After Project 2025 author Kevin Roberts delayed the release of his book until after the election, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“In the latest display that Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is in full control of Project 2025, the far-right architect of this extreme agenda is now desperately trying to hide his book (and its ‘violent’ foreword written by JD Vance) until after the election. Vance’s deranged foreword already spewed dangerous rhetoric that called for MAGA extremists to ‘circle the wagons and load the muskets’ while praising Roberts’ extreme ideas as an ‘essential weapon.’ If that kind of violent language was in the foreword, we can’t even imagine how bad the rest of this Vance-backed propaganda is – but Project 2025’s radical anti-democracy plans give us a pretty good idea.”

NEW: The Project 2025 architect has now delayed the release of his new book – which JD Vance wrote a “violent” foreword for – until after the election.

RealClearPolitics: “Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, will delay publication of his forthcoming book in the wake of a media firestorm sparked by Democratic criticism of the Heritage-led initiative Project 2025, RealClearPolitics is first to report.

“Notably, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a friend of Roberts and the Republican nominee for vice president, wrote the foreword of that book entitled ‘Dawn’s Early Light.’”

EXPOSED: JD Vance wrote the book foreword for extreme Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts, praising his “bold new vision for the future of conservatism in America” and calling for a revolution.

New Republic: “Vance has deep ties to the Heritage Foundation, and in particular to Kevin Roberts, who has been president of the right-wing think tank since 2021 and is the architect of Project 2025. Vance has praised Roberts for helping to turn the organization ‘into the de facto institutional home of Trumpism’ and has endorsed elements of Project 2025. Vance is also the author of the foreword to Roberts’s upcoming book.

“But the inspiration for that extreme language can be found in Vance’s foreword, which ends with a call for followers to ‘circle the wagons and load the muskets,’ and describes Roberts’s ideas as an ‘essential weapon’ in the ‘fights that lay ahead.’

“Vance’s foreword is also, notably, a call for revolution. ‘The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems,’ he writes. ‘We are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach.’”

New Republic: “When the book first became available for pre-order on June 19, Vance promoted it on X, writing, ‘I was thrilled to write the foreword for this incredible book, which contains a bold new vision for the future of conservatism in America.’”

Raw Story: “Trump’s V.P. pick pens foreword to Project 2025 book after ex-president denies involvement”

Vance has praised Project 2025 as containing “good ideas” and cozied up to Roberts in the past.

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

New Republic: “Project 2025 Leader Is Overjoyed by Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick”

Nick Corasaniti, New York Times: “[Kevin Roberts] reacted to the news [of Vance’s VP selection] ‘with a broad smile on my face’ and said that ‘privately, we were really rooting for him.’”

Gram Slattery, Reuters: “Vance is very close to Heritage and even wrote the [foreword] for a book from the think tank’s president. Project 2025 is of course organized by Heritage.”

Vox: “Kevin Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the driving force behind Project 2025, told Ward that ‘[Vance] is absolutely going to be one of the leaders — if not the leader — of our movement.’”

Vance: “I want to thank especially Kevin Roberts and all the Heritage Foundation for 50 years of incredible work on conservative policy.”

Vance: “I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, is fire every single civil servant … replace them with our people.”

Politico: “The résumés of Vance’s senior staffers read like a phone book for the New Right ecosystem in Washington: the Claremont Institute, American Compass, the Conservative Partnership Institute, Hillsdale College.”

Politico: Project 2025 author and RNC Platform Committee Policy Director Russ Vought is a “close ally of Vance.”

Roberts recently warned of potential violence and threatened a “revolution.”

New York Times: “Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’”

Rolling Stone: “Right-Wing Think Tank Leader Promises Revolution, Warns of ‘Bloodshed’”

“Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of ‘bloodshed’ in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law.

“Later in the broadcast, Roberts predicted that his ‘second revolution’ would be complete by 2050, and that it would coincide with a new ‘great awakening’ that would bring America to God — underscoring the extent to which Heritage and its Project 2025 is entwined with Christian nationalism. Roberts insisted that ‘God’s law can, in fact, be a huge influence on the civil laws.’ And he offered a constrained vision of American liberty: ‘Our definition of ‘freedom’ is not the freedom to do whatever the heck we want, but the freedom to do what we ought.’” 

With Vance joining Trump’s MAGA ticket, it’s even clearer that Project 2025 is “undeniably a Trump-driven operation.”

Axios: “This is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

Politico: “Many of the authors of the blueprint are former Trump officials, and the Heritage Foundation has spent the past year-plus recruiting people to implement the plans within the administration, Scott said.

“‘So they don’t just have a long, sprawling policy document,’ he said, ‘they also have a growing list of staff who are being tested to see if they are loyal to Trump and if they are willing to administer this in his potential administration.’

“While groups like Heritage have put forward conservative policy proposals in the past, Scott said Project 2025 is distinct in that it’s so comprehensive and far-reaching.

“‘It has so many groups contributing to it. It’s the whole conservative policy movement gathered together,’ he said.”

The Week: “Many of Trump’s indicated plans for a second term fall in line with the Project 2025 outline.”

New York Times: “Roberts told me that he views Heritage’s role today as ‘institutionalizing Trumpism.’ This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ‘the Trump administration … simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.’”

The more the American people learn about Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, the more they dislike it. 

Navigator Research: “Americans oppose all the key elements in Project 2025, with the greatest concerns around health care, worker’s rights, and dismantling federal programs. Over four in five Americans oppose an array of policies proposed in Project 2025 such as ‘allowing employers to stop paying hourly workers overtime’ … Additionally, four in five oppose ‘allowing the government to monitor people’s pregnancies to potentially prosecute them if they miscarry.’

“Americans’ overall opposition to Project 2025 increases after reading about its specific policy goals.

“Three in five Americans say Project 2025 would benefit the wealthiest Americans, CEOs, and corporations.”

Miami Herald: “As Americans learn more about Project 2025, they become more opposed, poll finds”