VALUES.
ISSUES.
PRIORITIES.
Learn where Morgan stands on the issues and more importantly, what she can do about them.
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Nevada is the driest state in the country, and we're handing our water to an industry that creates almost no permanent local jobs. Data centers have exploded across Northern Nevada. The state now has over 60 facilities, with more than 5,900 megawatts of additional capacity planned. That buildout is projected to consume approximately 9,650 acre-feet of water per year just for cooling, plus another 12,400+ acre-feet for electricity generation. Meanwhile, more than half of Nevada's groundwater basins are already being drawn down faster than they can recharge. There are no state or county-wide regulations guiding where data centers can be built. Communities like Mason Valley, where 500+ acres of agricultural land were rezoned for a massive data center complex are being asked to gamble their water future so that out-of-state tech companies can cool their servers. In just two fiscal years, data center tax breaks cost the state over $238 million. That's your money, subsidizing their water use, in the driest state in America.
What Morgan Can Do: A freshman representative can introduce or co-sponsor federal legislation requiring data centers to publicly report their water and energy consumption, because right now, there's no guarantee every company is even using efficient cooling systems. She can push for federal environmental impact assessments before any facility is approved on or near federal land. She can demand that tax abatements produce measurable benefit for the communities absorbing the impact, not just line items on a corporate earnings call. She can request GAO investigations into whether utility rate structures are shifting data center infrastructure costs onto your electric bill. And she can make sure rural Nevada communities have a voice before these decisions get made, not after.
WATER & DATA CENTERS
HEALTHCARE
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The federal government just made the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" slashes roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade. In Nevada, an estimated 114,500 people will lose their healthcare coverage. Thirty-four hospitals across 13 counties stand to lose approximately $232 million in revenue. Nevada's rural hospitals — already operating on margins so thin they can barely keep the lights on — face the most immediate threat. The state got $180 million in federal rural health funding to offset the damage, but that ranks 42nd out of 50 states, and independent analysis shows the fund covers only about a third of the projected cuts. Work requirements kicking in at the end of this year will push even more people off the rolls — including people who are working but can't navigate the paperwork. Early estimates suggest Nevada could face $600–$800 million per year in reduced hospital payments by the end of 2028.
This isn't about politics. If the hospital in your town closes, it doesn't matter what party you vote for — you're driving two hours to see a doctor.
What Morgan Can Do: She can vote against further cuts and fight to restore the funding that keeps Nevada's hospitals open. She can demand oversight hearings on how the Rural Health Transformation Fund is actually being spent — and whether it's reaching the communities that need it or getting lost in bureaucracy. She can push for real investment in the healthcare workforce: loan forgiveness for rural providers, housing assistance to recruit doctors and nurses to underserved areas, and funding for training programs that keep healthcare workers in Nevada. She can fight to bring insurance costs back down. And she can use every platform she has to put real faces on what these cuts look like — because this isn't an abstraction. It's your neighbor's prescription. It's the ER that might not be there when you need it.
HOUSING
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Nevada used to be where working people could actually afford to live. That's over. Monthly mortgage payments have doubled since 2019. Large investors own about 11% of single-family home rentals in Las Vegas — nearly four times the national average. Hedge funds and private equity firms have purchased approximately 131,710 homes in the Las Vegas Valley since 2000 — buying up neighborhoods and renting them back to the people who can't afford to buy. Nevada is now the worst state in the country for extremely low-income renters: only 16 affordable rental homes for every 100 households that need them. The state is short more than 70,000 units for its lowest-income residents.
The federal government owns 85% of Nevada's land, which limits where we can build. But the answer isn't selling off public lands to developers and speculators. The answer is smarter policy, real accountability for the corporations driving prices up, and actually building the housing working families need.
What Morgan Can Do: She can co-sponsor legislation to stop institutional investors from bulk-purchasing single-family homes — because people live in homes, not corporations. She can fight for a federal ban on the algorithmic rent-pricing tools that let corporate landlords coordinate price hikes across entire markets. She can push for federal investment in affordable housing construction and workforce housing. She can support smart, community-driven federal land release for housing — with real environmental review and guarantees the land serves families, not speculators. And she can fight for first-time homebuyer programs and down payment assistance that actually put working Nevadans in homes.
PUBLIC LANDS
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Eighty-five percent of Nevada is federal land. That's not a problem to be solved — it's the foundation of how we live. Our public lands are where we hunt, hike, camp, and ranch. They drive our outdoor recreation economy, protect our water supply, and preserve cultural sites that belong to all of us. Right now, they're under serious threat. Last year, a Senate amendment proposed forcing the sale of up to 3.3 million acres across Western states — including Nevada — to finance tax cuts. That proposal was pulled, but its author pledged to bring it back. The Roadless Rule is being rolled back. The president's legal team says he can abolish national monuments. Environmental regulations are being slashed. And the agencies responsible for managing these lands have been gutted. The person nominated to run the BLM has spent his career trying to sell or transfer public lands into private hands. Conservation groups are particularly concerned about the Ruby Mountains, Mt. Rose Wilderness, the Spring Mountains, and the Humboldt-Toiyabe Forest.
