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No matter where you might fall on the political spectrum during this election season, there’s one question you might have found yourself asking across the past few months: 'What is Project 2025, anyway?' The document — prepared by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, and also known as ‘Mandate For Leadership: The Conservative Promise’ — is an extensive manifesto on how to reshape the federal government in the United States, including the reclassification of federal employees as political appointees, making them easier to fire and replace by the President, and suggests several drastic measures, including the abolishment of the Department of Education, the institution of climate change denial as official government policy, and eliminating the independence of agencies including the Department of Justice, the FBI, and FCC.

Since its publication, Project 2025 has drawn such criticism from legal experts, scholars, current and former government and law officials, and other experts that former President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge about it, despite the fact that former members of his administration were involved in its writing, and the former director of the Heritage Foundation has spoken about his visits to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on “several” occasions. Regardless of such denials, it’s assumed that the policy book — which clocks in at almost 900 pages — will be a blueprint for a second Trump administration should the former Apprentice host and convicted felon win re-election in November’s election.

And yet: how many people actually know what’s in Project 2025? Again, it’s almost 900 pages long, and hardly the most well-written, or easy-to-understand document… which is a problem for something that could potentially reshape American politics forever. If only there was some way to make it easier to understand for voters. If only it was… you know… a comic. Or better yet, a series of comics for each subject.

Enter Stop Project 2025, a collection of online comic strips attempting to decode and explain what’s actually in the monolithic agenda, and give people the information they legitimately need to know before headed to the ballot box. Featuring creators including Jeff Parker, Steve Lieber, Matt Fraction, Gene Ha, Denys Cowan, Greg Pak, Evan Narcisse, Lilah Sturges, Zoe Tunnell, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, and many more, the project features 15 strips breaking down and explaining what Project 2025 wants to do to the United States.

"The Stop Project 2025 Comic initiative is an effort by part of the comic book creative community to stand up and shine a light on something we feel is a major problem — attempting to usurp our fundamental rights," explained a statement provided to Popverse. "From women’s health care to trans rights, Project 2025 is a terrifying blueprint of what the far right is trying to perpetrate against the freedoms of the people of the United States. 50 members of our community have banded together to expose what we feel are gross abuses planned in this manifesto, and we are trying to present them in a clear and concise way, utilizing the art form we love — comic books — to clearly explain in the graphic narrative medium what Project 2025 is trying to do. The end goal is to make voters aware and help them make informed choices. With the election less than one month away, an informed voter is of paramount importance."

Jeff Parker, who wrote two of the strips in the project, added, "The whole Project 2025 document tries to stupefy the reader with walls of text so you assume there is some kind of well-thought planning particular to the government agencies. There isn't. You can actually shorten most of it to “Privatize most of it and give those jobs to our cohorts. And cut out anything that impedes their business, even if it’s designed to protect the public.” As a result, it’s hard to read through for voters who want to do their homework. Comics is a perfect medium to cut through that dense verbiage and show the public what intent is buried in there. I think a lot of us were happy to use our very particular set of skills to help make clear the danger this initiative represents."

The comics are available to read online at StopProject2025Comic.org — a site that also includes a link to voter registration site Vote.org, because it’s not too late to make sure that your voice can be heard in the upcoming election. Read the comics, educate yourself, and vote.

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