The Republican’s Project 2025 calls for a complete ban on pornography and the imprisonment of those who create and distribute it. This ideology flows through not only top candidates like Trump and JD Vance, but down to many candidates for local office including school boards and city councils.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
Project 2025, page 5
How do they define “pornography”?
It’s not specified in the document, but recent history shows us what they mean by it. Republicans’ definition seems to encompass everything from more traditional pornography to Romance novels, books with LGBTQ+ themes, and sex education materials.
In Florida, the governor passed a law that resulted in 3135 books being banned from school libraries in just 2024 alone…. “The majority of books that we see being removed are books that talk about LBTQ+ identities, that include characters of color, that talk about race and racism, that include depictions of sexual experiences in the most broadest interpretation of that understanding,” said Kasey Meehan, Pen America’s Freedom to Read program director.
America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars…. People who normally preside over hushed sanctuaries are now battling groups that demand the mass removal of books and seek to control library governance. Last year, more than 150 bills in 35 states aimed to restrict access to library materials, and to punish library workers who do not comply.
Aren’t books protected as free speech?
The Project 2025 plan specifically says that it isn’t, and than a ban of “pornography” is not a slippery slope or, as they call it, a “Gordion knot”
Pornography…is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Project 2025 targets LGBTQ+ ideas and sex education materials
The language of the Project 2025 report suggests the bans top priorities will be banning the works of LGBTQ+ artists and authors, and anyone who provides children with accurate materials on sex, sexuality and gender.
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance…
This is not an empty or unprecedented threat.
According to a PEN America report, there were more than 2,500 instances of books being banned in schools in the 2021-2022 school year, affecting nearly 4 million children. Among the books that were banned, 41% included LGBTQ+ themes, 40% featured protagonists of color, and 22% featured sexual content. Even non-fiction titles providing children and teens with accurate information on puberty, sex, and relationships were banned.
These plans threaten librarians
Schools and public libraries are caught in heated debates, forcing librarians to choose between removing potentially objectionable books or facing public anger and personal legal repercussions. Libraries are already underfunded and can't handle endless requests to remove books, even if they wanted to.
Pornography should be outlawed. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. Project 2025, page 5
Your books are your choice
The Republican’s pornography ban aims to keep children in the dark about sex, sexuality, and gender, extinguish LGBTQ+ voices, keep us all from enjoying our sexuality how we choose.
This November, vote against Republicans at all level—from school board to city council to President—to protect the books you love.
![A set of bar graphs depicting the effects of overtime on a worker's paycheck. At the top, a snippet from Project 2025 reads: "Attention: Republican Agenda. Specifically, employers...should be able to set a two or four week period over which to calculate overtime. This...would not require the employer to pay [employees] more for that same total number of hours of work during the entire period."
Underneath on the left is a set of green bars depicting Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, and Week 4.
In Week One, there is a darker shaded section pointing out that the worker has worked more than 40 hours and is eligible for overtime.
Week 2 is a little less than 40 hours, and the last two weeks are normal (40 hours).
At the bottom of this set of bars, a summary reads: "You're paid overtime for EVERY week over time, regardless of other weeks."
On the right, a set of red bar graphs depicting Week 1 through 4. In Week 1, the employee has clearly worked more than 40 hours based on the long bar, but there is no overtime shading.
Week 2 is less than 40, and Week 3 and 4 are both 40.
At the bottom of this set of bars, a summary reads: "Your employer will AVERAGE weeks together...and you won't get paid."
A Republican win in November means: Same hours. No overtime.
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