How about expanding Congress so it's not 1 person for every 800,000 that they are representing?

My god, what are you people like at christmas? "Yes, it's a nice sweater and I did want it, but why didn't you give it to me last year?"

both!

Abolish the Senate if we're going to do radical things

Porqué no los dos?

This!!!

Impeachment now.

Let's make Cuba and Baja states instead! #52States

Don't you have more plutocracy for the tech broligarchy to vote for, traitor?

Probably not literally now, but a top priority when Dems get the trifecta. You'll probably have to neuter the SCOTUS first by adding more justices or else they'll rule any efforts to make DC a state unconstitutional. All of this would require nuking the filibuster.

Let's roll

Quit posting useless statements and actually FRIGGIN’ DO SOMETHING!!!! Useless enabler

Who’s doing your socials? They get lamer and lamer, nothing inspiring, no actions taken or suggestions for your “colleagues” much less us Virginia voters to do anything. Cross the river and Get out in front the SS HQ in Anacostia park and at least act like you care about the District!

DC shouldn’t be a state. It should be 27 different states, guaranteeing a democratic supermajority in the senate. Gotta think big these days

Great slogan - what is your plan?

You guys were sleep walking into all of this.. letting Republicans gut quorum in the nineties and erode norms have done this. You're all corporate bought and real soon that fuck face is going to own those companies and you'll wonder what happened. You've so told your souls for nothing.

Let’s talk about SCOTUS. Not one of these Partisan Conservative Justices deserve an ounce of respect! And they should not be allowed any longer to pollute the sanctity of the Constitution with their own politicized hubris. Term limits. Make court 13 members. Impeach these SCROTUS criminals.

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Appreciated, but we need all Dems back in the city and in the streets at this point. If you let DC fall to this coup, there won't be any real elections in 2026 and 2028. Waiting until your vacations are over is not going to cut it.

Yesterday

You need to start telling Trump: No.

Dude, you're too late.

Yesterday, last year, sometime in the 1800s. What really pisses me off is that nobody took this as a serious thing until the orange stain decided to call the goon squads of other places and take it over. Are you going to verbally smash resistance that flags will cost too much to change, sir?

Holy... why hasn't anyone thought of this until now???!!!

D.C. Code § 22-4504: . Prohibits carrying any pistol or dangerous weapon, whether openly or concealed, without a proper license, except in certain circumstances like within a dwelling or place of business.

Add 15 states.

Yeah. That’s gonna happen.🙄 Can we worry about the 2026 elections, if you’re serious about DC statehood.

Got any more impotent ideas? We're living through the flashback scenes of Handmaids Tale. Establish safe zones and plan for a civil war

Absolutely not. And you know it won't happen. All this meaningless platitudes simply because you are mad that Trump has actually taken action to safeguard DC residents after the city government proved time and again that they couldn't and wouldn't take action.

'Absolutely not' why exactly? Shouldn't DC have the opportunity to be at least as safe as Mississippi? Louisiana?

Absolutely DC should be much safer. LA and MS are safer. Homicide rate in DC is 39 per 100K; in LA it's 14.5 and 6.9 in MS. When homicide in DC is 450% greater than the national average it's clear that local rule has totally failed. The people deserve better.

Safer from what? Which people? How are more guns making anyone safer?

You think a homicide rate 450% greater than the national average is what the residents of DC deserve? You're OK with that? And guns? DC has draconian gun laws and has much greater violent crime and homicide rates than do lesser regulated locations. Facts versus political ideology.

I think the residents of DC deserve statehood and two senators.

I do not. DC is a federal district separate from the states. If they truly just desire representation then rejoin MD as the county MD donated to be DC. Problem solved. Afterall, VA took back Arlington County.

I do. And I think your argument otherwise ignores DC as it is.

Take that Senator😂😂

Why? He would still roll in and take over

No, Senator, the time was four years ago. You blew it.

He’s been working on this for many years, you idiot. www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

It ain't done. But virtue signal away.

Pitiful. But comical.

By his definition John Brown was virtue signaling.

Ok, now I love you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Biden w/ Kaine and Warner did nothing to forestall what the other side wrote a freaking book about what was coming (never mind having any independent anticipation). But, yeah, heckuva job, Marky. Do it some more!

thank you senator warner!

Unbelievable….Here’s a list of the top Donor States that contribute more in federal taxes than they receive back ~ per capita basis. D.C (not a state) is more than DOUBLE the highest state TAXATION without Representation‼️ #DCStatehood

a stupid question....who can impeach Senator Warner.... 1. Congress cannot 2. Trump cannot That means Senator Warner that you have some power you have not used yet! Step the fucking up!

Shoulda done that with Biden

We need a total revisit of the way major cities are governed in our system. DC statehood is a start but only that.

