Heritage Foundation Tells Right-Wing State Legislators to De-charter, Take Over Blue Capital Cities

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https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/heritage-prez-tells-right-wing-state-legislators-de-charter-take-over-blue-capital

Heritage Prez Tells Right-Wing State Legislators to De-charter, Take Over Blue Capital Cities
07/28/2025
by Peter Montgomery

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts urged right-wing state legislators this month to “de-charter” liberal capital cities and replace them with “state municipal districts.”

In a speech to a gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Indianapolis, Roberts asserted, “We are in the second American Revolution,” which he explained by saying “we are renewing sovereignty and self-governance and faith in fellow man.”

Roberts showed no apparent recognition of the glaring inconsistency between his declared support for “sovereignty and self-governance” and his demonstrated contempt for the democratic choices made by voters in cities who disagree with Heritage’s agenda.

"When we have cities like Austin, or Nashville, or other capital cities whose local government is not representative of the will of the people, de-charter them and establish them as state municipal districts in the name of common sense,” he urged.

Roberts called Austin, Texas his “adopted home town” and described it as “a once-great place that has been taken over by Marxists.”

Roberts’ justification for this brazen attack on democratic self-governance? He claimed that the biggest threat to the Trump-Vance agenda, which is essentially the Project 2025 agenda promoted by Roberts and Heritage, is “that there are government entities that illegitimately are imposing something other than the American dream on their people.”

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[Blues Heron]

1. They are admitting it's a coup

Believe them

[Walleye]

2. So the Republicans really aren't about local control at all. Assholes.

[markodochartaigh]

4. Denton County in

Texas tried to outlaw fracking. The state of Texas overruled the county saying that counties couldn't outlaw fracking. This was a decade ago. The only people who believe that Republicans are for small government are either Republicans who believe their own fairy tales or people who are ignorant and apathetic and just passively absorb reich-wing talking points without even knowing.

I made this point back in April 2023 and my comment was flagged. But, I think that it is true ,and I will say it again.

[harumph]

3. These people should be wished to the cornfield - all of them.

[drmeow]

5. "We are in the second American Revolution"

No, we are not. We are in the second American Civil War and, once again, you all are on the WRONG SIDE!