Missouri Politics
Who is the current governor of Missouri?
Mike Kehoe
Who is the popular New York mayoral candidate who won the Democratic primary?
Zohran Mamdani
Which President led the nation through the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What country did the US recently bomb in an attempt to stop its development of nuclear weapons?
Iran
Who are the two Missouri state senators?
Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt
Name two DSA-endorsed politicians (former or active)(bonus points for a Missouri politician)
Cori Bush (bonus), Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman
Name one national labor union organization in the United States today.
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations), SOC (Strategic Organizing Center), IWW (International Workers of the World).
The Nakba is a term used to describe, either in part or in whole, the displacement and ethnic cleansing of what people.
The Palestinians
What is the key topic of Missouri's Constitutional Amendment 3?
Abortion
What year was the party founded?
1982
Which socialist ran for president in 1912, achieving the most votes for a socialist party in US history, and again in 1920, this time from prison, after he was arrested for giving a speech urging people to resist the draft?
Eugene V. Debs
This international treaty, which went into effect in 1989, helped phase out many harmful chemicals that negatively impact the ozone layer.
Based on new state law, what item is now banned in school classrooms?
Cellphones
What midwestern city saw an upset in the mayoral primary race this summer, with a DSA-endorsed Omar Fateh beating the sitting mayor?
Minneapolis, Minnesota
What political organization, founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, created social programs to serve and protect African American communities?
The Black Panther Party
Which Marxist Chilean President was overthrown in a US-backed coup on September 11th, 1973?
Salvador Allende
The Missouri Legislature is about to redraw our congressional districts to push out this Democratic representative from Kansas City.
Emanuel Cleaver
Which St. Louis resident, political activist, and author was the first chair of the DSA?
Michael Harrington
What event in Chicago was originally commemorated by Labor Day/International Workers Day?
The Haymarket Affair
Thomas Sankara, a Marxist Revolutionary and Pan-Africanist, was the president of which country in the 1980s?
Burkina Faso