The most intriguing legislative primary of the cycle?

National treasure. "It's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage level performance," Dolly Parton, who has canceled a Las Vegas residency, said on Instagram. "Some of the meds and treatments make me a little bit swimmy headed, as my grandma used to say, and of course I can't be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars and such in five-inch heels."

IN NEVADA CURRENT

It's alive! “It” in this instance being your friendly and helpful Nevada Current 2026 Primary Election Voter Guide. We've still got a few more primary contests to overview, including some of those down-ballot nonpartisan races that are so mysterious to everyone and, hence, the bread & butter of our voter guide. And of course we'll be adding new stories to the guide right up until the primary, as events warrant. But whether Trump likes it or not (see below), out-of-state mail ballots were scheduled to be sent to voters this week, and in-state mail ballots are scheduled to be sent to you next week, so we wanted to get the voter guide live sooner rather than later. As I've said before, by the time I start marking my mail ballot, even though I've read all these stories, I've forgotten who's who in a lot of those down-ballot races, so I consult the Nevada Current voter guide. I highly recommend the guide, not only as one of its editors, but as a user: Nevada Current 2026 Primary Election Voter Guide

Oh look here's another primary voter guide story now... About 500 votes separated these candidates when they ran for the same seat in 2024. That's more than it sounds like, because the voting pool for state Assembly candidates is relatively small. But this time there isn't a third candidate taking a share of the vote. The challenger is a member of the Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America (it's a group, not a party), and has positions to match. And one of the questions about the primary, and the general for that matter, is, What are Democratic voters in the mood for these days? Other legislative primaries have meaner — and more expensive — stuff going on (perhaps in direct disproportion to the importance of the grievance ha ha). But those power play races, while intense to the participants and interests involved, are frankly a bit of the same old same old, whereas this primary might actually say something about the Zeitgeist. Jeniffer Solis reports: In an Assembly race rematch, winner of the primary will automatically win the general election

What the Buck? “Dina Titus eats cardboard candidates, especially establishment candidates, for breakfast," says one would-be Republican CD1 challenger who did not get endorsed by Donald Trump, because Carrie Buck did. And Lombardo's endorsement, which Buck also got, is a "kiss of death," the scorned challenger says. Michael Lyle reports: Candidates put on a brave face after Trump passes them by for another

From the D.C. bureau:

DOJ argues states can’t sue to block Trump’s order restricting mail ballots until its implemented. As you'll recall, Nevada Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford is among state AGs suing to block Trump’s executive order on mail ballots, which Ford calls an “illegal power grab.” And Ford and Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar have condemned Trump’s order not only as an unconstitutional infringement on states’ authority to administer their own elections and a move to disenfranchise voters, but also a further attempt by Trump to deliberately undermine public trust in the election process.

Gas prices jump again as Trump turns to another plan for Strait of Hormuz. Or as Trump put it in Las Vegas last month, the Iran war he chose to start “is going swimmingly,” and “we can do whatever we want. And it should be ending pretty soon. It was perfect. It was perfect.”

Good luck