Project 2025 thinktank behind lists naming 'woke' federal workers

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Source: The Guardian

Project 2025 thinktank behind lists naming ‘woke’ federal workers

Heritage Foundation gave the American Accountability Foundation $100,000 for list focusing on homeland security

Rachel Leingang
Thu 6 Feb 2025 11.00 GMT
Last modified on Thu 6 Feb 2025 11.04 GMT

A rightwing group that has created a series of blacklists to target federal workers it believes the Trump administration should fire has received funding for the project by the thinktank behind Project 2025.

A recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation called the “DEI Watch List” includes mostly people of color with roles in government health roles alleged to have some tie to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees in career roles who “cannot be trusted to faithfully execute the agenda of the elected President of the United States”. One calls out the “most subversive immigration bureaucrats”.

Tom Jones, the president of the American Accountability Foundation, said the organization had plans to add to its existing lists and create more. The group was designed to go after the “DC bureaucrats and leftist organizations” that had been allowed “to subvert, obstruct, and sabotage the America First agenda”, according to its website.

Founded in 2020, the group received $100,000 in funding for its first watchlist – focused on the Department of Homeland Security – from the Heritage Foundation, the rightwing thinktank behind the conservative blueprint Project 2025. The foundation called its list initiative “Project Sovereignty 2025” and said it was aimed at exposing the people behind the scenes who were advancing Biden’s border policies.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/project-2025-federal-worker-blacklist