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"Some states may want to draw districts based on voter eligible population," Trump says

There you have it. The goal of citizenship question all along was to draw districts to shift power to white GOP areas
Trump ordering Commerce Dept to still collect citizenship data means GOP can try to draw districts based on citizenship rather than total population in 2021. GOP gerrymandering guru said this would be “advantageous to Republicans & Non-Hispanic Whites.”

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Defeat of citizenship question huge victory for democracy, but major threats to fair census still include Trump's terrorizing of immigrant communities & GOP push to draw districts that solidify white power motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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The vote of college students doubled from 2014 to 2018, so now Republicans are closing polling places on college campuses, enacting new residency requirements & not allowing students IDs. Despicable nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/…
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54 years ago today LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield”

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25 debates in 2016 & 3 in 2020 and still not a single question about attack on voting rights

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Executive Order on Collecting Information about Citizenship Status in Connection with the Decennial Census
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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