How Democrats game the census for power

Published February 3, 2026 6:00am ET



At the 68th Grammy Awards, a day before Groundhog Day, singer Billie Eilish spied her shadow in a spotlight beam and predicted endless Hollywood posturing on illegal immigration. 

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said, offering a neat epigrammatic falsehood about the United States that is catching on. But it’s a boneheaded analysis, which she unwittingly excused by adding, “It’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.”

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