MAGA extremist Sam Brown has been exposed for taking contributions from the writers behind Project 2025, a radical right-wing plan to enact extreme, harmful policies in Nevada, including banning abortion medication like Mifepristone, eliminating the Department of Education, gutting Social Security and Medicare, and restarting Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository.
Sam Brown’s numerous financial ties to Project 2025 and his alignment with their dangerous agenda make clear that he will put MAGA politics ahead of what’s best for Nevadans.
Nevada Current: Like Trump, Senate candidate Sam Brown appears aligned with Project 2025
April Corbin Girnus
August 22, 2024
- Democrats nationwide are attempting to make former President Donald Trump synonymous with Project 2025, an expansive plan to reconstruct the federal government under a Republican administration. And that narrative is trickling down to the Nevada Senate race.
- Federal Election Commission data shows Republican Sam Brown, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from several leaders of think tanks connected to Project 2025, which is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation but involves a coalition of more than 100 conservative groups.
- The Rosen campaign has pushed hard to tie Brown to Trump and much of their messaging has focused on tying Brown to policies that align with Project 2025… That has included highlighting comments Brown made supporting the storage of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain (a position he has since recanted) and supporting the wholesale dismantling of federal agencies including the Department of Education and Environmental Protection Agency (positions he since declined to confirm or stand by).
- Brown’s campaign did not respond to the Current’s request to comment on Project 2025.
- Campaign finance reports show Brown has received at least $50,000 in donations from Trump allies and leaders of conservative think tanks that have directly contributed to, or signed onto, Project 2025.
- That includes a $3,000 donation from America First Policy Institute chair Linda McMahon, who was recently appointed to oversee Trump’s transition team, and $6,000 from Timothy Dunn, the oil tycoon and Trump mega donor who serves as vice chair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
- Claremont Institute chair Thomas Klingenstein and his wife, Robin Weaver, have given more than $23,000 to Brown. Like the America First Policy Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation, Claremont has signed onto Project 2025 as a “coalition partner.”
- In a July post on his personal website, Klingenstein praised Brown for fighting against “woke radicals.”
- A Rosen for Nevada campaign spokesperson in an emailed statement said Brown “has proven time and time again that he cares more about pleasing MAGA Republicans in Washington and passing their far-right agenda than he does about Nevada, so it’s not surprising to see that the extremists writing Project 2025 are propping up Brown’s campaign.
- The statement continued, “These far-right figures know that Brown would support their plans to gut Social Security and Medicare, take away abortion rights, tear immigrant families apart, and eliminate entire federal agencies like the Department of Education. Brown will sell out Nevadans every chance he gets for MAGA extremism, and our state deserves better from its elected officials.”
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