#mallory mcmorrow

[tomorrowusa]

Two state legislators who gave high profile speeches at the Democratic National Convention tell MSNBC why the MAGA Project 2025 was the subject of their presentations last week.

A couple of nicknames I have for Project 2025 are Mein Trumpf and Roadmap to Gilead. This is not a document that is compatible with American democracy.

Trump lies outright by claiming he has no connection to Project 2025. A Trump cabinet member, Russ Vought, is one of the main cheerleaders and propagandists for Project 2025. Vought recently told British investigative reporters that people should ignore Weird Donald's feigned ignorance of the project.

This is a partial list of Project 2025 authors.

If Trump truthfully claims not to know dozens of members of his own administration then that's a clear indicator of his deep dementia. 🤤

The legislators who spoke to MSNBC are Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-08) and Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-181). They are the sort of people we need in our state governments.

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Sebastian Murdock at HuffPost:

Former President Donald Trump trashed Detroit in comments he made while speaking in the city. In a rambling, low-energy speech that went on for nearly three hours at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump complained about Vice President Kamala Harris, including her “60 Minutes” interview, and warned that if she’s elected, the entire country “will end up being like Detroit.”

“The whole country’s going to be like — you want to know the truth?” Trump said. “It’ll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands.” Earlier this year, Trump also reportedly bashed Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention was held back in July. “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city,” he said at the time. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan slammed Trump’s latest comments and said the city is on an upswing. “Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing,” Duggan posted on X, formerly called Twitter. “Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help.”

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) told Trump to “keep Detroit out of your mouth.” “Detroit is the epitome of ‘grit,’ defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities—something Donald Trump could never understand,” Whitmer wrote on X. “So keep Detroit out of your mouth. And you better believe Detroiters won’t forget this in November.” State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) was even more direct in her response to Trump. “As a proud elected representative of tens of thousands of Detroiters: Fuck this guy,” McMorrow said on X. “Don’t come back.”

Speaking at the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan on Thursday, Donald Trump pushed the racist dogwhistle that “our whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Kamala Harris gets elected.

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Daily Kos: Donald Trump craps on Detroit during speech in Detroit

[hear-what-she-said]

Mallory McMorrow leading the way, staying in Michigan to build on and solidify the hard-earned transformation of state government rather than going for an open US Senate seat.

[originalleftist]

An MI state senator, Mallory McMorrow, just went up on stage and read off passages from Project 2025 to the crowd, then explained exactly how they would lead to dictatorship.

She's a damn fine speaker too, very fiery. Watch this woman, she's going to be a rising star in the party, mark my words.

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Choice quotes in response to Trump:

“Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help.” —Mayor Mike Duggan

“Keep Detroit out of your mouth.” —Big Gretch

“Fuck this guy.” —State Sen. Mallory McMorrow

Trump, Speaking In Detroit, Trashes Detroit https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-detroit-comments_n_67083d36e4b0c34b3eba601c?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[mugiwara-lucy]

This….was an INGENIOUS move by Mallory McMorrow! To host this at the Democratic National where TONS of people will be watching was the BEST move she could have done!

And couple that with Trump towers being covered with a Project 2025 label; we are WORKING to get the word out about the HELL he and his cronies will bring America should he bring his 34 count Convicted Felon Epstein file ass back into the White House. Which he won’t as long as we vote and we vote BLUE! Sadly there aren’t enough states for a potential Third Party vote…BUT We can worry and fix the system to give more of a chance for Third Party votes next term. Thank you 🙏

Have a listen below!!

[mariacallous]

As Project 2025 becomes more and more of a detriment to Donald Trump’s campaign, the fingerprints of people close to the Orbán-government are becoming increasingly apparent. Recently, the project’s training videos for internal use were leaked, featuring several people cooperating with the Hungarian PM’s political network.

Since replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris’s campaign positioned Project 2025, the roadmap created by a potential second Donald Trump presidency as a central issue of this year’s presidential election. Most recently, the Heritage Foundation’s project was bought up extensively during the August Democratic convention.

One speaker, Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow even brought a giant copy of the 900-page document, calling it the playbook of Trump’s prospective term and comparing its content to a dictator’s policies.

