The U.S. census is supposed to be a simple count, but Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America argues it has been quietly weaponized to distort congressional representation for an entire decade. On this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, host Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Miller to break down how a statistical algorithm called “differential privacy” scrambled 2020 population data — moving people from rural areas to urban ones, tilting redistricting toward blue states, and even misdirecting hundreds of billions in federal tax dollars. Miller explains why the Biden administration admitted at least six congressional seats went to Democrats they should not have, why a congressman cannot find out how many citizens actually live in his own district, and how the census could still be republished to give states accurate data before the 2028 cycle. He also walks through his “America First, Not Senate First” primer — four concrete fixes for a Senate that talks endlessly but debates nothing, and why the SAVE America Act already has the votes to pass. Wade Miller is executive director of the Center for Renewing America, a combat-veteran U.S. Marine Corps infantryman, a longtime adviser to OMB Director Russ Vought, and former chief of staff to Congressman Chip Roy. This is a conversation about whether constitutional government can still be maintained — and what activists can do right now to demand a fair, accurate count. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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.
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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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