Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway Files Lawsuit to Block Census from Counting Illegal Aliens – Calls for Census Recount
January 30, 2026
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway – via X acct.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a first-in-the-nation lawsuit to block the census from counting illegal aliens.
AG Hathaway is also calling for a census recount.
In her announcement on Friday, Hathaway says Missouri is suing the census bureau for unconstitutionally allowing illegal aliens to commandeer the path to the White House and compromise the nation’s elections.
United States citizens have a right to representation, NOT illegal aliens. United States citizens should decide electoral votes and congressional seats, NOT illegal aliens.
— Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway (@AGCHanaway) January 30, 2026
Hanaway says the current system is unfair and the State of Missouri and its voters can no longer ignore the ongoing denial of their right to self-government and fair representation.
The DOC and the Census Bureau’s current policy of counting illegal aliens in the census tabulation is unjust, unlawful, and unconstitutional. Attorney General Hanaway is demanding a Census recount and that the Court prohibit the inclusion of illegal aliens in the Census.
Federal representation is being stolen from states who uphold immigration law, including Missouri, and transferred to sanctuary states who artificially inflate their population by harboring illegal aliens. Attorney General Hanaway will not allow open-border states like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland to steal an estimated 11 congressional seats, 11 electoral votes, and billions of dollars in funding.
Prior to the 1980 Census, the Carter Administration unilaterally decided that all illegal aliens and temporary visa holders should be counted in the decennial Census and included in the apportionment of congressional representation. The framers of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment would have been shocked by this policy. They could never have imagined an absurd system where 15 million illegal alien trespassers would receive representation in Congress and the Electoral College.
In July of 2020, President Trump issued a memorandum requiring the Secretary of Commerce to exclude illegal aliens from the decennial apportionment base, even though illegal aliens were counted in the 2020 Census. California and New York immediately sued against the President’s action. Ultimately, the Supreme Court vacated all the injunctions, but these legal delays opened the door for the Biden Administration to reverse course and include illegal aliens in the apportionment base for federal representation.
If President Trump had succeeded in excluding illegal aliens from the 2021 apportionment, Missouri would have received an extra congressional seat and an extra vote in the Electoral College. Instead, the Biden Administration hijacked the representation of Missourians by reversing the Trump Administration’s action.
The inclusion of illegal aliens robs Missouri and its citizens of federal funding and private funding that they would otherwise receive.
Hanaway told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on Friday, “If we win, not only will 11 House seats be reallocated from places like California to places like Missouri, but with those House seats also go electoral votes.”
.@AGCHanaway to @ClayTravis and @BuckSexton on Missouri’s suit to stop the Census Bureau from counting illegal aliens: “If we win, not only will 11 House seats be reallocated from places like California to places like Missouri, but with those House seats also go electoral votes.” pic.twitter.com/Pj8lEJKqib
— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) January 30, 2026
BREAKING: Lawless Clinton Judge Permanently Blocks Trump’s Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote or Register to Vote
January 30, 2026
Judge Kollar Kotelly wants illegals to vote in US elections.
A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote or register to vote.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly permanently enjoined President Trump’s executive order.
Last March President Trump signed an executive order Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections:
It is the policy of my Administration to enforce Federal law and to protect the integrity of our election process.
Sec. 2. Enforcing the Citizenship Requirement for Federal Elections. To enforce the Federal prohibition on foreign nationals voting in Federal elections:
(a)(i) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Election Assistance Commission shall take appropriate action to require, in its national mail voter registration form issued under 52 U.S.C. 20508:
(A) documentary proof of United States citizenship, consistent with 52 U.S.C. 20508(b)(3); and
(B) a State or local official to record on the form the type of document that the applicant presented as documentary proof of United States citizenship, including the date of the document’s issuance, the date of the document’s expiration (if any), the office that issued the document, and any unique identification number associated with the document as required by the criteria in 52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(5)(A), while taking appropriate measures to ensure information security.
(ii) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section, “documentary proof of United States citizenship” shall include a copy of:
(A) a United States passport;
(B) an identification document compliant with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13, Div. B) that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States;
(C) an official military identification card that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States; or
(D) a valid Federal or State government-issued photo identification if such identification indicates that the applicant is a United States citizen or if such identification is otherwise accompanied by proof of United States citizenship.
(b) To identify unqualified voters registered in the States:
(i) the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, ensure that State and local officials have, without the requirement of the payment of a fee, access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered;
Kollar-Kotelly sided with far-left Democratic groups that sued the Trump administration for having the audacity to demand that voters in US elections are actually US citizens.
The judge said Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution’s separation of powers.
The Trump Administration is expected to appeal the judge’s ruling.
JUST IN: Judge Kollar-Kotelly permanently enjoins President Trump’s executive order claiming to impose a citizenship requirement to vote or register to vote.
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X Executive Accuses Beijing of Flooding Chinese Content in the Social Media Site With SPAM and Pornography, Trying To Drown Out Protests and Dissent
January 30, 2026
AI-Generated Image by Grok – Chinese-language X users flooded with porn.
X says Beijing is disrupting Chinese-language users’ fees.
The social media platform X has accused the Government in Beijing of ‘flooding’ the feed of Chinese-language users with spam and pornography to drown out protests and dissent.
Chinese language users have been complaining that searches for Chinese-language posts on X yield results clogged with ‘spam and illicit ads’.
“Nikita Bier, the social media platform’s head of product, claimed the Chinese government was to blame for the rise of pornographic spam in response to complaints from users.
He said: ‘The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest – to prevent their citizens from finding out real-time information.
This has been a difficult problem to solve but we are aware [and] working on it’.”
The Chinese government floods X search results with porn whenever there is political unrest—to prevent their citizens from finding out real-time information.
This has been a difficult problem to solve but we are aware & working on it.
“The Chinese government floods X search results with porn during periods of political unrest to stop its citizens from accessing real-time information”
X is banned in China since 2009 but remains available in Chinese-speaking regions such as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
“Xi Jinping, China’s president, has launched a purge of the country’s military leadership in recent days, including removing top general Zhang Youxia. The purge has prompted a flurry of speculation across the Chinese diaspora over the reasons for the ousting.
China has repeatedly been accused of using fake accounts to spread misinformation on social media and to target pro-democracy activists.”
They have a pool of 5-10 million accounts that were registered before I locked down signup.
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