Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton called for Washington D.C. to be made the 51st state in America, pledging that she will be a “vocal champion for D.C. statehood” if elected.

“In the case of our nation’s capital, we have an entire populace that is routinely denied a voice in its own democracy,” Clinton wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Informer, a weekly African-American newspaper, on Wednesday. “Washington, D.C., is home to nearly 700,000 Americans — more than the entire population of several states. Washingtonians serve in the military, serve on juries and pay taxes just like everyone else.”