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Inside the DNC Storytime Sessions on Project 2025

Democrats have been toting around a massive copy of Project 2025 at the DNC, talking about certain policies in the conservative blueprint and citing page numbers.

Mallory McMorrow
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow holding up a book during her remarks at the Democratic National Convention. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Every night this week at the Democratic National Convention, certain speakers have brought a comically sized book to the podium, opened the tome to a certain page, and begun to tell a certain story.

It usually begins with a narrated video, always builds into an animated explanation of obscure policy, and crescendos with a cry to elect Kamala Harris.

Storytime ends and the DNC moves into its primetime programming, but not before the speaker makes a promise: the book will return tomorrow night.