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 ›

President Obama has included language in his 2013 federal budget that would allow the District to spend its own money when and how it wants. more ›

"Suck it, Washington, D.C. Suck it dipped in Tang." Yep, that just about sums up how we're feeling after Newt Gingrich figured that a moon colony was more deserving of statehood. more ›

Today Wikipedia and other sites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. Call your representatives and senators to let them know how you feel! Oh, right. more ›

A trip to New Hampshire to lobby for D.C. statehood that was postponed by snow in the Granite State has been rescheduled for January 27. more ›

The protesters on a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights have an idea for a new District office that would lobby for and protect legislative and budgetary autonomy. And Adrian Parsons looks as unwell as ever. more ›

Via WJLA, the AP reports that of the four protesters that were engaged in a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights, only one remains. more ›

Four D.C. voting rights protestors, including the organizer of a week-old hunger strike, were arrested on Capitol Hill during a rally against anti-abortion language in a federal budget resolution. more ›

Well, damn it. Despite Martin Austermuhle's protestations yesterday, the federal government still looks like it's creeping toward running out of cash and going into shutdown mode. Hooray. Bad news for D.C. more ›

It's Wednesday, and Congress has yet to finalize and vote on an omnibus federal spending plan. You know what that means -- if something isn't done by Friday, the federal government could shut down, taking with it the District's government. more ›

A group of four protestors associated with the Occupy D.C. movement took their prolonged hunger strike to Capitol Hill today in hopes of getting a rider preventing the use of local funds from paying for abortions removed from a federal budget bill. more ›

It's yet another eviction for the Occupy Wall Street movement, as police in Baltimore removed 40 people that had been camped out near the Inner Harbor for the last 10 weeks. According to the Baltimore Sun, the eviction went smoothly and no arrests were reported. more ›

The three protesters that launched a hunger strike yesterday for D.C. voting right and self-determination are planning on trying to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, in hopes of having him introduce a clean bill granting the District budgetary autonomy. more ›

The last time that the District saw a substantial victory in its fight for voting rights, self-determination and statehood was 1973, when the city was given limited Home Rule. Three protesters are hoping that the next big victory comes much more quickly -- because they'll be fasting until the District gets it. more ›

Yay! It's Repeal Day, the day on which we celebrate the 1933 constitutional amendment to abandon the wrong-headed policy of prohibition. Everywhere but in the District, that is. more ›

D.C. doesn't seem to be able to get what it wants. Should it just settle for what it can get instead? more ›

After one dropped case and one acquittal, seven of the remaining eight D.C. voting rights protesters put on trial for arrests at demonstrations in April were found guilty today of blocking traffic. One other protester was acquitted. more ›

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

Keith Silver, a Ward 6 ANC commissioner who was arrested during an April 18 D.C. voting rights protest on Capitol Hill, was found not guilty of a single charge of failing to obey a lawful order this afternoon. 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 ›

The first time they tried to inaugurate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, they got a hurricane. This time, it's looking like a soggy week will give way to a sunny weekend. more ›

A proposal by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to allow residents of other states with conceal carry permits to similarly carry concealed weapons in the District failed today in a surprising 24-3-1 vote, with a large number of Republicans siding with Democrats in opposition. more ›

At his monthly breakfast with the D.C. Council yesterday, Mayor Vince Gray and some of his top aides celebrated what they said was a huge step towards budget autonomy for the District -- a congressional spending bill that lets the city spend its own money. more ›

D.C. Shadow Representative Mike Panetta has decided that he won't be running again after spending three terms as one part of the District's three-man Shadow Delegation. more ›

As quietly as Bart Turner was arrested, his case was dismissed. Today in D.C. Superior Court, a single charge of "Unlawful Entry" against Turner -- a Ward 2 resident and former D.C. public school teacher who was arrested on April 18 during a one-man D.C. voting rights demonstration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol -- was dismissed by prosecutors. more ›

By the time eight D.C. voting rights activists actually go on trial, it will have been a full seven months since they were arrested in a series of protests on Capitol Hill. Seven months. more ›

A D.C. judge ruled yesterday that Mayor Vince Gray won't have to testify at the trial of a resident arrested at a D.C. voting rights protest earlier this year. more ›

Good morning, Washington. It’s a somber Sunday. A cultural celebration in the District turned violent yesterday when one man was fatally shot and three other people were wounded at the Caribbean Carnival near Gresham Place and Georgia Avenue NW. NBC Washington reports that there were at least two shooters. more ›

A Saturday afternoon rally for D.C. voting rights at the White House was capped off by the arrest of 12 people, bringing to 73 the number of residents and advocates that have been arrested since April. more ›