Explore current and historical political parties, map party control, and learn about polarization.
Map, visualize, and explore the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act in October 2001
The House impeached President Donald J. Trump for a second time, an unprecedented feat in U.S. history, on charges of fomenting insurrection
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting by protecting voting rights. It banned poll taxes and literacy tests and required states with historians of Jim Crow discrimination to seek advance clearance before changing and requiring states with histories of Jim Crow discrimination to obtain advance clearance to change laws governing voting.
Explore the votes of America's longest-serving Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, who presided over key civil rights votes