Give Puerto Rico a Binding Status Vote

Puerto Rico's 3.2 million U.S.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 24, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Puerto Rico Statehood Why 3.2 million US citizens in Puerto Rico can't vote for president

The Letter

Subject Cosponsor H.R. 9246 and Give Puerto Rico a Binding Status Vote

Puerto Rico has more people than 18 of our states. Those 18 states elect 36 senators. Puerto Rico elects none, and its 3.2 million U.S. citizens cannot vote for president.

Puerto Ricans have asked Congress to settle this. Statehood has won four straight votes on the island, most recently 58.6% in November 2024. Each time, Congress let the answer sit, and the last status bill died without a committee vote when the previous Congress ended.

A new bill, H.R. 9246, would hold a status vote on March 14, 2027, and let Puerto Ricans choose among statehood, independence, free association, and commonwealth. Whatever you think the right outcome is, the choice belongs to the people who live there.

The stakes are practical. Puerto Rico's Medicaid funding is set lower than the other territories' and expires after September 2027. Decisions like that are made for Puerto Rico by a Congress it has no vote in.

Please cosponsor H.R. 9246 and ask the House Natural Resources Committee to give it a hearing, so Puerto Rico finally gets a binding vote on its future.

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I'm calling to ask the Representative to cosponsor H.R. 9246, the Puerto Rico Democratic Self Determination Act.
Puerto Rico has 3.2 million U.S. citizens, more people than 18 states, and no vote in Congress or for president.
Statehood has won four straight votes on the island, 58.6% in 2024, and Congress has never acted on any of them.
H.R. 9246 would hold a status vote in March 2027 and let Puerto Ricans choose their own future.
Please cosponsor it and ask the Natural Resources Committee to hold a hearing.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

18 states with fewer people than Puerto Rico; together they elect 36 senators and Puerto Rico elects none (source)
58.6% Puerto Rico's November 2024 vote for statehood, the fourth straight statehood win, in the election commission's final count (source)
March 14, 2027 the status vote H.R. 9246 would hold; the bill has had no hearing since it was filed June 10, 2026 (source)

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