On Feb 18, 2026, America First Legal announced that it had filed an amended complaint in a landmark lawsuit challenging the 2020 Census, in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division.
Great article. The depth of insights is clear. Another reason why "#CountiesFirst" the book, needs to be put into action. The census is a tool that is being used to undermine our Representative Republic. We must concurrently restore the voice of Counties back into our State Senates, as it once was. www.ConventionOfCounties.com If we do not address this now on the census, we will not know the truth for another 70 years, when they finally open up the census for public viewing. TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY needs to be restored. #CountiesFirst will be available within 2 days. Again, GREAT article.
“What, then, should be done? Congress must act, and courts should not shrink from enforcing the constitutional and statutory limits that already exist.”
Aaaaand, therein lies the problem: rogue courts and a do-nothing about anything Congress.
Congress’ To-Do List is looong, and they can’t even get a bill on Voter ID passed.
If the census becomes a modeling exercise instead of a headcount, representation becomes negotiable. That’s the core danger. The Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration,” not an algorithm with adjustable dials and mass imputation filling in millions of blanks. When bureaucrats inject synthetic noise, withhold key parameters, and substitute statistical guesses for real people, they are not protecting democracy — they are redefining it. Political power flows from population totals. Alter the totals, and you alter Congress, the Electoral College, and billions in funding. Transparency is not optional in a republic. Count people. Publish truth. Leave the math experiments out of apportionment.
Truth has been negotiable for decades, and somehow conservatives always come out on the losing side of the negotiation.
Great article. The depth of insights is clear. Another reason why "#CountiesFirst" the book, needs to be put into action. The census is a tool that is being used to undermine our Representative Republic. We must concurrently restore the voice of Counties back into our State Senates, as it once was. www.ConventionOfCounties.com If we do not address this now on the census, we will not know the truth for another 70 years, when they finally open up the census for public viewing. TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY needs to be restored. #CountiesFirst will be available within 2 days. Again, GREAT article.
“What, then, should be done? Congress must act, and courts should not shrink from enforcing the constitutional and statutory limits that already exist.”
Aaaaand, therein lies the problem: rogue courts and a do-nothing about anything Congress.
Congress’ To-Do List is looong, and they can’t even get a bill on Voter ID passed.
It’s demoralizing. Maybe that’s the point.
Thank you for continuing to bring this subject to the forefront. It is SO IMPORTANT! I am doing my part and have highlighted two of your articles in my article about the 2020 census miscount. : ) https://open.substack.com/pub/foxyheterodoxy/p/admitted-2020-census-miscount-red?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
If the census becomes a modeling exercise instead of a headcount, representation becomes negotiable. That’s the core danger. The Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration,” not an algorithm with adjustable dials and mass imputation filling in millions of blanks. When bureaucrats inject synthetic noise, withhold key parameters, and substitute statistical guesses for real people, they are not protecting democracy — they are redefining it. Political power flows from population totals. Alter the totals, and you alter Congress, the Electoral College, and billions in funding. Transparency is not optional in a republic. Count people. Publish truth. Leave the math experiments out of apportionment.