Also Puerto Rico & American Samoa ... They may be so grateful, you end up with 6 new Democratic Senators! 😍🤩

You'll end up with republicans Jennifer Gonzalez and Luis Fortuño. The statehood movement of Puerto Rico is a conservative movement. It's also dying www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Or hopefully, with luck, you’ll get 2 Senators like @aoc.bsky.social !! 😍

You know nothing of puerto rican politics I do. those types never win elections. Puerto Rico has been run by the right for the last decade. And the statehood movement is a movement led by republicans And nobody under the age of 50 supports it

So are Puerto Ricans like those Cubans in Miami then? Conservatively Catholic suspicious of any whiff of socialism because they have experience of communism…

Bec the independence movement was tied to communism. The main parties are a centrist status quo party a center right statehood party and a center left independence party

Thx for the stem twister, William Jennings Bryant.

Is this because you believe it or you think there's no shot so why not pretend to support.

Unless you're prepared to end the filibuster over it, please delete.

He did vote to stop the filibuster. It was just sinema and manchin who refused. And now surely enough they left the party, surprise surprise

And please don't stop there. Give Peurto Rico a chance. Let any territory that wants to join the union. Of course, you'll need to deal with the filibuster to make this happen. But I hope you get the stakes now.

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Nah

Right with you after Palestinian statehood

Any comments about the militarized Federal takeover of DC and what you're going to do about it??

Just out of curiosity, how many of Trump's appointees helping to facilitate the crackdown in D.C. right now did you vote to confirm?

Should have happened 4 years ago, but Dems figured it was the right move to keep trying to play nice with the Repubs and pretend there was some sense of decency left in them.

Good news! He’s been working on this for many years. www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

then fkn do this, among many other necessary things, when dems get back control of government

www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

Would you charge the senate rules to prevent a filibuster on statehood? You may get 51 senators in 2026, but not 60.

Yes!

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Ok. You're a Senator. Don't skeet it, do it.

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I mean Illinois is already a state Can you help them resist trump

You didnt do anything for that when you were in control of the Senate last...

We're in this mess because our far leftist anti-Democrat activists are even dumber than MAGA Americans are. Senator Mark Warner has never stood in the way of making D.C. a state. www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

And did this come to the floor when the Democrats controlled the Senate, House, and presidency from 2021-2023?

Manchin and Sinema controlled the Senate from '21-'23 because too many of America's far-left refused to vote in 2020 just the same as they did in 2022 and 2024 sadly.

you realize that eliminating the filinuster and packing the courts would be required for this right ok cool

Better take over the house and the senate. repubes will never let this happen.

And endorse Zohran Mamdani

Why not NYC or LA statehood?

I’m cool with that. More blue Senators.

Because the people who live there already have representation in Congress, unlike me and my 700,000 neighbors. That’s why.

So that Congress doesn’t have a veto on what our council does, that’s why. Because we’re American citizens and we deserve the same representation as everyone else enjoys.

A bare minimum for the midterms and 2028 is Supreme Court reform and statehood for DC in Puerto Rico.

Nope puerto rican statehood will be dead after trump. And thank god for it

Looks like I need to read more about it

Don’t you see how your top donors like JP Morgan Chase and Dominion are destroying a livable earth? And big tobacco?!? Ew. It really undermines anything good like this you may be uttering.

Oh ffs shut up Joanna. Go whine about it elsewhere. Read the fucking room dumbass

How do you get those badges?

Be bought

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you’ve got one…

I follow him to post his slop and make fun of it on a leftist site. But I had 100% forgotten that plus I forgot that the goobers I follow could become badges on me. I'm actually going to edit my bio now and explain things.

They’re all paid by the same owners. Only difference is one side is actively burning things down while the other side pretends to care. As long as they’re getting paid and are comfortable, nothing will change. Dems need to be made uncomfortable.

Doesn’t help right now. Do something

And Puerto Rico

Fuck no

How about you push for things that are actually possible in the moment that we’re in.

The Republicans are the majority in both houses of Congress. What do you suggest is possible right now?

Things that don’t require bipartisanship. Press conferences, informing people about a general strike, holding more town halls, literally anything will do more than a post that only says “DC statehood now”.

I hope you're building a time machine because the time for that was four years ago, when it could've been done with a simple majority. But that was too divisive. Good thing we haven't been further divided since then.

hes been pushing it for six years bud

He was in the senate when the Ds had a super majority. That was the time

the dems had a super majority for something like 73 days in the last 40 years if you count independents and they used that time to pass health care

And Warner was in the senate for those 73 days.

if only the senate moved at the speed of posting

The democrats had a supermajority for ~two months back in 2009 by a single vote at a time when like a third of the party was Blue Dog dems who were more conservative and wishy washy than Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman. Passing the ACA was downright miraculous.

Its incredible to see people defending the failures when contrasting with Trump is managing to do with significantly less.

breaking shit is easy

Obama could have nationalized Union Pacific for $8bn which would have saved over $100bn in planned passenger rail expansion costs

“What Trump is managing to do with significantly less” is breaking the law and violating the constitution, which is only possible because his party is full of happy fascists who let him do anything he wants. Do you unironically think Obama could have marched troops into DC with no complaints?

I think Obama should have spent less time worrying about "political capital" and more time getting policy passed

Hey guess what you need to get policy passed

Democrats could have (at the very least) barred Trump from holding public office again. They could've done it on January 21, 2021. No one can say what would've happened, but I'm confident we'd be better off.

