Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-188-july-31.html
RIGHT TURN USA: Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025
Project 2025 Continues The Historic… Fascist Project
By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The right wing counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, instructing the US Chamber of Commerce how to defeat the “attack on the American free enterprise system”. The Contract with America 1994 outlined Newt Gingrich’s plan for Republican Party control of congress. -more-
Southern Poverty Law Center: Year in Hate and Extremism Report
The extreme right prepares for the end of democracy.
In past decades SPLC has done an amazing job of compiling massive amounts of information on hate groups and their activities. This report is the background to the scary “Project 2025” summary by the Heritage Foundation released in June.
Be sure you are informed about what’s happening in our world Omni folks. Democracy is clearly in danger.
Postcards for Democracy
If you requested cards and don’t have them yet, they’re in the Omni office ready for you. There’s plenty of time to prepare them for mailing in October, but you don’t need to wait. Give Gladys a call (479-283-2167) to pick them up, get them delivered to your door, or mailed if you’re at a distance.
Email omni@omnicenter.org to request your own batch of Postcards for Swing States. Whatever happens in this crazy election, we NEED everybody to get out and VOTE!
The Best Counter To Project 2025 Is A Progressive Project 2025
There are some models to look to for what to do from Roots Action’s Progressive Hub Team:
Cori Bush, Activist-Politician, Still Inspires Working People Like Me
For comparison read The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Hett (2018), described by the publisher as
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.
For what might happen in AR see Ray Niblock’s futuristic novel on the right-wing takeover of Arkansas, The Last Independence Day.