Every time this has been tried, Nevadans — regardless of party — have made it clear: our land is not for sale. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
What Morgan Can Do: She can vote against any legislation that sells, transfers, or privatizes Nevada's public lands without genuine community input, environmental review, and reinvestment in conservation. She can fight for real funding for the BLM and Forest Service — because you can't manage 48 million acres of Nevada with a skeleton crew. She can push for meaningful consultation with Tribal Nations as a requirement, not an afterthought. She can pursue a seat on the Natural Resources Committee, which oversees the majority of her district. And she can make sure that federal land decisions reflect Nevada's reality — not Washington's agenda.
ENERGY COSTS
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Your power bill is about to change — and not in the way NV Energy wants you to think. The new "daily demand charge" bills you based on your highest 15-minute spike of electricity use each day. If you run your AC, dryer, and dishwasher at the same time — even once — that spike sets your rate for the day. It could add $20 to $75 per month to summer bills, hitting families with older appliances and renters who can't upgrade their systems the hardest. The Nevada Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection has argued the charge may violate state law. Meanwhile, NV Energy is restructuring net metering in ways that punish rooftop solar customers — discouraging the very thing voters said they wanted when they approved 50% renewable energy by 2030. And data center growth is projected to increase NV Energy's load by over 25,000 gigawatt-hours by 2033. Guess who's going to pay for the infrastructure to support that.
What Morgan Can Do: She can push for federal oversight of monopoly utilities that are passing costs to consumers while discouraging competition and clean energy. She can fight to make sure data center energy costs don't get shifted onto residential ratepayers. She can advocate for federal clean energy incentives that benefit homeowners and families — not just corporations. She can support investment in grid modernization and battery storage that gives Nevadans more control over their own power. And she can work with anyone — regardless of party — who's serious about making sure your electric bill reflects what you use, not what NV Energy needs to recoup.
EDUCATION
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Nevada ranks 48th nationally in education. We have the worst teacher-to-student ratio in the country — roughly 43 educators for every 1,000 students. Half our teachers leave within five years. Clark County School District — the fifth largest in the nation — has over 1,000 vacancies and pays teachers an average of about $57,000. Nevada signed its largest-ever education budget, but the crisis runs deeper than funding. Class sizes are too large for teachers to actually connect with students. Working conditions are burning people out. And federal changes to student loan programs are making it harder for the next generation of teachers to afford to enter the profession in the first place.
Our kids deserve better than 48th. And our teachers deserve to be treated like the professionals they are.
What Morgan Can Do: She can fight for federal education funding that doesn't punish states for being underfunded in the first place. She can push for teacher loan forgiveness and housing assistance — especially for educators who commit to rural and underserved districts. She can co-sponsor legislation investing in teacher training, mentorship, and retention. She can protect Title I, special education funding, and school nutrition programs from further cuts. And she can champion trade schools, apprenticeships, and community college pathways — because not every kid needs a four-year degree, but every kid needs a shot at a good career.
WORKERS & WAGES
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Nevada runs on the people who show up every day: hotel workers, nurses, miners, construction crews, warehouse staff, teachers, servers, and service workers across every town in NV-02. But the deal is broken. A union food runner on the Las Vegas Strip making $56,000 a year still can't afford to buy a home. Mining companies extract billions from Nevada's ground while the communities sitting on top of it fight for basic services. Workers who try to organize face intimidation, retaliation, and a legal system designed to run out the clock.
This isn't about left or right. It's about whether the people doing the actual work get a fair cut of the value they create.
What Morgan Can Do: She can co-sponsor federal legislation strengthening the right to organize without employer retaliation. She can push for a federal minimum wage that reflects the actual cost of living — not a number from 15 years ago. She can fight for enforcement funding at the Department of Labor so wage theft, misclassification, and safety violations actually get investigated. She can advocate for protections specific to the industries that keep Nevada running: hospitality, healthcare, mining, construction, logistics. And she can support policies that keep wealth circulating in Nevada communities instead of funneling it to out-of-state shareholders.
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This campaign does not accept corporate PAC money, billionaire-funded PAC money, or foreign-influenced PAC money. That's not a talking point. It's a structural choice about who Morgan works for — and it's the reason every other position on this page is credible. Look at the rest of the NV-02 field. One candidate is a self-funded venture capitalist. Others have institutional backing and establishment connections. Morgan's campaign is built by the people she'll represent.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: until we fix how campaigns are financed, every other issue on this page is harder to solve. The same people writing the checks are the same people benefiting from the broken system. That's not a conspiracy — it's how the incentives work. Change the incentives, and you change the outcomes.
