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This is Adam Hollier’s third bid for the House seat repre­sen­ting most of Detroit.

Every week poli­ti­cal car­too­nists throug­hout the coun­try and across the poli­ti­cal spec­trum app­ly their ink-stained skills to cap­tu­re the foi­bles, memes, hypo­cri­sies and other head-slap­ping events in the world of poli­tics. The fruits of the­se labors are hundreds of car­toons that enter­tain and enra­ge rea­ders of all poli­ti­cal stripes. Here’s an offe­ring of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Too­no­sphe­re. Edi­ted by Matt Wuer­ker.

Par­ty stra­te­gists say a relata­ble mes­sa­ge on the eco­no­my could be the way out of the wil­der­ness for Demo­crats.

The Texas pri­ma­ry chall­enge to long­time incum­bent Sen. John Cor­nyn prompts a peren­ni­al fear for Repu­bli­cans: Will Trump help them pro­tect their own?

Two Texas House Repu­bli­cans have endor­sed Texas Att­or­ney Gene­ral Ken Paxton’s 2026 Sena­te bid — brea­king with long­time GOP Sen. John Cor­nyn for what’s anti­ci­pa­ted to be a hea­ted pri­ma­ry con­test. Rep. Lan­ce Goo­den (R‑Texas), a staunch ally of Pre­si­dent Donald Trump, announ­ced his back­ing of Pax­t­on in a state­ment first shared to Fox News on Thurs­day. “Att­or­ney Gene­ral Pax­t­on is the con­ser­va­ti­ve cham­pi­on we need in the U.S. Sena­te,” Goo­den wro­te. He added that Pax­t­on “will take a sled­ge­ham­mer to the estab­lish­ment, secu­re the bor­der, and fight hard for Pre­si­dent Trump’s agen­da. Ken Pax­t­on has my com­ple­te and total endor­se­ment.” Gooden’s endor­se­ment comes two days after Pax­t­on, a wide­ly known MAGA fire­brand, laun­ched his high­ly anti­ci­pa­ted 2026 Sena­te cam­paign to chall­enge Cor­nyn. “It’s defi­ni­te­ly time for a chan­ge in Texas,” Pax­t­on said. “We have ano­ther gre­at U.S. sena­tor in Ted Cruz. And it’s time we have ano­ther gre­at sena­tor that will actual­ly stand up and fight for Repu­bli­can values, fight for the values of the peo­p­le of Texas, and also sup­port Donald Trump.” Goo­den isn’t the first Texas Repu­bli­can to throw his sup­port behind Pax­t­on. Rep. Troy Nehls (R‑Texas) tou­ted his back­ing of the att­or­ney general’s cam­paign bid Wed­nes­day. “He’s a bull­dog, and that’s what we need in the Sena­te,” Nehls told POLITICO. Cor­nyn and Pax­t­on are long­time ideo­lo­gi­cal rivals. Pax­t­on has repea­ted­ly atta­cked Cor­nyn for what he views as ina­de­qua­te embra­cing of Trump, and Cor­nyn recent­ly bas­hed the Trump rabb­le-rou­ser over his legal scan­dals. Cor­nyn recent­ly ear­ned the back­ing of Sena­te Majo­ri­ty Lea­der John Thu­ne, who beat Cor­nyn in last year’s batt­le to replace Sen. Mitch McCon­nell (R‑Ky.) as the par­ty lea­der in the cham­ber. The NRSC — led by Sen. Tim Scott (R‑S.C.) — also said it would sup­port the incum­bent. While both moves were expec­ted, it signals the pri­ma­ry could get incre­di­bly expen­si­ve — and that natio­nal Repu­bli­cans could be wil­ling to spend to back the long­time law­ma­ker. But the Repu­bli­can endor­se­ment that will likely hold the most weight is Trump’s. While the pre­si­dent has yet to announ­ce whom he’ll sup­port, Trump and Pax­t­on have long been clo­se­ly ali­gned. Ben Jacobs con­tri­bu­ted to this report.

Whit­mer empha­si­zed her agree­ments with Trump in a speech ear­lier on Wed­nes­day.

After urging Cana­di­an offi­ci­als to pull back tariffs on liqu­or, he con­ce­ded gover­nors don’t have much power when it comes to trade.

