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An employee for a right-wing think tank and MAGA lobbyist was caught trying to sneak drugs and pistol ammo into Senate offices, per NOTUS.

Heritage Foundation employee Matthew Christopher Wingate faces a drug-possession charge after security at the Russell Senate Office Building found a substance that tested presumptive positive as cocaine and fentanyl in his briefcase, according to an arrest affidavit.

According to reporting by NOTUS, Wingate previously worked as a military legislative assistant for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and a national security adviser for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA). With the Heritage Foundation, he was the government-relations director for defense and foreign policy....

Several remaining Project 2025 goals could "become reality" in the new year as President Donald Trump begins his second year since his return to the White House.

The Heritage Foundation's playbook for new policies — once viewed as "a campaign trail boogeyman" ahead of his second term — still has some looming components that could be enacted in 2026, Axios reported Thursday.

"From reshaping the federal government to his push to recognize only two genders, Trump spent much of 2025 ticking off items from the conservative wishlist. However, the plan has dozens more action items awaiting his attention in 2026," according to Axios....

Former Vice President Mike Pence's think tank, Advancing American Freedom (AAF) has lately been poaching officials from the conservative Heritage Foundation. However, Tim Miller — a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee — is predicting the fight will not be between Pence and extremist MAGA, but between two MAGA extremes.

AAF is providing a landing pad for former Heritage members in the wake of a mass departure over the role of right-wing influencers promoting antisemitic or racist views and other extremist ideas. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts kicked off the flight of staffers after releasing a video defending far-right pundit Tucker Carlson’s friendly October interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed white nationalist who has previously praised Adolf Hitler. Roberts' video sparked controversy inside Heritage, prompting him to later apologize for it.

During a Tuesday MS NOW segment, Miller said the fight will not likely be between Pence’s nonprofit and Fuentes' camp, but between separate groups of MAGA extremists....

This story was originally published by OpenSecrets.

Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age industrialist Andrew Mellon, has continued to pour tens of millions into the campaigns of former President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican congressional candidates in 2024.

Mellon has pumped over $165 million into the 2024 election, making him the top donor fueling outside spending groups this year. Mellon is known as a “guardian angel donor,” a term given to contributors who are a political group’s top donor and account for more than 40% of the group’s funding....

CHICAGO — Saturday Night Live star alumnus Kenan Thompson and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis both appeared on the Democratic National Convention stage Wednesday night carrying a comically oversized book.

That prop, used throughout the third night of the convention, was intended to represent Project 2025, the controversial “presidential transition plan” from conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, that lays out a plan to overhaul the government with extremely conservative policies following a Republican presidential win.

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MILWAUKEE — For attendees of the Republican National Convention, there’s nothing remotely subtle about the role of the Heritage Foundation — the Washington, D.C.-based conservative group behind the highly contentious Project 2025 "presidential transition" plan.

Fly into Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, and the first evidence that the GOP convention is taking place in this Wisconsin city is a set of giant signs that read: “Heritage welcomes you to the RNC Convention in MKE.”

A digital billboard inside the airport atrium flashes a similar message.
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