EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights

Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support

Episode Summary
Welcome to Surviving Trump. I’m Bella Goode.
This is the first episode in a new five-part series on Project 2025 — a sweeping plan already reshaping the U.S. government from the inside out. Drafted by the Heritage Foundation and backed by more than 100 right-wing organizations, Project 2025 is not a theory. It’s a 900-page blueprint for dismantling the federal system as we know it — eliminating checks and balances, replacing public servants with ideological loyalists, and rewriting the rules of everyday life.
This episode focuses on what the plan actually says, what it means for women in particular, and how much of it is already being implemented.

In This Episode
– What is Project 2025 and why does it matter?
– 10 core features of the plan that aim to dismantle American democracy
– How the blueprint targets women’s rights, healthcare, abortion access, and IVF
– A behind-the-scenes look at what’s already in motion — from personnel changes to policy shifts
– The bigger ideological vision: a return to male-dominated, theocratic government masked as “order” and “family values”

Why It Matters
Project 2025 is not about draining the swamp — it’s about replacing democracy with domination. At the heart of this plan is a radical effort to reshape society through executive orders, surveillance, purges, and forced obedience to a singular vision of power. And women are at the center of that vision — not as leaders, but as subjects.
This isn’t theoretical. It’s happening — right now.
If you care about democracy, freedom, equality, or even the right to make decisions about your own body — this is your wake-up call.

Next Episode
In Episode 30, we go behind the curtain:
Who’s funding Project 2025? Who’s writing the playbook? And what do they really believe?
We’ll trace the origins of the plan, explore the role of Christian nationalism and authoritarian ideology, and examine how Donald Trump fits into the machinery — not as a lone actor, but as the face of a well-organized, well-funded movement to consolidate power.

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Host: Bella Goode

Bella is a former Republican turned democracy advocate raised by middle class parents in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania with a masters of business administration from Wharton and a Masters Degree in Positive Psychology.

Career wise, Bella spent 20 years with American Express in New York and 20 years as an entrepreneur. She started and sold a fitness business that grew to 180 locations worldwide.

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