Available units include cadres, committees, fronts, and militias. Other counters, like Okies, Newspaper smear campaigns, and hired assassins appear from the randomizer cup. The map of the US is divided into regions. Winning an election in a region also gives your faction control of the bureaucracy and police. Control of bureaucracy gains money and political power, while control of the state police can be used to restrict the movement of another faction's counters.
Leaders incite mobs, which can attack other faction's counters.
Our group has enjoyed the several games of this that we have played. I think it will be a few more games before any of us finds an optimum setup or strategy.