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Trump backed down on census citizenship question but left door open to Republican states drawing districts based on citizenship instead of total population, which would be massive power shift to GOP motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
2 very disturbing points from Trump census presser:

Trump suggests states can exclude non-citizens from redistricting

And Barr said states could exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment

That would be huge power shift to GOP

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Trump said he wanted states to be able to draw districts based on "voter eligible population." That would exclude not just non-citizens, but children, disenfranchised citizens, etc, leading to huge shift from Dem to GOP areas motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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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”

A reminder of a time when US president stood for civil rights instead of white supremacy
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25 debates in 2016 & 3 in 2020 and still not a single question about attack on voting rights

If we don’t fix our democracy we won’t fix our politics
There have been 40 presidential debates & forums since Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act & not a single question about attack on voting rights. This is media malpractice salon.com/2019/07/31/cnn…
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Only in U.S. is it controversial to have a citizenship question on the #census—one we’ve had consistently since 1820 (and census still asks it today on the annual American Community Survey): dailysign.al/2Dmw2kU
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