Trump for his part has been ambiguous about his relationship with the project. While reportedly endorsing it earlier, he denounced the project after it was targeted by the Democrats, claiming he knows nothing about it and doesn’t know who is behind them, while calling some of its content „ridiculous and abysmal”. In truth, many of Project 2025’s authors are former members of Trump’s administration.

Trump also did not help his case by appointing J.D. Vance as his running mate, a man close to Heritage Foundation’s president Kevin Roberts. Vance also attempted to distance himself from the project and claimed that he and Roberts were merely personal friends. In the Heritage Foundation, these denouncments led to the resignation of Project 2025 director Paul Dans.

A shift to illiberalism

Among other goals, Project 2025 envisions a massive purge of federal civil servants, replacing them with political appointees ready to further the agenda of „the next conservative administration”, removing many of the checks and balances that limit the executive branch’s power. Critics compared the roadmap to the strategies employed by autocratic leaders often praised by Trump, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.

Orbán’s political network likely had direct influence on Project 2025: Heritage Foundation and many of Project 2025’s authors have a history of working with organizations funded and controlled by the Hungarian government.

Originally a proponent of Reaganite Neoconservatism, the Heritage Foundation in recent years has become influenced by Trump’s brand of populism, and shifted towards isolationist foreign policy, especially when it comes to responding to the actions of Putin’s Russia. This transformation was finalized with Kevin Roberts becoming the think-tank’s president in 2021.

Roberts saw Orbán’s „illiberal state” as an example to follow. In 2022, Orbán welcomed Roberts in Budapest, and Heritage signed a cooperation agreement with the Danube Institute. The so-called educational institute is a branch of the Lajos Batthyány Foundation, a lobbying and network-building organization funded directly by Orbán’s government.

In December 2023, the Heritage Foundation hosted an international conference where people affiliated with the Orbán government (including officials of the Hungarian Embassy in Washington) lobbied US Congressmen to vote against the Biden administration’s planned military aid to Ukraine.

A direct influence of Orbán allies

More recently the investigative organization ProPublica published hours of training videos, made for internal use by the Heritage Foundation, instructing would-be political appointees in furthering the aims of Project 2025. Several of the people appearing in these videos have previously worked with the Danube Institute or other similar pro-Orbán organizations.

In one of the training videos, Spencer Chretien, co-director of Project 2025, offers advice regarding political appointees. He says that in a new conservative administration „loyalty and ideology are more important than professional experience”.

Chretien was previously involved in building ties between the Heritage Foundation and Hungary. In May 2024, the (Hungarian) Center for Fundamental Rights – another state-funded organisation that exists mainly to praise Orbán’s government – hosted representatives from the Heritage Foundation, including Chretien.

In this event entitled “We Win, They Lose – America’s Choice”, Chretien presented Project 2025.

The project was also showcased in Hungary at another event in February 2024, this time organized by the Danube Institute. There, the Heritage Foundation was represented by Troup Hemenway, Senior Advisor to the Foundation and Co-Director of Staff Placement for the 2025 project.

In another leaked educational video, Roger Severino, a former Trump administration official, spoke about the role of political appointees in the legislature.

Severino last visited Hungary last year: according to Mathias Corvinus Collegium, he was invited by the entire Heritage management team to Budapest for a discussion on education, including Severino and Heritage President Kevin Roberts.

Mathias Corvinus Collegium is a private educational institute which received vast sums of public funds and was transformed into a trainig ground for young pro-Orbán elites.

In the video titled “Presidential Transitions”, Ed Corrigan and Rick Dearborn discuss how to apply for a political appointment during a presidential transition. Dearborn was Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Trump administration, Corrigan was a member of Trump’s transition team and is currently President and CEO of the Conservative Partnership Institute.

In January 2023, the Center for Fundamental Rights hosted a joint event with the Conservative Partnership Institute in Washington, D.C. In February 2024, the Liszt Institute, part of the Hungarian Department of Culture and Innovation, hosted a joint event with the Conservative Partnership Institute in Washington, D.C. At this event, Ed Corrigan presented a book written by Balázs Orbán, a member of Viktor Orbán’s cabinet, together with the politician.

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I took my own identity back and defined myself specifically as a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen.

