The fight to fight Horsford in CD4.

Today's election that isn't in Nevada but that you should know about anyway is in Kentucky, where U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, that rarest of specimens (a Republican politician who isn't afraid to stand up to Trump), is defending his congressional seat in a primary against some dude whose name is irrelevant because the campaign against Massie exists and is funded on Trump's command.

Trump deployed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to campaign for the challenger in Kentucky yesterday. A defense secretary carnival barking explicitly for a political campaign is probably against the law. It's definitely a disgusting degradation of the office. But then, so is Hegseth.

The Kentucky Lantern's story, citing Ad Impact, notes that at $32.6 million in combined candidate and PAC spending, the congressional primary in Kentucky will be the most expensive U.S. House primary in the whole history of ever. Trump and his precious feelies. Jeesh.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Anybody miss Flippo? David Flippo initially filed to run again in the CD4 Republican primary (he lost it to John Lee two years ago), but then decided to lose in a different Nevada congressional district for a change. So now Cody Whipple and Ronda Kennedy and Anthony Snowden are competing to run against Democratic incumbent Steven Horsford.

The only time a Republican has won CD4 since it was created after the 2010 Census was in the red wave year of 2014 (the year when Harry Reid and his supercalifragilistic Reid machine blunderingly decided to pretend there wasn't an election, but I digress). Whoever wins the CD4 primary, I suspect Horsford's campaign staff would have more fun running against Flippo ha ha. Maybe Flippo will win the primary he did enter, and the Democratic nominee in CD2 will get that pleasure. Meanwhile, Trump has endorsed in CD1 and CD3, but still hasn't endorsed in CD2 and CD4. Jeniffer Solis reports: Three Republicans vie for chance to beat Horsford in CD4

Madcap antics laced with vitriol, allegations, and recriminations are evidently the stuff of Henderson city politics. On the bright side (where I'm always looking), however much the drama compromises the soundness of city governance, no doubt to the detriment of its marketplace and citizenry, at least it makes for lively primary election stories. Dana Gentry reports: Embattled Henderson councilwoman faces challengers in primary

Since this is where your gas comes from, you may be interested to know that a California proposal to provide as much as $4 billion in new free emission permits, half of which would go to the fossil fuel industry, is a giveaway to Big Oil, according to critics.  And for presidential aspirant Gavin Newsom, that might be the point. Via CalMatters: $6 gas and refinery fears collide with California’s climate ambitions

Note: If implemented, would this proposal make gasoline more affordable? Or would it just strengthen bottom lines for Chevron, Marathon, PBF, and other California refiners, and all the public would get is dirtier and smellier air? I'm going be charitable (as usual) and suggest the most likely answer is: we'll never know for sure.

$1.8 billion is enough to finance meaningful growth and expansion of America's white nationalist extremist organizational infrastructure. Just saying. Via the DC bureau: Trump drops IRS suit in trade for $1.8 billion ‘slush fund’ for his allies

 Good Luck