What leaked before the 2024 election, and what was actually in it?

"Project 2025 is a policy plan released in 2022 by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, for a future Republican presidency."

"Trump himself described the plan as “absolutely ridiculous” and said he was “not going to read it.”"

"ProPublica and Documented obtained 23 previously unpublished training videos totaling over 14 hours of content from the project’s Presidential Adm..."

"The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them."

"And now we’ve published on them and, as you helpfully pointed out, also published all of these 23 videos, totaling more than 14 hours, on our website."

"There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing Freedom of Information Act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren’t struck down by “left-wing judges.”"

"It’s an effort led by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank and other groups to remake the federal government, including by replacing civil servants with thousands of partisan political appointees who would help carry out the extreme policies envisioned by Project 2025."

"During the previously unreported speeches, ProPublica and Documented observed, Vought "detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest""

"“If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” Kozma says."

"The videos were obtained, reported upon and published by ProPublica and Documented"

"The training videos include discussions about undoing climate policy, combatting diversity efforts, denying freedom of information requests and more."

"Vought said that he and other Project 2025 leaders have assembled "detailed agency plans" and are "writing the actual executive orders" for Trump to sign if he defeats Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the November 5 election."

"“That position has to be eradicated, as well as all the task forces, the removal of all the equity plans from all the websites, and a complete rework of the language in internal and external policy documents and grant applications.”"

"In addition to the policy book, Project 2025 set out to create a database of 20,000 potential political appointees to shepherd into government if Trump wins in November."

"29 of them have a connection to Mr. Trump."

"his preparations for a possible second Trump administration have included constructing a "shadow" Office of Legal Counsel, the body that advises presidents on their powers."

"The videos appear to have been recorded before the resignation two weeks ago of Paul Dans, the leader of the 2025 project , and they are referenced on the project’s website ."

"First unveiled in October 2020, the initiative aimed at converting tens of thousands of federal workers in “policy-related” positions out of the competitive service, effectively making them at-will employees."

"I think you can expect that equity and all of the equity executive orders under Biden will be repealed early in the next administration."

"Vought "laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement.""

"conservative groups have continued to advance the policy, creating a list of 50,000 agency employees to convert and then threaten with termination."

"published data about members of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank behind a controversial plan to overhaul the US federal government."

""We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.""

"Though the videos don’t overtly discuss the Trump campaign or the Heritage Foundation-led transition project’s endorsement of Schedule F, conservatives repeatedly stressed the need for more “political control” of agencies."

"The Cybernews research team investigated the data sample and found that it includes heritage.org user data, including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords. In total, the leak exposes around 5,000 users."

"“The dump was made in late November 2022. The attackers likely found it after it was made by a system admin and insecurely stored somewhere. They likely did not get access to the database themselves,” researchers said."

"However, Heritage denied the hack , calling it a troll-led attention-seeking campaign."

"Across 14 hours of videos, obtained by ProPublica and Documented , a series of 36 speakers, more than two-thirds of whom worked for the Trump administration or one of Trump's campaigns,"

"A leaked dataset of the Project 2025 application questionnaires was released in June by the group Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets."

"The videos, part of the program's Presidential Administration Academy initiative for members of an incoming administration, include a guest casting doubt on climate change and gender equity, as well others offering tips such as avoiding reading mainstream newspapers and suggesting not leaving a paper trail of government documents to avoid future public scrutiny."

"The responses include allusions to severely cutting down federal agencies because of their “toxic ideologies”; halting immigration; and imposing a new test for voting."

"Others suggest handling sensitive matters in person to avoid creating documents that could later be subject to the Freedom of Information Act or reported by the press."

"I’m also very passionate about immigration — specifically, ending birthright citizenship, deporting all illegals and thinking about economic, other ways, to incentivize them to self-deport, building the wall and militarizing it with state of the art technology, personnel; instating a moratorium on all immigration, and revising the tests for citizenship, voting, other basic privileges of American l"

"In the same video, Katie Sullivan, a former assistant acting attorney general under Trump, argues a new president should take aim at school curricula on LGBTQ+ issues and roll back Joe Biden's initiatives to promote gender equity within government."

"I’m passionate about restructuring the administrative state, condensing the size and scope of the various bureaucratic agencies, defunding many of them, given how destructive they and their toxic ideologies have been on the American way of life; reform and shut down many of the intelligence agencies; fully upend the justice department; reform the courts; redesign Washington, D.C., and build an eve"