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100

 After MLK’s “I have a dream speech,” this prominent political figure told MLK “Martin, I have a dream.”

Who is JFK?

100

This man hates TPP almost as much as JD Vance.

Who is Sherrod Brown?

100

“When they go low, we go high.”

Who is Michelle Obama?

100

Samuel is from Texas but now lives in this state.

What is New Mexico?

100

In this wicked case from 1942, the Supreme Court let Congress use the Commerce Clause as it pleases.

What is Wickard v. Filburn? 

200

This union song is sung to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

What is "Solidarity Forever"? 

200

She is Chair of the Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.

Amy Klobuchar

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”

Who is Lyndon Johnson?

200

Emily Hove rode the largest one of these in the world ;) (don’t be weird).

What is a clock?

200

He said the Bill of Rights had penumbras in Griswold.

Who is William Douglas?

300

This muckraker’s investigative journalism led to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly.

Who is Ida Tarbell?

300

She represents the same states as her Senate Pro Temp colleague Patty Murray.

Who is Maria Cantwell?

300

“Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.”

Who is Bernie Sanders?

300

This person was Whig Chair before Samuel.

Who is Emily Paulin?

300

In this Supreme Court Case, the individual  mandate was said to be a tax by the conservatives, but the progressives argued it was constitutional under the Commerce Clause.

What is National Fed v. Sebelius?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

This Native American activist accepted the Oscar for Marlon Brandon in 1973.

Who is Sacheen Littlefeather?

400

He may be an independent, but just like his Vermont independent counterpart, he is pretty much a Democrat.

Who is Angus King?

400

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

Who is Harvey Milk?

400

Emily Hove got this 7-fingered Senator to do the sheesh.

Who is Jon Tester?
400

He authored the majority in Roe but said “death penalty good” in Furman.

Who is Blackmun?

500

This Venezuelan co-opted the Chicano Movement’s “Sí Se Puede” slogan.

Who is Juan Guaidó?

500

Once a former park ranger, he is now the Senior Senator from New Mexico.

Who is Martin Heinrich?

500

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Who is Karl Marx?

500

Kate is from Oregon, and thus, represented by this US Senator (who is also a Princeton alum).

Jeff Merkley

500

He was the first Black justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?