Why Our Politics Matter
This demographic saw a decline in voter turnout in the 2024 election, signaling a need for better political engagement.
What is young, minority voters ages 18-29?
Like the federal government, state legislatures have this type of control over local policies like reproductive healthcare, climate change and policing.
What is public policymaking?
This Republican candidate won the 2024 presidential election with 312 electoral votes.
Who is Donald Trump?
This branch of government interprets laws and can strike down unconstitutional legislation.
What is the judicial branch of the United States?
This is referenced as the "third" political party in presidential elections.
What is the 3rd party?
This term describes when people feel their votes do not matter in a political system that often overlooks them.
What is voter disenfranchisement/suppression?
This term refers to the process of influencing lawmakers to support or oppose specific policies.
What is lobbying?
This key battleground state, home to Atlanta helped secure Trump’s victory.
What is Georgia?
The Supreme Court hears only about this percentage of the 8,000 cases submitted each year.
What is 1%?
This is the first step in addressing a letter/email to your local/federal representative.
What is your name, address and contact info?
The 2024 election revealed deep flaws in this aspect of political engagement, crucial for getting people to the polls.
What is voter mobilization/GOTV?
This political manipulation tactic involves drawing district boundaries to benefit one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
The 2024 election resulted in this political party gaining control of the Senate, the White House and the House of Representatives.
What is the Republican Party?
Interest groups sometimes influence policy by using this legal strategy to challenge laws in court.
What is litigation?
This is Project 2025
What is a radical, anti-democracy, anti-diversity agenda?
This initiative for the platform of Mister NAACP Howard Chapter is dedicated to voter engagement/education and involves direct outreach to young, minority voters.
What is "Visualizing Black Utopia: by Using Your Voice as Political Choice"
This is one of the elected officials who represents the District of Columbia in local and federal politics.
What is Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Muriel Bowser or Senators Paul Strauss and Mike Brown.
This is the current party split in the Senate between Democrats and Republicans.
What is 53-47 split?
This is the number of Circuit Courts within the United States.
What is 13?
This effort gave Obama the resources, both financial and political, to run for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
What is Obama's gerrymander?
This is important for the purpose of voting for, lobbying and contacting our elected representatives.
What is making sure that our elected officials accurately represent the people who put them in office
This is a group of people unified by a shared interest in influencing public policy.
What are interest groups?
These are the three states that contributed to Trump's win.
What is Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin?
This is one of three categories in which the Supreme Court may choose a case to hear.
What is a case of national importance, a case that invalidates federal law or a case where there is a split decision in the lower courts.
These are the two tactics used in gerrymandering.
What is "packing" and "cracking"?