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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.

28 chapters indexed so far, holding 321 proposals. Each carries a verbatim quotation, the page it is on, and any action recorded against it.

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.

We have gone through 28 chapters so far. Pick one below to see what it asks for.

28
chapters indexed
321
proposals recorded
9
actions tracked
887
pages in the book
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9 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 when the chapter has been broken into proposals.

28 of 30 chapters. An unindexed chapter is listed but shows no proposals.

Proposals indexed, by section of the book

Counts reflect what has been indexed so far, not the size of each section.

1. Taking the Reins of Government48
2. The Common Defense90
3. The General Welfare125
4. The Economy47
5. Independent Regulatory Agencies11
How forcefully the document 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 demand43
A recommendation267
A suggestion or a possibility11
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

2 of 4 indexed
Chapter 27

Financial Regulatory Agencies

pp. 829–844 · 7 proposals indexed

David R. Burton, Robert Bowes

Chapter 28

Federal Communications Commission

pp. 845–860 · 4 proposals indexed

Brendan Carr

Chapter 29

Federal Election Commission

pp. 861–868

Hans A. von Spakovsky

Chapter 30

Federal Trade Commission

pp. 869–881

Adam Candeub

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.

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