Heritage Action
American conservative policy advocacy organization
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| 2025 | Launched the Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025), an extensive plan aimed at transforming federal agencies, imposing conservative policy changes, and preparing for potential political leadership transitions. |
| March 2025 | The Oversight Project spread an unfounded story questioning the validity of President Biden's presidential actions by claiming his signatures were identical and machine-generated, calling him the 'Hologram President'. |
| January 2025 | Leaked documents revealed the Oversight Project's plan to dox Wikipedia editors allegedly deemed antisemitic, using controversial techniques like facial recognition and IP address harvesting. |
| January 2025 | Wikipedia editors decided to blacklist the Heritage Foundation website after discussions about the doxing plan. |
| 2024 | The Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025, a comprehensive initiative aimed at preparing a conservative policy blueprint for the next presidential administration, designed to provide detailed policy recommendations across various government departments. |
| 2024 | The Oversight Project published a misleading video falsely claiming 14% of non-citizens in Georgia were registered to vote. |
| October 2024 | ProPublica analysis revealed the Oversight Project's FOIA requests targeted employees using keywords like 'climate equity' and 'DEI', and sought communications with civil rights organizations. |
| September 2024 | Heritage Foundation leaders, including Kevin Roberts, participated in the Reboot Conference in San Francisco, California. The foundation was a top sponsor of the event, with Project 2025 being a major theme. |
| July 2024 | Mike Powell, Heritage Oversight Project executive director, claimed there is a 'zero percent chance of a free and fair election' in the United States and accused the Biden administration of creating conditions to compromise election integrity. |
| July 12 2024 | Heritage Foundation stated a conspiracy theory about potential election interference and the 2024 presidential election. |
| June 2024 | The Daily Signal became an independent publication with its own board of directors and leadership, separating from the Heritage Foundation. |
| May 2024 | The Heritage Foundation donated $100,000 to the American Accountability Foundation to produce a website publishing personal information of career civil servants. |
| May 2024 | The Oversight Project publicized a faked flier falsely accusing an immigration-assistance NGO of encouraging illegal voting, which led to threats against the NGO's head. |
| January 2024 | Kevin Roberts described Heritage's role as 'institutionalizing Trumpism', and the foundation began incrementally embracing national conservatism. |
| January 21 2024 | Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts explicitly stated he does not believe President Biden won the 2020 election when questioned by a New York Times reporter. |
| September 2023 | Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, was selected as president of Heritage Action, serving in a joint role for both organizations. |
| August 2023 | Newly installed Heritage president Kevin Roberts published an op-ed criticizing Congress's Ukraine aid spending, suggesting it was preventing aid to Hawaii wildfire victims. This led to a public messaging campaign and a tweet by a Heritage vice president calling to end 'blank, undated checks for Ukraine'. |
| August 2023 | Lt. Gen. (Ret) Thomas Spoehr, director of Heritage's Center for National Defense, submitted his resignation in response to the foundation's messaging about Ukraine aid. |
| July 2023 | Jessica Anderson took a leave of absence, and Ryan Walker was named Acting Executive Director. |
| July 2023 | Jessica Anderson took a leave of absence from her position at Heritage Action to work at the affiliated super PAC, Sentinel Action Fund. |
| March 2023 | The Heritage Foundation established a cooperative relationship with the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based state-funded think tank. |
| 2022 | The Heritage Foundation began incrementally embracing national conservatism as its guiding ideology. |
| 2022 | The Heritage Foundation opposed the Respect for Marriage Act, with Roger Severino arguing that marriage should exclusively be between one man and one woman. |
| 2022 | The foundation reported total revenue of $106 million and expenditures of $93.7 million, according to ProPublica. |
| 2022 | The Heritage Foundation launched the Oversight Project, aimed at investigating and exposing the Biden administration through extensive FOIA information requests. |
| September 2022 | The foundation's foreign policy director was ordered to retract statements supporting aid to Ukraine and subsequently left the organization. |
| May 2022 | The Heritage Foundation reversed its previous position and stopped supporting military aid to Ukraine. |
| 2021 | The Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, a comprehensive blueprint for conservative governance aimed at preparing a potential Republican administration to implement conservative policy changes immediately upon taking office in January 2025. |
| 2021 | The Heritage Foundation prioritized pushing Republican-controlled states to ban or restrict critical race theory instruction, seeking to include anti-critical race theory provisions in must-pass legislation like the annual defense spending bill. |
| October 2021 | Kevin Roberts was announced as the new leader of the Heritage Foundation, replacing Kay Coles James. |
| September 2021 | Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez released a book titled 'BLM: The New Making of a Marxist Revolution', which characterized Black Lives Matter as a 'nationwide insurgency' and criticized its leaders as 'avowed Marxists'. |
| May 2021 | Heritage Action spent $750,000 on television ads in Arizona promoting false claims about voter registration of illegal aliens. |
| May 2021 | A leaked video revealed Jessica Anderson discussing the organization's quiet legislative efforts, using Iowa as an example. |
| March 2021 | Kay Coles James resigned from the foundation in response to mounting criticism of her leadership. |
| March 2021 | The Heritage Foundation reported to spend $24 million over two years across eight key states to support efforts to restrict voting, coordinating with Republican Party and conservative groups. |
| March 2021 | Mike Pence published an op-ed column with false claims about the 2020 presidential election and the For the People Act. |
| February 2021 | Heritage Foundation hired three former Trump administration officials: Ken Cuccinelli, Mark A. Morgan, and Chad Wolf, who had previously held immigration-related roles. |
| February 2021 | Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was hired as a distinguished visiting fellow. |
| 2020 | The University of Pennsylvania's Global Go To Think Tank Index Report ranked the Heritage Foundation sixth among top ten think tanks in the United States and 13th among think tanks globally. |
| 2020 | The organization conducted grassroots work including door-to-door issue canvassing in Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, partially adapting to phone calls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Jessica Anderson was selected as the executive director of Heritage Action. |
| August 2020 | Heritage Action launched a pro-police pledge, which was signed by over 100 members of Congress and accompanied by billboards in New York City, Dallas, and Atlanta. |
| March 2020 | Timoth Chapman left the organization. |
| 2018 | Jessica Anderson returned to Heritage Action as vice president after serving a year in the Office of Management and Budget during the Trump administration. |
| May 2018 | Timoth Chapman succeeded Michael A. Needham as executive director of Heritage Action. |
| January 2018 | Kay Coles James succeeded Jim DeMint as the foundation's president. In the same month, Heritage claimed the Trump administration had embraced 64% of their 334 proposed policy agenda. |
| 2017 | The Heritage Foundation was recognized as the top think tank with the most significant impact on public policy between 2017 and 2019, according to the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. |
| May 2017 | The foundation's board of trustees unanimously voted to terminate Jim DeMint as president, citing significant management issues and breakdown of internal communications. |
| 2016 | Michael Needham, then leader of Heritage Action, publicly criticized Donald Trump as 'a clown' when Trump announced his Republican presidential nomination candidacy. |
| 2016 | Following Trump's presidential election victory, the Heritage Foundation gained significant influence in the presidential transition and administration, with multiple employees and alumni hired into government roles. |
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