The filing period ushered a few eyebrow-raising candidates into Nevada's competitive races.

Campaign finance reports show Conine raised most money in attorney general race; incumbents for secretary of state, lieutenant governor have a lead.

In this edition of Behind the Bar, we explore whether Lombardo's bills are being introduced unusually late and Senate leader questions Medicaid cuts.

The establishment-backed candidate in all but one of the important primaries identified by The Nevada Independent had a fundraising lead in the first quarter.

When you receive your sample ballot, you might be forgiven for thinking you were accidentally delivered one from several years ago. Voters rejected these candidates at least once before, but now have to do it again.

Neither Bush's 2004 win nor the long string of Democratic victories that followed were inevitable. Strategists and political experts said a combination of an impressive data operation, successful voter registration strategies, get-out-the-vote efforts and a national mood that favored Bush powered Republicans' success in the 2004 campaign. 

Despite his 2020 loss, ongoing legal woes and the stain of the Jan. 6 uprising, former President Donald Trump holds a strong structural advantage a year before Nevada Republicans vote for their party's next presidential nominee.

Nevada televisions have been bombarded for weeks with messaging echoes from a decade ago — pointing to surging encounters at the southern border, juxtaposing images of tattooed gang members alongside rival politicians amid a rise in both violent crime and migrants at the southern border.

Amid shifting demographics and a move to the Republican Party in states such as Florida and Texas, Latino voters and their political preferences are less predictable than ever before.

Judge James Russell asked attorneys for the Trump campaign and defendants (the electors appointed by the state Democratic Party to cast the state's six electoral votes) to prepare a proposed order by 10 a.m. on Friday — saying he wanted more time to review claims made during the Thursday afternoon hearing but with enough time for parties to potentially appeal to the state's Supreme Court.

Judge Gloria Sturman rejected the request by Election Integrity Project and Angle after a lengthy hearing Friday afternoon, saying that the group's claims of potential voter fraud fell far short of the required level of evidence needed for a judgement in their favor — throwing out a state law allowing mail-in ballots to be sent to all active registered voters, declaring the 2020 election null and ordering a new election to take place.

Though Marchant's attorney, Craig Mueller, said he would be comfortable pairing the request for a new election with either a later evidentiary hearing or the transferring of computer records related to mail ballots, Sturman said she was not comfortable issuing such an order both because of jurisdictional concerns — Nevada state law has a separate process for the filing of election contest suits — and because of the basic geography of the congressional district, which spans seven counties.

Hers is at least the sixth lawsuit filed by losing Republican candidates in the past few days seeking to scrap the election results over alleged irregularities. Others were filed by state Senate candidate April Becker, congressional candidates Dan Rodimer and Jim Marchant, President Donald Trump, and former U.S. Senate candidate and conservative activist Sharron Angle.

The lawsuit largely copies the claims in the previously-filed suits: that various instances of individuals potentially receiving mail ballots addressed to different voters and other supposed irregularities are cause for the court to order a new election and prohibit use of an automated signature verification machine used by Clark County.

Sharron Angle and the group filed a similar lawsuit in September, seeking a stop to Nevada's planned expansion of mail-in ballots ahead of the 2020 election, but that request was rejected by both a District Court judge and the state Supreme Court, which said the group failed to provide any "concrete evidence" that the expanded mail voting plan would result in voter fraud.

In a unanimous ruling issued late Wednesday, the seven members of the state's highest court declined to overturn a lower court's decision rejecting arguments by Angle and a vote-monitoring nonprofit group called Election Integrity Project of Nevada that the state's expanded mail voting law approved during the late summer special session would lead to an influx of voter fraud and should be blocked by the court.