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A guide to information sources about transition activities of the Trump Administration. Let's strengthen civic discourse by finding facts and information rather than recycling opinion and propaganda.

Project 2025

Project 2025 is the blueprint for transition into the Trump Administration. It was developed by members of the Heritage Foundation. 

The text of Project 2025

Index to Project 2025

Google Spreadsheet that is tracking implementation of Project 2025

Project 2025 Tracking app

Guide to Project 2025 by Factcheck.org

Wikipedia article (with references)

Media Sources

Know the context of the media you follow by using the interactive media bias chart from Ad Fontes Media or the Media Bias Chart from AllSides.

Get context on issues you are watching by using Opposing Viewpoints to browse issues on Law and Politics.

 

Independent News Sources:

Axios

The Guardian

ProPublica

 

Digest of News:

Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson (free email newsletter)

Balanced News Roundup from AllSides

Government Information

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Data.gov - Open databases of US government information

Federal Register - Daily information about federal government activities

Statistical Abstracts of the United States - based on Census information

USA.gov - Information about and produced by the US government

Fact-checking Resources

Understand potential bias from your fact-checker with this Fact-Check Bias Chart from AllSides.

Sites

Factcheck.org

PolitiFact

Vote Smart.org

 

Guides

Political Fact-Checking, from Mary Washington University Library

Websites for Fact-Checking, from the Misinformation and Disinformation Guide at the College of Staten Island Library

Misinformation Watch from AllSides

 

Browser Extensions

Get Chrome extensions that identify news and websites - from the University of Tampa MacDonald-Kelce Library