setting aside the fact that like every single state has been admitted to the

union. That's what I was going to say. Like as if we were inventing other states

because we were just feeling incredibly altruist. Like every addition to the

union has been political every single one. And I think the you know Heather Cox

Richardson had a really good thing this morning about the addition of Maine and

how you know the Missouri compromise and all that like all of these decisions

to add states has been political to imply that like well because this is

political then we shouldn't do it.

This is Sarah and Beth you're listening to Pantsuit Politics the home of Grace

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Hello and thank you so much for joining us for a new episode of Pantsuit Politics

and our main segment today you're going to hear from Megan Hatcher Maze who is an

activist working toward DC statehood since the house has just passed a bill

supporting DC statehood it will head over to the Senate and we think this

conversation is going to give you a timely look just at history and how we've

added states and why DC is in a state what the impact of that will be hopefully

you'll hear some things that you've not thought about before in that

conversation. As we begin today and as we close in our outside of politics segment

we're going to pick up some threads from conversations that we have started on

Patreon and I think that these threads that we're picking up will show you that

we have just a wonderful and really kind of intimate community there where we

discuss things very openly very vulnerable things that are giving us pause

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