The Secular Coalition for America (SCA), along with its 20 coalition partners, has submitted a letter to Senators John Thune and Charles Schumer, in opposition to the nomination of Russell Vought to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OBM). Vought supports the influence of Christian nationalism in our government, believes our nation …

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While an extremely lengthy and often frustrating read, there is much to analyze and learn from Project 2025 and its authors’ writing strategies. Cleverly using semantics throughout Project 2025, the authors somewhat successfully mask the fundamental reasoning behind, and severity of, many of their proposed solutions. Of course, given the widely negative news coverage across …

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A quick Project 2025 update: The director of the project, Paul Dans, announced he was stepping down from  the Heritage Foundation. This marks the end of the “policy operations” phase according to news reports. Which makes sense; 920 pages of conservative policy recommendations really seems like enough. Dans’ resignation is something of a response to …

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Donald Trump mentioned God nine times in his speech last week. Some of them were perfunctory like “God bless the United States of America,” but others were more personal. “If the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God.” “I stand …

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The following collection of quotes from Project 2025 includes all the significant mentions of religion, faith-based organizations, and even the Sabbath. It shows how religion, specifically “Judeo-Christian” religion, guides much of what Project 2025 proposes to change and/or eliminate in the federal agencies. The section on the Department of Health and Human Services even has …

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On debate night Donald Trump and President Biden were tied in the national polls at 41 percent, with Kennedy at 9 percent (!), according to pretty good polling website fivethirtyeight.com. Today it’s Trump 42, Biden 40, and Kennedy almost at 10 percent (I’ve been rounding). So Biden hurt himself in the debate, but not enough for it …

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The primary recommendation in Project 2025 for the Department of Education is to eliminate it. When President Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act in 1979 the goal was to bring various federal education programs at different federal agencies under one roof to improve efficiency. Project 2025 would simply reverse that process. It says, …

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If you spend a lot of time following what passes for political discourse you hear about the Deep State, or at least you did during the Trump administration. People who used to be called government employees, civil servants, or bureaucrats were suddenly referred to as the Deep State on the assumption that they were trying …

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