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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 7d

Our Fellow Americans,

This shutdown is the fault of YOUR legislators in Congress, not ours. We don’t have any.

Sincerely,

700k Falsely Accused People in DC

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re upset with the government shutting down or dissatisfied with government in general, don’t blame “Washington, DC.” The people of DC, all 700k of us, have no voting representation in Congress. This falls on the 535 chuckleheads the American voters sent to Congress. #DCStatehood #FreeDC

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re upset with the government shutting down or dissatisfied with government in general, don’t blame “Washington, DC.” The people of DC, all 700k of us, have no voting representation in Congress. This falls on the 535 chuckleheads the American voters sent to Congress. #DCStatehood #FreeDC

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 19d

Related: No congressional GOPers are supporting the #DCStatehood bills. They’re too busy focusing on subverting the limited democracy we have as it is. Sigh…

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 19d

Update: 14 House Dems & 3 Senate Dems are NOT cosponsoring the respective #DCStatehood bills. Good week to call them and ask them why the eff they aren’t! Names & numbers here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dems Not Cosponsoring 119th Congress

docs.google.com

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 19d

Been a rough week for Good Ole DC with lots of unnecessary, unwanted, and undemocratic congressional meddling. Ending the week with good news as Reps. Vasquez (NM), Pou (NJ), and Riley (NY) have added their names as cosponsors to the #DCStatehood bill. That's now 203 cosponsors! Keep calling!

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Taking Sam Liccardo off the list too! Big thanks to Rep Liccardo for cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill.

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Taking Dina Titus off this list! She’s now cosponsoring & another one is coming! #DCStatehood

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 21d

Evergreen Post: our so called friends will turn on us & abandon us until 1) they suffer at the ballot box for turning on us or 2) we achieve #DCStatehood & put our colonial status behind us. Those who turned on us are cowards, FWIW.

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21d

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC.

We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

31 Democrats who voted with Trump and against DC

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you @scanlon.house.gov + @robertgarcia.bsky.social.

The bills before the House this week about DC are not about improving safety. They will only show us who is willing to help Trump with his agenda of destruction.

Congress, you can either side with the people of DC or you side with Trump.

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 22d

Inquiring minds want to know: "Are DC residents pro-crime?"

Our Republican colleagues seem to think so, since they are trying to overturn laws that DC residents passed to prevent crime.

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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 28d

Today, Congress is marking up anti-DC bills to:

— Criminalize sleeping in a car

— Prosecute 14-year-olds as adults

— Give Congress a line-item veto of the DC budget

— Force MPD to rehire officers who commit serious crimes

— Let Trump handpick the DC Attorney General with no Senate confirmation

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Josh Burch @jburchdc.bsky.social · 28d

Congressional GOPers have no solutions to the myriad of problems piling up for Americans, so they are turning a time honored tradition of picking on the 700,000 people in DC. They can't and won't stand up to Trump, instead they'll pick on DC. All bullies are cowards at heart. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

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Josh Burch @jburchdc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

Four people together with DC Statehood signs.

Three people with heads through holes in DC Flag.

People marching with We Are All DC signs.

Thousands of people marching to Free DC!

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 5

Taking Sam Liccardo off the list too! Big thanks to Rep Liccardo for cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill.

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Taking Dina Titus off this list! She’s now cosponsoring & another one is coming! #DCStatehood

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Taking Rep Sherrill off of the list, she’s now cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill!

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sports and politics may sometimes coexist uneasily, but they're inseparable at Washington Spirit games – where fans have been loudly and proudly chanting and displaying their opposition to Trump's takeover of D.C. Me for @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-spirit-tr...

Washington Spirit games provide a field for Trump resistance

Women's soccer fans have taken to the stands with banners, flags, and pro-D.C. chants.

