2026Election Stories

The Washoe County Audit Committee meeting halted when Commissioner Jeanne Herman made a motion to adjourn before any discussion, following critical public comments on an election audit.

With her exit from state politics, the district will become one of the most important legislative races in the state in the 2024 election, as Democrats look to flip at least one Senate seat needed to create a veto-proof supermajority.

The new system is in part meant to increase participation in the partisan presidential nominating process, as the coming primary elections will see mail ballots sent to every voter registered with a major party — a stark contrast to the caucus system.

Across the state's four congressional districts, Reps. Susie Lee (D-NV) and Steven Horsford (D-NV) led the way in fundraising, bringing in nearly $583,000 and $668,000, respectively.

The report found Nevada had the second-largest increase among all states in registrations at motor vehicle offices between 2020 and 2022, with DMV registrations making up 71.1 percent of total new registrations in 2022.

He also re-emphasized similar positions to his 2022 run, tying excessive government spending to inflation, arguing for smaller government through less taxes and fewer regulations and affirming that he is "pro life."

Judge James Russell issued the ruling from the bench Monday, denying the state party's lawsuit filed in May challenging a 2021 law moving the state away from a presidential caucus to a primary election.

Retired U.S. Army Capt. Sam Brown is entering Nevada's 2024 U.S. Senate race, with the institutional backing of Senate Republicans.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) raised $2.7 million in the second quarter of 2023, leaving her with $7.5 million in cash on hand going into the second half of the year — a state record for money in the bank at this point, according to her campaign.

Former President Donald Trump and his supporters portrayed him as the only one who can save the U.S. They said President Joe Biden was corrupt and incompetent yet capable of plunging the country into chaos.

Trump's website lists him speaking at a "volunteer recruitment event" at Fervent: A Calvary Chapel church at 4:30 p.m. It's on the heels of an event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Friday.

No presidential candidates attended the event, and U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) was the only statewide elected official in attendance.

A top-ranking Nevada Republican has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four election observers challenging the recently passed state law making it a felony to harass election workers. 

The Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) launched a campaign Thursday to stop public funding for the construction of a new baseball stadium for the Oakland A's in Las Vegas.

Nevada's elected Democrats, state strategists and pro-abortion advocates say the Dobbs decision unleashed an enormous wave of political anger and activism, powering Democrats to victory in 2022 and becoming a pillar of the party's 2024 playbook — even as access to abortion remained protected in Nevada law.

The lawsuit and state response underscore an important electoral change for Nevada, which will finally move away from presidential caucuses to primary elections next year for both major political parties.

Relative to the rest of the GOP field, DeSantis made an early splash at last weekend's Basque Fry. But relative to prior Republican contests, Nevada has been little more than an afterthought to the growing presidential primary field, even though there are fewer than eight months remaining until the state's Feb. 6 primary.

In a 50-minute stump speech, he cast Florida as a conservative model for the nation and railed against "leftist" Democratic governments "destroying" cities and states — and avoided direct mention of his top competitor for the GOP nomination, former President Donald Trump.

Nevada Latinos in the 2022 election supported Democrats at nearly identical levels as they supported President Joe Biden in 2020, per a new report from Equis Research.

With nine major Republicans declared to run for president, I looked through their past statements to see what they think of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — long a political barometer in the Silver State.