This week on CounterSpin, we feature three archived but relevant conversations.

"It's more important than ever not just to be registered, but to really, really make sure your registration information is correct."

"We need to be protecting large swaths of land like the Arctic Refuge, and using them for the future preservation and mitigation of climate change."

"To blatantly ignore the Supreme Court's ruling, ignore the Census Bureau's own employees’ determination that it could not be done in an accurate and efficient way, is amazing,"

If the US wants it, it's "good"; accepting and internalizing that is the price of admission to Serious Political Conversation.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is being reported as a Trumpian bad idea. Is that enough?

The United States has been conducting the census for some two centuries, but Donald Trump and his cronies have a new idea of how to do it that involves screwing it up entirely in service to a racist, nativist project.

"Sentencing in the United States is way too extreme and has racist roots, and there should be an intentional effort to revisit them and recalibrate them."

"Bureaucratic violence, that’s the array of policies that have been pooled together to figure out, 'How do we get around the 15th Amendment, while targeting those that the 15th Amendment was designed to protect?'”

More thoughtful attention to the "how" of re-opening is necessary, but for that, you'd need to listen to people who actually know—and care—rather than constantly handing the mic to Mr. “It Is What It Is."