Neighbors United for DC Statehood
@51stdc.bsky.social
Committed to making D.C. the 51st state in the union because it's constitutionally sound, morally just, and simply the right thing to do. Join us, we need you! www.the51st.org To volunteer, email unitedforstatehood at gmail dot com.
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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...
As we close out 2025, we can honestly say it was a pretty shitty year for DC. Unprecedented attacks on Home Rule took place, exposing the fallacy of the term Home Rule. Never forget that #DCStatehood is the ultimate goal of DC residents who seek an equal footing & place in our democracy.
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
As we close out 2025, we can honestly say it was a pretty shitty year for DC. Unprecedented attacks on Home Rule took place, exposing the fallacy of the term Home Rule. Never forget that #DCStatehood is the ultimate goal of DC residents who seek an equal footing & place in our democracy.
Wyoming's Sen. Lummis is retiring. Both she & the other WY Sen won their elections with 198,000 votes. Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC's non-voting Rep in the House wins her elections with 280,000 votes. WY has 587,000 people & DC has 702,000 people. It's quite simple, the people of DC deserve statehood.
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wyoming's Sen. Lummis is retiring. Both she & the other WY Sen won their elections with 198,000 votes. Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC's non-voting Rep in the House wins her elections with 280,000 votes. WY has 587,000 people & DC has 702,000 people. It's quite simple, the people of DC deserve statehood.
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#DCStatehood is morally just, constitutionally sound, the democratic thing to, and…
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#DCStatehood is morally just, constitutionally sound, the democratic thing to, and…
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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BREAKING: Judge Cobb tells the Pentagon to #FreeDC.
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
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However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BREAKING: Judge Cobb tells the Pentagon to #FreeDC.
Call Rep. Vindman today & tell him to respect Home Rule & let the people of DC decide what’s best for our beloved city-state: (202) 225-2815 #FreeDC #DCStatehood
Why does @gene4va.bsky.social keep voting for horrible Trump bills that take away DC home? If you are his constituent, perhaps you could call his office and ask?
I am especially disappointed in @gene4va.bsky.social. He has now voted SEVEN times to advance Trump’s takeover of DC. He claims to support democracy, but then opposes it at almost every turn for the city just 40 minutes away. Why is this local Dem supporting Trump’s agenda so strongly?
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Call Rep. Vindman today & tell him to respect Home Rule & let the people of DC decide what’s best for our beloved city-state: (202) 225-2815 #FreeDC #DCStatehood
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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 ...
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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."
The House bill being voted on today to require cash bail in DC is insane.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Other than DC still inexcusably not being a state, any other interesting news today? #DCStatehood
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Other than DC still inexcusably not being a state, any other interesting news today? #DCStatehood
Good morning.
D.C. will be the 51st state.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a good day.
#FreeDC #DCStatehood
D.C. will be the 51st state.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a good day.
#FreeDC #DCStatehood
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good morning.
D.C. will be the 51st state.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a good day.
#FreeDC #DCStatehood
D.C. will be the 51st state.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a good day.
#FreeDC #DCStatehood
A little late to this news, but good to see @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill. Always good to have great neighbors! Thank you! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A little late to this news, but good to see @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill. Always good to have great neighbors! Thank you! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Image if Arizona does sue on these grounds while one of their Senators, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, remains silent on #DCStatehood. Interesting.
“Arizona is considering suing for taxation without representation if you don’t seat Adelita Grijalva.”
Speaker Johnson: *continues to cover for Pesophiles*
Speaker Johnson: *continues to cover for Pesophiles*
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Image if Arizona does sue on these grounds while one of their Senators, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, remains silent on #DCStatehood. Interesting.
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Sign me up for some of that #DCStatehood action & more! Sounds like democracy to me!
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sign me up for some of that #DCStatehood action & more! Sounds like democracy to me!
Oh, hell no!!! # FreeDC
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Oh, hell no!!! # FreeDC
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
This shutdown is the fault of YOUR legislators in Congress, not ours. We don’t have any.
Sincerely,
700k Falsely Accused People in DC
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
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
This shutdown is the fault of YOUR legislators in Congress, not ours. We don’t have any.
Sincerely,
700k Falsely Accused People in DC
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
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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
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
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September 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
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!
Taking Sam Liccardo off the list too! Big thanks to Rep Liccardo for cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill.
Taking Dina Titus off this list! She’s now cosponsoring & another one is coming! #DCStatehood
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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!
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.
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. (🧵)
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. (🧵)
September 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Our Republican colleagues seem to think so, since they are trying to overturn laws that DC residents passed to prevent crime.
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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.
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.
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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
— 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
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
— 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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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
September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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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Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood
September 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood
Taking Sam Liccardo off the list too! Big thanks to Rep Liccardo for cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill.
Taking Dina Titus off this list! She’s now cosponsoring & another one is coming! #DCStatehood
Taking Rep Sherrill off of the list, she’s now cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill!
September 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Taking Sam Liccardo off the list too! Big thanks to Rep Liccardo for cosponsoring the #DCStatehood bill.
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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.
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September 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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...