Michelle Chappell she/her
@michellechap76.bsky.social
Co-chair, Congress Working Group @freedcproject.bsky.social
Legislative Lead, DC @momsdemand.bsky.social
Lawyer turned Field Organizer
survivor 🧡 DC Statehood 🗳️ reproductive freedom ⚧️ knitting 🧶 Spirit ⚽️
All opinions my own; facts are facts
Legislative Lead, DC @momsdemand.bsky.social
Lawyer turned Field Organizer
survivor 🧡 DC Statehood 🗳️ reproductive freedom ⚧️ knitting 🧶 Spirit ⚽️
All opinions my own; facts are facts
Pinned
Every day I feel like I’m in mourning for the country we had the day before
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From your #ANC1E Commissioners, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We're thankful for all you do to make this community an amazing place to call home. Thank you!
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From your #ANC1E Commissioners, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We're thankful for all you do to make this community an amazing place to call home. Thank you!
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Things will get stupid because the press, Republicans and fearful Democrats will deliberately play dumb and pretend one homicidal Afghan refugee represents all Afghans and all immigrants.
And no one will ask why or how he got a gun.
And no one will ask why or how he got a gun.
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., suspect in custody, officials say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Things will get stupid because the press, Republicans and fearful Democrats will deliberately play dumb and pretend one homicidal Afghan refugee represents all Afghans and all immigrants.
And no one will ask why or how he got a gun.
And no one will ask why or how he got a gun.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
The WV National guard troops could have spent Thanksgiving with their families.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Trump doesn't care that his deployment of the National Guard is dangerous — but the governors deploying these Guard members should.
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The WV National guard troops could have spent Thanksgiving with their families.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
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National Guard members do not want to be used as political props. They want to be home with their families. The only person who wants them here is Trump.
Police killed three people in DC last week and now this. When will this administration stop escalating and putting people in harm's way?
Police killed three people in DC last week and now this. When will this administration stop escalating and putting people in harm's way?
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
National Guard members do not want to be used as political props. They want to be home with their families. The only person who wants them here is Trump.
Police killed three people in DC last week and now this. When will this administration stop escalating and putting people in harm's way?
Police killed three people in DC last week and now this. When will this administration stop escalating and putting people in harm's way?
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From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
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We’re rejecting complicit companies like Amazon, Whole Foods, Target, and Home Depot and redirecting our support and dollars to our DC small businesses instead!
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We’re rejecting complicit companies like Amazon, Whole Foods, Target, and Home Depot and redirecting our support and dollars to our DC small businesses instead!
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
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BREAKING: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not run for a fourth term. x.com/MurielBowser...
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has just announced that she is not running for reelection.
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has just announced that she is not running for reelection.
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Fresh off grilling elections officials at a hearing yesterday, Wendell Felder introduces a bill meant to delay the implementation of ranked-choice voting.
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fresh off grilling elections officials at a hearing yesterday, Wendell Felder introduces a bill meant to delay the implementation of ranked-choice voting.
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
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NEWS: Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder is introducing emergency legislation that would delay ranked-choice voting, which is currently set to be rolled out in D.C. in 2026. His bill would mandate that Board of Elections conduct an assessment on what it would need to implement RCV.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
NEWS: Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder is introducing emergency legislation that would delay ranked-choice voting, which is currently set to be rolled out in D.C. in 2026. His bill would mandate that Board of Elections conduct an assessment on what it would need to implement RCV.
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The Senate GOP's FY26 FSGG spending bill also includes 18 additional DC-related policy riders, including the legacy riders prohibiting the District from establishing a regulated recreational marijuana market & prohibiting the use of funds for abortion: www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Senate GOP's FY26 FSGG spending bill also includes 18 additional DC-related policy riders, including the legacy riders prohibiting the District from establishing a regulated recreational marijuana market & prohibiting the use of funds for abortion: www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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In federal funding news impacting the District, the Senate GOP released their version of the FY26 FSGG spending bill last night, and it includes a DC budget fix for FY 2027—by allowing the District to spend its local funds through Sept. 30, 2027 during a future shutdown or CR!
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In federal funding news impacting the District, the Senate GOP released their version of the FY26 FSGG spending bill last night, and it includes a DC budget fix for FY 2027—by allowing the District to spend its local funds through Sept. 30, 2027 during a future shutdown or CR!
