Comment period closed Nov 2, 2026
Guides, talking points, statements, and messaging.
For Puerto Rico
A bilingual civic campaign for Puerto Rico and its diaspora: what the proposed rule would change, help writing and submitting a comment, and participation tracked by municipality and state.
Open Puerto Rico Cuenta →For nonprofits
Materials and resources to protect a fair, complete, and accurate 2030 Census, including a summary of the proposed regulation, talking points, a comment template, and instructions for submitting.
Open the National Council of Nonprofits census guide →Talking points
From the Prison Policy Initiative: why an accurate count means counting incarcerated people at home, how counting them at the facility leads to prison gerrymandering, and where the proposed rule is unclear.
Read the Prison Policy Initiative talking points →Talking points
From the Movement Advancement Project (MAP): what the rule would mean for sexual orientation data on future censuses, and why protecting same-sex couple data matters for data quality.
Read the MAP talking points →Talking points
From the Federation of American Scientists: how losing these figures would make disparities in maternal mortality, diabetes and overdose deaths harder to measure and address, and why the damage would not stop at the census.
Read the FAS analysis →Talking points
From Hawaiian Council: how census data underpins the federal trust relationship with Native Hawaiians, including the large share who live outside Hawaiʻi, why the broad “NHPI” category has to be disaggregated to be useful, and how the count shapes services, health research, and disaster response.
Read the Hawaiian Council talking points →Talking points
From the Alaska Federation of Natives and Get Out the Native Vote: why the 2030 Census needs a question identifying American Indians and Alaska Natives, answers to each reason the Bureau gives for dropping it, what the data funds and enforces, and how to comment. Comments are due November 2, 2026.
Read the AFN talking points (PDF, 454 KB) →For Tribal Nations
The National Congress of American Indians’ September 23 letter to the Census Bureau, requesting two more government-to-government consultations in October so the 575 federally recognized Tribal Nations can assess a proposal that would affect data behind funding formulas, program eligibility, and resource allocation.
Read the NCAI letter (PDF, 357 KB) →Take action
A customizable comment from Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC for individual community members to oppose the proposed changes, written around what the loss of detailed, disaggregated race and ethnicity data would mean for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, whose disparities are obscured in broader aggregate data.
Open the AAJC Action Center comment →Statement
The Legal Defense Fund condemns the proposed changes, warning they would likely severely limit Black representation.
Read the LDF statement →Statement
Dr. Gail C. Christopher, National Collaborative for Health Equity, Sept 29, 2026: dropping race and ethnicity questions is a denial of the existence and humanity of diverse population groups, and would damage public health planning and data reliability. The statement points readers here to comment.
Read the statement →Messaging
Messages, language, and communications guidance on why accurate race and ethnicity data matters, from the Data Disaggregation Action Network.
Open the We Are The Data comms toolkit →For Tribal Nations
From the Native American Rights Fund (NARF): how the proposed changes could affect Native voting rights, Tribal sovereignty, planning data, and political representation, with a talking points document to download and guidance on how Tribes, organizations, and the public can respond.
Open the NARF census resources →Research briefs
Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute assessed what the proposed changes would do to an accurate count:
The Bureau’s own materials on why it asks about race and ethnicity, and what the data are required for.
These letters are closed and are no longer accepting signatures.
The Task Force’s letter opposing the proposed rule, which individuals and organizations could sign.
A joint LGBTQ+ comment opposing the proposed rule, signed by organizations.
An organizational sign-on, “Add your organization to protect an accurate 2030 Census,” run through NLIHC’s advocacy hub.
A national letter opposing the proposed changes to how the 2030 Census counts people and collects demographic data, which was open to local, state, national, and international organizations.