Not without republican votes they couldn’t. Any loopholes you think exist would be immediately overturned by the Supreme Court.

He literally was for it then too he only has 1 vote you do know this yes?

"when it could've been done with a simple majority" lmao, there has *literally never* been a time when making DC a state "could've been done with a simple majority". Literally. Never. Wtf are you talking about?

Looks like he built the timw machine: www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...

Yes! This is a good start. PR should offered statehood as well. CA democrats need to seriously consider splitting the state between North and south. Dems need to get creative if they get power back.

Make it happen Mark, you have the experience, the knowledge and the will… #MakeDCstatehoodHappen

Among the stupidest American political ideas there is. You’re a US Senator and should know better. Why on gods green earth should the ***22nd*** largest American city become a state? Can you not solve its representation problem otherwise? (Of course you can.)

You're just fucking racist

Woulda been great if this had been pushed through in 2021 or 2022.

He’s been working on this for many years. Stop posting without knowing what the hell you’re talking about.

Cool. Glad he's been "working on it." I said it would have been great if this had been pushed through in 2021 or 2022, when Dems held the reins of power.

Sit down, wrecker.

www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

He DID you just didn’t care

D.C. became a state in 2021? Sweet. Do tell.

Like I said, you didn’t care. He’s been pushing for DC statehood for years.

K. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the rest of the Senate Democratic Caucus had pulled its head out of its ass when it had the chance?

Maybe if you pulled yours out and take a breath or two you’d know more of what you speak of but you don’t.

Wouldn't t be great if people said hell yeah when someone does the right thing instead of saying it doesn't count because other people did the wrong thing?

Way to go, Senate Democrats! Here's your participation trophy while fascism destroys America!

Then you should be yelling at the rest of the Democratic Caucus, not Mark Warner.

Yelling? Bruh. Read my post.

“whining” then. Bitching? Either way, v inspirational

Add DC and PR. Merge the dakotas and the carolinas. There i fixed it.

Add VI while we're at it.

Guam?

Too late!

Are you ready to nuke the filibuster to do this? I hope so.

DC statehood 4 years ago.

www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

since you consider republican senators to be your friends why don't you talk to them about it

More like DC statehood in 2009

I swear if you all hadn't worried so much about the opinions of dipshit Republicans who hated you back then, we wouldn't be in this mess now

If only terminally online leftists could speak to their Republican voting family like this.

Where was this drive when you had a Dem trifecta at the beginning of the Biden administration? When we actually pretty much knew what Trump would do - i.e., what he's doing now - if he ended up in power again?

get it done

This is yet another thing that could've been done while Dems controlled the House and Senate. EXHAUSTED by the lack of leadership of Schumer and Jeffries. Ken Martin dismal. Replace Schumer with Bernie. Replace Jeffries with AOC or Crockett.

This!!!

I Heard Something Today. Is It True Residence Of Washington DC Are Not Allowed To Vote For President? Can Someone Confirm Or Deny This?

DC gets 3 electoral votes in each Presidential election, so yes, they can vote for a President. The 23rd Amendment lays out the guidelines related to this.

Thanks. I heard Claire McCaskill say on Deadline White House they couldn't vote for President. I had never heard that before and they are citizens. Thanks for the clarification.

I’d settle for California statehood at this point Senator.

Hey Mark, as my Senator why not take the front line against strong man fascism?

And yet you voted to overturn DC criminal reform law in 2023 instead of letting DC residents hold their own elected officials accountable. So I guess Statehood when it's convenient for you optically, but not realistically when you actually should have taken a principled stance?

FLASH MOB “like” & “repost” this pro #DCstatehood post by US Sen Mark Warner D-VA @markwarner.bsky.social @markwarnerva.bsky.social Support helps all Dems in Virginia, especially @SpanbergerForVA for VA Governor Nov 4, 2025, get elected, as #DCstatehood is the biggest wedge issue. #DCstarehoodNews

Thank you.

Idiots on here just trolling Warner without knowing he’s been pushing this for years. Nothing will make these clowns happy.

Where are the rest of your Senate and House Dem colleagues on this?

And Puerto Rico! Statehood is always a political choice. Case in point: North and South Dakota

Yes. Maryland.

Thank you for your support, hope we still have it when this regime and threat is gone and commuter taxes suddenly become the biggest concern again.

Are you proposing to narrow the District, or what exactly? Having one state own our capital was not the intent.

Seriously, Mark. I Anna be late to another game? The tipped Minimum Wage. It’s $2.13 for tipped workers. Since 1995. Seriously, Mark. We hired you to fix this stuff years ago and you refused. No you broke the damn thing.

The most egregiously stupid post I've seen today. You embarrass yourself. Not a hope in hell of that happening now because the Democrats are so incompetent and incapable of any sort of opposition. Shame on you. Go do something to actually resist your fascist 'colleagues'.

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what a take

The Republicans control everything and will never allow DC (and Puerto Rico) to become states. To call for it at a time when it is utterly impossible instead of calling for real resistance against Trump and the GOP is a waste of the senator’s time and efforts that we pay him for.

its a three word tweet

How about something you can do something about?

Puerto Rico, too.

No