Las Vegas Sun: “Sam Brown doesn’t distance himself from the radical plans detailed in Project 2025 and has refused to answer questions from the Sun” 

New reporting from the Las Vegas Sun has revealed that the leader of a group behind Project 2025 – the radical right-wing plan to remake the federal government – is spending millions of dollars to try and elect MAGA extremist Sam Brown. Brown “doesn’t distance himself” from his ties to Project 2025, which proposes banning abortion medication like Mifepristone, eliminating the Department of Education, gutting funding for Medicare, and restarting Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. 

Brown’s close ties to this dangerous MAGA agenda make clear just how out of step with Nevada he is. 

Las Vegas Sun: Nevada Senate hopeful Sam Brown stays silent on far-right donor
Kyle Chouinard 
August 31, 2024 

• Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown doesn’t distance himself from the radical plans detailed in Project 2025 and has refused to answer questions from the Sun about the extreme measures in the 920-page far-right policy guide, which broadly seeks to reshape America under Republican leadership in the White House.
• Brown and his handlers wouldn’t agree to an interview about his relationship with Thomas Klingenstein, the chairman of the Claremont Institute, a right-wing California think tank that also serves as a top partner organization responsible for Project 2025.
• We reached out to the Brown campaign multiple times over the past two weeks.
• Brown’s silence doesn’t disguise his ties with Klingenstein, who since the beginning of 2023 has donated nearly $5.5 million to pro-Brown groups in a critical race against U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., that could determine majority control in the Senate.
• Nearly $4.5 million of Klingenstein’s contributions went to Club for Growth Action, a conservative super political action committee that is running a multimillion-dollar ad buy against Rosen. Another $1 million went to the Sentinel Action Fund, whose advertising urges Rosen, along with three other Democratic senators, to “retire with Biden.”
• “Sam Brown’s trying to hide,” Rosen told the Sun. “He can’t commit to anything because we know what he really believes, and that’s not what Nevadans want.”
• The financial backing is just the beginning.
• Additionally, Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” calls on the next Republican administration to outlaw abortion drugs, eliminate the Department of Education, overhaul the FBI and remove all references to gender-affirming care from federal programs.
• The plan specifically mentions Nevada in calling for storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, which is about 90 miles from Las Vegas in Nye County. Brown in 2022 said having a nuclear waste repository here would have been an “incredible opportunity for revenue” but has since retracted the position.
• Brown’s plans for education also align with the extreme measures spelled out in Project 2025 in that he wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. 
• “Given Brown’s far-right record putting MAGA politics ahead of Nevadans, it’s no surprise that his Senate campaign is being bankrolled by the same extremists who are behind this dangerous right-wing project,” a spokesperson for the Nevada Democratic Party wrote in a statement to the Sun.