What Morgan Can Do: She can introduce or co-sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. She can push for a ban on congressional stock trading — because it's insider trading and Congress shouldn't be exempt. She can fight for enforceable campaign spending caps and real ethics oversight for every branch of government, including the Supreme Court. She can co-sponsor legislation making clear that no one — including the president — is above the law. And she can prove, by example, that you can run a real campaign without selling your vote.
MONEY IN POLITICS
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NV-02 is home to multiple sovereign Tribal Nations, including the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, and several Western Shoshone communities. Their land, water, and cultural heritage have been under threat from federal policy for over 150 years — and that hasn't stopped. Public land sale proposals threaten ancestral territory. Data center expansion threatens the water these communities depend on. And too often, the people making decisions about Tribal land and water don't bother to ask the Tribes first.
Sovereignty isn't a courtesy extended by the federal government. It's a legal and moral obligation that this country has repeatedly failed to honor.
What Morgan Can Do: She can fight to require meaningful, early consultation with affected Tribal Nations before any major federal land, water, or resource decision in NV-02. She can push for federal investment in Tribal healthcare, broadband, housing, and infrastructure — as treaty obligations, not charity. She can protect Tribal water rights against diversion to corporate interests. She can support legislation recognizing Tribal Nations as essential partners in land stewardship and conservation. And she can make sure Tribal voices are in the room — not as an afterthought, but from the beginning.
TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY
RURAL NEVADA
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Most of NV-02 doesn't look like Reno. It looks like Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Fallon, and Yerington. Small towns where the nearest hospital might be closing, broadband is unreliable, childcare doesn't exist, and young people leave because there's nothing to keep them. Federal policy has treated rural Nevada as either an afterthought or a resource colony — somewhere to extract minerals, test weapons, and dump what the cities don't want.
Rural hospitals are facing potential service cuts as states scramble to distribute limited federal transformation funds. Nearly half of all rural births are covered by Medicaid, and those reimbursements are being cut. The people living in these communities aren't asking for special treatment. They're asking to not be forgotten.
What Morgan Can Do: She can fight for sustained federal investment in rural broadband, healthcare, and economic development — not one-time grants that expire before they make a difference. She can push for fair returns from Nevada's natural resource industries: if a company is pulling wealth out of our ground, the community should see the benefit. She can advocate for federal projects in Nevada to hire locally and invest in workforce training for Nevadans. She can fight to keep rural hospitals open and staffed. And she can make sure that federal policy accounts for the reality of living in a state where the nearest anything might be a hundred miles away.
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From housing to healthcare to energy to groceries, Nevadans are paying more because the rules are written for the people at the top. Algorithmic pricing tools let corporate landlords coordinate rent hikes across entire markets. Pharmacy middlemen drive up drug costs while skimming a cut. NV Energy operates as a monopoly with outsized influence over the state's energy future. Private equity firms are buying up everything — more than 131,000 homes in Las Vegas alone since 2000 — extracting profit while hollowing out the communities they operate in.
Competition is supposed to keep prices honest and give people choices. When a handful of players control the market, that's not a free market. It's a racket.
What Morgan Can Do: She can push for aggressive antitrust enforcement — actually breaking up the monopolies and cartels that are crushing competition and inflating prices. She can co-sponsor legislation banning algorithmic price-fixing in rental markets. She can fight to close the revolving door between corporate lobbying and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them. She can demand transparency when private equity buys up local businesses, hospitals, or housing. And she can fight for small business access to capital and fair lending — especially in rural communities — so that Nevada's economy isn't held hostage by a few mega-corporations.
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
CHILDCARE
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You can't go to work if you can't afford childcare — and in much of NV-02, you can't find it at any price. Licensed childcare in rural Nevada is nearly nonexistent. In the cities, the average cost of infant care exceeds $10,000 a year. 88% of Nevada's extremely low-income renters already spend more than half their income on rent and utilities. Adding childcare on top of that isn't a tight budget — it's impossible math. And the people providing childcare are among the lowest-paid workers in the state, which drives turnover and makes quality care unsustainable.
This isn't a niche issue. It's the bottleneck in the entire economy. Every parent who can't work because they can't afford care is a worker the economy loses, a business that doesn't get started, a family falling further behind.
What Morgan Can Do: She can fight for federal investment in childcare as essential infrastructure — the same way we fund roads and bridges. She can push for expanded Child Tax Credits and dependent care benefits. She can advocate for raising childcare worker wages through federal funding. She can support expanding Head Start and early childhood programs. And she can fight for policies that make childcare accessible to working families without punishing the people who provide it.
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