If you want to know why the white Christian nationalist MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is working overtime to pass GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement laws, and will now engage in extreme gerrymandering in order to maintain its tyranny of the minority, today’s release of U.S. Census data holds the … Read more
For the Republican appointees and the Chairperson on the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, a mapping consultant who has been accused of drawing district maps that discriminate against minority representation and had those maps thrown out by the courts is not a job disqualifier. In fact, it may be just what they are looking for. On … Read more
The Census Bureau just held a press conference on the population numbers to be used for congressional reapportionment, and shocker: Arizona will NOT gain a tenth congressional district as literally everyone has assumed. WTF? Here is the press release from the Census Bureau. 2020 Census Apportionment Results Delivered to the President: APRIL 26, 2021 – … Read more
$63,000 for part-time work at one event at the end of a political campaign. Can I apply for a job like that and not report it too? Brian Schmitt, the new Executive Director of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission after winning a three to two vote on Tuesday, has some explaining to do. The Republican … Read more
Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate census data to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional reapportionment, and rushing the census deadline last fall during a coronavirus pandemic produced a deeply flawed census, resulting in his administration’s missing the January deadline to get that census data to Congress. Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data: … Read more