Catherine Cortez Masto is the first woman from Nevada and the first Latina ever elected to the U.S. Senate. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Cortez Masto has spent her career protecting Nevada families. As Nevada’s Attorney General, Cortez Masto fought to protect seniors and combat drug crime, strengthened laws to end sex trafficking and violence against women, and took on the Big Banks. In the Senate, Cortez Masto has taken her fight for working Nevadans to Washington, D.C., by working to protect Nevadans’ access to health care, hold banks accountable when they harm hardworking families and homeowners, defend Dreamers so they can continue to live in the only country they’ve ever called home, and grow Nevada’s innovation and renewable energy economy while also prioritizing workers and union families.
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Opinion: Two years since Roe fell, the fight to protect women’s health care is as important as ever
As we mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and upend a woman’s right to choose in this country, the fight continues to prevent anti-choice politicians from further eroding women’s rights – even in pro-choice states like Nevada. Here in Nevada, we proudly believe that a…
