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It’s not just the racist rhetoric. Trump has a new plan to exclude huge numbers of people of color from political representation through his census executive order bit.ly/2xSxSGw
Trump surrendered on census citizenship question but GOP going full stream ahead with push for racial gerrymandering on steroids to preserve conservative white power for next decade motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Political districts have long been drawn based on total population but Trump wants to only count eligible voters. That would exclude a staggering 55% of Latinos, 45% of Asian Americans & 30% of African Americans from political representation motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
On House floor @RepCummings says Trump "admitted he wanted [census] citizenship data to implement partisan gerrymandering”

I wrote today about how Trump's census executive order could allow GOP to do even more extreme gerrymandering in 2021 motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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