Read theMandate

Project 2025

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise

The volume published as Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise and known publicly as Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation, 2023, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves. 30 chapters across 887 pages.

All 30 chapters indexed, holding 332 proposals. Each shows the document's own words, the page they are on, and anything that has happened since.

What this book is

This is a big book of plans for the government. It came out in 2023. A think tank called The Heritage Foundation put it out. Most people know it as Project 2025.

It has 30 chapters and 887 pages. Each chapter is about one part of the government. Different people wrote each one.

Pick one below to see what it asks for.

30
chapters indexed
332
proposals recorded
92
actions tracked
887
pages in the book
The other half of this site What has happened since January 20, 2025

92 actions recorded against these proposals, each with its date and citation. A record there is not a claim that this document caused the action.

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How much of the book is indexed

One cell per chapter, colored by section, filled once it has been broken into proposals.

All 30 chapters indexed. Each chapter page says what was taken from it and what was not.

Where the 332 proposals sit in the book

One bar per section of the book. Bar length compares one with another. It is not how much of a section is indexed.

How forcefully the book asks

Grouped from each proposal's own verb, quoted on its page. A hedged aside and a firm demand are different claims, and much public argument turns on treating one as the other.

A firm demand45
A recommendation274
A suggestion or a possibility13
Section 1

Taking the Reins of Government

3 of 3 indexed
Section 2

The Common Defense

6 of 6 indexed
Section 3

The General Welfare

11 of 11 indexed
Section 4

The Economy

6 of 6 indexed
Section 5

Independent Regulatory Agencies

4 of 4 indexed
How to cite this
  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023).
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

  2. This page

    Project 2025, indexed chapter by chapter. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.

How the Chapter List Was Built

Chapter openings were read from the body text and checked against the book's own table of contents. Every start page agreed. Page numbers are the printed page numbers, derived from the page markers in the extraction, not counted from the start of the PDF.

The source is the publisher's own PDF. Quotations link to the page they came from. The full document →