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A Texas state Democrat revealed on Thursday that President Donald Trump's efforts to help Republicans win the 2026 primary election have already backfired.

Trump's plan involves pressuring Republican-controlled state legislatures to redraw their election maps ahead of the primary election. So far, Texas Republicans have succeeded in their effort. California and New York have said they will match the efforts of Texas Republicans by redrawing their maps as well.

A panel of MSNBC analysts on Thursday ridiculed Vice President JD Vance after his latest booing experience while out and about.

Vance appeared at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station on Wednesday, where protesters shouted and booed. It has become par for the course for Vance and his family, though.

The Supreme Court ruled in a split decision Thursday that the Trump administration can cut hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding as part of its crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

The court lifted a lower court's order that blocked $783 million in cuts made by the National Institutes of Health that were meant to align with President Donald Trump’s agenda. Trump administration guidance on future funding remained blocked.

The healthcare advocacy organization Protect Our Care has been tracking financially troubled hospitals across the country that are projected to take a big hit thanks to the Medicaid cuts in the massive Republican budget package—and the group has produced a new tool to let people see the damage being done in real time.

The organization on Wednesday launched a new project called "Hospital Crisis Watch" that identifies and provides updates on healthcare facilities around the country at risk of closure thanks to the Medicaid cuts, and produced an interactive map showing exactly which hospitals and medical centers are in danger.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is once again coming out against one of President Donald Trump's key agendas.

According to The Daily Beast, "Trump announced the latest escalation of his long-running war on windmills on Wednesday, writing in a Truth Social tirade that he would ban all new solar and wind power projects — despite growing electricity demand across the country" — saying on Truth Social that "Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS ... We will not approve wind or farmer-destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!"

President Donald Trump announced he was going to "go out" in Washington, D.C. on Thursday night, marking one of the few times he has left the White House for an evening on the town outside his own properties. Details of Trump's ride-along haven't been disclosed, so it's unclear whether he'll go to high-crime neighborhoods or posh ones like Georgetown. One resident, and CNN legal analyst, couldn't help but ridicule the president.

"If the president truly cared about public safety in the District of Columbia, he could get out of the way of law enforcement and let them do their jobs," said former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams.

President Donald Trump may have just created a Cold War-like political atmosphere for Republicans, according to one GOP lawmaker.

Texas Republicans passed a new election map on Wednesday that eliminates five Democratic-held seats in Congress. The move came after Trump's Justice Department and Trump himself publicly pressured state Republicans to pass a new map so the party could maintain its majority following the 2026 midterm election. Democratic mayors in states like California and New York have vowed to pass new maps to undo the impact of the new Texas map.

California Assemblyman Marc Berman (D) mocked his Republican colleagues by accusing them of "Gavin Derangement Syndrome."

During a Thursday floor debate, Berman suggested that Republicans were suffering from the condition because Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was pursuing redistricting in California. Republicans have often accused Democrats of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for opposing President Donald Trump's agenda.

President Donald Trump's meme cryptocurrency, coined $TRUMP, collapsed on Thursday after seeing a respectable morning. By the close of the U.S. stock markets, however, $TRUMP had fallen $8.39. What's worse, so has $MELANIA, though less than her husband's at just $0.20 down.

The Daily Beast was the first to notice the bad day of crypto trading as part of a seven-day trend. Thus far, it "has fallen in value from almost $75 per token in January to barely $8 today (an 88 percent drop)," as of 2 p.m. EDT. As of publication, the price of this piece has increased to over $10.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has long been able to defy political gravity, winning re-election in a solidly blue state even as Republicans lose nationwide — thanks to her long relationships with locals in the state and her tendency to oppose some of President Donald Trump's worst excesses. But she may face her toughest challenge yet.

This week, the Democratic Senate primary in Maine got an unexpected entrant in political newcomer Graham Platner, who has never held elected office before and served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He describes himself as a "veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people."

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann ruled that Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, could not continue in her role.

In a 77-page ruling on Thursday, Brann noted that the Trump administration had used "a novel series of legal and personnel moves" to keep Habba in her position after a panel of judges effectively ousted her. Two defendants, Julien Giraud Jr. and Cesar Pina, argued that Habba could not oversee their prosecutions.

President Donald Trump announced on a radio show that he would go out in Washington, D.C. with the National Guard, federal agents, and Secret Service as part of his ongoing occupation of the District. The idea brought jeers from those who view it as nothing more than performative.

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele called it nothing more than a continuation of "performative BS from Trump."

A new deep dive from The New York Times reveals how Michael Boulos, the 27-year-old businessman who married President Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, in 2022, has financially benefited from a series of strange deals made with his in-laws.

The deals started "almost immediately" after the couple became engaged, reported Justin Scheck, Tariq Panja, Jo Becker, and Bradley Hope.