Senate Democrats reintroduce DC statehood bill

 The Hill story

Undernews - One reason DC statehood hasn't done better is because many Americans have a false impression of who lives there, assuming it is occupied only by high ranking government officials. In fact, it has much in common with other states. For example, DC has more black citizens than 20 states and is ninth in percent in  poverty.

And as the DC League of Women Voters points out:

We pay taxes like everyone else but have no say in how to spend them.

We have more people than 2 states and are on par with 6 others, so we are big enough in population.

Congress exercises total control over our laws and budget, so decisions made by our limited self-government are regularly ignored and/or overruled by members of Congress.

No other democratic nation in the world deprives their capital’s citizens of full representation in their national legislatures—only the USA does this.

Our security is threatened because our Mayor does not have the authority she would have as a governor to call out the DC National Guard—as recent events in Lafayette Square and the Capitol building have highlighted.

Entering the Union as a state will give us full citizenship for the first time since 1801. We will have Representative(s) according to our population in the House and two Senators in the Senate, like every other state.

PS: Your editor wrote the first article explaining how DC could become a state without a constitutional amendment back in 1970.