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A color guard practice before the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee. The convention will take place from July 15-18. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

BY KATHY SPILLAR | The women and girls of Afghanistan are in my thoughts lately, as the recently released U.N. special rapporteur’s report sheds light on the devastating impact of the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime in the time since they came back to power. Women and girls in the country are living under a brutal system of gender apartheid, experiencing the “deliberate systematized step-by-step eradication of their rights and freedoms.”

And to be honest, it seems like the right wing in America is trying to push women in this country in the same direction. Just look at their policy objectives outlined in Project 2025—a roadmap for a Republican presidency that would reverse over a half-century of hard-fought progress for women and girls.

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Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, during a news conference on government funding with the House Freedom Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Wealthy right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a detailed plan for the next Republican president to use the executive branch of the federal government to attack the rights of women, LGBTQ people and the BIPOC community, by eliminating the agencies and offices responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and placing trained right-wing ideologues in staff positions throughout the federal government. 

To develop this plan, the Heritage Foundation organized a broad coalition of over 90 conservative organizations—a who’s-who of groups that have led attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender studies, the Equal Rights Amendment and #MeToo initiatives.

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Donald Trump addresses the Susan B. Anthony 11th Annual Campaign for Life Gala on May 22, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

BY JILL FILIPOVIC | Republicans may, on paper, be moving away from the most extreme abortion stance. But they aren’t moving away from their aim of an extremist few ruling the many—and from there, they can and will do whatever they please.

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