What's the deal with Free DC
So I was going down some rabbit hole on the DC BOE website and learned that Free DC is apparently running a slate of candidates for all the internal roles of the DC Democratic party. There are a bunch of these - a Committeewoman and Committeeman for each ward, at large ones, and a couple sent to the national committee - that I guess I have voted on before but I think were always uncontested.
I have a generally positive impression of Free DC, but only a vague idea of what they actually do. I thought it was mostly organizing and protesting against the federal occupation. I'm not really sure how running for these bureaucratic positions in the local Dem party aligns with that, or what it's supposed to achieve, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows.
I basically have two competing hypotheses:
The local Dem party is captured by Bowser's cronies, Bowser is very bad on fighting the feds, and there's a real need to get these people out
Free DC started with a genuine cause of fighting for DC independence but quickly succumbed to NGOitis, and it's now a generic leftie organization mostly interested in fighting with centrist Dems
Or I could be completely off here. Does anybody have the scoop on this?