Project 2025 partners are trying to woo Black voters to the Republican Party, and some have used misinformation to argue that they’ll be better served by GOP policies than Democratic approaches, such as school choice and voter ID laws.
Yet these organizations often support policies that would harm Black communities and some have promoted racist stereotypes about Black families or attacked Black organizations. They’ve also promoted vaguely marriage-oriented initiatives to push two-parent households, arguing that marriage and family formation are the solution to the issues that Black Americans experience, such as higher poverty rates and racial profiling.
Project 2025 is a comprehensive transition plan to guide a potential second Trump administration with policy proposals and staffing recommendations. The effort’s guide book, Mandate for Leadership, includes a variety of proposals that would likely cause harm to Black communities, such as eliminating student debt relief efforts, instating work requirements for Medicaid, eliminating access to abortion, and nixing DEI programs and prosecuting those who continue them.
Mandate also blames “fatherlessness” — saying “forty percent of all children are born to unmarried mothers, including more than 70 percent of black children” — for an increase in “poverty, crime, mental illness, teen suicide, substance abuse, rejection of the church, and high school dropouts.”
Two Project 2025 partners have launched specific efforts to appeal to Black voters: Turning Point USA’s Blexit and the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21. Both of these groups are headed by Black conservatives and promote right-wing ideology.
Project 21 has argued in favor of stricter voter ID laws and against the Biden administration’s efforts to expand voting rights, while Blexit attempts to woo Black voters with anti-immigrant propaganda and a baseless accusation that Democrats think poorly of Black Americans and have no intention of helping them.
Below is a list of these organizations and examples of their efforts to target Black voters, their positions on topics that harm Black communities, and their negative commentary about Black communities.