Extemp Speaking Topics

We will alternate between Domestic & International each round:

Prelim: Domestic

Semis: International

Finals: Domestic

Domestic Topic Areas

- White House Press Core

- Sports Gambling

- Trump + Greenland agreement

- AI and political ads

- US deportation procedures

- Russia and midterm elections

- AI “kill switch”

- GOP midterm convention

- Interest rates

- Pete Hegseth

- Congressional productivity

- Pete Hegseth and Army leadership

- Darline Graham

- Trump and 2030 census

- Commercial drone technology

- Cychlorphine

- Trade war with Canada

- Kennedy Center

- AI data centers

- Trump’s popularity and midterms

- Abdul El-Sayed

- US space weapons

- Iran conflict costs

- US debt and economy

- Missouri redistricting

International Topic Areas

- Indian retaliatory tariffs

- Canada and EU Associate membership

- Houthi control of Bab El-Mandeb Strait

- Syria/Turkey relations and Israel

- Al Qaeda

- Russian sanctions

- Junta rule in Niger

- Venezuelan oil resources

- Indian state-owned industries

- Colombia and coca crops

- Russia parliamentary elections

- US sanctions against Belarus

- Ukraine/Russia peace agreement

- Saudi Arabia and Houthi violence

- Celtic nation independence

- South Africa and organized crime

- AfD party in Germany

- Declining global GDP and poverty

- UN’s focus

- Israel relations with UK

- Canada and foreign investment

- Sudan, chemical weapons, and civil war

- HIV in Fiji

- Kyrgyzstan economy

- Himalayan flood