#Statehood

Henry

HMSPitts

My predictions for the next 2 years:•Dems won’t pack SCOTUS. Biden has acknowledged the damage that would do long term.•DC statehood won’t happen (maybe retrocession); there are plenty of Dems

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) he House of Representatives takes only the second vote in history on a measure to make the District of Columbia the 51st state on Friday. Well, kind of. 2)

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

I see there is some interest in the issue of statehood as it relates to contemporary hardball politics. I wrote a full dissertation on the topic! Here's a short article

Ricardo A. Ramírez #BlackLivesMatter

RicardoEnDC

U.S. progressive friends, that tweet you’re sending on Puerto Rico is well intentioned. But you're hurting progressives on the island. A thread There’s an entire ecosystem of Puerto Rican

David Frum

davidfrum

The most powerful argument for DC statehood isn't about DC at all. It's to save the Senate. It's right now theoretically possible for a bill passed by senators representing 290

sharrowsDC

sharrowsDC

it's really hard to explain to people who don't live here how incredibly jarring it was to see the events unfold yesterday, not just because the events themselves were shocking,

Curtis Harris

curtismharris

This speech coulda been lifted straight from the debates 120 years ago on American overseas imperialism.The segregationists in the South decried annexing the Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc. because it would

Indivisible Guide

IndivisibleTeam

We defeated Donald Trump and his cronies. We won in Georgia and demoted Mitch McConnell. Now we have a short window to repair our democracy.Here's what we can do next

Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast)

edburmila

In less than 9 months in 1889 into 1890, Congress admitted six new states to the Union. The politics of that outburst of statehood aren't just interesting history. It suggests

Benjamin Park

BenjaminEPark

Today is the 125th anniversary of Utah statehood, an event that was a half-century in the making and one that many thought would never take place. It's a fascinating tale

Adam Eichen

AdamEichen

Politico obtained a draft of the DNC platform. Some promising sections on democracy, even if I might have some quibbles. One thing that immediately stands out: The platform takes a

Arwyn

Anianegwr

Please share this. A question to every voter in Wales - What does your vote achieve? Does the UK act in Wales best interests? Can I ask voters on the

Tom Frome

TomFrome

when i was a kid i also believed 'communists should ditch that label, for PR reasons'. now i think you make more headway owning it than dishonestly disavowing it. not

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

The love of leftists for trains is so common it’s a trope—they seem like inoffensive pre globalized but still connective industry. Yet the railroad supported the modern state & secured

Ezra Levin

ezralevin

Short version of this argument: "But won't the GOP do a lot of damage after they win in 2022 or beyond??"This is the anti-reform argument I hear most often, including

Fenit Nirappil

FenitN

At anti-D.C. statehood press conference, Senator Steve Daines (R-Mt.) urges lawmakers to "go out to where the real people are at across the country and ask them where they think."

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