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COMIC: How the census gives your state power (and what Trump wants to change)

NPR | By Connie Hanzhang Jin,
Hansi Lo Wang
Published October 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM PDT

The census is used to determine how much say your state has in Congress and the Electoral College. President Trump failed to alter it during his first term, but he's trying again ahead of 2030.

Editor's note: Earlier versions of this comic were published in 2020 and 2021.

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Edited by Acacia Squires, Nicole Werbeck and Benjamin Swasey, with copy editing by Preeti Aroon

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a NPR correspondent who reports on voting, the Census Bureau and the U.S. Postal Service.
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