Four hours and 33 minutes of No Kings DC news coverage.
The DC Activist Street Band (DCASB) appears at ~40 minutes in and eventually drowns out the news anchor. The Rapid Response Choir (RRC) appears at ~48 minutes in, but for some reason is completely muted while the anchor blathers on about nothing in particular.
September 19, 2025: The DC Activist Street Band (DCASB) adding a bit of music to the last few miles of the "We Are America March", a 160-mile trek from Philadelphia to DC.
Benjamin Alverez, a correspondent for DW, captured 56 seconds:
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September 19, 2025: The DC Activist Street Band (DCASB) adding a bit of music to the last few miles of the "We Are America March", a 160-mile trek from Philadelphia to DC.
​Benjamin Alverez, a correspondent for DW, captured 56 seconds:
"DW is Germany’s international broadcaster. As an independent media outlet, we provide unbiased news and information around the world so that people can form their own opinions. DW’s coverage of current events is fact-based, with regionally relevant and dialog-oriented content in 32 languages on the focus topics of freedom and human rights, democracy and good governance, free trade and social justice, technology and innovation, health education, nutrition and environmental protection as well as German and European culture. DW’s TV, online and radio services generate over 337 million users every week."​
We are a Black-led abolitionist community defense hub centering all Black lives at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington, DC area.
Seeing comments from cranks outside DC applauding Trump's takeover without the slightest idea what's actually going on here or any understanding of the District. For one thing, there's a misconception that DC lives and runs off federal money, so it's only right that Congress and Trump dictate how the city is run.
In fact, DC runs on LOCAL money, raised through local property, sales and other taxes paid by us DC residents. We ... not you, my fellow Americans ... pay for DC's streets, streetlights, the police, the fire department, the schools, etc., etc., etc.
These local taxes are set by the city council and mayor we elect.
At the same time, DC residents pay the same federal taxes as every other American.
In fact, DC residents pay more in federal taxes per capita than residents of any other state, and more total federal income tax than 19 other states.
And yet we have no voting representation in Congress, which sets federal taxes and meddles in our local affairs.
This is why our license plates read, "Taxation without Representation."
The current leading statehood proposal for DC, which is making even more sense these days, would shrink the federal district to the area roughly around the Capitol complex, the National Mall and the White House. The rest of DC would become Douglass Commonwealth (after Frederick Douglass).
Trump could then fill the shrunken federal enclave shoulder-to-shoulder with armed soldiers if he likes.
Friends outside DC, if you hear friends, family or whoever cheering on the occupation of DC, I and my neighbors sure would appreciate it if you help us set the record straight ... and help us fight for the right to govern ourselves, like other Americans.
Tadonic the Flautulent
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