A crowd of D.C. residents descended on Capitol Hill this afternoon with complaints ranging from broken streetlights to potholes, but Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) was there to hear them—he closed down his office instead. more ›

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has recently gotten up in D.C.'s business, proposing a bill that would prohibit abortions in the city after 20 weeks. Given his newfound concern for what happens here, D.C. voting rights advocacy organization DC Vote is pushing residents to show up at his office tomorrow from noon to 1:30 p.m. to complain about, well, just about anything else. more ›

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton released the testimony she would have given had she been permitted to speak in a hearing on a GOP bill that would prohibit District women from having an abortion after 20 weeks. more ›

According to a nationwide survey commissioned by DC Vote, 72 percent of Americans believe that D.C. should be able to spend its money when and how it wants. more ›

A group of D.C. voting rights activists are protesting Republican Arizona Rep. Trent Franks' Glendale district office this afternoon over legislation he's introduced on the Hill that would prohibit abortions in the District after 20 weeks. more ›

President Obama's sudden support for a measure that would allow the District to spend its own money (and thus avoid future threats of a shutdown) is a big deal, but some D.C. voting rights advocates are stressing that his actions have to speak louder than his words. more ›

At a quick press conference yesterday before the D.C. Council's first legislative session of 2012, Mayor Vince Gray and most of the D.C. Council touted their upcoming trip to New Hampshire, where they will lobby the state legislature there to endorse District statehood. more ›

On this day in 1964, District voters cast their first presidential ballots since the city was established in 1800. more ›

We reported yesterday that Mayor Vince Gray was going to be missing tomorrow's rally for D.C. voting rights at the White House, leading some in the movement to grumble. Well, Gray seems to have changed his mind. more ›

On June 15, Mayor Vince Gray tweeted: "Would like to see President Obama fight actively for DC autonomy. Door to Wilson Building always open to him." The sentiment, which is loudly echoed by voting rights activists across the city, will be a central theme at a rally set for this Saturday in front of the White House. Gray, however, won't be there. more ›

During his recent campaign for an At-Large seat on the D.C. Council, Republican Patrick Mara often argued that advocates for D.C. voting rights and autonomy didn't do enough to engage congressional Republicans, opting instead to demonize them. Mara didn't win the race -- he came in a close second to Vincent Orange -- but he's recently been given a chance to put his pro-Republican voting rights pitches to the test. more ›

Eight District residents arrested in a number of recent protests for D.C. voting rights and autonomy are headed to trial, while nine others opted to pay a fine after appearing in a D.C. courtroom this morning for a preliminary hearing. more ›

About 25 D.C. voting rights advocates protested outside House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) Capitol Hill basement apartment early this morning, angrily decrying his "hypocrisy" for siding with the Tea Party while introducing measures that would prohibit the District from using local funds for abortion and needle-exchange programs. more ›

Today on Capitol Hill, a number of D.C. voting rights activists protested a hearing on legislation that would ban the use of local D.C. taxpayer funds on abortions. The ban, which was lifted by Democrats in 2009, specifically applies to federal taxpayer funding of abortion, but also includes local D.C. funds because of the city's standing as something of a federal colony. more ›

You know, we're pretty bummed out about the District's lack of voting rights, but we'd never even think about comparing our situation to what's going on in Egypt, where people are dying, journalists are being arrested and demonstrations have drawn millions willing to drop everything for days in order to stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the danger. Of course, we don't have to make that comparison, because Ralph Nader has already made it for us. more ›

Instead of offering up a roundup of all things D.C. voting rights as we approach the end of the year (in short: we didn't get any), I'd like to credit the folks at D.C. Vote with a festive and holiday-themed way to get their point across. more ›

Sure, most of us are peeved that District residents still don't have voting rights. But at least you can win some money for finding creative ways to do something about it. more ›

It's a new day for D.C. voting rights. Oh wait, no it's not. more ›

If Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS) wants to interfere in the District's affairs, he should just go ahead and run for mayor. That's the message some voting rights activists will be sending the Mississippi Democrat this week. more ›

Anyone who is involved in the fight for D.C. voting rights is likely often frustrated. Now some activists are now taking those frustrations directly to their source. more ›

As a follow-up to our earlier post detailing some of the divisions that have emerged within the D.C. voting rights movement over the gun amendment, we just received a statement from D.C. for Democracy formally announcing that the organization is opposed to passing the legislation with the amendment attached. more ›

With plans to re-introduce legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House set for this Thursday, House Democratic Leaders, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and various D.C. voting rights advocates are facing increasing dissent from within over an amendment that would scrap the city's gun laws. more ›

It looks like President Barack Obama's silence on D.C. voting rights will continue. more ›

It's been somewhat quiet on the D.C. voting rights front in recent weeks, but that doesn't mean that the advocacy and education isn't marching along. more ›

If there's one thing that no member of Congress wants to be accused of, it's not supporting the troops. That very fear might be the only thing that finally gets the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives. more ›

When D.C. voting rights advocacy organization DC Vote launched its "I Am DC" ad campaign earlier this summer, it placed posters featuring the faces and stories of 10 D.C. residents (including our own Martin Austermuhle) on Metrobuses and other visible spots around the city. But recently we noticed that images of the posters available for download on the DC Vote web site now number only nine. Who was on that 10th poster? It was embattled Jim Graham chief of staff Ted Loza. more ›