The day after an assistant campaign treasurer to Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 campaign pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, another aide has been charged for making false statements to federal investigators. more ›

Twenty-eight local and national Asian American advocacy groups launched a campaign yesterday asking Councilmember Marion Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) to apologize for comments he made earlier this week about Filipino nurses at local hospitals. more ›

Yesterday Metro launched its new anti-sexual harassment campaign, which includes tools to better report it and ads warning riders that harassment isn't OK. more ›

One Ward 4 D.C. Council candidate and a few local websites joined in a day-long protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act by blacking out his campaign website for the day. more ›

The Post has got some intimate details on why a candidate for the Ward 7 seat on the D.C. Council was arrested in December, while the City Paper went ahead and Xtranormalized it. more ›

Looking towards 2012, President Obama might have a tougher time attracting the support in D.C. that he did four years ago -- mostly because his campaign seems to have lopped off Ward 8 altogether. more ›

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton ceremonially kicked off her re-election campaign during a speech on Saturday, reports The Hoya. more ›

The D.C. GOP may be small, with under 30,000 registered members citywide, but its size hasn't stopped it from trying to get local Republicans elected to office. Looking to 2012, the party is fielding a number of contenders in some big ticket local races. more ›

After exploring the option of running for the Ward 2 seat on the D.C. Council for the last few weeks, Fiona Greig has officially launched her campaign against incumbent Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2). more ›

Residents, activists and local politicians have long spoken about the District becoming the 51st state, but no one has sought to actively brand the cause. Until now. more ›

Last night, Mayor Vince Gray officially responded to allegations, uncovered in the Washington Post on Tuesday, that his mayoral campaign improperly shifted campaign donations from cash to money orders in order to skirt legal caps and accepted donations from organizations that don't exist. more ›

Well, this makes things a little more interesting: during a hearing regarding an audit of current D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown's 2008 campaign finances, the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance revealed that the United States Attorney's Office has begun investigating the claims. more ›

During last fall's Council campaign, we called Bryan Weaver's Paul Wellstone homage "the best campaign video you'll see all year." With the above video, released by Weaver's campaign this morning, Weaver's pretty much laid claim to 2011's honors, too. more ›

With this WWE-style video, recorded by the City Paper, of Ron Moten chasing Vince Gray through the bowels of the WPFW radio studio -- be honest, how many of you were expecting a Gray staff member to jump out of a dark corner and wallop Moten with a chair, with Mayor Fenty just getting to the scene moments too late to make the save? -- I think we can officially update the status of the mayoral contest from "somewhat unbalanced" to "certifiably nuts." Observe: more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is running for re-election, and so far no viable candidate has formally declared an intent to run against the incumbent (though there are plenty of rumors about At-large D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown). A story from the Examiner today may help persuade someone to step to the plate sooner rather than later, however. A recent poll conducted by D.C.-based Successful Capital Strategies shows that six in ten District Democrats would be "open" to voting for someone other than Fenty in the next election. more ›

Via the DCist tipline, we learn that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty may actually face some "super" serious competition in his upcoming reelection campaign. A web site promoting Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, for mayor of D.C. has popped up, along with the requisite Facebook page and Twitter feed. more ›

The Post makes the right call on today's rally planned for Sen. Barack Obama at Nissan Pavilion is Bristow, Va. It's going to be a traffic nightmare of epic proportions. You thought the Radiohead debacle was bad? Imagine a free 6 p.m. event open to all comers that will kickoff a historic national campaign for president by a candidate with huge support from young, enthusiastic, politically-minded, college-educated Democrats in a metro area that has one of the highest concentrations of same anywhere in the country. more ›

When a friend emailed to invite me to cover this past weekend's DNC protests, I had blogger visions running through my head of life-size puppets, patchouli and lots and lots of yelling. Sadly, it seems like most of the good stuff happened inside the hotel, where the protesters weren't supposed to be and I didn't try to go. But I've got your boring, ill-attended protest round-up anyway, complete with pictures of as much of the crazy as I bothered trying to document. more ›