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Felt-tip marker comic tracing political posts through recommendation systems, influencers, and users to different responses: support, source checking, distraction, and volunteer mobilization.

How Digital and Social Media Shape Politics

Explore how digital and social media shape politics: gatekeeping, selective exposure, persuasion and mobilization. Compare metrics and research evidence.

Cut-paper and crayon comic following receipts through direct campaign contributions, independent advertising, party planning, and disclosure reports, with a student examining the different relationships.

Campaign Finance Laws and Regulation

Understand campaign finance laws and regulation: contributions, independent spending, the 2026 party spending ruling and disclosure. Compare FEC sources.

Ballpoint and highlighter comic of a fictional candidate conducting campaign staff, with primary rivals, fundraising, communications, calendars, and a separate party-support team bringing resources.

Modern Political Campaigns: Candidates, Parties and Strategy

Charcoal and watercolor comic of a reporter investigating housing records, an editor checking the story, and reporting circulating through television, radio, phones, and public discussion.

How Traditional News Media Shape Politics

Rubber-stamp and oil-pastel comic showing a voter comparing House district and statewide Senate ballots, with separate two-year and six-year election clocks and candidates meeting their communities.

How Congressional Elections Work: House, Senate and Voting Rules

Cut-paper and gouache comic showing a curious voter sorting ballots into state-shaped packets, which become stacks of electoral tokens traveling toward the White House.

How the Electoral College Elects a President

Wax-crayon and watercolor comic of a community advocate choosing between a congressional hearing and an agency office, carrying a timed proposal and evidence from fellow citizens.

How Interest Groups Influence Public Policy

Hand-inked linocut comic of a small-party campaign team pushing a modest cart uphill past ballot paperwork and a media microphone toward one office, while larger campaigns use established roads.

Why Third Parties Struggle in U.S. Elections

Brush-marker and chalk-pastel comic of a civic observer holding an accordion sketchbook that tracks changing voter coalitions across several elections, with a ribbon following people through the folds.

How Political Parties Change and Realign

Sepia-ink and gouache comic of a political-party workshop recruiting a candidate, combining community concerns into a platform, calling voters, and coordinating elected officials.

Functions of Political Parties: Elections and Government

Stencil-print and graphite illustration of citizens from successive historical eras passing opened voting gates, with a present-day volunteer helping a young citizen navigate registration.

Voting Rights in the United States: Expansion and Barriers

Felt-tip and colored-pencil comic of an election analyst comparing the same ballot pile with different-sized eligible-voter and registered-voter populations to understand turnout denominators.

Voter Turnout: Who Votes, Why and How to Measure It

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