Guest

Wade Miller is the executive director of the Center for Renewing America. A combat veteran and U.S. Marine Corps infantryman who deployed three times to Iraq and the Horn of Africa, he is a longtime adviser to OMB Director Russ Vought and brings over fifteen years of conservative political experience, including serving as political director for Senator Ted Cruz's 2018 campaign and chief of staff for Congressman Chip Roy.

Key Topics Covered

Timestamps

00:18 — Welcome and why the census could reshape political power

01:03 — Meet Wade Miller, Center for Renewing America

01:53 — What does enumeration actually mean?

03:36 — The new 2020 process and the citizenship-question end run

04:29 — How a census is supposed to work vs. what happened

05:46 — Differential privacy explained: scrambling the data

08:12 — Counting non-citizens and why it favors blue states

10:33 — Stephen Miller's 40-seat swing and the published Biden census

12:30 — The constitutional problem with unequal districts

16:31 — The other counting failures: overcounts and undercounts

18:12 — Imputation and manipulated characteristic data

21:35 — How privacy was protected before differential privacy

22:55 — Rural tax dollars siphoned to the cities

26:27 — What can be done: a real census director

29:29 — Republishing the census to arm the states

31:48 — Could harmed states sue? The standing problem

34:35 — Title 13, security clearance, and locked-down data

39:23 — An elegant fix: just count where people live

44:22 — What an activist can do right now

45:56 — Citizen-only data vs. federal funding formulas

47:58 — Why the census fight matters in 2026

51:43 — America First, Not Senate First: four Senate fixes

54:50 — The SAVE America Act has the votes

59:20 — Closing: liberty doesn't preserve itself

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