The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind the 900-page Project 2025 blueprint for Donald Trump's administration, has unveiled its next agenda for 2026, themed around a 'golden age' inspired by the president's own message. The group's 2026 plan, titled 'Restoring America's Promise,' aims to dismantle the deep state, restore the family, rebuild American institutions, and restore opportunity as the US approaches its 250th anniversary.
A new advertising campaign on cable networks declares 'the golden age is a choice,' featuring imagery of American scenes and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. The ad emphasises prioritising families, empowering local communities, dignified work, national security, and American citizenship. A Heritage spokesperson stated that the organisation's mission to 'build a better America' remains unchanged, but its strategy is shifting to focus on 'Four Cornerstones': The American Family, The Dignity of Work and the Future of Free Enterprise, National Security, and American Heritage and Citizenship.
The 2026 agenda includes nine priorities echoing Trump-era policies, such as countering the Chinese Communist Party, eliminating federal regulations, ending 'immigration chaos' through mass deportations, ensuring election integrity with proof of citizenship requirements, expanding education freedom by abolishing the Department of Education, restoring digital sovereignty by targeting Big Tech, promoting an anti-abortion family-first agenda, and unleashing American energy by scrapping climate regulations. The plan also calls for centralising presidential control to 'root out the deep state.'
Heritage has separately published 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' an 800-page clause-by-clause analysis co-written by conservative federal judges, including a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The guide features an 18-member judicial advisory board, all but three appointed by Trump, and appears to be a judicial counterpart to Project 2025. The think tank did not confirm whether it intends to work with the Trump administration to implement these ideas, but stated it will continue to collaborate with lawmakers at all government levels.
