LibGuides: Constitution Day and Voter Registration: Current Politics

The Parties

Democratic Party
Find all the information involving the Democratic National Committee and hear their latest news.
Republican Party
Find all the information involving the Republican National Committee and hear the latest news about the GOP.
Libertarian Party
The official homepage of the national Libertarian Party.
Green Party
The official homepage of the national Green Party.

C-SPAN

C-SPAN.org
C-SPAN's mission is to provide public access to the political process.

White House

Briefing Room
The White House provides timely and accurate information about the President's latest events and public statements. Here you'll find photos, video, and transcripts, as well as proclamations, executive orders, and press releases.

SCOTUS Blog

The Supreme Court's blog is a great place to go to find information about current cases, decisions, court schedules, and more.

Be an Informed Voter!

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

-John F. Kennedy

Know the Candidates and the Issues!

Use these sites to help you look up the candidates that will appear on your ballot, and on what issues you agree or disagree with them.

Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is the online encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Their goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government. They are firmly committed to neutrality.
Project Vote Smart's VoteEasy
This site designed to help voters identify the U.S. Congressional candidate that most closely aligned with their views on a selection of twelve issues. Answer each question then specify how important that issue is to you. Based on those responses VoteEasy will indicate which candidate in your Congressional district is most closely aligned to your views.
Vote USA
Get your customized sample ballot and evaluate your candidates and ballot measures. Pictures, bios, YouTube videos, social media links and, most importantly, the candidates’ positions on the issues are all presented side-by-side for easy comparison.
Poll Finder
Don't know where to go to vote? Just enter your address and this site will tell you where to show up on Election Day.

NonPartisan Political News and Information

These sites will provide you with non-biased news and information about political issues:

FactCheck.org
This site's goal is to monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Federal Election Commission
The FEC is an independent regulatory agency that discloses campaign finance information, enforces the law and overees the public funding of Presidential elections.
PolicyArchive
This site is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It has summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
Political Information
A non-partisan search engine just for politics and policy.
Project Vote Smart
This nonpartisan organization collects information on where candidates stand on a wide variety of issues and makes that information readily available to the public.
RealClearPolitics
This site has opinion, news, analysis, videos and polls from both sides of the issues.
Congress.gov
The Library of Congress provides federal legislative information freely available to the public. This site will show you information about bills, resolutions, Congressional record and activity, Committee information, nominations, treaties, and much more.
ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Their work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.”
FiveThirtyEight Blog
From the New York Times, this blog offers lots of statistics and polling information leading up to the November election.
PolitiFact | Sorting out the truth in politics
PolitiFact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times and its partners to help you find the truth in politics. Reporters and researchers examine statements by anyone who speaks up in American politics and then rate the accuracy on a "Truth-O-Meter."
Flackcheck.org
FlackCheck.org uses parody and humor to debunk false political advertising, poke fun at extreme language, and hold the media accountable for their reporting on political campaigns.
GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
This website helps you keep tabs on your representatives in Congress and to research pending legislation that might impact your life or business.

Be An Informed Voter!

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

-Thomas Jefferson

Contact Your Representatives

Here is some contact information for your representatives in government:

U.S. House of Representatives
Find your Congressperson in the US House of Representatives, and contact them through this website.
U.S. Senate
Contact your Senator in the US Senate
ZIP Code Lookup
Some of the above sites ask for your 4 digit zip code extention as well, and the US Postal Service site will tell you if you don't know what it is.

News Outlets

These major news organizations have daily political headlines: