Amid the 2024 election, Donald Trump and Project 2025 have laid out detailed plans if Trump returns to power. They include everything from weaponizing the Department of Justice, to banning abortion access and IVF, to undermining public schools.

2025 imagines how these specific plans, if put into effect, would upend everyday American lives and the country as a whole. Let's keep these stories fiction, America. Defeat Trump to ensure they don't come true.

About the Author

David Pepper is a writer, democracy activist, former elected official, adjunct professor and lawyer, and former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party. He also currently serves as a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation.

Pepper is the author of two recent non-fiction books—Laboratories of Autocracy and Saving Democracy—which outline the threats to American democracy and how everyday Americans can play active roles in protecting democracy. Pepper has also written five novels.

Pepper’s work has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, and he is a regular guest on MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, many podcasts, and radio shows all over the country.