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[ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate: Pass DC Statehood! Sign now >>

People For Member,

BREAKING NEWS: Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.
51, the bill for D.C statehood, and sent it on to the Senate. This
historic moment is only the second time in our history that this proposal
has passed in at least one of the chambers of Congress.

Now we have to keep working hard to make sure that every Senator knows how
critical it is that they support D.C. statehood.

[ [link removed] ]SIGN NOW: Tell the Senate that they MUST pass the D.C. statehood
bill! >>

We have an unprecedented opportunity to finally give the more than 700,000
D.C. residents – a significant majority of whom are people of color –
equal representation in the federal government. In addition to being a
serious racial equity issue, D.C. statehood is a public safety issue. When
violent insurrectionists attacked people on D.C. soil on January 6, the
District’s government was powerless to send in their own National Guard
without involving the Department of Defense. Preventing D.C from becoming
a state is putting the city in danger.

In the past year, the injustice of D.C.’s classification as a federal
district rather than a state has become painfully clear. The city has
struggled in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was initially
denied the full financial aid provided to states, and now as it struggles
to obtain its fair share of the vaccine supply. And when the city rose up
against systemic racism and violence in policing, the Trump administration
called in the National Guard to crack down on protesters over the mayor’s
objections.

The people of our capital city deserve real self-determination, and now is
our best-ever chance to help them become citizens of our 51st state.

[ [link removed] ]Urge the Senate to stop the racially biased disenfranchisement of our
capital city’s residents and pass the D.C. statehood bill! >>

With the narrowest of Democratic majorities in the Senate and the racist
Jim Crow-era filibuster rule still in play, we have our work cut out for
us. D.C. statehood is a historically unpopular measure with the Right, and
they’re preparing to fight it. Help us right this centuries-old wrong by
getting D.C. statehood over the finish line.

Thank you for fighting with us for self-determination and equity for all!

In community,

Sarah, Digital Campaigns Associate

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