I'm in Washington DC taking a lift with 22 year old Jamal Hoats.

As we wind through the city, symbols of freedom and democracy are everywhere.

There's the Lincoln Memorial, the MLK monument, and you can actually see the capital dome

in the rearview mirror.

Jamal is telling me about a rally across town.

There are a bunch of people talking about stay-hood and make a show that it gets added to

S1.

Jamal grew up in Southeast DC with dreams of being an FBI agent.

Now he's got his eyes set on politics and he looks to part.

It's hot in DC and I mean sticky, humid hot.

But Jamal is sharp in a crisp blue suit and tie.

He hopes to be mayor one day or maybe even governor, but there's no governor's seat to

run for because the District of Columbia isn't a state.

Jamal is fighting to change that.

The nation's capital would be shrunken down to just the monument, the White House, and

the capital.

So all of the federal buildings and stuff down here and everything outside of that would

be the Douglas Commonwealth.

The state.

So we're going to be in the state.

The Douglas Commonwealth.

That's what a growing coalition of state-hood activists like Jamal won a name DC.

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