This report is a guide to ALEC’s 2025 plan for state legislators and how it could impact our wallets, schools, health, safety, rights, and democracy.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) publishes annual model policies for conservative state lawmakers to advance nationwide, and this year is no exception: in 2025, ALEC has proposed bills attacking voting rights, dismantling environmental protections, reducing social safety net benefits, and much more. These proposals echo–and further advance–those laid out in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the 900-page handbook mapping plans for the second Trump administration.

For 50 years, ALEC has quietly driven extreme legislation in states across the country. Now, with President Trump back in the White House aligned with their vision, it has the opportunity to steer him toward the interests of their backers and friends. ALEC supports policies that make life harder for working families, starve the social safety net, and harm access to voting. Americans have the power to support our democracy and stop this agenda by holding ALEC member legislators and corporations that support its agenda accountable.