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🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
Interesting: In testimony to the D.C. Council about implementing ranked-choice voting next year, elections board director Monica Evans says reporting results will take longer, up to 10 days after the election. That's because all mail ballots need to be received before counting.
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.
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Yorkville, Manhattan
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Yorkville, Manhattan
Trump announced the federal occupation of DC during August recess. I can’t claim to know what’s next, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see an escalation, foreign or domestic, during Thanksgiving break
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Trump announced the federal occupation of DC during August recess. I can’t claim to know what’s next, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see an escalation, foreign or domestic, during Thanksgiving break
This will be my first Thanksgiving without both parents — my dad died this spring, my mom almost fifteen years ago.
My parents always provided a stable and happy home, AND their politics were toxic.
My ❤️ is heavy remembering all of that. Whatever your battle this holiday season, you are not alone
My parents always provided a stable and happy home, AND their politics were toxic.
My ❤️ is heavy remembering all of that. Whatever your battle this holiday season, you are not alone
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This will be my first Thanksgiving without both parents — my dad died this spring, my mom almost fifteen years ago.
My parents always provided a stable and happy home, AND their politics were toxic.
My ❤️ is heavy remembering all of that. Whatever your battle this holiday season, you are not alone
My parents always provided a stable and happy home, AND their politics were toxic.
My ❤️ is heavy remembering all of that. Whatever your battle this holiday season, you are not alone
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The government has no business spying on court watchers' group chats.
Monitoring the courts is First Amendment-protected activity. Period.
Monitoring the courts is First Amendment-protected activity. Period.
BREAKING: The FBI infiltrated the private Signal chat of a volunteer group monitoring ICE activity at immigration courts.
Spying on New Yorkers for their constitutionally-protected activism is a dangerous return to the discredited—and often lawless—overreach tactics of the McCarthy & Hoover eras.
Spying on New Yorkers for their constitutionally-protected activism is a dangerous return to the discredited—and often lawless—overreach tactics of the McCarthy & Hoover eras.
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The government has no business spying on court watchers' group chats.
Monitoring the courts is First Amendment-protected activity. Period.
Monitoring the courts is First Amendment-protected activity. Period.
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's DC troop deployment is likely illegal — both as to D.C. National Guard and and out-of-state National Guard units — granting DC's request to block the use of the troops in this way.
The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's DC troop deployment is likely illegal — both as to D.C. National Guard and and out-of-state National Guard units — granting DC's request to block the use of the troops in this way.
The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
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What DC communities *actually* need is help with the housing affordability crisis. Applications open today for DC's emergency rental assistance and it will be Hunger Games-level of need.
If Congress wanted to help DC they'd take action on this — not force us backwards on bail and police reform.
If Congress wanted to help DC they'd take action on this — not force us backwards on bail and police reform.
Important reminder for DC tenants: applications for emergency rental assistance open tomorrow at 9am.
This year, all applications will be made by appointment only.
You can make an appointment by calling the Virginia Williams Center at 202-507-6666 starting at 9am or by visiting 64 New York Ave NE.
This year, all applications will be made by appointment only.
You can make an appointment by calling the Virginia Williams Center at 202-507-6666 starting at 9am or by visiting 64 New York Ave NE.
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What DC communities *actually* need is help with the housing affordability crisis. Applications open today for DC's emergency rental assistance and it will be Hunger Games-level of need.
If Congress wanted to help DC they'd take action on this — not force us backwards on bail and police reform.
If Congress wanted to help DC they'd take action on this — not force us backwards on bail and police reform.
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We thank all of the members who are standing up for the people of DC! The reps that went to bat for DC help us to stay in the fight to protect our home and each other!
Democrats, VOTE NO on H.R. 5214 and 5107!!!
Democrats, VOTE NO on H.R. 5214 and 5107!!!
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
We thank all of the members who are standing up for the people of DC! The reps that went to bat for DC help us to stay in the fight to protect our home and each other!
Democrats, VOTE NO on H.R. 5214 and 5107!!!
Democrats, VOTE NO on H.R. 5214 and 5107!!!
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"The @cbc.house.gov will continue to oppose any effort to silence D.C. residents, and we call on our colleagues to reject these harmful, anti-democratic pieces of legislation and join us to advance D.C. statehood."
Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been committed to using the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the federal government to ensure that African Americans ...
cbc.house.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"The @cbc.house.gov will continue to oppose any effort to silence D.C. residents, and we call on our colleagues to reject these harmful, anti-democratic pieces of legislation and join us to advance D.C. statehood."