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This is a press release dated March 11, 2026

District-wide effort will highlight the experiences of workers, small businesses, and families across Nevada’s Fourth Congressional District

NORTH LAS VEGAS – Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) today has launched the “Congressman on the Job” series, a district-wide effort where he will spend time on worksites across Nevada’s 4th District to better understand the day-to-day realities facing workers, small businesses, and their families.

As part of the series, Congressman Horsford will spend time alongside grocery clerks, restaurant workers, warehouse workers, health care workers, and others who keep the district and Nevada’s economy moving. The Congressman will hear directly from workers and employers about the challenges they face on the job from rising costs and how those increases are affecting households and business operations.

“Too many hard-working people are doing everything right every day and still struggling to get ahead,” said Rep. Horsford. “Working families are feeling the strain of rising grocery prices, higher costs driven by tariffs, and uncertainty around health care coverage and costs. As their representative in Congress, it’s important for me to spend time on the job with the people who power our economy, hear directly about their experiences, and bring those perspectives back to Washington so we can shape policies that reflect what working families are going through.”

The Congressman on the Job series is part of his ongoing effort to ensure federal policies reflect the real conditions facing workers, small businesses, and families in Nevada.

“This isn’t about a photo opportunity,” Rep.Horsford added. “This is about the people who keep our communities running. It’s about listening, learning, and walking a mile in their shoes. When Congress debates policies that affect workers, policies that shape paychecks, the cost of everyday goods, or access to health care, those decisions should be grounded in the real experiences of the people who keep our communities running.”

The Congressman on the Job series will take place at worksites throughout Nevada’s Fourth Congressional District in the coming months as Horsford continues meeting directly with the workers and small businesses that power Nevada’s economy.

Watch Congressman Horsford begin the series here.

This is a press release dated March 11, 2026

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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) took to the Senate floor today to call attention to the horrors young Dreamers across the country have faced at the hands of President Trump’s out-of-control federal immigration enforcement. Dreamers are the men and women who came to the United States as children, and instead of going after the “worst of the worst,” this administration is targeting community members who have only ever known our country as their home.

Below are her remarks as prepared for delivery:

Mr. President, every day, Americans across this country are watching as federal immigration enforcement commit egregious abuses of power. They’re watching as this administration encourages the brutalization of our communities.

While the focus has been on certain cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles, the reality is, President Trump’s out-of-control immigration enforcement is happening everywhere.

I’ve heard stories in my home state of Nevada, where immigration enforcement is following people home after church services. And where local police officers are being threatened to turn over their undocumented family members who are not violent criminals.

It’s outrageous.

And the truth is, what we’re seeing on TV and social media is only the tip of the iceberg.

I want to highlight a group of people we haven’t been hearing enough about recently, and that’s Dreamers.

Dreamers are men and women who came to the United States as children. They have only ever known this country as their home.

The Dreamers I know go to college, they’ve become part of our workforce, they pay billions of dollars in taxes, and they are woven into the fabric of every community in Nevada.

And many of them are protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. DACA protects immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation, and it authorizes them to work legally.

DACA status isn’t obtained at random – applicants undergo intense scrutiny, and every two years when recipients apply to renew their status, they go through a new background check.

In my state, we have more than 10,000 Dreamers who are DACA recipients. Across the country, there are over 500,000 DACA recipients. They are nurses, small business owners, neighbors, and friends. They love this country, and they feel as American as U.S. citizens do.

But despite the fact that DACA recipients are supposed to be protected from deportation, this administration has chipped away at these protections.

They have encouraged DACA recipients to self-deport. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who was just fired for her incompetence, admitted last month that they had deported more than 80 DACA recipients. We still don’t have answers as to why this happened.

Dreamers have always had to live with uncertain futures. But now, that uncertainty is worse than ever. And unfortunately, DACA is currently under attack in the courts because Republican Attorneys General across the country want to tear down the program.

