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About this site
What this is, what it refuses to do, and how to check it.
This site shows what big policy books really say. The first one is Project 2025.
We do not tell you if a plan is good or bad. That is not our job. We just show you the words and where to find them.
Every quote has a page number. You can look it up and see for yourself. If two people read the same part in different ways, we show both ways.
Write to us at contact@readthemandate.org.
What this is
A page-cited index of policy documents, and a sourced record of what has happened against them. The first document indexed is the volume published as Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise and known publicly as Project 2025. The site is built to hold several documents.
What it refuses to do
It does not say whether a proposal is good or bad. It keeps three kinds of statement apart and labelled: what a document says, what has happened, and what people say about either. A reader hostile to a document and a reader sympathetic to it should both find this site accurate; that is the only version worth building, because on contested subjects credibility is the entire product.
Much of the public argument about documents like these consists of claims about what they contain. Some are accurate, some are not, and they run in both directions. The value here is that a reader can check, against the page.
How to check it
Every quotation carries the page it is on and links into the publisher's own copy. Every action carries its Federal Register citation and links to the record. Where a reading is contested, both readings are recorded and neither is resolved.
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Contact
Corrections, rights enquiries and everything else: contact@readthemandate.org.