Mallory McMorrow

[porterdavis]

MI Democratic women got the job done with legislation for safe gun storage.

The GQP's proposal? Trauma kits -- teach 3rd graders how to apply a tourniquet.

[dhaaruni]

The Michigan Senate primary discourse is so funny like on one hand, you have Representative Elissa Slotkin, who has a national security background and flipped and held a competitive district by running almost solely on abortion rights in 2022, and on the other hand, you have Hill Harper, a TV actor who doesn't even live in Michigan lol.

The reality is that Hill Harper is basically Democratic Dr. Oz, so why would people vote for him? It's so inconsistent that people who HATE Dr. Oz, and really supported Senator John Fetterman, who ran a campaign that was like 50% "ha ha Dr. Oz lives in New Jersey," are going all in on Hill Harper, and inconsistency is my #1 pet peeve.

Anyways, it's no wonder that Mallory McMorrow endorsed Slotkin, CIA girlbosses stay winning!

[tomorrowusa]

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow may just be my favorite person in Michigan. Many people may know her as the legislator who denounced her Trumpist legislative colleague Lana Theis for spreading hate literature last year in an effort to smear Democrats like Sen. McMorrow.

Michigan Democrats won bigtime in 2022 and now control both chambers of the legislature as well as the governor’s office. Because of these victories the state has enacted strong protections for reproductive freedom, for lgbtq+ rights, and a “red flag” law to temporarily remove guns from individuals in danger of harming themselves or others.

Because of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last year, more attention has been drawn to state governments and to the powers they exercise. Sen. McMorrow feels strongly that state governments should not be viewed as the equivalent of minor leagues to the federal government. She told MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin...

We’ve gotta stop looking at Washington as the only thing that matters.

I think that something that has been really irritating to me is this idea that somehow state legislatures are the bench. That always implies that higher office means that it’s somehow a promotion.

And that gets us back into this mess that we started in, where we ignore what’s happening in the states and state legislatures and then they chip away and chip away and chip away and before we know it we’ve lost two thirds of controls of state legislatures like we did starting in 2009.

Amen! 👍🏼

Obviously we can’t afford to ignore federal politics. But it should never be to the exclusion of what goes on in our state capitals.

Republicans have made deep inroads this century because they have concerned themselves with both the state and federal levels while Democrats had treated state politics as poor cousins to federal politics. That has begun to change this decade with Michigan and Minnesota now having Democratic trifectas and using their power to enact smart progressive legislation.

We all need to take more interest in our states’ governments. A good starting point is to discover who the people are who represent us in our legislatures. This link helps with that.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

Mallory McMorrow in the Michigan Senate is determined to turn her state into what she calls the “anti-Florida”. Help your state become the “anti-Texas”, the “anti-Tennessee”, or the “anti-Idaho”.

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Clara Hendrickson at Detroit Free Press:

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, walked onstage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with a prop: A giant book featuring the cover of Project 2025, a playbook for the next conservative presidential administration. McMorrow slammed the book on the podium. "This is Project 2025," she said, prompting boos from the crowd of Democrats. "And whatever you think it is, it is so much worse." During a theatrical five-minute speech Monday night, McMorrow focused on how the book from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — whose authors include some who served in former President Donald Trump's administration — lays out a "plan to turn Donald Trump into a dictator." She flipped to page 535 of the book and highlighted its call to reissue a Trump executive order to overhaul the U.S. civil service. "They're talking about replacing the entire federal government with an army of loyalists who answer only to Donald Trump," McMorrow said. She turned to another page and zeroed in on a passage underscoring conservatives' belief "in either ending law enforcement activities of independent agencies or ending their independent status." It was included in a section about the future of the Federal Trade Commission and its antitrust enforcement.

But McMorrow said the passage lays out an ominous future for other federal law enforcement agencies. "But what it means is that under Project 2025, Donald Trump would be able to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He could even turn the FBI into his own personal police force. That is not how it works in America," McMorrow shouted over cheers. "That's how it works in dictatorships. And that's exactly what Donald Trump and his MAGA minions have in mind: an expansion of presidential powers like no president has ever had or should ever have."

Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) took the stage at the DNC Monday night and rightly ripped Project 2025 for serving as a blueprint for a Trump dictatorship. #DNC2024