117th Congress Archives

June 21, 20210305

Further Notes on LGBTQ+ Pride Month

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Since we're nearing the end of the month, and since we're approaching the high season of summer LGBTQ+ Pride festivals, we

American Jobs Plan, infrastructure, climate change, environment, energy, economy, economics, Las Vegas, Nevada, Joe Biden, Jennifer Granholm, Steven Horsford, Steve Sisolak

June 15, 20210290

Stimulus Watch: When Will “Infrastructure Talks” Turn Into Action?

As infrastructure talks reach a fever pitch in Washington, D.C., the rest of the country continues to ask: When will the talks turn into real action?

May 25, 20211612

Web of Hate: What’s Going on with Nevada Republicans?

While we were wrapping up our series examining the contemporary history of Nevada Democrats, Nevada Republicans continued to make plenty of their own

May 10, 20211385

Tales from #NVLeg: Nevada Economic Maelstrom

Last week, the Nevada Economic Forum seemingly gifted Governor Steve Sisolak (D) and the Nevada Legislature with just over $586 million in forecast ta

Catherine Cortez Masto, Violence Against Women Act, Savanna's Act, Not Invisible Act, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women, civil rights, women's rights, Native American resilience, #MeToo

May 6, 20210362

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Violence That Should Never Be “Invisible”

For decades, Native American tribal communities have had to organize and mobilize just to get the rest of us to pay attention to the longstanding cris

April 29, 20210470

Dude, Where’s Our Health Care? – The Cost of Care

Health care can be a very complex and complicated issue. In the last five years, we’ve become accustomed to hearing politicians try to boil everything

Catherine Cortez Masto, Violence Against Women Act, #MeToo, domestic violence, rape kit backlog, women's rights

April 28, 20211477

Why Is Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Still Stalled?

For over two years, we’ve noticed as the full reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has languished in Congress - more specifically,

April 27, 20211602

Stimulus Watch: Infrastructure Week, for Real?

Remember “Infrastructure Week”? For far longer than a week, reporters, pundits, and policy wonks have been honing in on President Joe Biden’s infrastr

April 21, 20210623

Guilty: Notes on the Derek Chauvin Verdict and the Aftermath

Yesterday, a jury in Minnesota announced their verdict. They found Derek Chauvin guilty on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter for kill

March 23, 20210473

Hate Crimes Don’t Come Out of Nowhere (And They Don’t Have to Be “Our New Normal”)

For the last year, we’ve seen the proliferation of hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. However, this larger trend of bigotry