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The Trump administration is making a blatant effort to intimidate immigrant communities and throw off the 2020 census count. By inserting a question about citizenship, a question that hasn't been part of the census for over six decades, Trump and the GOP are making it less likely those communities will participate. They're also compartmentalizing LGBTQ communities by asking couples residing together to specify the relationship as "same-sex" or "opposite-sex."  That's totally unacceptable. Sign our petition right now to tell the GOP: don't rig the 2020 census! Every resident must be included, so we can ensure that every voice is heard and that we're fulfilling our promise to provide good quality health care, services for veterans, and support for seniors. Sign our petition right now to tell the GOP: don't rig the 2020 census! Jim SIGN THE PETITION Paid for and authorized by the Re-Elect McGovern Committee. This...

Democracy Dies in Darkness The truth behind the rhetoric A citizenship question on the census sparked a calamity of claims The Trump administration announced it planned to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census — and the internet exploded. The move raised all sorts of questions about the rights of voters, minorities and immigrants. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross argued this data would, “ permit more effective enforcement of the [Voting Rights] Act.”  Civil rights groups disagreed, saying there’s already enough citizenship data collected through the American Community Survey (ACS) — a census supplement — that is sent out yearly. Officials on both sides of the aisle waded into the debate. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the question had been  “included in every census since 1965, with the exception of 2010.”  It hadn’t — the last time the census itself asked a citizenship question was 1950. Rep. Adam B. Schif...