DC citizens are malciously disenfranchised by Californians & all other states still rejecting democracy in US, so DC pop lives under ongoing JimCrow tyranny. If you meant "Federal gov" (12.6% US Congress House votes are Californian, 0% DC) say so. Just don't blame JimCrow abused.
We just want out of the broken, doomed, and racist US empire that seems set on expensive perpetual war until it falls apart. We want representation for you (in the spirit of fairness and democracy), but mostly we just want to leave