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Washington Blade: First known trans candidate elected to ANC

Editor Nov 7, 2018

Ward 3 community activist and transgender rights advocate Monika Nemeth won election on Tuesday to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in district 3F06, becoming the first known transgender person to be elected to an ANC seat.

City Paper: Local Socialists Get Five D.C. Candidates in Office

Editor Nov 7, 2018

Yesterday’s election saw some local victories for the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA-endorsed candidates in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julia Salazar, made history as two of the youngest people to be elected to Congress…

Washington Post: Your friendly neighborhood socialist is running for office in D.C.

Editor Nov 3, 2018

American socialism is having a moment. Leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, the ideology has been embraced by some as the future of progressive politics and shunned by others as a dangerous notion that could destroy the American way…

City Paper: Jewel Stroman Sets Her Sights on Elected Office

Editor Oct 26, 2018

Formerly homeless and a fierce advocate for those who suffer the same, she's running for a Ward 7 ANC seat.

City Paper: D.C. Democratic Socialists Are Going Hyperlocal for the Upcoming General Election

Editor Oct 11, 2018

The Democratic Socialists of America are on the rise nationwide, and the D.C. chapter is currently focusing their efforts on the ANC races.

Mark Lee in The Washington Blade: Two-thirds of D.C. neighborhood races uncontested

Editor Aug 20, 2018

Fully two-thirds of all D.C. advisory neighborhood commission (ANC) seats citywide will again have either no candidate running for election or only one uncontested candidate name will appear on the ballot in the November general election.

Elections

District’s 296 ANC races draw up to five candidates, but two-thirds are uncontested

Chris Kain Aug 14, 2018

About a third of the District’s 296 advisory neighborhood commission seats have contested races, based on the candidate list released by the DC Board of Elections last week after the petition deadline for the Nov. 6 election. The number is…

City Paper: Now’s Your Chance to Run for ANC

Editor Jul 10, 2018

Still feeling patriotic after the Fourth? Want to express your civic engagement by carving out your own electoral fief in the District? Here's how you can do that. As of Monday, registered D.C. voters who have lived in their neighborhoods…

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