In today's edition: We explain why anti-establishment candidates face particularly long odds in Nevada. Plus: Who is officially running, reporting on the Nevada Democrats during the State of the Union, and a political ad by any other name.

The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats, including Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), agreed to proceed.

For Trump, soliciting outrage is the entire point. Sure, that might be attention-grabbing, but it's also a pretty unhealthy way for the leader of 350 million Americans to communicate in our modern era of discontent and partisan divide. 

With air traffic controllers calling out sick and small business loans on pause, Nevada lawmakers on both sides express concern.

The continuing resolution that would have funded the government through late November failed to clear the necessary 60-vote threshold Tuesday night.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) moved to censure Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) after a public confrontation with the Louisiana Republican about a racist post on X in which he called Haitians "thugs" and told them to "get their ass out of our country" before Inauguration Day.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) proposed a six-month stopgap with attached legislation requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote — a nonstarter with Democrats, who point out that noncitizen voting is already illegal and incredibly rare. 

After so many unsuccessful pulls at the electoral slot machine, have national House Republicans moved on from Las Vegas?

Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson (R) was elected speaker of the House on Wednesday, ending more than three weeks of chaos among House Republicans that ground the chamber to a halt amid an impending shutdown deadline and an urgent funding request from The White House for Israel and Ukraine.

Jim Jordan, a conservative hardliner who tried to help overthrow the 2020 presidential election in Nevada, received 200 votes in a vote taken Tuesday morning — falling 17 votes short of the majority needed to win. All Democrats and 20 Republicans voted against him.

After war broke out between Israel and Hamas over the weekend, the Nevada delegation is standing behind Israel. And Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) picked the winning candidate in Republicans' internal ballot for the next House speaker — only to see him exit the race one day later.

In a historic vote, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed from his position leading the House of Representatives by a vote of 216-210 on Tuesday, with eight Republicans joining all House Democrats (including Nevada's three Democratic members) to oust the speaker.

Congress is back in session and the debt limit is all the rage as House Republicans introduced a bill that would raise the debt ceiling for one year in exchange for a host of cuts and rollbacks. Meanwhile, the FEC filing deadline was over the weekend, creating an opening data point in the long march toward the 2024 election.

As chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Horsford's focus will be on implementation of the policies Democrats passed in the last Congress.

Happy New Year! The House of Representatives is ringing in 2023 with an episode of administrative dysfunction unseen since before the Civil War.

This week was a busy one, as the House passed a critical defense bill, Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D-GA) win secured a wider Democratic majority in the Senate, and Nevada's congressional delegation tackled droughts and antisemitism.

This week, as Democrats and Republicans wait for the Dec. 6 Georgia Senate runoff to determine whether Democrats have a vote to spare in their majority, the Democratic caucus elected new leaders and adopted new rules, the Senate passed a LGBTQ+ rights bill, and both houses voted on legislation to avert a rail workers strike.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) will be the first Nevadan to lead the powerful Congressional Black Caucus.