Working to End Taxation Without Representation in America's Capital

Founded in 1998, DC Vote is an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to securing full voting representation in Congress and full democracy for the more than half a million residents of the District of Columbia. DC residents pay full federal taxes, fight and die in wars and serve on juries yet are denied voting representation in the House and the Senate. DC Vote is working to end this injustice.

In just the past two years, DC Vote has:

• effectively lobbied Congress, resulting in the historic Senate passage of the DC Voting Rights Act (S.160) in the 111th Congress;
  
  
• broadened our national Public Awareness Campaign by visiting target states to educate constituents, organizations and the media about DC voting rights;
  
  
• mobilized more than 5,000 supporters for the Voting Rights March, the largest public demonstration for DC voting rights in history;
  
  
• worked with reporters, columnists and editors to generate hundreds of articles and editorials in support of DC voting rights;
  
  
• and launched a successful Students for DC Vote program that has reached thousands of students in dozens of classrooms and college campuses.
  
  

Can This Injustice Be Resolved?

Both Republicans and Democrats agree that all Americans deserve democracy. Opinions from conservative legal experts like Judge Kenneth Starr and Professor Viet D. Dinh support Congress' authority under the Constitution to give the District of Columbia voting representation in Congress through simple legislation. Congress does not need to amend the Constitution or make DC a state to give DC a vote in Congress. Read more about the DC voting rights legislation currently moving through Congress.

DC Vote is working to raise national public awareness so that Americans across the country will contact their members of Congress and senators and demand a vote for DC. Find out how you can quickly contact your member of Congress or senators.

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