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John,

Taxation without representation was wrong in 1776 and it is wrong today. The people of D.C. pay the highest federal taxes per capita, but have no voting representation in Congress. Becoming a state ends this injustice.  

Sign the petition: Congress must stop denying representation to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. The time for D.C. statehood is NOW!

D.C. residents bear all the responsibilities of full U.S. citizenship—they serve on juries, in the U.S. military, and work hard to build safe, strong communities where they live. And yet, the 700,000+ people who call D.C. home, the majority of whom are Black and Brown, have no vote on any decisions our Congress makes every day, even though they exert undue power over those residents. This includes maintenance within the district, banning a district-elected legalization of marijuana, and even regulating legal abortion access.

Those residents—who are mostly people of color and members of frontline communities—are denied the most basic tenet that founded our country: Representation. This is a fundamental civil rights issue. 

Now, Sen. Tom Carper reintroduced legislation to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. The bill would give Washington D.C. citizens full representation in Congress—the bill MUST pass.

 

 

Make no mistake, this is voter suppression—equality at the ballot box cannot be guaranteed until Congress grants the residents of D.C. the statehood they deserve to be a part of the democratic process. It’s past time this great injustice be righted.

Sign the petition: Congress must stop denying representation to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. The time for D.C. statehood is NOW!

 

Thank you for standing up for DC voting rights,

Cliff

 
 
 
 

Cliff Schecter

President, Blue Amp Action

Amplify Good

 

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We cannot sugarcoat the current situation. Right-wing authoritarianism, defeated by a worldwide coalition during WWII, was only in hibernation. Over the past decade it has infected democratic societies--including ours. It is as simple as it is terrifying: What we do now will define the future of our country and world. 

We at Blue Amp Action are dedicated to liberal, open societies, where reason and science are applied to solve our problems; where civil rights--including voting rights!--are protected for all. We fight for these values every day. Speaking up on our platforms, raising the voices and the political prospects of liberal pols and pundits. 

And savvy grassroots activists like you know, just like we do, that we can’t stop watching the people we help elect: after the elections, we have to keep organizing support for the policies we like and pushing back against the ones we don’t.

When the public tunes out between elections and the only people our elected officials hear from are the paid lobbyists of wealthy corporations, our government stops being accountable to the needs of ordinary families.

Democracy never sleeps, and neither can we.

So we ask that you support our work, so we can continue to engage in this fight every moment of every day. So our kids grow up in democracy, not dystopia.

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