For Congress, Southern Nevada must stick with what works: Titus, Lee and Horsford

Title: For Congress, Southern Nevada must stick with what works: Titus, Lee and Horsford Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026 | 2 a.m. Effective governance in Washington depends on legislators who turn ideas into results rather than engaging in partisan posturing, and Nevada’s Democratic members of Congress have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to deliver for the Silver State. In Congressional Districts 1, 3 and 4, Reps. Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford have compiled tangible records of accomplishment on the issues that directly affect Southern Nevadans—securing critical water infrastructure, providing housing relief, and returning millions of dollars to constituents. Facing Republican challengers whose campaigns rely on MAGA alignment, carpetbagging or partisan attacks, each of the three incumbents offers a clear contrast: proven leadership, bipartisan effectiveness and deep ties to the communities they serve. For these reasons, we endorse **Dina Titus in District 1**, **Susie Lee in District 3** and **Steven Horsford in District 4**. Incumbents are denoted by an asterisk (*). **Congressional District 1** *Candidates: Dina Titus (D)*; Carrie Ann Buck (R); Afzal “Bobby” Khan (NPP); Steven “Chap” St John (NPP) Few members of Congress understand Southern Nevada—or have delivered for it—as consistently as Rep. Dina Titus. For more than a decade, Titus has built a record focused on the issues that matter most to Las Vegas, including water security, transportation, infrastructure, tourism and education. In 2025 alone, Titus reported delivering more than $433 billion in federal grants for her district while helping constituents recover more than $2.3 million in Social Security payments, veterans benefits and tax refunds. She also recently advanced legislation protecting Southern Nevada’s water supply and expanding water reliability for more than a million residents and hundreds of businesses through the Horizon Lateral pipeline. In September, the House passed the 2026 Water Resources Development Act, which includes several of Titus’s provisions strengthening drought resilience, water conservation and oversight of the immense water demands created by data centers. That record stands in sharp contrast to Republican challenger Carrie Buck, who has sacrificed her integrity in pursuit of President Donald Trump’s approval, even opposing bipartisan legislation supported by Gov. Joe Lombardo to build affordable housing and prohibition projects. Once viewed as one of Nevada’s most independent voices, Buck is now a full‑fledged MAGA conspiracy theorist who has compared women who have abortions to Nazis and implied that Nancy Pelosi orchestrated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Buck’s narrative would be bittersweet if she were not so dangerous. Titus has spent years turning Southern Nevada’s needs into legislation, federal action and bipartisan achievements. At a time when Congress desperately needs lawmakers who know how to turn ideas into results, Nevadans would do well to continue supporting Dina Titus. **Congressional District 3** *Candidates: Susie Lee (D)*; Jon Kamerath (I); Marty O’Donnell (R) Rep. Susie Lee has built her legislative career around something increasingly rare in Washington: working across party lines. That is why she has consistently been ranked by the Lugar Center at Georgetown University among the most bipartisan members of the House. That approach has produced important results for Southern Nevada, including bipartisan legislation on higher‑education affordability, health‑care access, veterans’ issues, energy costs and Nevada’s water supply. In a particularly clear win for Southern Nevada, Lee was the lead sponsor of the bipartisan Help Hoover Dam Act, which freed tens of millions of dollars in stalled federal funding for major improvements at Hoover Dam. During her eight years in office, Lee has secured $5.7 billion in federal grants and investments and returned more than $35 million directly to constituents through casework. Her opponent, Republican Marty O’Donnell, portrays Washington as broken and blames Lee for failed leadership. Yet Republicans currently hold unified control of the federal government. O’Donnell is not acting independently of that leadership: Trump endorsed him, and the National Republican Congressional Committee selected him for its explicitly MAGA‑branded candidate program. That makes the central premise of O’Donnell’s candidacy worth examining carefully. If Washington’s current operation is failing Americans, voters may reasonably assume that electing a candidate closely tied to that failed operation is unlikely to help the country change course. Lee, meanwhile, already has something far more tangible than vague promises: a record. She has shown that bipartisan action can produce results for Nevada. **Congressional District 4** *Candidates: Steven Horsford (D)*; Russell Best (I); William Johnson (NPP); Cody Whipple (R) Rep. Steven Horsford has spent his career concentrating on problems that directly affect Southern Nevada families, but his work on housing stands out even among Democratic colleagues. After conducting a district‑wide listening tour, Horsford developed a three‑part housing agenda addressing institutional investors, federal land and transparency in subsidized housing. His HOME Act imposed broad restrictions and requirements on large institutional investors in single‑family housing and gave federal agencies additional tools to analyze anticompetitive practices. His UNLOCK Housing Act proposed making federal land more readily available for affordable housing—a particularly important matter in a state where the federal government controls most land. Some of that work has already become law. Provisions of Horsford’s housing agenda were incorporated into the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which became law earlier this year—one of the few bright spots from an otherwise dysfunctional Congress. Horsford has also worked with fellow Nevada lawmakers to reverse a federal tax change that limited deductions for gambling losses, an issue with potentially significant consequences for Nevada’s gaming industry. In September, his bipartisan FULL HOUSE Act cleared the House Ways and Means Committee. Meanwhile, we have serious questions about the honesty and integrity of Republican challenger Cody Whipple. Whipple and his household reside in Summerlin. According to a Whipple campaign spokesman, the address on his driver’s license is in Summerlin. Yet Whipple is registered to vote as a non‑resident of Hiko, where his family’s ranch is located. Voters may draw their own conclusions, but Horsford’s record stands on its own and needs no further explanation. Read the full story at Las Vegas Sun →