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The Nevada secretary of state's office reported that "Fight for Nevada," the group that filed the recall petition, had 15,897 signatures statewide by the halfway point in the signature-gathering period. It needs about 243,995 signatures by mid-May to qualify the petition.

Candidates must appear in person, pay a filing fee, show identification and sign paperwork to complete the transaction. For seats within a single county, candidates file at that county clerk's office; for multi-county seats, they file with the Nevada Secretary of State.

The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy designed the program, which they are bringing to all 50 states prior to the November 2020 general election. On Tuesday, the initiative made its stop in Nevada, where its panel of experts was joined on the UNLV campus by a state elections official who warned that a new Nevada law might delay election results.

Although Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders emerged as the definitive frontrunner after Nevada's first-in-the-West caucus, he's not leading with black voters — a pattern that showed in Nevada and could have implications in the coming South Carolina primary and beyond. 39 percent of black voters who caucused opted for former Vice President Joe Biden compared to 27 percent for Sanders, according to early entrance polls of the Nevada Caucus.

The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday that it was launching a second round of a major investment initiative in key 2020 battlegrounds, including Nevada, Georgia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.

Inside the Nevada State Democratic Party's ballot hubs, a massive data processing operation is working overtime to ensure that the presidential preferences of 75,000 caucusgoers who chose to vote early make it to the right precincts to be counted on Caucus Day.

President Donald Trump delivered a meandering speech Thursday at a Hope for Prisoners graduation ceremony in Las Vegas, at points riffing on the "unbelievable" treatment of Roger Stone and touting the nation's economy under his watch.

The Democratic presidential debate Wednesday was a war of words that could bend and twist public opinion, possibly changing voters' minds just three days before Nevada's caucus. Voters sounded off at debate parties while watching the on-stage drama unfold in real time.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the target of a new Spanish-language ad campaign from the Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump super PAC, which launched its ad buy with just three days before the state's Democratic presidential caucus on Saturday.

In a sometimes-chaotic scene this morning, five of the seven leading Democratic presidential candidates joined a picket line of hundreds of members from a handful of Las Vegas casino worker unions hours before tonight's Democratic presidential debate.

In an election cycle dominated by diverse issues — health care, education, immigration and the economy — about 1,000 domestic workers, including 30 from Nevada, got the full attention of three Democratic presidential candidates Tuesday morning.

Four more presidential campaign ads are hitting Nevada televisions today, including two from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one from the surging former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and another from Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

With early voting underway and the presidential caucus less than a week away, we wanted to make sure that everyone knows how to caucus when they walk into their precinct on Feb. 22. While primary states just have voting machines, caucusing is a bit more involved and can be confusing. But worry not! We've got you covered.

The Nevada Independent's photographers fanned out across Nevada on Saturday to document the unfolding nominating process. Here's a sampling of what they saw through the lens.

Vermont Senator and leading Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders is under fire regarding his ability to beat President Donald Trump in a new, $600,000 ad campaign from a Democratically-aligned pro-Israel political action committee.

After holding off on an endorsement decision for months, Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford announced today he was endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential bid, making him the second of Nevada's three Democratic representatives to back the one-time frontrunner.

California billionaire Tom Steyer is taking direct aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new digital ad launched today, attacking the senator on the price and popularity of his Medicare-for-all plan just one day before early voting is set to begin in Nevada's Democratic presidential caucus.

For the first time in the 2020 cycle, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls in Nevada, according to a poll from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and AARP Nevada.

A new center-right organization working to oppose President Donald Trump's re-election is launching a voter mobilization effort to encourage disaffected Republicans and right-leaning nonpartisans in Nevada to switch their party registrations and participate in the state's Democratic presidential caucus later this month.

As 2019 wound to a close, the season of giving proved to be a boon for incumbent Democrats Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, who each raked in more than $1 million ahead of the December 31 deadline, according to filings made last week with the Federal Election Commission.