In an email to its membership, MoveOn.org accidentally insinuated that the District of Columbia is a fully-fledged state with its very own bicameral legislature with the power to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution. more ›

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney said he supported statehood for Puerto Rico—sin condiciones. more ›

D.C. Shadow Senator Pete Ross was released from the D.C. Jail last night after spending six hours of a day-long sentence he requested behind bars. more ›

Rick Santorum is for statehood! Good, ol' fashioned English-speaking statehood. Sorry, Puerto Rico. more ›

It's been over 200 years since District residents have been denied the basic democratic rights afforded to other Americans, so we shouldn't be beyond thinking outside the box when it comes to solutions. more ›

Prince George's County has endorsed the notion of making the District of Columbia the 51st state. Unlike attempts to get New Hampshire and Florida to embrace D.C. statehood, this came without a big plane trip. more ›

The New Hampshire House of Representatives today voted down a resolution that would have made the Granite State the first state to officially endorse the prospect of granting full statehood to the District of Columbia. more ›

Despite a day of testimony from District officials and D.C. voting rights activists, a New Hampshire House of Representatives committee declined Friday to support a resolution endorsing D.C. statehood. The bill can still be heard in the full state legislature, however. 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 ›

Newt Gingrich spent much of a speech late Wednesday night in Florida talking about his plans for a U.S. base on the moon, even suggesting it might become the 51st state. more ›

Political commentator and vocal statehood advocate Mark Plotkin has left WTOP, the Post's Erik Wemple reports. more ›

Even though WTOP's Mark Plotkin got all worked up about it, Mayor Vince Gray was invited to the State of the Union, just not by the White House. But he had other plans Tuesday night. 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 ›

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 ›

Mayor Vince Gray and members of the D.C. Council are planning on visiting statehouses around the country this year to gin up support for the statehood effort. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

Achieving statehood would obviously take a while, but how long should it take D.C. to get a single statue in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol? Just as long, as it seems. 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 ›

WHEREAS, Mayor Vince Gray thinks that television and film star Hayden Panettiere "has proven not only her acting chops, but also her commitment to the cause of full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia,” and... more ›

Admit it -- that's a look that says, "I want you to support the District's efforts in achieving voting rights, self-determination and statehood." more ›

In recent months, President Barack Obama has quietly endorsed a path forward for self-determination and statehood. Great news, right? Yeah. For Puerto Rico. more ›

Live free -- and show solidarity -- or die: New Hampshire State Representative Cindy Rosenwald has filed a bill which would "formally declare the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ support for full representative democracy for citizens of the District of Columbia." more ›

The fight for D.C. voting rights, self-determination and statehood isn't a young one, and neither are many of the selfless people that have been pushing to end the city's second-class status for decades on end. But two local activists are hoping to change that. more ›

I suppose it's only fair that since we highlighted Mayor Vince Gray's appearance on CNN yesterday, we should also share his interview on The O'Reilly Factor last night. Gray handled himself pretty well -- at least as well as any prominent liberal politician can possibly handle themselves on the show -- as Bill O'Reilly, who called D.C. "kind of like a city-state they used to have in Greece," prodded him with questions about statehood and the congressional budget deal. more ›

Remember when Michael A. Brown asked the public to help him come up with snappy ideas to rename a street in the District to something statehood related? (You were all so quick to pitch in!) Well, so many people told Brown they liked the idea that the at-large Councilmember is planning to introduce a bill to redub three major streets -- Pennsylvania, Independence and Constitution Avenues -- to D.C. Statehood Way, Let D.C. Vote Way and Free D.C. Avenue, respectively. Nah, that won't confuse anyone. more ›

D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown (Ind.-At-Large), who chaired on the Council's Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination before the body killed it last summer, has been busy on the statehood front: he recently met with new D.C. budget overlord Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) and introduced the "District of Columbia as the 51st State of the Union Resolution of 2011". The real ace up Brown's sleeve is a push to slap a statehood slogan on a street somewhere the District. But he needs your help, Washington! more ›