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DAVIS: Project 2025, Eleven Months In

·December 16, 2025

During the 2024 presidential race, it was difficult to consume much political news without coming across a reference to Project 2025: the right-wing establishment’s plan to use a second Trump administration to usher in a fundamental reorganization of American public life. Since Trump took office in January and the authoritarian project officially got underway, though, coverage of the initiative has fallen off. According to online journalism archive Newsbank, which tracks more than 12,000 outlets around the globe, Project 2025 was mentioned more than 50,000 times in 2024. Though one might expect mentions to increase as the project steadily becomes reality, journalistic references to Project 2025 have declined by more than 30% this year. 

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DAVIS: Centrists Warned Dems Against Supporting Trans Rights. They Were Wrong.

·December 10, 2025

In the 13 months since the Democratic Party reached its modern electoral low point in the 2024 Presidential election, a crowd of centrist Democratic consultants have proclaimed that they have a simple answer to the party’s woes: abandon support for transgender rights. “It’s what the polling says,” they insist while ignoring everything the polling says about the economy. “It’s just too extreme,” they say, as if that’s a normal way to frame a discussion of human rights. 

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DAVIS: The Plot to Take a Local School District to the Supreme Court

·December 3, 2025

If you look at some of the most significant Supreme Court cases on cultural issues coming out in the last three terms, where have they come from?” the attorney quizzed the crowd of activists, advocates, and elected officials gathered in an air-conditioned Colorado Springs event center in August. He answered his own question: “Colorado.” He meant it as good news, and the crowd of attendees at the 2025 policy summit of a small but influential organization named Colorado Leaders for Academic Success, or CLAS, took it as such.

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