Be brave for a minute and imagine a future Trump presidency. Think of him living up to his promise to be a “dictator on Day One.” Visualize the Project 2025 revenge tour against the “Deep State” and threats to use the legal system to round up immigrants and go after his political opponents. Picture how another Trump presidency not only endangers the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, but threatens the very fabric of our democracy itself. Now imagine what can slip through the cracks in all of that chaos. One thing that no one is talking about right now, but plays a huge role in the future of the American experiment is the census. Project 2025 has a plan to install partisan officials to decide who gets counted and who doesn't. (And you can imagine how that might go.) Here's why that could be devastating: The question of who gets counted plays a critical role in how state legislative and congressional maps get drawn, and how the federal budget is allocated. That's why it's always been nonpartisan officials in charge of the rules. What Trump's Project 2025 is trying to do is reshape our country by dramatically altering the census — whether it be for redistricting, or simply allocating funds from the government. The NDRC is doing everything we can to defeat these radical attacks on the census and our democracy. So please, rush a $30 donation to the NDRC today to power our democracy-saving work nationwide.
No matter how much they pretend to deny it, Project 2025 is designed to be a MAGA blueprint for how they're going to dismantle the federal government if Donald Trump is elected president. There's a lot of noise around this blueprint, so it's hard to keep track of what's real. Part of the problem is it's 900+ pages long, and they've already assembled an army of far-right extremists ready to implement it quickly. That's the MAGA plan: Overwhelm the American people so that the far-right takeover of American institutions, like the census, slip through unnoticed. In their perfect world, the radical overhaul of our census, along with other democratic norms like fair maps, will be just white noise in the mayhem of Project 2025. Please, chip in $30 and help support the NDRC's efforts to fight for our democracy today. Thank you, Biz
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