Position Paper
Policy Statement on Mid-Decade Redistricting Response
Common Cause reaffirms its unwavering commitment to fair representation, fair maps, and people-centered democratic processes in every state.
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Guide
Explainer: Trump Administration’s Proposal to Task USPS with Census Enumeration
The United States Postal Service is a highly trusted, independent agency that provides a critical service to the public. Tasking the USPS with conducting the census will lead to increased costs, overburdened postal workers, and service delays.
Report
Redistricting Data Release
On August 12, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau released redistricting "legacy" data to the states. Although these data will require some time to process, this is the information states and localities need to draw new voting districts that are designed to last for the entire decade. The updated schedule for releasing these data has impacted state redistricting and election timelines. Learn more here.
Report
Whitewashing Representation
Partisan operatives are trying to change how electoral districts are drawn, in a radical effort to undermine our representative democracy.
Report
The Hofeller Files
Evidence obtained by Common Cause confirms how political operatives spent years plotting to rig our democracy with a Census citizenship question. GOP’s chief gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller laid out a plan to add the citizenship question to the Census. The purpose? Manipulating our Census and redistricting process to be, in Hofeller’s words, “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
Letter
Over 300 Civil Rights, Faith, and Labor Leaders Demand Oversight on Census Citizenship Question
We urge the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to conduct oversight hearings on the Commerce Secretary’s decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census as soon as possible.
