Project 2025: Follow Leonard Leo’s unholy war to overthrow American democracy
“Highly organized people who successfully overthrew the oldest democracy in the world.” – HandMaid’s Tale
Leo is funding Project 2025, a scheme to overthrow American democracy to install a Christian dictatorship, just like Gilead from HandMaid’s Tale.
Leonard Leo, the wealthy neo-conservative Catholic puppet master. Leo has funded 60 of over 80 Project 2025 initial advisory groups, including over half the Advisory Board in 2022, using hard-to-track dark money. Leo’s world is a tight knit, overlapping network of friends, Christian Right activists, and GOP lawyers at The Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Congress, and, unexpectedly, the Catholic sect Opus Dei. While Project 2025 represents a roadmap for autocracy – a future theocracy – it’s definitely a Leocracy. – Stop The Coup 2025
Follow the dark money and hidden relationships with this map based on research by Stop The Coup 2025 and other sources listed below. Who are the Opus Dei members? Who are the authors of the Project 2025? Who is contributing billions to Leo’s operations?
Leonard Leo
Leonard Leo, who co-chairs the Federalist Society, the influential conservative lawyers network in Washington, is known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. Leo served as former President Donald Trump’s judicial adviser — helping him select three justices while simultaneously directing the dark-money campaigns to boost their confirmations. His network has spread money around to help bring cases before the Supreme Court, determine which cases the justices consider, and influence the court’s decisions.
With success has come public attention. Leo’s summer home in Maine has become the site of regular protests. He’s also attracted legal scrutiny. Last summer, Politico reported that the Washington, D.C., attorney general launched an investigation into whether Leo has misused nonprofit laws for personal enrichment, following a watchdog complaint pointing out that nonprofits under Leo’s control have paid tens of millions to his for-profit firms. – Rolling Stone
Leo steered secret consulting payments to Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife
In November, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize a subpoena after Leo refused to provide lawmakers with a full accounting of all gifts and payments that he has directed to Supreme Court justices and their spouses. The vote followed reports that Leo steered secret consulting payments to Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, and arranged Justice Samuel Alito’s seat on a private jet — paid for by a billionaire hedge-fund chief — as part of an undisclosed luxury fishing trip in Alaska in 2008. – Rolling Stone
Welcome to Leo’s GILEAD in America
The United States Constitution is suspended, newspapers are censored, and America is changed into a military dictatorship known as the Republic of Gilead. The new regime moves quickly to consolidate its power, overtaking all other religious groups, including Christian denominations. Women become the lowest-ranking class and are not allowed to own money or property, or to read and write. Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions. – Wikipedia
The Commanders drawing up the blueprints for the new GILEAD society that divides women into rigid castes, back when they weren’t Commanders but just dudes with an outsized sense of self-importance. I think about men who dreamt of boiling down women’s careers, ambitions, dreams, and accomplishments, and leaving only their capacity to serve Gilead through rearing children or cleaning houses or toiling to their deaths in the colonies. I think about men who’d be happy to redefine womanhood without asking permission.
The hate fueling Gilead cannot be ascribed to one identifiable figure or movement, but rather on an amorphous collective of enemies that once hid in plain sight. All we’ll know about the orchestrators of Gilead is that they drank the same cocktail of fear, loathing, and conservatism. – Refinery 29
Stop the Coup 2025
TheStop the Coup 2025 campaignhas been launched to counter Project 2025’s agenda and address the urgent need to spread the word to LGBTQ+ and progressive communities about its dangerous threat to our democracy and lives. The project will address the burning question many ask when they learn of Project 2025: what can we do to fight back? Where is a progressive blueprint for action? What steps can we take? Most importantly, what works? What are effective strategies?
The fact is, there isn’t a single answer to these questions, but many ideas, field-tested strategies, and intersectional actions progressives can take on myriad fronts and cross-cutting issues. In New York City, Stop the Coup 2025 is convening seasoned LGBTQ+ activists to discuss and plan urgently needed responses to counter Project 2025. Stop The Coup 2025’s website is under development to provide information and resources to fight back on target topics and fronts of the Project 2025 anti-gender, anti-democracy agenda. – Stop The Coup 2025
TakeAway: No one is above the law. Not even Christian extremists with billions in dark money and Supreme Court justices beholden to them. Vote for President Biden and Democrats to stop the scheme to create a Christian dictatorship.
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- Leo and National Catholic Breakfast
Barre Seid Donated $1.6 Billion to Conservative Marble Freedom Trust — ProPublica
On 85 Fund and Concord and Corkery’s role: Leo Network Nonprofit Filings Reveal More Self-Enrichment, Continued Circular Profit Scheme – Accountable US
On Tyler Green administering, on Leo’s role. Marble Freedom Trust – InfluenceWatch
Ann Corkery and Becket Fund and Catholic groups: Wellspring’s Flow: Dark Money Outfit Helped Fuel Groups on Political Front Lines – OpenSecrets
Ann Corkery and Opus Dei – DeSomg
The anti-abortion conservative quietly guiding Trump’s supreme court pick | US supreme court – The Guardian
On Neil Corkery and Mifepristone: Leonard Leo is at the center of dark money effort to limit medication abortion – Minnesota Reformer
Opus Dei and Austin Ruse: I’ll Be Doing Opus Dei No Matter What – Crisis Magazine
On Oramel Skinner and two new nonprofits: Supreme Court Architect Leonard Leo Expands His Dark-Money Operation Rolling Stone
Reposted from Democracy Labs with permission.
