What’s in common between the people Cam Stevenson covers in Washington, DC and the people Dan Shafer covers in Madison? They’re all candidates a little too much. By focusing on reelections instead of their core duties, we wind up with government shutdowns and partisan divides. Cam will have the latest of the potential shutdown and Dan will have the latest on the new batch of candidates getting into (and out of) key 2026 races.

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