About
The plan.
The author.
The mission.
What Project 2029 is, how it was built, and why it matters more than any political document you've read in years.
The Author
Jon Levesque
Project 2029 was researched, written, and compiled by Jon Levesque - a citizen who looked at Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 and decided that the right response was not outrage. It was a better plan.
What began as a counter-document became a 414,000-word policy framework covering every major federal agency, every major domestic policy domain, and six sections of structural reform. It is not a party platform. It is not a campaign document. It is a working blueprint - ready to deploy.
Jon wrote Project 2029 as an act of democratic citizenship: the belief that citizens should not just criticize what they oppose, but articulate - in specific, legally grounded, implementable detail - what they want instead.
Project 2029 is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license, meaning anyone can share, adapt, and build on it - as long as they attribute the source and share alike.
Project 2029 in numbers
The Document
What is Project 2029?
Project 2029: A Mandate for Restorative and Transformative Democratic Renewal is a comprehensive progressive policy framework structured as a ready-to-deploy policy playbook for the next Democratic administration.
It is organized in parallel to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 (Mandate for Leadership): every agency covered in Project 2025 gets a corresponding chapter in Project 2029 - with a full accounting of what Project 2025 did (or proposed) and a specific, legally grounded plan to restore, reform, and transform.
The document has two agendas. Restorative - reversing the specific damage done by Project 2025 and restoring democratic norms, institutions, and protections. Transformative - going beyond restoration to build what has never fully existed: a government that truly serves all people, not just the wealthy and powerful.
The Six Sections
How it's organized
The Mission
Why this document exists.
Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 did something that progressives rarely do: it provided a complete, detailed, agency-by-agency blueprint for what a conservative administration would actually do with power. Not slogans. Not platforms. A plan.
The result was a governing roadmap that an incoming administration could implement on Day One - and did. Having a ready-made plan that covered every agency, every regulation, every appointment opportunity meant the movement could move immediately.
Progressive movements have been good at opposition. They have been less good at governing preparation. Project 2029 is an attempt to change that: to build the equivalent document from the left - equally detailed, equally legally grounded, equally ready to deploy.
This is not a Democratic Party document. It is a citizen document. Published under an open license. Available to any campaign, any candidate, any organizer who wants to use it. The point is not credit. The point is a better country.
Methodology
How it was built
Every chapter follows the same structure. Every claim has a legal citation.
Research First
Each chapter begins with a detailed accounting of what Project 2025 proposed for that agency - using direct quotes and page citations - and what was actually implemented. This is the foundation for the restorative agenda.
Legal Authority for Everything
Every policy proposal cites its constitutional authority: specific U.S. Code sections, CFR regulations, relevant Supreme Court cases, and the specific clause (Commerce, Spending, Necessary and Proper) that authorizes it.
Implementation Timelines
Each chapter includes a specific implementation timeline: Day One executive actions, First 100 Days priorities, Year 1 legislation, and Years 2-4 consolidation. This is a governing document, not a wish list.
Open Source Policy
Project 2029 is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . This means you can share it, adapt it, translate it, and build on it - as long as you attribute the original work and share your adaptations under the same license.
If you are a campaign, an organization, or a candidate who wants to adapt any part of Project 2029, you are explicitly encouraged to do so. That is the entire point.
Read the Full Document
The full Project 2029 framework is hosted on GitHub and published via GitHub Pages. All 31 chapters. All supporting materials. Everything is public and open.