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Contact your Member of Congress now Indivisibles,
Get ready to get loud and show your support for the residents of Washington D.C. today!
The House Oversight Committee is marking up the D.C. statehood bill today -- bringing it one step closer to the House floor for a vote, and D.C.’s residents one step closer to true representation in government.
Activists and Indivisibles all across the country will be mobilizing today to let their members of Congress (MoCs) know that the 50 states support the addition of the 51st state. Click here and tell your representative now to support D.C. statehood.
D.C. statehood would give voting representation in Congress, among many other rights, to more than 700,000 residents, a plurality of whom are Black, many of whom have lived in D.C. their whole lives, giving equal representation to those residents and overturning hundreds of years of voter suppression and racism. This isn’t some radical idea: calling for D.C. statehood is the same basic principle of representation that our country is founded on.
We all play a role in supporting D.C. statehood and we know that sometimes our loved ones aren’t always on top of everything happening on the Hill. If you have friends or family that are unsure or confused about D.C. statehood and their role, share any one (or more!) of these resources with them and then ask them to make a call:
Can’t make a call today but want to show your support? Don’t worry because this is a HUGE week for statehood and our democracy:
On Thursday, in recognition of Tax Day (don’t worry if you haven’t filed -- this year’s deadline was extended!), Indivisible groups will be uplifting the importance of D.C. statehood and how residents of D.C. pay taxes yet have no representation in Congress.
And then Friday is D.C. Emancipation Day, which celebrates the freeing of thousands of slaves in the District a full eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the South.
So make sure to make a call today, tomorrow, or every day this week. Your MoCs need to hear your support for D.C. statehood and together we can show just how strong this movement is.
In solidarity,
Indivisible Team
P.S. -- When we email about D.C. statehood we get a lot of questions about Puerto Rico, so we wanted to answer that question here: we support self-determination for Puerto Rico too! D.C. has voted more decisively for statehood and there is a bill actively moving, which is why we’re talking about it more. But we think everyone from San Jose to St. Paul to San Juan should get to decide what government works for them.
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