University of Colorado Boulder Communications from University Employees Associated with Project 2025
Records received from the University of Colorado Boulder in response to American Oversight’s request for communications sent by Professor Bhagat.
Records received from the University of Colorado Boulder in response to American Oversight’s request for communications sent by Professor Sanjai Bhagat about or to anyone associated with Project 2025, Donald Trump, or various conservative organizations known to push anti-democratic agendas.
The records reveal that in 2020 Bhagat — who later contributed to Project 2025 — provided “election-related research” to Turning Point USA, a far-right organization that pushed false theories of fraud after the 2020 election.
A Turning Point USA representative emailed Bhagat from a personal account to thank him for sending his research in October 2022, and said they had passed Bhagat’s research on to Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA that operates Students For Trump.
They said that Turning Point Action was “planning to use this information to target voting blocks in Arizona specifically as well as other swing districts,” and asked Bhagat to continue sharing his work.
The records also show that Bhagat was in contact with several officials at the Heritage Foundation throughout 2022, including Stephen Moore, who in November of that year, at Bhagat’s request, introduced Bhagat to Paul Dans, who would become the director of Project 2025.