Shadow Politics, August 21, 2022

Guests, Noah Wills, organizer for DC Statehood, and Meagan Flynn, Washington State reporter

What the Midterm Elections mean for DC
IF THE GOP TAKES BACK THE HOUSE?

Republican Congressmen Have Vowed "Oversight of the District..."

Meagan Flynn covers the DC, Maryland and Virginia congressional delegations on The Washington Post's Metro desk. Flynn was previously a reporter at the Houston Press and briefly at the Houston Chronicle, where she covered criminal justice and public policy.

Meagan started at The Post in 2018 as a Morning Mix reporter. She earned a BAJMC in magazine journalism from Drake University, and a BA in writing.

Noah Wills is the organizer of The DC Statehood Pledge and The DC Statehood Compact.

Wills is the former leader of Students for DC Statehood, an organization focused on mobilizing college and high school students. The group's main goal is to get students to buy into the idea of DC statehood while they’re living in the District of Columbia for college, and before they move away from the D-M-V.

A native of Pennsylvania, he graduated in 2018 from American University with a major in Law and Society and a minor in Political Science.

MESSAGE FROM UNITED STATES SENATOR MICHAEL D. BROWN

Republicans haven't yet won back the House, but they're already taking aim at DC — threatening to eliminate the Council and the office of the Mayor and to change our laws.

We will speak with Meagan Flynn, a Metro reporter at The Washington Post, and Noah Wills, the organizer of The DC Statehood Pledge and The DC Statehood Compact, to see where we stand as we head into the midterm elections.

Tune in for these important interviews about the future of DC statehood.