October 27, 2023
Last week, a coalition of election officials, businesses, and civic engagement, religious and veterans groups made a national push to encourage hundreds of thousands of Americans to serve as poll workers in November’s presidential election. Poll worker demand is high. With concerns over the harassment and threats election officials face, and with the traditional bench of poll workers growing older, hundreds of counties around the country are in desperate need of people who are willing to serve their communities.
The trial for the six Nevada “fake electors” facing felony forgery charges over their efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election has been pushed back to 2025. The defendants’ attorneys and state prosecutors agreed Monday to push back the jury trial — originally scheduled to start next week — to Jan. 13, 2025. District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus also scheduled a hearing for April 22 on the defendants’ motion to dismiss the charges. Holthus originally asked for the trial to begin on Jan. 6, which the defense objected to.
Republican U.S. Senate candidates gathered in Reno Thursday night to debate who among them would be the best challenger to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in November — and took shots at the elephant not in the room, front-runner and retired Army Capt. Sam Brown. The debate, hosted by conservative group RedMove at the Atlantis Casino, included seven candidates competing to be the Republican nominee after the June 11 primary. Both Brown and former ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter skipped out on the debate, leaving it as more of an undercard in which contenders (many of whom are perennial candidates) mostly agreed on conservative policy principles, including closing the border to new migrants, ending military aid to Ukraine and sharply curbing government spending.
The Nevada State Republican Party on Friday agreed to drop a lawsuit against the state that had sought to stop next month’s presidential preference primary — ending a monthslong legal battle and ensuring that both the state-run primary and the party-run caucus will be held in early February. Nevada lawmakers created the new primary system in 2021, but the state GOP argued in an initial filing last May that the law would prevent party leaders from opting for the state’s existing caucus model in 2024. A Carson City District Court judge sided against the party in July, ruling that both a primary and caucus could move forward under the law.
A pair of law firms known for representing Democratic officials and causes filed two lawsuits last week aimed at blocking proposed ballot questions that would take redistricting out of the Legislature’s control. The lawsuits — both filed Thursday in Carson City District Court by Bravo Schrager and Elias Law Group on behalf of Las Vegas-based Democratic voter Eric Jeng — argue that the ballot questions violate the Nevada Constitution because they would create a new state body (an independent redistricting commission) without raising revenue necessary to pay for the expenses of the commission and because the descriptions on signature-gathering forms accompanying the initiatives fail to mention the cost.
In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential victory was powered by the support of a constituency historically aligned with the Democratic Party — the working class. In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump through an electoral coalition that despite attempted Republican inroads relied heavily on Latino support — particularly in Nevada, where he won 60 percent of the Latino vote.
Nevada's Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo set a single-session record for vetoes in 2023, killing 75 bills from a Legislature dominated by Democrats. Lombardo does not want to do that again in the 2025 session, so he said on Nevada Newsmakers recently that he is doing what he can to elect more Republicans and stop Democrats from gaining super-majorities in both the state Senate and Assembly.
Rosen, who is Jewish and a former synagogue president, was one of the first Democrats to join Republican calls for the U.S. to refreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets — yet unspent — in the wake of the attack, given Iran’s long standing alliance with Hamas By Gabby Birenbaum The Nevada Independent 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.
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