51st.news

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 4

DC isn’t alone. On Sept 6, allies nationwide join residents to send one clear message: This is our city. Together, we #FreeDC. RSVP: www.wearealldc.com

We Are All DC

On September 6, we march to Stop the Trump Takeover. Show up at Malcolm X Park (16th St NW & W St NW) on Saturday, September 6 at 11 AM. We march at 12 PM. Allies join us!

www.wearealldc.com

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Taking Dina Titus off this list! She’s now cosponsoring & another one is coming! #DCStatehood

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Taking Rep Sherrill off of the list, she’s now cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill!

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here are the House Dems NOT cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill:
Cuellar
Don Davis
Gillen
Gluesenkamp Perez
Golden
Goodlander
V. Gonzalez
Gray
Harder
Kaptur
Susie Lee
Liccardo
McDonald Rivet
Pappas
Pou
Riley
Sherrill
Titus
Vasquez
Whitesides

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 4

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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · Sep 4

NEW: We are suing to block the unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to DC.

Armed soldiers should not be policing American citizens on American soil.

The forced military occupation of the District of Columbia violates our local autonomy and basic freedoms. It must end.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 3

DC residents and allies across the country will rise up on Saturday to demand an end to DC's occupation.

BE THERE! Get your friends, neighbors, congregation, and community to join the national event this Saturday at 11 AM in Malcolm X Park. Sign up at bit.ly/we-are-all-dc

A Black man with a bald head faces away from the camera toward a crowd on an open plaza. He has his hand raised above his head waving a flag. Text reads "3 days away! We Are All DC. Saturday September 6 @ 11 AM. Malcolm X Park."

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Brb, off updating our group name to Neighbors United for D.C. Statehoods! ;)

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 2

There is no constitutional reason why Congress couldn't do this, as laid out in the Harvard Law Review: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods15 as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

Radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live. The people should not tolerate a system that is manifestly unfair; they should instead fight fire with fire, and use the unfair provisions of the Constitution to create a better system.

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 31

Walk proudly in town & out of town with the shirts that tells the world what we want & what we deserve: #DCStatehood www.bonfire.com/store/neighb...

Red shirt with the words "Statehood for D.C." on it inside of the DC borders.

Black shirt with red letters that say "Statehood." The A in statehood is the DC borders and the E is the DC flag.

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 30

Good. Keep buying & flying D.C. Flags! They are our symbol of both pride & protest! #FreeDC #DCStatehood www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

D.C. flag sales soar amid Trump’s federal crackdown on the city

A half-dozen hardware stores in the District told The Washington Post that they were either out of D.C. flags or have struggled to keep them in stock.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 29

In 2021, we had 14,000 yard signs. Today, we have none remaining. Many thanks to all of our volunteers for coordinating & distributing signs! Thanks to the thousands of DC residents who proudly display our signs in their yards! We’re in this together. #DCStatehood

Yard sign that says Statehood for the People of DC.

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 28

#DCStatehood gear is now available: www.bonfire.com/store/neighb...

Neighbors United for DC Statehood | Official Merchandise | Bonfire

Neighbors United for Statehood is a group of District citizens who are working to make D.C. the 51st state in the union.

www.bonfire.com

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Taking Rep Sherrill off of the list, she’s now cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill!

Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here are the House Dems NOT cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill:
Cuellar
Don Davis
Gillen
Gluesenkamp Perez
Golden
Goodlander
V. Gonzalez
Gray
Harder
Kaptur
Susie Lee
Liccardo
McDonald Rivet
Pappas
Pou
Riley
Sherrill
Titus
Vasquez
Whitesides

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 24

#FreeDC

inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · Aug 23

Small town Iowa last week:

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Aug 22

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.

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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Truth!

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Aug 22

DC will always rise.

A nighttime scene of 14th and U Street. Street lamps and car headlines illuminate the darkened street, with people walking by and scooters driving through the intersection. A light projection of the words "Free DC for all" with the DC flag illuminate the side of a building on the far side of the intersection.

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