<![CDATA[The Gardens Gazette​ - Civic Punch]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:15:35 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Civic Punch Topics]]>Tue, 01 Feb 2028 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.thegardensgazette.org/civic-punch/civic-punch-topicsProject 2025
Heritage Foundation's plan to make the executive branch all powerful
7/8/2024 / Updated 8/15/2024
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Posted 10-13-2024
What Does Project 2025 Say?
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Posted 10-02-2024

Understanding What PROJECT 2025 Means For Our Military
1. Fire Flag Officers [2:03]
2. Freeze Promotions [2:52]
3. Kill Readiness and Diversity Training [3:57]
4. Recruit MAGA Radicals [4:48]
5. Invoke the Insurrection Act. [5:32]
Posted 8-15-2024

In undercover interview, Project 2025 architect gets candid on the initiative’s radical goals and connections to Trump
Media Matters / Justin Horowitz
    Key Project 2025 leader Russ Vought explains to undercover reporters how the initiative’s draconian policies would be implemented in a second Trump term, disavows Trump’s distancing from Project 2025, and outlines the “second phase” to their mission
Posted 8-15-2024
Historian  Heather Cox Richardson 
issues STUNNING WARNING about Trump
Posted 8-10-2024

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy 

by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
/ Aug. 10, 2024

The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos have previously worked for the former president. 
Posted 7-16-2024
​Heather Cox Richardson Talks Project 2025
July 15, 2024
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Posted 7-16-2024

Project 2025: 
Patty Satalia tells us what could happen if Trump is Reelected. 
>What is it?
>Who's behind it?
>What's at stake?
Posted on YouTube April 2024
Posted 07-09-2024

Full Text of Project 2025
Contributed by NPR

Several file formats for Project 2025
​provided by Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL
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What Trump doesn't want you to know about Project 2025
Popular Information / 7-8-2024 / Judd Legum
https://popular.info/p/what-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-know
via Twitter @JuddLegum

Wikipedia
    Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee, presumably Donald Trump, win the 2024 presidential election.
    It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable the next Republican president's policies. It seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.
    Proponents have framed the plan as a means to dismantle a supposed vast, unaccountable government bureaucracy. Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the U.S. into an autocracy.
    Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties, including the civil rights of women, persons of color, and the LGBTQ community.
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Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project
Established: 2022
Purpose: Reshape the U.S. federal government to support the agenda of next Republican president
Location: Washington, D.C., U.S.
Director: Paul Dans
Main organ: Mandate for Leadership
Parent organization: The Heritage Foundation
Budget: $22 million
Website: www.project2025.org 
Do you know what you need to know about Project 2025?
It's a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for turning America into a fascist police state by purging civil servants and suppressing dissent. It would impose a far-right, extremist Christian nationalist agenda on our country … by executive order and without an act of Congress.
If Donald Trump becomes president, then with the stroke of his pen:
* The Department of Justice will no longer be independent—and there will be no one left to stop Trump from charging his political opponents with crimes.
* The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) efforts to curb the spread of disinformation, including Russian propaganda, will be shut down.
* The Insurrection Act will be used to shut down protests and to deploy red-state National Guard units against blue states—even over the objections of those states' governors.
* Abortion will be banned nationwide using two approaches. First, through a radical right-wing interpretation of the Comstock Act, a long-dormant law from 1873; as one of Trump's lawyers says, "We don't need [Congress to pass] a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books."1 And second, by reversing the FDA approval of medication abortion, which is safer than aspirin.
John Oliver on Project 2025
/ Last Week Tonight / YouTube
Jun 20, 2024
Schedule F would convert 50,000 of career civil service employees into political appointees. Biden ended Schedule F, but Trump would reinstate it.
A Guide to Project 2025, 
the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
Media Matters / 3-20-24 Updated 7-1-24
]]><![CDATA[Aug 6th Primary]]>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:09:01 GMThttps://www.thegardensgazette.org/civic-punch/july-31st-2024​Primary Election: Aug 6, 2024]]><![CDATA[Special Election Seattle City Council]]>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:40:46 GMThttps://www.thegardensgazette.org/civic-punch/special-election-seattle-city-council
Special election to the Seattle City Council to represent Position 8 At-Large
   August 6, 2024 Primary Election Day
   November 5, 2024 General Election Day
In 2024, Seattle residents receive two $25 Democracy Vouchers they may donate to candidates running for City Council. Residents may assign one or both vouchers to any candidate who pledges to be in the program.

Seattle City Council Districts & Members
(We are in District 1, and our member is Rob Saka)
Positions 8 (Tanya Woo) & 9 (Sarah Nelson) are city wide.
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5 candidates are running in a special election to the Seattle City Council to represent Position 8 At-Large
4 candidates are eligible for Democracy Vouchers

Alexis Mercedes Rinck (challenger)
     https://www.alexisforseattle.com/
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Saunatina Sanchez (challenger)
     http://www.saunatinaforseattle.com/
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Tanya Woo (appointed incumbent)
     https://www.tanyawooforseattle.com/ (No endorsements webpage)
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Tanya Woo was appointed to fill the set vacated by Teresa Mosqueda’s election to the King County Council.

Tariq Yusuf (challenger)
     https://www.tariqforcouncil.org/ (No endorsements webpage)
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Saul Patu (Not eligible for Vouchers)
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From left: Tariq Yusuf, Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Saunatina Sanchez and Tanya Woo are running for the at-large Seattle City Council seat formerly held by Teresa Mosqueda. Woo was appointed to the seat in January. (Courtesy of the candidates)
Three progressives take on Tanya Woo in Seattle City Council race
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Seattle City Council appoints Tanya Woo to fill District 8 seat
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Council President Sara Nelson and Councilmembers Bob Kettle, Cathy Moore, Maritza Rivera and Rob Saka all voted for Woo’s appointment. Councilmember Tammy Morales voted for Mari Sugiyama, Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth voted for Lihn Thai and Councilmember Dan Strauss voted for Vivian Song. 

Alexis Mercedes Rinck Launches Progressive Challenge to Tanya Woo
The Stranger

Alexis Mercedes Rinck Touts Progressive Credentials in Race Against Woo
The Urbanist

Techie Tariq Yusuf Announces Challenge to City Council Member Tanya Woo 
The Stranger

Lefty Organizer Saunatina Sanchez Launches Challenge Against Tanya Woo for City Council
The Stranger

Civically Speaking with Saunatina Sanchez
Seattle CityClub / YouTube

Civically Speaking with Alexis Mercedes Rinck
Seattle CityClub / YouTube

Civically Speaking with Tariq Yusuf
Seattle CityClub / YouTube
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