The streets of Washington are occupied territory now—patrolled by federal agents, overruled by congressional fiat, and governed by the whims of a president who has declared war on democracy itself.
While progressive champion Lisa McCormick advocates for D.C. statehood, Republican President Donald Trump has transformed the city into his personal authoritarian experiment, deploying the full force of the federal government to crush local autonomy and silence dissent.
“This is tyranny in plain sight,” said McCormick. “I have friends who live in Washington, D.C. who are taxpaying American citizens… yet they are without a voice in Congress.”
McCormick said attempts to divert attention away from his close association with Jeffrey Epstein have had little effect, but as Trump completes his ruthless takeover of the city, her push for the Washington, D.C. Admission Act—which would finally grant the District’s 712,846 residents full voting rights—has emerged as a priority.
Four states have fewer than or about the same number of residents as the District of Columbia: Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and North Dakota. There are 18 states with fewer residents than Puerto Rico.
The cruel joke? McCormick speaks of representation while Trump’s stormtroopers march through the streets, while his handpicked attorney general commands local police, while National Guard units stand ready to suppress protests against this very injustice.
The coup didn’t happen in shadows—it unfolded in broad daylight while Trump has the lowest job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, according to polls conducted by Pew, Ipsos, the Gallup Organization, Quinnipiac University, The Economist and YouGov.
When Trump invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act to seize control of D.C.’s police force, he didn’t just fantasize about federal overreach—he executed it with chilling precision.
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, d, rugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore,” Trump lied.
The president ignored plummeting violent crime rates to justify his power grab, deploying military forces not to protect citizens, but to quash their legal rights.
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s measured response—”unsettling and unprecedented”—belied the terrifying reality: the nation’s capital now answers to a man who lost its vote three times over.
Congressional Republicans, ever eager lackeys, have weaponized the appropriations process to strip D.C. of even basic self-governance.
They’ve banned the city from enforcing traffic laws with cameras—not for safety, but to bankrupt local coffers. They’ve blocked police accountability measures—not for justice, but for impunity. They’ve overruled reproductive healthcare protections—not for morality, but for control.
The staggering hypocrisy burns brightest here—the party of “local control” now micromanages when trash gets collected in Anacostia while turning the National Mall into an armed camp.
“The Republicans scream about states’ rights while reducing D.C. to a colonial outpost,” said McCormick.
Paul Strauss, D.C.’s shadow senator, nails it: “They seem to be very hypocritical when it comes to mandating federal overreach in this one particular area.”
That area appears to be any place that dares elect Democrats, any city that resists Trump’s twisted vision of an authoritarian America.
Meanwhile, Trump’s occupation grows more brazen by the day.
His threats to veto the Commanders’ stadium deal unless they bow to his demands reveal this isn’t about crime—it’s about humiliation.
His deployment of troops wasn’t about safety—it is about distraction.
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein bragged about being Trump’s ‘closest friend’ in shocking 2017 recordings with author Michael Wolff.
On the tapes—made for Wolff’s book Fire and Fury—Epstein claimed intimate knowledge of Trump’s sexual habits and alleged, ‘The first time he slept with Melania was on my plane’—referring to his infamous ‘Lolita Express.’
These revelations, coming two years before Epstein’s jail cell death, expose Trump’s deep ties to the disgraced financier and explain the former president’s frantic efforts to distract from their relationship.
As Republican allies cheer this dismantling of home rule while preparing even more draconian measures it shows D.C. was never meant to govern itself in their eyes, just as democracy was never meant to include everyone in America.
“The citizens of Washington D.C. deserve the same rights and privileges as other taxpaying Americans,” insists McCormick, even as her fight for statehood has never been more urgent—or more dangerous as civil rights are stripped away by federal decree.
The Washington, D.C. Admission Act isn’t just legislation now—it’s the last hope to prevent the complete evisceration of self-rule in the capital.
But make no mistake: this battle isn’t really about D.C. or Trump’s sexual indiscretions anymore. It’s about whether any community that defies Trump can maintain its freedoms.
Does “no taxation without representation” still means anything in 21st century America?
And most chillingly, it’s about whether the rest of the country will wake up—before their city becomes the next occupied territory in Trump’s crumbling democracy.
The jackbooted thugs are already on the ground.
The question is: Who will stand to stop them?