Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in February.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick takes a knee while speaking during a keynote lunch at the Texas Public Policy Foundation Texas Policy Summit 2024.

The Heritage Foundation building in Washington, DC. Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, has stepped down after Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump became angered by news reports tying him to unpopular Heritage Foundation policy proposals.

The Heritage Foundation flag flies over its building in Washington, DC.

Former President Donald Trump., the Republican presidential nominee, at Festival Park on June 18 in Racine, Wis., a key swing state in 2024.

What starts here changes the world, the University of Texas at Austin’s motto says, and one Longhorn’s plan for a second American Revolution, known as Project 2025, offers a return to white supremacy, patriarchy and theocracy.

Before Kevin Roberts became president of the Heritage Foundation and the impresario behind a radical agenda for a second Trump administration, he was a doctoral student in the UT history department and later head of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Many of the ideas found in Project 2025 originated in the Lone Star State.

TPPF, with backing from Christian nationalist billionaires such as Tim Dunn, has long called for defunding public schools, banning abortion,........

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