Panicking Dems Turn To Familiar Sounding Playbook

Democrat strategists have revealed their latest plan to retake the White House: Project 2029.

Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee, The New York Times reported.

Andrei Cherny, a former Bill Clinton speechwriter and Arizona congressional candidate, is organizing the effort through Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a liberal thought magazine Cherny co-founded in 2006.

The name is a play on the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, despite leftists making it the center of their attacks against President Donald Trump in 2024. Trump repeatedly distanced himself from the project, focusing instead on Agenda 47.

But Cherny plans to use Project 2029 to “rally leading Democratic presidential candidates,” the Times said.

Cherny launched Project 2029 after the failed Kamala Harris campaign. He said Harris failed because she ran against Trump instead of for her own policies, the Times reported.

Cherny told the Times that Project 2029 will release over the next two years in quarterly installments and will eventually be made into a book, like Project 2025.

The advisory board for Project 2029 “includes Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former president of the New America Foundation; the economist Justin Wolfers; Felicia Wong, until recently the president of the progressive Roosevelt Institute; and Jim Kessler, a founder of the centrist group Third Way,” the Times said.

Cherny called the group “the Justice League” or “the Avengers of public policy,” the Times reported. The board will work through policy differences at public conferences.

The Times did not report the project’s planned policies, but a March 2025 Democracy article, titled “Needed: A People’s Project 2029,” proposes increasing the minimum wage.

“Bold, popular solutions like a $25 minimum wage and ending the subminimum wage are just the beginning,” the article said.

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Project 2029 comes as Democrats are trying to course-correct after the 2024 election.

In November 2024, Democrat strategist Julian Epstein said that the Democrats needed to recruit “better candidates and they need to move back to the center on economic and cultural policies.”

Epstein said the Democrats had become the “party of wokeness” and “moral condescension.”

“And what that has done is it has caused the Left to shut its ears and to stop listening to people,” he said. “And it’s made it a lot dumber.”

In April 2025, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said approval ratings of Democratic leaders have fallen dramatically since last year. In 2024, Democrats in Congress had an 80% approval rating. By that same time in 2025, the number had fallen to 39%, The Daily Wire reported.

“Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what their congressional leaders in Washington are doing right now on the key issue of the day, the economy,” Enten said. “And their confidence has fallen through the floor.”