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Welcome to another episode of It Can Happen here.

I am your guest co-host, Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm joined by the lovely Molly host of award-winning podcast on Pool Zone, Weird Little

Guys. Molly, how you doing? Great. Glad to be here, Bridget. Okay, so I wish we were here to talk

about all the exciting stuff going on in your life, but I wanted to bring this topic to the It

It Could Happen to Your audience because I live in the district.

I know you're a Virginia gal, so you might know a little bit more about how it works in the

district than your average person, but I don't know that people really understand what is

happening to residents of the District of Columbia like myself. So I live in D.C. I've lived here

for most of my life. I have a lot of like hometown

pride. This is not just where I happen to live. It's like my city, my home. Do you know what I

mean? And you don't have representation. It's true, right? It's something that infuriates me.

And so, you know, the first thing to know about D.C. is that it's not a state. So that means that what happens federally

has a huge impact on the day-to-day minutia of the life of people like me who live in the

district. If you don't live in the district, when it comes to decisions about how your local

tax dollars are spent, that usually lies with like your state and local leaders. That's not really the case for me and the other like over half a million residents of the district.

All of this is made worse by the fact that we are essentially disenfranchised just like you said, right?

All of this stuff is playing out in our home, like all of these big national conversations are happening in our own backyard.

And we arguably have less electoral power at agency because we aren't a state.

Fun fact, D.C. residents only got the right to vote in 1961 in presidential elections.

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