One side has a playbook. The other side has five drafts.
The Heritage Foundation published Project 2025 in 2023: 900 pages, 100+ organizations, a personnel database, and draft executive orders ready on day one. One year into the second Trump term, the Center for Progressive Reform reports that 53% of Project 2025’s domestic policy agenda has been initiated or completed. That is 283 of 532 recommended actions.
There is no single progressive equivalent. But the policies exist. They are scattered across at least five separate efforts, none of which reference each other, and none of which have been assembled into a single readable document.
The five progressive agendas
1. The Progressive Caucus “New Affordability Agenda”
Released April 2026, the Congressional Progressive Caucus put forward 10 concrete reforms. Data for Progress polling found every single one polls above 65% support, including among Republicans:
| Policy | Overall support | GOP support |
|---|---|---|
| Public manufacturing of generic drugs (insulin at $50/vial) | 70% | 72% |
| Ban algorithmic rent-fixing software | 73% | 66% |
| $20,000 down payment assistance for first-time buyers | 68% | 59% |
| Universal childcare capped at 7% of income | 71% | 65% |
| Abolish super PACs ($5,000 cap) | 71% | 67% |
| Ban utility companies from billing customers for lobbying | 76% | 78% |
| Tax oil company excess profits, return as household rebates | 69% | 61% |
| Guarantee paid vacation for full-time workers | 72% | 66% |
| Ban AI-powered personalized pricing | 74% | 71% |
| Increase overtime wages | 73% | 68% |
The highest-polling item (78% GOP support): banning utility companies from passing their lobbying costs to ratepayers. The lowest (59% GOP support): down payment assistance. Every one of these is a majority-Republican position.
2. Jeffries’ “Blueprint for a Better America”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced in April 2025 that Democrats would spend 100 days producing a “blueprint for a better America.” He promised it would focus on affordability, climate, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and holding the administration accountable. He missed his own deadline in August 2025. As of May 2026, no public document has been released.
3. The “Project 2027” concept
Multiple commentators have called for a Democratic Project 2027: a first-100-days playbook ready to execute on election night 2026 if Democrats retake the House. Ashwani Jain published a book by that name. The concept includes Supreme Court expansion, DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and ethics reforms. No congressional caucus has adopted it.
4. Data for Progress “New Progressive Agenda”
The polling firm Data for Progress has been testing progressive policies for cross-partisan appeal. Their research backs the Affordability Agenda but also tests broader proposals like public broadband, postal banking, and federal jobs guarantees. The research exists. The legislation does not.
5. Democracy Forward’s legal strategy
Democracy Forward built a 221-item “threat matrix” mapping Project 2025 implementation to legal challenges. They have won injunctions on multiple fronts. But legal defense is not a governing agenda.
What Project 2025 actually accomplished in one year
While progressives debated strategy, Heritage executed. Here is what 53% implementation looks like:
| Area | Actions completed or underway |
|---|---|
| Federal workforce | Collective bargaining stripped from 18 departments. Schedule F reclassification attempted. 17 inspectors general fired. |
| Immigration | Detention population hit record 61,000. Asylum restrictions expanded. 287(g) agreements doubled. |
| Reproductive rights | VA barred from providing abortions. EMTALA emergency abortion guidance rescinded. Title X frozen. |
| Education | Department of Education targeted for elimination. Federal school voucher tax credits signed into law. |
| Environment | EPA enforcement gutted. PFAS drinking water standards rolled back. WOTUS protections narrowed. |
| Healthcare | ACIP vaccine panel purged. Medicaid cut $911B. ACA subsidies reduced. |
| Ethics | OGE director removed. 17 IGs fired. No congressional oversight hearings held. |
Source: Center for Progressive Reform tracker, Project 2025 Observer
The gap is not policy. The gap is organization.
The progressive side has policies that poll at 65-78% with the general public and 59-78% with Republicans. They have legal infrastructure blocking the worst implementations. They have a book, a caucus agenda, a polling operation, and a legal defense network.
What they do not have is a single document that says: “On day one, here is what we do. Here are the executive orders. Here are the bills. Here is the personnel.”
Heritage spent two years and eight figures building that. The progressive equivalent is five PDFs that do not reference each other.
What you can do
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Tell your representatives to co-sponsor the Affordability Agenda. The 10 proposals poll above 65% with voters in both parties. Ask your member of Congress if they support them. Make them answer on the record.
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Vote in the 2026 midterms. 36 governor seats, 34 Senate races, and all 435 House seats are on the ballot. The agenda means nothing without the majority to pass it. Check your registration now.
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Track Project 2025 implementation. The Center for Progressive Reform and the Project 2025 Observer update their trackers regularly. Know what has changed and what is coming next.
Read more on the Voting and Elections hub.