Breaking: a federal judge in New York BLOCKED the Trump administration’s attempt to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census.

This is a huge victory in the fight against this discriminatory question, which the administration conspired to add to the census. Experts who worked on the census in Republican and Democratic administrations are concerned that it could result in an undercount of key communities. And today, the court found exactly that: that there will in fact be an undercount of communities with high populations of immigrants and people of color if the citizenship question is left on the 2020 questionnaire. According to Robert Shapiro, who ran the 2000 census, the citizenship question could dissuade more than 24 million people from filling out the census.

Keeping this question off of the census is a huge priority for redistricting. The 2020 Census will affect reapportionment and the underlying data on how maps get drawn in 2021. By purposefully undercounting certain communities, the Trump administration would be robbing them of political power for a decade — not to mention hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for education, infrastructure, health care, and other critical programs.

Today’s court ruling is a huge win, but the fight isn’t over yet. The Trump administration is expected to swiftly appeal today’s ruling to the Second Circuit, and it is anticipated that the Supreme Court will have the last word on the question before June, when the Census Bureau has to finalize the questionnaire. The citizenship question could still appear on the 2020 Census.

We have to keep up our efforts to advocate for a census that is fair to all communities. Will you chip in to help the NDRC and our allies keep pushing for a fair and accurate census?

— Team NDRC

Earlier this week, I cried learning that Cyntoia Brown would be released on August 7th. Later this year, Cyntoia will be going home to her loved ones.
Here’s a small part of her statement: “I am thankful for all the support, prayers, and encouragement I have received… With God’s help, I am committed to live the rest of my life helping others, especially young people. My hope is to help other young girls avoid ending up where I have been.”
Young girls of color like Cyntoia should have never fallen through the cracks. She should have never been endangered as a teen and then incarcerated. She should have never spent half her life in prison for killing her would-be rapist. There are more stories like Cyntoia’s out there.
Thanks to your help, she will be free come August. We collectively contacted Governor Haslam’s office over 16,000 times. That was the impact you had. We can only prevent her situation from happening to other people by continuing to fight injustice in our criminal justice system.
Thank you for all you do,

Elder Leslie Mathews

Austerity Vs Prosperity … 

“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities.

In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things, which the individuals of a people cannot, do, or cannot well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those, which have relation to wrongs, and those, which have not. Each of these branches off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first that in relation to wrongs embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.

From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.”

~ Abe Lincoln

January 15, 2019
To Our Valued Customers:

RXBAR has expanded its December 2018 recall to include additional flavors and date codes, as these products may contain traces of peanuts, which are not listed in the ingredients:

RXBAR Description UPC Number BEST BY Date Code
Chocolate Sea Salt 8-57777-00423-2 06 10 2019 through 06 15 2019;
10 11 2019
Coconut Chocolate 8-57777-00421-8 03 01 2019 through 10 13 2019
Blueberry 8-57777-00419-5 03 21 2019 through 05 21 2019;
07 07 2019 through 09 29 2019
Maple Sea Salt 8-57777-00441-6 03 02 2019 through 05 23 2019;
07 18 2019 through 07 19 2019;
09 09 2019 through 09 10 2019
Mint Chocolate 8-57777-00433-1 03 02 2019 through 04 18 2019;
07 26 2019 through 08 09 2019
Mixed Berry 8-57777-00467-6 03 14 2019 through 05 06 2019;
07 10 2019 through 08 30 2019
Apple Cinnamon 8-57777-00417-1 04 16 2019 through 05 12 2019;
07 10 2019 through 07 11 2019
Pumpkin Spice 8-57777-00418-8 05 09 2019 through 07 11 2019
People who have an allergy to peanuts run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they eat this product.
All of the potentially affected product has been removed from sale and destroyed.

If you purchased any of the RXBARs from us with the specified date codes and have a peanut allergy, please do not eat it. We urge you to discard the product or return it to any Trader Joe’s for a full refund.
If you have any questions, you may call Trader Joe’s Customer Relations at (626) 599-3817 [Monday through Friday, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm Pacific Time] or send us an email
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

View the complete recall posting on the Trader Joe’s website.