Political Ad Challenge
Got something to say? Say it here.
Draw it. Design it. Write it. Say it. To submit your voice, scroll down.
Photo: Mark Graves / The Oregonian
Joyful Defiance!
— Gang of Voices · Mark Graves / The Oregonian
Draw it. Design it. Write it. Say it. To submit your voice, scroll down.
Image, video, or composite work generated with AI tools. Tell us what you used.
Original political cartoons, comic strips, or short animated clips in the editorial tradition.
Pen, pencil, ink, paint — anything analog. Photograph or scan and send it in.
A written ad, slogan, headline, or short essay. Words still hit hardest sometimes.
Original audio. Parody, anthem, jingle — give us something that gets stuck in heads.
Short video monologues, interviews, or man-on-the-street pieces. Hold up the phone and speak your piece.
We post the image — symbol, photo, or scene. You write the caption that makes it land.
Got an idea that doesn't fit a tile? Send it anyway. We'd rather see something unexpected than something tidy.
All submissions must be political — not vile, smutty, or personally insulting. (Political figures are fair game.)
We post older cartoons and ads that still hit today — for inspiration and context, not as a submission category. Have one we should feature? Send it with credit to the original creator and we may run it on the site.
Here's a sample of an old Doonesbury cartoon someone sent in…
You're saying something. Make sure we can tell what it is on a single read or look.
Connected to something happening now — a policy, a figure, a pattern. Local, national, or global all welcome.
Anger is fine fuel. The work that lands keeps a sense of humor. Sharp beats bitter.
Yours, or properly credited if you're remixing or referencing existing material.
Aim at power and the systems that protect it. We won't run work that targets ordinary people for who they are.
Policy, culture, power, money, place — if it's about how we live together, it counts.
Pick a category from above. Make it. It doesn't have to be polished — it has to land.
Attach your file (or paste your text). Include the category, a one-line description, and your name or how you'd like to be credited.
We all have the tools at our disposal to be creators, not just consumers. Your power does not lie only in your Likes.
Gang of Voices is a Minnesota-based political media lab. We make and publish political art — cartoons, ads, and satire — and we are opening the work to anyone with something to say. The Scourge is where that work gets printed.
The Scourge is a publication of 1st Liberal Café, where voters artistically expose the corruption of republicanism. Trump the Scourge is an ongoing image series inside it — send us your own image and your own caption.
