Nevada Democrats are arguing that the best way for the DNC to move forward is to further elevate the Silver State. 

A year after taking back the helm, “DMM” has overseen the rebuilding of the state party through the hiring of permanent staffers, the implementation of quarterly weekends of service to engage volunteers and the all-important task of raising money. Her leadership has marked a return to the practices that former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and the eponymous Machine he implemented and ran for nearly two decades.

Without a caucus to run — which requires significant money and time — and with an uncompetitive primary, Biden’s staff can focus exclusively on building out a volunteer operation and testing their messaging early into the cycle.

Two years after chair Judith Whitmer and a group of democratic socialists won control of party leadership that led to a messy intra-party schism, Whitmer is being challenged by a state lawmaker, Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno.

Centene, the largest Medicaid managed-care company in the U.S., has thrown more than $26.9 million at political campaigns across the country since 2015, especially focused on states where it is wooing Medicaid contracts and settling accusations that it overbilled taxpayers.

Gov. Steve Sisolak is fending off attacks from his Republican rival over his administration’s fast-tracking the license for a COVID-testing company with ties to a political donor.

On Caucus Day, precinct chairs opened the covers on the party-purchased iPads they had been assigned to reveal a browser-based Google Form tool, which they used to step-by-step report the results from in-person attendees and reveal the results from early voters. Precinct chairs who had been fretting for days about whether it was all going to work were pleasantly surprised.

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.

The line of Democrats at Sierra Vista High School Saturday morning snaked through the cafeteria, across the quad, out the front gate and to the parking lot. For some who had hoped to quickly cast their early ballots for the Democratic presidential caucus and get on with their weekend, it was frustrating. Others took it in stride.

The Nevada State Democratic Party will not use any apps to carry out its caucus later this month after technology troubles delayed the full release of results from Iowa’s contest this week.

Nevada Democrats, the day after their counterparts in Iowa held a problem-riddled caucus, sought to calm the nerves of voters, the media and other interested observers Tuesday.

Democratic candidate Clint Koble is running again for Nevada’s 2nd congressional seat, after losing in the 2018 election cycle against Republican Rep. Mark Amodei. Despite the “blue wave” that took all but two of Nevada’s executive and federal seats — including governor, attorney general, U.S. Senate and others — Koble lost by more than 16 percentage points.