In 2022, Nevada’s trifecta was a key rightwing target — gaining control of the state’s six Electoral College votes could help them steal the presidency in 2024. The States Project worked in the state for the first time to defend majorities in both state legislative chambers.  

There can be no greater validation of the impact of The States Project’s intervention to hold state legislative majorities in Nevada than this: while the rightwing won the governor’s race and came within 1 percent of taking Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat, we helped expand both majorities in the state legislature —  which in 2018 became the country’s first woman-majority legislature.  

• In 2022, with the entire Nevada Assembly and half of the Senate up for election, The States Project successfully helped to defend both chambers!
  • Our candidates netted one additional seat in the Senate; the Nevada legislature is now just one Senate seat away from a veto-proof supermajority. 
• In the State Assembly, we went into the election needing to avoid four losses. Our candidates held every seat they were in and picked up two additional seats. 
• Six of the candidates we supported faced extremist opponents who denied that President Biden is the rightful president. All six democracy champions won their elections. 
• Every candidate we supported across both chambers won their elections narrowly — most with margins under 5 percent of the vote.