This podcast series depicts how the lives of everyday Americans would be impacted by the policies outlined in Trump's Project 2025 and the return of Donald Trump to power. These fictional stories follow everyday Americans who will be drastically impacted by Project 2025 and Trump’s explicit promises. The author of the serialized “2025: A Novel,” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how these policies, if implemented, would violate civil liberties and human rights in an alarming and unjust manner. The podcast series aims to raise awareness of the very real dangers posed by Trump's extremist agenda and the disturbing implications of Trump’s Project 2025 for the American people.
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter 12: Year in Review
"Do Something!" Share to motivate a low information voter.
30 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 11: Hurricane Trump
The evisceration and privatization of essential government agencies will cost American lives.
24 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal Chapter 10- How Attacking "Woke" Actually Plays Out in Reality
The war on woke is a war in
23 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Episode 9-The Insurrection Act.
Do not let the wannabe dictator have this power.
17 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-The Assault on Public Education
Don Cheadle and Ever Carradine read the chapters.
15 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal Chapter 7 -The Brutal Attack on Workers and Unions
Read by Wendell Pierce and Fisher Stevens
10 Oct 2024
Project 2025: Up Close and Personal- Mass Deportation Disaster
The story that leads off Chapter 6 of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, Mass Deportation Disaster captures the struggles of 12-year-old Alvaro and his mother in a fictional detention center in West Texas. Alvaro expresses his hunger to his mother, who is too weak to properly care for herself. As they navigate the deteriorating conditions of the camp—overcrowded with diminishing food supplies, hostile guards, and a sense of fear from both authorities and fellow detainees—Alvaro reflects on lost friendships and longing for better times. His mother’s health declines as she sacrifices for him, giving him her piece of bread despite needing it more herself. This highlights Alvaro’s growing awareness of their desperate situation. He learns from a friend, Manuel, about possible escape routes and decides to plan his own escape to ensure both his and his mother’s safety.
In the second half of Chapter 6, in a parallel narrative, soldier Jake Caldwell describes the chaos of the detention center from his perspective. As he witnesses the overwhelming influx of women and children, he feels the systemic failures of the camp. The environment strips away humanity, leading children to escape in search of freedom. As both narratives unfold, Alvaro attempts to escape the camp, filled with hope for a future where he can see his mother smile again even as Jake grapples with the moral dilemmas of his role in the oppressive system. Their stories intertwine themes of resilience, sacrifice, and the harsh realities faced by both detainees and guards in the unjust conditions of the camp.
We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode:
Mark Ruffalo and Andrea Guidry who read the chapters and others who contributed character voices.
Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jon Moser.
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.
9 Oct 2024
The Department of Retribution
These stories are fiction. But the plans and promises of Trump and Project 2025 are frighteningly real.
3 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal: The End of Vaccine Mandates.
The health of children, teachers, staff and parents are at serious risk if Trump wins.
2 Oct 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal: The Death of Science
Meet the experts we would lose and the unqualified political hacks who would replace them under Project 2025.
25 Sept 2024
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 2: The Threat to IVF
A ten-year fertility struggle shut down by Trump's Project 2025.
17 Sept 2024
Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter One-Deportation.
Chapter One of Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal depicts how the lives of everyday Americans would be impacted by the policies outlined in Trumps’s Project 2025 and the return of Donald Trump to power. The fictional story follows Ammon Maher, a college student and immigrant, as he is detained and deported without due process due to his involvement in past campus protests. This narrative directly reflects Trump's campaign promises to crack down on student protesters and his administration's policies that target undocumented immigrants, including so-called "dreamers." The author of the serialized “2025: A Novel” upon which this podcast series is based, David Pepper, highlights how these policies, if implemented, would violate civil liberties and human rights in an alarming and unjust manner. The podcast series aims to raise awareness of the very real dangers posed by Trump's extremist agenda and the disturbing implications of "Project 2025" for the American people. You can read
Chapter One of David Pepper’s “2025: A Novel” at davidpepper.substack.com/p/2025-a-novel
Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is available on all the podcast apps and at 2025pod.com. We'd also like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode. Heather Thomas J. Smith Cameron Omid Abtahi, Kirk Acevedo and Bayo Akinfemi. Audio finishing by Marilys Ernst. This series is produced by David Pepper, Melissa, Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman. Trump’s Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and the Bill Press Pod.
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