Delray Beach, FL — Truth Wins Out (TWO) today released “Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America, Volume II” — a hard-hitting report that peels back the veneer of Project 2025 and exposes the people and organizations working to remake the United States into an authoritarian dystopia.
“We are spotlighting Project 2025 Advisory Board organizations who are determined to transform America into an autocratic hellscape.” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “While the majority of patriots are celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday, we have right-wing groups laboring to end the American experiment. ‘Behind the Mask’ penetrates their façade, so we can fight back and thwart their radical vision to disfigure American democracy and persecute anyone who doesn’t share their backward vision.”
Together, Volume I and II offer 800-pages of deep background information on 80 of the 115 organizations listed on Project 2025’s Advisory Board. Volume III, featuring the remaining 35 groups, will be released in Autumn 2026.
Each entry for groups includes a narrative, its key leaders, notable controversies and direct quotations that reveal the ideology animating these organizations. The report also contains an “Issues Section” that provides direct quotes related to individual topics, such as abortion, LGBTQ rights and Christian Nationalism.
While the report is extensive, Truth Wins Out made it user friendly. Information on individual organizations or issues are instantly accessible by clicking corresponding page numbers in the Table of Contents.
Founded in 2006, Truth Wins Out is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that works to advance liberty and democracy, protect the rights of LGBTQ people and other minorities, combat religious extremism, and fight against the spread of disinformation. “Behind the Mask” is the product of 35 years of author Wayne Besen’s monitoring the radical right. We are excited to announce that July will mark Truth Wins Out’s 20th anniversary fighting to advance justice, liberty and equality.
“It’s difficult to believe, but Project 2025 is a relatively sanitized document,” said Truth Wins Out’s Besen. “Behind the Mask offers a clear window into what these organizations truly believe and how they are a direct threat to America’s future as a free and prosperous nation. If one truly wants to understand the unbridled extremism behind this effort to destroy democracy, it is imperative to study Project 2025’s Advisory Board. It is in the musty corners of their web pages or bigoted speeches given at conferences or online, where the extent of their discriminatory and authoritarian nature can come into focus.”
Behind the Mask is more than just research for the sake of academic exploration. The goal is to provide updated, key information to simplify efforts to fight back against Project 2025. Our report offers a one-stop-shop to provide activists, the media and the public a snapshot of these disreputable groups—while making it easier to expose them as the extremists they truly are.
“Trump’s denials about Project 2025 were never plausible,” the report notes. While he publicly distanced himself from the plan during the campaign — claiming he “had nothing to do with Project 2025” and “never read it” —the mask Trump wore on the campaign trail has, the report argues, “come off in the Oval Office.”
“Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America, Volume II” is available beginning today at TruthWinsOut.org.
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