Overview
Make the Road Action Nevada (MRA NV) builds the power of Latine and working class communities of color across Nevada to achieve dignity and justice. In Nevada over a third of the population is Latine, and there is a large and growing youth and student population.Throughout the years, we have increased our membership and advocated for immigrant rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, education and other issues.
Our work this year will focus on deepening relationships with our base, expanding our organizing infrastructure, and ensuring that every eligible voter in our communities understands what’s at stake well before ballots are distributed. Through sustained year-round engagement, we will combat disinformation, mobilize new and infrequent voters, and create an electorate that is ready to fight for policies that protect working-class, Latine, and immigrant families.
The 2026 midterm elections are pivotal for Nevada's future. This cycle features essential races for governor, Congress, and local offices. As a pro-worker organization, we are dedicated to backing candidates and policies that prioritize the genuine well-being of Nevadans while encouraging civic engagement by empowering everyone to exercise their right to vote.
Victories
We are focused on building long-term power to deliver the victories that will lift up our base of immigrant, Latine and working class Nevadans. In 2025, we scaled our rural strategy by adding more full-time organizers, strengthening local partnerships, and maintaining a year-round presence. We invested in Spanish-language media, WhatsApp organizing, and narrative approaches that resonated with our base, not just pundits. We expanded relational organizing through initiatives like Guardians of Democracy and integrated peer-to-peer tactics into every campaign. We built youth power using new digital tactics like TikTok and WhatsApp and led issue campaigns on climate justice, housing, and reproductive freedom. Additionally, we developed rapid response systems to counter disinformation, election threats, and shifting narratives in real time.
We also channeled the power of our communities into bold legislative campaigns that tackle the most urgent issues facing Nevada's working families. These aren't just policy proposals, they're lifelines for street vendors fighting to feed their families, students who deserve safe classrooms, and farmworkers toiling under the desert sun without basic protections.
At the heart of our fight is The HOPE Act (SB 234), ensuring no low-income Nevadan gets denied life-saving care. We're standing with street vendors (BDR 44) to slash red tape so immigrant entrepreneurs can thrive, not just survive. When ICE agents lurk near schools, our Student Safety Act (AB 217) becomes a shield for terrified families. And as gun violence tears through neighborhoods, SB 156 would finally create a statewide Office of Gun Violence Prevention to stop the bleeding with real solutions.
This is about dignity, from establishing Dolores Huerta Day to honor labor heroes, to finally recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day across Nevada. It's about justice for farmworkers (SB 172) who harvest our food yet get denied meal breaks, and medical debt relief (AB 204) for families crushed by hospital bills. Through the Grown in Nevada Act, we're reinvesting in local food systems so our communities can nourish themselves.
Every door we knock and every story we share turns these bills from ideas into inevitabilities. Because policy isn't just what's possible, it's what we make possible when our people lead the fight.
In 2024, we made over 1.2 million contacts through door-knocking, phone, text, digital outreach, and mail. We endorsed 35 candidates, won 21, and helped pass Nevada’s Reproductive Freedom Act with 64.4%.
Cinthia Zemeño Moore became the third MRA NV member elected to office and the first Mexican-born woman in the Nevada Assembly, demonstrating the organization's powerful leadership development. We grew rural organizing into a full-time effort, launched our Guardians of Democracy program with over 60 community block captains, and mobilized 500 members for GOTV, expanding our base to over 60,000 supporters. Our diverse, community-led endorsement process reflects the power of trust-based relationships. These wins came from strategic canvassing, volunteer engagement, culturally resonant content, and relationship building giving voice to immigrants, youth, and working-class Nevadans. Even after the election, members continue to organize and testify, providing that when communities unite, real change is possible despite challenges like disinformation and economic struggles.
In 2023, we expanded our efforts to Reno, mobilized members from Las Vegas and Reno to engage at the state capitol, and worked alongside allies and legislators on priorities like housing justice, health equity, and workers' rights.
In 2022, we made a big difference, knocking on 62,000 doors, making 330,000 phone calls, and sending 400,000 text messages to voters during the midterms. We celebrated historic victories, including the election of two Make the Road Nevada members to office. Cisco Aguilar's win made him Nevada’s first Latino Secretary of State and the first Make the Road member elected statewide. Fabian Doñate made history as the youngest senator elected and the youngest co-majority whip in the State Senate.