And for Dreamers who are too young to apply for DACA, they’re on their own – and immigration enforcement is exploiting that.

The administration’s immigration enforcement is out of control, and Dreamers are fearing for their safety and for the lives they have worked so hard to create here.

We’re seeing countless examples of this across the country. I want to share some of these stories today.

Several of them are anonymous because we’ve seen far too often that this administration will engage in retribution against immigrant families who dare to speak out publicly. 

• In Denver, Colorado, a college sophomore studying business and her younger sister who was about to graduate from high school were held in an immigration detention center for four months. Their stepfather is a veteran of the U.S. military, and neither sister has any criminal history, but they were detained all the same at their scheduled check-in appointment with ICE.

• Caroline is a 20-year-old nursing student who has lived in Utah since age 7. She was arrested without explanation and spent 15 traumatic days in a Colorado ICE detention center despite having a clean record, a valid work permit, and a driver’s license.

• An aspiring engineer in college in the Chicago area was deported after passing through airport security on his way to visit his family for Thanksgiving. He came to the U.S. from El Salvador at age 10 to escape life-threatening violence, and now he’s been torn away from his family and his future.

• There’s Ximena, who has lived in Georgia since she was 4 years old and is currently studying business in college. During a routine traffic stop she was handed over to ICE and detained for more than two weeks before the charges against her were dismissed.

• A 19-year-old studying Business Administration in Alabama has been in immigration detention since January. She helps her family run their small business, she volunteers with her church, and she is an essential part of her community. But all that is now at risk as she awaits possible deportation.

• Any has a full scholarship to study business at Babson College, but while at the airport to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, federal authorities detained and then deported her to Honduras – directly defying a federal judge’s emergency stay issued the night before. Even after this administration admitted this was a mistake, Any remains in Honduras trying to get back to her family.

• A music major at school in New York and his family were detained as they were leaving church services. He was moved across the country during his two-month detainment, and despite facing and fighting deportation, he is determined to finish his degree and become a music teacher.

• Marcelo, a high school student originally from Brazil, was detained by ICE while driving to volleyball practice. Over the course of six days, he reported being held with about 40 men, sleeping on concrete floors with thin blankets, and experiencing poor conditions, including limited showering.

• A student in New York studying education, who needed just one more class to graduate, was swept up during an immigration enforcement action on a public street and was detained for a month – even though she had a pending application for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Now, her education is on hold as she works to recover from her ordeal.

• Emerson fled gang violence in Honduras with his mother 12 years ago, and he was an honors student and star soccer player. That was until he was detained at a routine ICE check and deported to Honduras alone without explanation.

That’s just 10 stories. And there are so many more across the country. These young men and women are not the “worst of the worst” President Trump promised he would go after. They’re just the opposite – they’re inspirational people who rose up despite the adversity they faced, and they love this country.

In return for their loyalty, for their hard work – this administration is punishing them. Trump and his henchmen are choosing to go after these Dreamers.

This is a choice.

What the Trump administration is doing to DACA recipients, to these Dreamers, and even to United States citizens goes against everything our nation was founded on.

We cannot allow it to go on any longer.

That’s why we must pass the bipartisan Dream Act, to give these young people a path to citizenship that would put them out of harm’s way and give them the full rights and responsibilities that they deserve in this country.

That’s why we will not agree to give another dollar to ICE and CBP until we have some commonsense guardrails in place so this indiscriminate enforcement against our communities stops. Firing Kristi Noem doesn’t cut it.

Americans want transparency, they want accountability, and they want a government that works for the people.

So my Democratic colleagues and I are going to keep up the fight – for Americans across this country, and for Dreamers like the ones whose stories I shared today who just want to feel at home in the only country they’ve ever called home.

Thank you.

