It's absolutely scary to consider that Texas —with its huge population of Spanish-speaking natives, many of them from families that have lived in Texas for generations longer than non Latinos — can demand the "papers" of citizens with brown skin or non-white English accents.

How is this even the United States?

Project 2025 is already going on in other places too, like Tennessee.

I'm a gay man, so I'm particularly interested in that part of Project 2025. Imagine my shock this morning to log onto Twitter and see the Tennessee Holler (a hard-hitting newspaper with serious journalists) writing about a city in Tennessee where only conservative Christians will be able to participate in the annual Christmas parade this year.

Any group that wants a float in the parade has to sign a statement of faith acknowledging that queer people are condemned by God, and that abortion is also condemned by God.

Not only will this bar LGBTQ groups from participating in the Christmas parade, it will bar churches in many major Protestant Christian denominations, because they just won't be able to sign that statement of faith, which is contrary to their own religious beliefs.

Is this what they mean when they say war on Christmas?

The town is using some clever maneuvers to get around the Constitution, distancing themselves from managing the parade, even though they have always been closely involved in the past.

They say that now it's a private event run by two Christian churches, but they're still promoting it on the town website. And the local PBS station is broadcasting it live, or those were the plans. I don't know if they still will.

This is exactly Project 2025. Elevate conservative Christianity and turn the US into an effective if not theoretical theocracy.

While hating immigrants, and anyone with brown skin, of course.