The for­mer spe­cial vic­tims’ pro­se­cu­tor is going for the seat held by Rep. John James (R‑Mich.), who is mul­ling a guber­na­to­ri­al run.

The ear­ly fund­rai­sing haul is a show of force but repres­ents only a tiny frac­tion of the expec­ted spen­ding in the race.

High off its vic­to­ry in Wis­con­sin, the par­ty looks to Novem­ber.

“This puts a lot more on the field,” said Rep. Mor­gan McGar­vey (D‑Ky.), a co-chair tas­ked with recruit­ment for the par­ty cam­paign arm.

Every week poli­ti­cal car­too­nists throug­hout the coun­try and across the poli­ti­cal spec­trum app­ly their ink-stained skills to cap­tu­re the foi­bles, memes, hypo­cri­sies and other head-slap­ping events in the world of poli­tics. The fruits of the­se labors are hundreds of car­toons that enter­tain and enra­ge rea­ders of all poli­ti­cal stripes. Here’s an offe­ring of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Too­no­sphe­re. Edi­ted by Matt Wuer­ker.

The for­mer Illi­nois gover­nor, who was par­do­ned by Pre­si­dent Donald Trump in Febru­ary, will lob­by for the Repu­blic of Srps­ka.

Across the par­ty, there’s a push to refo­cus on eco­no­mic issues even as some worry the president’s tariffs could cau­se short-term harm.

‘Get atten­ti­on’: Musk defends mil­li­on-dol­lar givea­ways lead image

The Wis­con­sin Supre­me Court race could wind up being a refe­ren­dum on the president’s trade poli­ci­es.

Elec­tion law experts were skep­ti­cal about the billionaire’s move.

The op-ed in The New York Times cal­led the Signal­ga­te con­tro­ver­sy dan­ge­rous and “dumb.”

Every week poli­ti­cal car­too­nists throug­hout the coun­try and across the poli­ti­cal spec­trum app­ly their ink-stained skills to cap­tu­re the foi­bles, memes, hypo­cri­sies and other head-slap­ping events in the world of poli­tics. The fruits of the­se labors are hundreds of car­toons that enter­tain and enra­ge rea­ders of all poli­ti­cal stripes. Here’s an offe­ring of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Too­no­sphe­re. Edi­ted by Matt Wuer­ker.

‘Pain­ful peri­od’: RFK Jr. lays off 10,000 HHS employees lead image

The embatt­led mino­ri­ty lea­der has faced cri­ti­cism across the par­ty over his fum­bled stra­tegy over a govern­ment fun­ding bill.

Rep. Jan Scha­kow­sky, who has repre­sen­ted the Chi­ca­go-area dis­trict for deca­des, has yet to announ­ce her reelec­tion plans.

She had under­go­ne recent tre­at­ment for brain can­cer.

Ahead of expec­ted pro­tests at Tes­la loca­ti­ons, the Demo­cra­tic repre­sen­ta­ti­ve said her calls to action against Musk were non­vio­lent.

Even befo­re Musk’s comm­ents, fede­ral workers felt vul­nerable and incre­asing­ly incen­sed.

His approach to stamp out leaks at his com­pa­nies could inform how he’d tack­le the issue in the fede­ral govern­ment.

Every week poli­ti­cal car­too­nists throug­hout the coun­try and across the poli­ti­cal spec­trum app­ly their ink-stained skills to cap­tu­re the foi­bles, memes, hypo­cri­sies and other head-slap­ping events in the world of poli­tics. The fruits of the­se labors are hundreds of car­toons that enter­tain and enra­ge rea­ders of all poli­ti­cal stripes. Here’s an offe­ring of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Too­no­sphe­re. Edi­ted by Matt Wuer­ker.

Rep. Delia Rami­rez says the Sena­te mino­ri­ty lea­der should have fought the Repu­bli­can spen­ding plan and ris­ked a govern­ment shut­down.

The Mary­land Demo­crat said the House mino­ri­ty lea­der met the moment, but the top Sena­te Demo­crat missed the mark during the spen­ding fight.

The cri­ti­cism isn’t just coming from acti­vist groups or the halls of Con­gress.