Thomas Hofeller

(1943 - 2018)

After Thomas Hofeller, a Republican gerrymandering strategist, died in 2018, his estranged anarchist daughter found nearly a dozen of his USB and hard drives. The files they contained proved decisive in court cases concerning contested electoral districts in North Carolina and the Trump administration’s failed plan to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census. In early 2020 she began uploading the files to the internet, telling her Twitter followers to “check it out, download it, put it on the wall, stomp on it, sacrifice it to the god of your choice, make art, make noise, have fun!”