2017 NV Legislative Report Card
Battle Born Progress just put out their report card for how legislators performed in the 2017 session. Here’s what they had to say: It wasn’t easy, but Nevada progressives had many victories during the 2017 Nevada Legislative Session and this report card
Advocacy: The Conscience of the Government is at Stake
— by Katie O’Connell, PFAW Digital Communications Coordinator With three nominees stacked into one hearing today, it’s pretty clear that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley doesn’t actually want us to know much if anything at all about the nominees for two lifetime
Look Around: The Costs of Not Acting on Climate Are Adding Up Fast
From major hurricanes and flooding to droughts and fires, the refusal to accept the science of global warming is getting very expensive. — by Common Dreams staff As Houston begins a recovery from Hurricane Harvey that is likely to last several years and
DACA Under Siege by Trump and AG Jeff Sessions
Last week, Trump pardoned Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a notorious national symbol of racism who refused court orders to stop his racial profiling in his zealous multi-year campaign of persecution against Latino communities. Now, one week later, Trump is throwing MORE red
Trump Set to Deport Dreamers to Appease His Supremacist Base
A Note from Senator Catherine Cortez Masto — Last month, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s landmark Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program granted hundreds of thousands of young people the opportunity to come out of the
City Govts are Raising Standards for Working People—GOP State Legislators are Reversing Them
A new EPI report analyzes the recent wave of preemption laws passed by state legislatures to undercut local labor standards. EPI associate labor counsel Marni von Wilpert shows that preemption activity has increased dramatically since 2010, as Republican-controlled state legislatures have repeatedly
NV GOP Apparently Believes — When You Can’t Win, Stoop to Gutter Politics!
— An “ask” from Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto What Nevada Republicans are doing right now is disgusting. Truly an all-time low. The people of Nevada made their voices heard loud and clear last November. In fact, Nevada was one of the few
Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is Deeply Disturbing
The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make his victims? By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson During a speech to a group of police officers in July, President Trump returned to one of his favorite themes of
Mid-Term Senate Races Matter: Heller’s High Water
U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) released the below statement after a right-leaning federal judge in Texas nullified the Obama Administration’s Department of Labor overtime rule. “The former Obama Administration’s expansion of the federal overtime rule would have devastated Nevada’s business owners and