposition against Project 2025, uniting people who are concerned about the potential impacts of the plan and encouraging them to take action to prevent it from being realized.

By encouraging people to sign the petition, MoveOn hopes to build a strong, collective resistance against what they see as a dangerous and extreme political agenda.

Stand Against Project 2025 - Poem by Denelsia Walker

In the land where freedoms blaze bright,

Where dreams are born under stars at night,

A shadow looms, a plan unfolds,

A tale of power, dark and bold.

Project 2025, a name we know,

A future where freedoms might not grow.

An agenda built on fear and might,

To strip away what’s just and right.

They speak of cuts to Social Security,

To leave our elders in insecurity.

Medicare, a lifeline, they aim to sever,

Leaving the sick to fend forever.

Environmental protections, swept aside,

In favor of profits, unchecked and wide.

LGBTQ+ rights, at risk they stand,

In this repressive, regressive land.

Corporate regulations, torn asunder,

Empowering greed to plunder and blunder.

Reproductive rights, a woman’s choice,

Silenced beneath an authoritarian voice.

But we, the people, will not be still,

Against this darkness, we climb the hill.

With voices strong, we raise the call,

For liberty, justice, and rights for all.

House Democrats, a beacon of light,

Form the Task Force, ready to fight.

To stop this plan, expose the lies,

To guard our freedoms, we must rise.

Together we stand, in unity,

Against this threat to democracy.

For every right they seek to betray,

We pledge to fight, we pledge to stay.

In every heart, let courage burn,

In every voice, let justice turn.

Against Project 2025’s dark tide,

We stand as one, we stand with pride.

For in our hands, the future lies,

Beneath these same, wide, open skies.

With every step, with every breath,

We guard our freedoms, we defy their threat.

So sign the petition, join the fight,

For a future where wrongs are made right.

For liberty’s flame, forever alive,

We stand against Project 2025.

- End of poem -

Please add your name to the petition to demand that all Republican members of Congress go on the record and reject Project 2025. This dystopian, discriminatory, undemocratic plan must be exposed and rejected.

Easy access link to sign the petition.

https://apnews.com/article/project-2025-trump-biden-election-congress-6899a1167a4522b1c8be371f7abe7ee9

Read the Full 920 pages here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise

APA Citation:

- Associated Press. (2024, June 11). House Democrats step up to try to stop Project 2025 plans for a Trump White House. AP News. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://act.moveon.org/go/193965?t=6&akid=393326%2E43743238%2E0kHKGf

- Media Matters. (2024, March 20). A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://act.moveon.org/go/189537?t=8&akid=393326%2E43743238%2E0kHKGf

- Pressley, A. [@AyannaPressley]. (2024, May 23). Post on TikTok. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://act.moveon.org/go/193967?t=12&akid=393326%2E43743238%2E0kHKGf

- MoveOn Political Action. (2024, June 15). House Democrats step up to try to stop Project 2025 plans for a Trump White House. AP News. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://act.moveon.org/go/193965?t=10&akid=393326%2E43743238%2E0kHKGf