The autonomy-seeking advocates at DC Vote — a District-minded group backed by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton — plan to honor the Herb Block Foundation Wednesday for continuing to nurture the spirit of democracy.  

According to organizers, the 2014 Champions of Democracy Awards Gala is scheduled to take place at the Library of Congress from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tickets to the fundraiser — which is also expected to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of D.C. Home Rule — are $175 per person.  

“Americans living in our nation’s capital raise families, pay full federal taxes and fight and die in wars but are denied voting representation in the House and the Senate,” is how DC Vote summarizes its mission to defeat the disenfranchisement faced by local residents.  

Norton is scheduled to serve as honorary chairwoman of the annual fete, an event that has historically attracted fellow pols such as Rep. José E. Serrano, the New York Democrat who made an appearance at the group’s 2013 get-together.

Attendees at this year’s gathering will be given the opportunity to explore a special exhibit of the late Herb Block’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons curated by Sara Duke of the Library of Congress.  

Correction 4:26 p.m. An earlier version of this post misstated who is curating the exhibit.  

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