Catherine Cortez Masto Archives

Senator Cortez Masto Urges Biden Administration to Protect Undocumented Immigrants

December 5, 2024 12:10 pmDecember 6, 2024 3:06 pm

Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D) is urging the Biden Administration to protect undocumented immigrants in the wake of President Donald Trump’s promise to begin mass deportation efforts after his inauguration. https://twitter.com/SenCortezMasto/status/1864516797984330254 Masto joined her democratic colleagues Senators Alex Padilla (CA) and Ben Ray Lugán (NM) in sending a letter...

Senators Cortez Masto, Rosen Announce Over $15M To Help Nevadans Pay Skyrocketing Energy Costs

November 14, 2024 2:01 pmNovember 22, 2024 8:11 pm

Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that Nevada will receive over $15 million in funding they secured through the most recent government funding bill and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help Nevada families lower/pay their...

GOP Lead Trends After First Week of Early Voting, Down Ballot In Play

October 26, 2024 8:48 amOctober 28, 2024 12:11 pm

For nearly a decade, Democrats have held the majority in the Nevada legislature. Since 2022, Democrats hold 28 of 42 seats in the Assembly, a slim super majority, and are one seat shy of a supermajority in the Senate. A supermajority occurs when when one party holds two-thirds of the...

Thousands of Clark County Ballots Rejected Due to Non-Matching, Missing Signatures

October 23, 2024 3:57 pmOctober 23, 2024 4:04 pm

Since early voting began last Saturday, Clark County has rejected over 3,000 mailed ballots due to non-matching or missing signatures, prompting the election department to notify thousands of impacted voters to cure their ballot by verifying their identities on or before November 12. As of Tuesday night, Clark County has...

OPINION: NV SOS Playing Partisan Politics With GOTV Texting Alerts

October 21, 2024 1:21 pmOctober 23, 2024 9:40 am

After a discussion with Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, I have learned that he is spending taxpayer money to send Get Out the Vote (GOTV) text messages to registered voters aged 18 to 24 with no history of voting, and put their cell phone number on their voter registration form....

Senator Jacky Rosen Vows to ‘Protect Women,’ Excludes Female Athletes

October 18, 2024 5:43 pmOctober 23, 2024 9:50 am

Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and GOP challenger Captain Sam Brown squared off in a hour-long debate last night covering issues related to inflation, the border, foreign policy, housing, and the latest controversy related to transgender athletes competing against female athletes. This week, the University of Nevada Reno (UNR) women’s volleyball team...

Culinary Union Warns Nevada Could Go Red

October 10, 2024 3:40 pmOctober 11, 2024 3:06 pm

POLITICO magazine reporter Adrian Carasquillo has been covering Nevada and Culinary Union 226 for over a decade and was told by a Culinary official that the union may lose Nevada for the first time since 2004. According to Carasquillo, this was the first time in his reporting that Culinary had...