Project 2025 Is Already Here - And It's Worse Than Anyone Predicted
Hawk delivers a raw, unfiltered Saturday morning breakdown of Project 2025 and how the Trump administration has implemented it far beyond what the Heritage Foundation ever anticipated. Starting from his first podcast episode in December 2023, Hawk traces the origins of the Heritage Foundation's blueprint to dismantle the administrative state, eliminate the Department of Education, gut the EPA, and erase decades of labor and civil rights protections.
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Show Notes
The Trump administration fired over 300,000 federal employees, with Black women disproportionately represented among those let go. Pete Hegseth purged generals and military personnel. Kash Patel fired more than a thousand experienced FBI agents. Pam Bondi gutted the DOJ of over 6,400 people. The result: the very agencies Trump wanted to weaponize against his enemies are now too hollowed out to function.
The Minneapolis U.S. Attorney's Office lost 75% of its staff after prosecutors refused to charge protesters with terrorism-related felonies. Grand juries are rejecting politically motivated cases. Federal judges are throwing out prosecutions targeting figures like Letitia James and James Comey. Illegally appointed U.S. attorneys like Alina Haba and Lindsay Halligan are being blocked by the courts.
Hawk identifies three categories of resistance keeping democracy alive: everyday Americans confronting ICE, citizens serving on grand juries and rejecting bad cases, and federal district court judges like Judge Boasberg refusing to rubber-stamp political prosecutions. The episode closes with a brutally honest reflection on Trump voters and a focus group story about a disabled mother on Medicaid who supported stripping healthcare from trans kids even as the big beautiful bill threatened to leave her and her children homeless.
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