DCist was pleased to learn today that we've been selected as the official blog to represent the District of Columbia at this year's Democratic National Convention in Denver. DCist will be part of the State Blogger Corps, which is a new cadre of bloggers who cover state and local politics that the Democratic National Committee has invited to sit with their own delegations on the convention floor. You can find a full list of the blogs that were chosen from each state over here. The convention isn't until August, so in the meantime we'll be drifting off to sleep every night to the dulcet tones of DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who sent us his congratulations via the YouTube video above. more ›

The season finale night for the West Wing and it did not disappoint, that's for sure. All eyes are on the Democratic National Convention as hell breaks loose with Santos and Russell desperately fighting for delegate votes. more ›

First thing up, we'd like to welcome the two newest -ist sites to our family circle. Bostonist and Seattlest, which should be up and running at full force today, will be in a beta testing period for the next few weeks. more ›

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton addressed the Democratic National Convention in Boston yesterday on the issue of voting rights for Washington D.C., asking John Kerry and John Edwards to "right this wrong." C-SPAN has posted a video of her speech on the web, and a full transcript is here. Rev. Al Sharpton also promoted voting rights in D.C. on Wednesday in the following unscripted remark:" ... It, to me, is a glaring contradiction that we... more ›

Things like today's full DNC convention schedule, an op-ed written by a DNC convention blogger about the "Free Speech Zone" titled "Mr. Kerry: Tear Down This Wall!", and a column by Ann Culture spiked by USA Today, (Choice quote: "My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call "women" at the Democratic National Convention.") more ›