JD Vance wrote a foreword to Project 2025 head's book about a "second American Revolution"

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance speaks at his rally inside Middletown High School, Monday, July 22, 2024 Photo: Cara Owsley/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK

Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), wrote a foreword to a book about Project 2025, authored by the architect of the conservative mega-plan, contradicting Trump’s claim that he “knows nothing about” it.

“In this ambitious and provocative book, Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts announces the arrival of a New Conservative Movement. His message is simple: Global elites—your time is up,” says the Amazon description for Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America. The front cover reveals Vance’s authorship of the foreword, and the Amazon description calls the book an outline for “a peaceful Second American Revolution for voters looking to shift the power back into the hands of the people.”

“Dawn’s Early Light blazes a warpath for the American people to take back their country. Chapter by chapter, it identifies institutions that conservatives need to build, others that we need to take back, and more still that are too corrupt to save: Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, BlackRock, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, to name a few”

According to Meidas Touch, Vance had also advertised the book on X before he was announced as Trump’s running mate. It is unclear what the contents of the foreword are, as the book will not be available until late September.

Put together by the conservative organization Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is, as GLAAD describes it, “a 180-day playbook of regulations and executive orders that could be signed and implemented by the next president upon taking office, a database of potential appointees, and an online ‘education academy’ to train appointees in its conservative tenets.” It’s an anti-LGBTQ+ policy document, saying that “Only heterosexual, two-parent families are safe for children” and advocating a ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.

Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 after public backlash. However, his Agenda 47 features much of the same as in Project 2025, especially in regards to LGBTQ+ rights. This includes restrictions on gender affirming care and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the government.

Moreover, it was put together by 140 people who worked for Trump in the past. Video from 2022 shows Trump at a Heritage Foundation dinner when the group was working on Project 2025. He called Heritage a “great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”

Roberts has been criticized for appearing to call for political violence. He said in a recent edition of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that the United States is “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be.”

The Amazon listing for the book contains multiple blurbs from conservative personalities, including Newt Gingrich, Tucker Carlson, and Vance himself.

“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism… We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Vance wrote in his blurb.

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