Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America is a book written by The Heritage Foundation head Kevin Roberts with a foreword by JD Vance.
The book was scheduled for release on September 24, 2024. It was originally titled Dawn's Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America and more recently titled Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America.[1] The volume includes a foreword by vice presidential candidate JD Vance.[2] [3] Amid the controversy surrounding Project 2025, in August 2024 Roberts postponed the book release until after the November election.[4]
In the forward Vance writes that it is “time to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”[5] In the book, Roberts criticizes birth control and law enforcement (preferring more of a heavily armed frontier-like society), while promoting public prayer as a key tool in the competition with China.
Colin Dickey of the The New Republic says the book reveals planned "paranoid, Stalinist tactics" like using conspiracy theories to violently enforce the right's vision for the world.[6]