Reject Project 2025."When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the lang of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." (Leviticus 19:34)
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Our Position
Pick a date in American history when all Americans were better off than they are today:
When was America “Great” Again?
Although not necessarily dependent on the election of Donald Trump for a second term, Project 2025, created by a “Who’s Who” of extreme far-right groups including Christian Nationalists, supported by tens of millions of dollars in funding from dark money donors, maps a clear plan of sweeping changes in our national life that will erode multiracial democracy in the United States under conservative political leadership. Spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 seeks to “rescue the country” from “elite rule and woke cultural warriors,” replacing democracy with Christian-based, state’s rights authoritarianism. The playbook for the first 180 days of the Trump Administration are detailed in a 900+-page document authored by leading far-right voices. The plan describes rollbacks of sexual health and reproductive rights, racial equity, LGBTQ+ equality, public education, climate, and environmental protections, all the while preferencing an exclusionary interpretation of Christianity and stripping rights from non-Christian/non-white communities.
This is a plan that will continue to drive far-right thinking into the future as Christian Nationalist groups push for these changes. Elements of the plan are already being put in place on the national, state and local level. We have been experiencing the same in Tennessee for years.
NJSJR rejects the premise of Project 2025 that American needs to be made great again. NJSJR rejects those aspects of Project 2025 that will arise in our own Republican Super-Majority State. NJSJR will be vigilant and decry legislation and policy which does not treat all Tennesseans equally and fosters a multi-racial multi-cultural democracy.
- 1776 – when women could not participate in all aspects of American political and economic society; when most Black Americans were enslaved?
- 1861 – when our country became embroiled in a civil war in which the freedom of Black Americans was at stake in the name of State rights?
- Prior to 1883 when there was no civil service system to prevent government employment from personal benefit and political control and when Jim Crow was rampant?
- Prior to 1935 when there was no Social Security system to provide financial stability in old age?
- Prior to 1954 when our public schools were segregated?
- Prior to 1972 when women did not have the right to control their childbearing?
When was America “Great” Again?
Although not necessarily dependent on the election of Donald Trump for a second term, Project 2025, created by a “Who’s Who” of extreme far-right groups including Christian Nationalists, supported by tens of millions of dollars in funding from dark money donors, maps a clear plan of sweeping changes in our national life that will erode multiracial democracy in the United States under conservative political leadership. Spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 seeks to “rescue the country” from “elite rule and woke cultural warriors,” replacing democracy with Christian-based, state’s rights authoritarianism. The playbook for the first 180 days of the Trump Administration are detailed in a 900+-page document authored by leading far-right voices. The plan describes rollbacks of sexual health and reproductive rights, racial equity, LGBTQ+ equality, public education, climate, and environmental protections, all the while preferencing an exclusionary interpretation of Christianity and stripping rights from non-Christian/non-white communities.
This is a plan that will continue to drive far-right thinking into the future as Christian Nationalist groups push for these changes. Elements of the plan are already being put in place on the national, state and local level. We have been experiencing the same in Tennessee for years.
NJSJR rejects the premise of Project 2025 that American needs to be made great again. NJSJR rejects those aspects of Project 2025 that will arise in our own Republican Super-Majority State. NJSJR will be vigilant and decry legislation and policy which does not treat all Tennesseans equally and fosters a multi-racial multi-cultural democracy.