It can be a fickle electorate.

Happy Saturday. The average price of gas in Nevada is currently $4.67, according to the AAA tracker.

A year ago it was $3.80.

But a month ago it was $5.24.

The fundamentals of the election — affordability — suggest Republicans will take a shellacking in the midterms.

But assuming U.S.-Iran negotiations don't collapse and gas prices don't spike again, voters in Nevada and the nation could elect a surprising number of Republicans this year. Because a) Trump made gas prices go up a lot with his dumb war but then he surrendered to Iran and that made prices start to come down again so ooh art of the deal or whatever, and b) there was that UFC fight night on the White House lawn.

On the bright side (where I’m always looking) my grasp of the notoriously fickle U.S. electorate’s feelies can be, you know, hit and miss.

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Here are some of the articles we published in the Current this week we wouldn't want you to miss:

Jen — Australian firm gets South Korean backing for Nevada lithium mine and Despite nation’s 11th lowest SNAP error rate, new federal threshold could cost Nevada millions

Dana — NV Energy’s pledge to compare bills with and without peak demand charge fizzles

Michael — State’s eviction prevention program on shaky financial footing, lawmakers told

April — Telehealth, mailed medications mark post-Dobbs landscape of Nevada abortion care

Leilah — City of Las Vegas inches toward legislatively mandated heat mitigation plan

Me — Pro-AI PAC sinks a New York City congressional candidate — from a Nevada mailbox

Good luck