Ahead of Flag Day, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser directed her staff to fly American flags with 51 stars along Pennsylvania Avenue in an effort to remind “Congress and the nation that the 700,000 tax-paying American citizens living in Washington, D.C., demand to be recognized.”

“On Flag Day, we celebrate American ideals, American history, and American liberty. But the very foundation of those ideals, and the basis for our liberty, is representation. DC’s disenfranchisement is a stain on American democracy – a 220-year-old wrong that demands to be righted,” Bowser said in a statement on Monday.

Bowser also highlighted the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on Roe v. Wade, and how the ruling being overturned would impact residents of the nation’s capital.