1/ How the Trump administration is undermining, underfunding, and just plain rigging the Census is a five alarm fire for democracy. New must-read feature from @AriBerman motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
2/ The Census determines how voting districts are drawn. But so much more than that: motherjones.com/politics/2018/… 
3/ The Census has historically undercounted communities of color. But the 2020 Census seems designed to do so. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
4/ Budget cuts and reliance on people filling out forms online already meant that the count was in peril, that the digital divide would mean bigger undercounts: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
5/ But yesterday, the Trump administration announced it would ask people about their citizenship. That's a BLATANT attempt to get people not to respond to the Census, which will further deprive their communities of representation and funding:
7/ Undercounting hurts those communities directly. But it hurts anyone in areas/states with rampant undercounting. And now it looks like this is intentional: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
8/ The Census new tech platform is at risk of mimicing the HealthCare.gov rollout: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
9/ And oh yeah, the Russians.
11/ The Census is supposed to be scientific, fair, neutral. Now it is being designed to scare people into thinking it will lead to their deportation: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
12/ Fears that the Census citizenship question will be used to round people are hardly unreasonable. We did it before: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
13/ How willing would a GOP Congress go to use (or ignore) the Census to maintain power. Scary precedent there, too: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
14/ Americans must fight for a fair census. It's one of the key pieces of infrastructure to democracy. California, the @NAACP, and Prince George's County, MD are already suing. Pay attention. This is important. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
15/ Indeed a rigged and weakened Census count may be—of all the attacks on rule of law and norms in the Trump era—the one that has the widest and longest lasting impact.
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