By: Miriam Edelman Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), is retiring from Congress. On January 25, 2026, she filed a report to terminate her reelection campaign, ending her decades-long Congressional career. On January 27th, her office issued a press release, entitled “Norton Announces Retirement at End of Term.” That release quotes Norton: “I've had the privilege of representing the District of Columbia in Congress since 1991. Time and again, D.C. residents entrusted me to

By: Miriam Edelman Women’s History Month occurs every March. In honor of the nation’s upcoming 250 th birthday, DCNOW highlights women who have made political history in the U.S. while discussing other notable points of women’s political history in our nation. Several women were elected before women gained the right to vote, but much of the women’s political history has been made during the past 40 years. This piece is not all-inclusive. It does not state all women who ma

By: Miriam Edelman In honor of the upcoming National Cherry Blossom Festival (March 20 – April 12, 2026), DCNOW created some haikus about the unjust status of the District of Columbia. A haiku is a three-lined Japanese poem. While its first and third lines have five syllables, the second line has seven syllables. The annual festival commemorates Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki’s gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C., in 1912. The States formed partly due to taxation wit

By: Miriam Edelman February 27, 2026, was the 225 th anniversary of the approval of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 (the Act). DCNOW’s blog’s piece, entitled “Presidents’ Day is Reminder of Prior Strong Bipartisan Support for D.C. Residents,” mentioned the Act, which forever changed Washington, D.C. Through the Act, the federal government gained control of the District of Columbia. The Act stripped the area’s residents of their righ