The Fifty First State is about to arrive.

 Osita Nwanevu/January 27, 2021

THIS IS ATTAINABLE AND ESSENTIAL AS THE CREEPY REPUBLICAN PARTY, IN THE MINORITY, WILL DO ANYTHING TO RIG ELECTIONS

HAVING D.C. AS THE 51st STATE WILL HELP EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD...READ: ALLOW MORE DEMOCRACY!

The D.C. Statehood Debate Is Coming, Like It or Not

The most important liberal advocacy organizations—and a broader swath of the public—are pushing to make the District of Columbia the fifty-first state.  

 A Data for Progress poll in September registered 43 percent support from American voters, an eight-point increase from 2019 levels, attributable mostly to new enthusiasm from Democrats.

Those Democrats might have been taking cues from the party’s leaders. Last summer, House Democrats passed a statehood bill with almost unanimous support from the caucus. And D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who reintroduced the bill on the first day of this new Congress, sees the progress statehood made in 2020 as reason for optimism. “This is the closest the district has gotten to statehood in its 220 years of existence,” she told me in an interview this week. “We’ve got the votes in the House. Last Congress, and I believe we will have more this time, we had more than 90 percent of Democrats in the Senate that were co-sponsors of D.C. statehood.”   https://newrepublic.com/article/161075/dc-statehood-debate-biden-democrats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily