Outline of American politics

Branches of government

• Legislative Branch
  • List of United States Congresses
• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch

Levels of government

• National government
• State governments
• Local governments

Elections

• Contested elections in American history
• Electoral College
• First-past-the-post voting
• Gerrymandering
• Nonpartisan blanket primary
• Ranked-choice voting
• Runoff voting
• Suffrage

Party systems

• First Party System
• Second Party System
• Third Party System
• Fourth Party System
• Fifth Party System
• Sixth Party System

Notable events

• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Direct election of Senators
• Watergate scandal
• Republican Revolution of '94
• Impeachment of Bill Clinton

Political parties

List of political parties in the United States

The two major national parties are:

• Democratic Party
  • History of the Democratic Party
  • Democrat in name only
• Republican Party
  • History of the Republican Party
  • Republican in name only

Joe Biden

• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
• CHIPS and Science Act
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election

Donald Trump

• Presidential campaigns
  • 1988 campaign
  • 2000 campaign
  • 2012 campaign
  • 2016 campaign
  • 2020 campaign
  • 2024 campaign
• Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
• Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
• First Step Act
• Great American Outdoors Act
• Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• Trump administration family separation policy
• January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants
• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
• Liberation Day tariffs
• Rhetoric of Donald Trump
• E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
• Executive Order 13769
• CARES Act
• New York business fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization
• The Trump Organization
• Impeachment of Donald Trump
  • Efforts to impeach Donald Trump
  • List of impeachment resolutions introduced against Donald Trump
  • Proposed expungements of the impeachments of Donald Trump
  • First impeachment of Donald Trump
    • First impeachment trial of Donald Trump
    • Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
  • Second impeachment of Donald Trump
    • Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump
• Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
• Trump v. Anderson
• Trumpism
• List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
• Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
• List of awards and honors received by Donald Trump
• Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
• Pseudonyms used by Donald Trump
• Operation Southern Spear
  • Operation Absolute Resolve
    • Nicolás Maduro
• Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
• Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump

Political positions

• Vice President of the United States
  • List of vice presidents of the United States
  • Natural-born-citizen clause (United States)
• Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives
• Chief Justice of the United States
  • List of chief justices