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Washington, D.C. – On February 26, U.S. Senator Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) passed her bill to allow the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to construct a new water pipeline to provide water-delivery redundancy for over one million Nevadans. The Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Water Pipeline Act would dramatically improve the reliability of Las Vegas’s water system and protect residents from outages, while safeguarding ecosystems in Sloan Canyon. The bill also expands the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area (NCA) by nearly 9,300 acres – increasing its size by nearly 20 percent.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority proposed project improves the redundancy, reliability, and flexibility of water delivery to the City of Henderson and the southern Las Vegas Valley.

The project includes individual transmission and storage projects for nearly a million existing customers while allowing flexibility to meet Southern Nevada’s future water demands.

Click on the link for additional information.

https://www.snwa.com/infrastructure-improvements/horizon-lateral/index.html

When Donald Trump joined with  Benjamin Netanyahu to again attack Iran, he urged the Iranian people to “take over your government.”

Of course, dismantling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the supreme leader’s authority, establishing a secular constitution, and ensuring free elections remain extremely low. 

Among the many tactical and strategic challenges is a press able to Challenge Ideology by expressing views on democracy and human rights that run counter to the traditional, state-centered Ideology.

Of course, any free press is not what Trump wants. Minho Kim, reporting for the NY Times from Washington on February 25, said that Trump is seeking to limit safeguards protecting the editorial freedom of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, which are private nonprofits, and that they now have to sign a contract with the Trump administration to receive the money that Congress authorized.

Such a contract gives political appointees more control over their operations, including Kari Lake, who leads the parent agency of the federally funded news groups, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a longtime supporter and former Republican candidate ideologically aligned with Trump.

According to a draft of the proposal reviewed by The New York Times and two people familiar with the matter, Lake for Trump would have the power to veto new hires for editors in chief, chief executives, and members of their boards, and could unilaterally shut down parts of their news operations with a two-week notice.

As of now, contract negotiations continue.

Unfortunately, each of us is stuck in the fantastical reality show of a deranged flimflam man who somehow convinced a whole lot of people to entrust him with the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth.

I’m not going to discuss whether going to war in Iran is a good idea. I’m simply going to point out the obvious contempt this con man has for the rest of us.

Such as …

He addressed the nation in his “State of the Union” Tuesday night. He barely mentioned Iran in passing.

He waited until Congress left D.C. to launch an attack on Iran and start another U.S. war in the Middle East.

He didn’t bother to stay in D.C. in a secure setting with our intelligence apparatus at his side, or our military leaders.

Instead, he launched this new war in the Middle East from his non-secured golf resort in Florida.

He didn’t announce this attack to the nation on any official government channel. Instead, he used his privately owned social media company to play a pre-recorded message.

He waited until almost everyone in the nation was asleep to play his recording in the middle of the night. Surprise!

He didn’t wear a tie.

He wore a baseball cap drawn low over his eyes.

He gave unsubstantiated reasons for launching this new war.

What he said directly to the Iranian people made no sense.

He off-handedly mentioned we (U.S. military) may suffer casualties. This morning reports are that three service people have been killed — as in lost their lives.

He hosted a fundraiser at his golf resort in Florida last night as our service people were in harm’s way being injured or dying.

Here we go again. Lost lives and treasure on stupid wars.

Did you notice that I didn’t say his name? I’m not going to say his name.

Don’t bother trying to convince anyone this is a good idea or not. Don’t try to extrapolate the pros and cons and likely unintended consequences.

Instead, look forward to the day that a majority of the American people open their eyes and realize that we deserve better than this. I remain confident that enough of them will — hopefully, before it is too late.

I am posting comprehensive interviews with leaders of our party. These are in no particular order, but as I come across one that is interesting.

It is important that we familiarize ourselves with those who may run for president in 2028 and also listen carefully to their messaging so we can more effectively communicate.

If you missed the interview with Governor Gavin Newsome, you can access it HERE.

If you missed the interview with Governor J.B. Pritzker, you can access it HERE.

This interview with Governor Josh Shapiro is with Katie Couric on YouTube.