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It wasn’t long ago that AEI was the most prominent think tank on the right but Heritage went full fash and AEI stayed conservative and you rarely hear about the latter these days https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/16/project-2025-heritage-violent-rhetoric/
#heritagefoundation #Project2025 #fascism #Election2024


If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group w/a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of #Project2025. The #HeritageFoundation–backed coalition has crafted an agenda for a 2nd #Trump term that encompasses some truly unsettling policy ideas, & the amount of negative attention it’s gotten from Democrats, celebrities, & even Trump himself has led its leaders to retreat from the spotlight.

#law #extremism #Republicans #Evangelicals #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024



@silentLurker
#HeritageFoundation #Taxes #Legal

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...New York Times in January that he sees 👉the foundation’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.”👈

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/17/what-is-heritage-foundation-project-25/74426230007/


@silentLurker
#HeritageFoundation #Taxes #Legal

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...and while The Heritage Foundation enjoys that status, advocating for policies does not, per se, constitute a violation of the rules..." 2)

#Newsweek had also looked into this a couple of months ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-reported-irs-1923145

...as did a lawyer journal:

https://www.lawyerherald.com/articles/52982/20240711/heritage-foundations-project-2025-faces-irs-complaints-alleged-tax-exempt.htm

As to the Heritage "Foundation is neutral", believe the words of
Its "...President Kevin D. Roberts told The...


@silentLurker
#HeritageFoundation #Taxes #Legal

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....organization's tax-exempt status could be challenged:

...Internet users rallied around the idea that they 👉could send complaint Form 13909 to the IRS to challenge The Heritage Foundation's tax-exempt status👈..." 2)

However, reality proved, as always, more complex:

"...While it's true there are several conditions to obtaining and maintaining a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status,...

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https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/07/29/challenge-heritage-foundation-status/


@silentLurker

#HeritageFoundation #Taxes #Legal

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Tax-exempt, as you had implicitly guessed:

"2022 Income tax status:
The Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(a), as an entity described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal..." 1)

And you're not the only one to have questioned their status:

"...several internet users argued that due to its political activities, the nonprofit...

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https://static.heritage.org/annual-report/financials/TheHeritageFoundation_FinancialStatement_2022.pdf

@ProPublica


#HeritageFoundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of Information Requests

The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential #Trump administration would want to purge.

https://propub.li/4epcgnT

#News #FOIA #Government #Project2025 #Climate #Vote #Gender #Biden


"The man behind #Project2025 ... told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood #dog with a shovel...

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the #HeritageFoundation... told colleagues & dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s #pitbull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown #history professor at #NewMexico State University."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

#Republicans #Kill #Dogs #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News