Project 2025 allies are organizing to steal theelection

Media Matters found significant ties between authors, contributors, and partnerorganizations involved in Project 2025 — an

 extreme right-wing initiative

organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to thenext Republican presidential administration — and the ongoing right-wing effortsto disenfranchise voters and sow confusion about the 2024 election.The Heritage Foundation itself is at the center of many of these efforts; The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer

 identified

 the conservative think tank as one of the electiondenial movement’s “leaders” following the 2020 election. Heritage has extensiveconnections to election denial groups through both direct collaboration on votersuppression policies and the

 Project 2025 advisory board

, which includes morethan 110 conservative groups.According to the

 Brennan Center for Justice

, “Project 2025 threatens to reverseprogress made over the last four years by stripping crucial federal resourcesfrom election officials and weaponizing the Department of Justice againstofficials who make decisions the administration disagrees with.” The Project 2025policy book,

 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise

, recommendsdismantling the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which plays akey role in protecting American elections.

 Mandate

’s chapter on the FederalElection Commission was written by Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage legal fellowwith a decades-long career spreading voter fraud myths.The Heritage Foundation’s political arm, Heritage Action, is a member of the

 OnlyCitizens Vote Coalition

 — a collection of election denial activists and right-winggroups that voting rights experts say are spreading misinformation aboutnoncitizen voting. Only Citizens Vote was organized by prominent election denierCleta Mitchell, a Project 2025 contributor, and many of the Heritage plan’sadvisory board members are also Only Citizen Vote Coalition partners.In collaboration with The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, the groups andindividuals listed here are at the forefront of efforts to sow chaos and confusionin the 2024 election.

 Byline: Madeline Peltz and John Knefel

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The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action

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 4America First Legal

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 8American Legislative Exchange Council

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 10Conservative Partnership Institute

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 11The Center for Renewing America

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 14Honest Elections Project

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15Public Interest Legal Foundation

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 17Tea Party Patriots

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 19Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action

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 21American Principles Project

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