With your support, Nevada Policy made meaningful progress in 2025 to strengthen transparency, expand opportunity, and protect taxpayers. This snapshot highlights how our researchers and advocates used data, clear communication, and community engagement to advance practical policy solutions — helping Nevadans better understand the issues shaping our state and take action to keep government accountable.
As we reflect on this past year, I am struck by a simple truth: The distance between Carson City and the people it serves is no longer measured in miles, but in common sense.
Your unwavering support has been the crucial variable in achieving remarkable victories. Because of you, Nevada Policy didn’t just watch the madness unfold; we stood in the breach. We turned what could have been a year of unchecked bureaucracy into a year of hard-fought accountability.
This year was defined by three pivotal battles where we took action:
First, during the 83rd Legislative Session, we fought the “scandalous votes” that tried to slip past the public like a teenager sneaking in after curfew. Our advocacy was the firewall that stopped the “Hollywood Handout” (AB 238) —a massive tax credit scheme that would have fleeced Nevada families to subsidize movie studios. We reminded Carson City that taxpayers were watching.
Second, when they called an “emergency” Special Session to try again, we launched a full-scale advocacy campaign against the most egregious overreach. We successfully blocked the return of the Hollywood tax credits (AB 5) and secured a historic legislative victory for the Separation of Powers (SB 2) to codify our Supreme Court wins.
Finally, we launched the ultimate accountability tool: the 2025 Legislative Scorecard. Politicians love to tell you they voted for “freedom.” We decided to check their math. Our new Legislative Lookup Tool allowed citizens to bypass the spin, filter out the noise, and see exactly how their representatives voted on the bills that mattered most.
By equipping citizens with knowledge, we empower them to advocate for their futures and cut the invisible strings controlling their opportunities.
Thank you for standing with us. Your support shapes our state’s future. Let’s continue this fight and ensure liberty and prosperity for generations to come.
For Liberty,
President, Nevada Policy
For 120 days, Carson City was a factory of bad ideas. We tracked 265 bills, many of which ranged from the merely expensive to the philosophically offensive. But while the lobbyists were busy popping champagne, Nevada Policy was busy loading the cannons.
The undisputed heavyweight champion of bad ideas was AB 238, known to its friends as the “Film Tax Credit Expansion” and to everyone else as the “Hollywood Handout.” This wasn’t just a subsidy; it was a ransom note. Proponents wanted to divert hundreds of millions of tax dollars to movie studios. We mobilized a massive ad campaign that garnered 1.7 million views and reached 1 million Nevadans, making sure taxpayers knew exactly who was trying to pick their pockets. The result? We killed it on the Senate floor without it even getting a vote.
But the “scandalous votes” didn’t stop there. We stood in the gap, providing 57 in-person testimonies to fight a roster of greatest hits from the government expansion playlist, including the “Open Primaries” power grab (AB 597) and the union-backed attack on class sizes (AB 155).
The scoreboard speaks for itself. Despite the odds, we helped kill 23 bad bills and pass 21 good ones.
In a building designed to ignore you, we made sure they couldn’t. Our Action Center became the only lobbyist the taxpayers had. You sent 10,636 emails to legislators, jamming their inboxes with a message they couldn’t delete: We are watching.
The 83rd Session could have been a disaster. Instead, thanks to an engaged citizenry and a lot of late nights, it became a testament to what happens when you refuse to let the swamp swallow the state. We stopped the worst of it. And as we learned shortly after… they weren’t done trying.
For seven days, they attempted to redefine the word “emergency” to include corporate handouts and constitutional revisions. But while they were rewriting the dictionary, Nevada Policy was rewriting the outcome. We focused our advocacy on two critical battles that defined the session.
First, the “Zombie Bill”: AB 5. The massive Hollywood Tax Credit scheme we killed in the regular session clawed its way back out of the grave. Proponents insisted that giving billions to movie studios was an urgent state priority. We disagreed—and we weren’t alone. We partnered with progressive organizations to fight this corporate welfare, proving that our influence extends far beyond traditional party lines. When both sides of the aisle agree a bill is a disaster, it usually is. Together, we killed the Hollywood Handout for the second time.
Second is the “Constitutional Victory.” SB2 is the follow-up to AB600, the vetoed bill that tried to clean up the Nevada Revised Statutes after a 2024 Supreme Court decision(Nevada Policy Research Institute, Inc. v. Miller) accidentally suggested that certain executive agencies, including the Nevada System of Higher Education, might float outside the Constitution altogether. That reading turned NSHE into a kind of constitutional free-range authority, accountable to no branch in particular, which is not clever governance so much as a paperwork-based magic trick. Senate Bill 2 pulls things back to reality by reaffirming that Nevada still has three coequal branches, that all agencies operate under constitutional authority, and that government jobs should not come with legislative side hustles. One branch, one paycheck, no mystery powers.
They hoped a “Special Session” would act as a rubber stamp for their agenda, allowing them to bypass public scrutiny. We proved them wrong. By winning these battles, we sent a clear message to Carson City: You can convene the legislature whenever you want, but you can no longer hide from accountability.
In the halls of the legislature, silence is the lobbyist’s best friend. They count on the fact that you’re too busy working to notice them spending your money. Our job was to make sure you noticed.
We launched a “Stop Hollywood” air war designed to turn a backroom deal into a public scandal. While the other side relied on closed-door promises, we went direct to the people. The numbers tell the story of a massive mobilization.
Through targeted digital campaigns, we generated over 1.7 million impressions and reached nearly 1 million Nevadans. We didn’t just blast noise; we drove engagement. Our “Film Tax Credit Awareness” campaigns alone reached 986,934 people combined, costing us pennies per view to save taxpayers billions.
We fought on every front. We deployed “meme ads” for the scrollers, deep-dive policy breakdowns for the readers, and even a guerrilla sticker campaign that generated over 100 leads and put physical reminders in the hands of voters.
This wasn’t a traditional PR campaign; it was a reality check delivered to 1.7 million screens. We bypassed the mainstream media filters and took the facts directly to the voters’ feeds. It turns out, you don’t need a massive budget to stop a bad idea—you just need to make sure the taxpayers actually see the price tag.
In the halls of the legislature, silence is the lobbyist’s best friend. They count on the fact that you’re too busy working to notice them spending your money. Our job was to make sure you noticed.
We launched a “Stop Hollywood” air war designed to turn a backroom deal into a public scandal. While the other side relied on closed-door promises, we went direct to the people. The numbers tell the story of a massive mobilization.
Through targeted digital campaigns, we generated over 1.7 million impressions and reached nearly 1 million Nevadans. We didn’t just blast noise; we drove engagement. Our “Film Tax Credit Awareness” campaigns alone reached 986,934 people combined, costing us pennies per view to save taxpayers billions.
We fought on every front. We deployed “meme ads” for the scrollers, deep-dive policy breakdowns for the readers, and even a guerrilla sticker campaign that generated over 100 leads and put physical reminders in the hands of voters.
This wasn’t a traditional PR campaign; it was a reality check delivered to 1.7 million screens. We bypassed the mainstream media filters and took the facts directly to the voters’ feeds. It turns out, you don’t need a massive budget to stop a bad idea—you just need to make sure the taxpayers actually see the price tag.
In the world of politics, if you aren’t making headlines, you’re probably being ignored. This year, we made sure Nevada Policy was impossible to ignore. We didn’t just preach to the choir; we picked up a megaphone and walked into the middle of the town square.
From the pages of the Las Vegas Review-Journal to the airwaves of NPR affiliate KUNR, we forced the free-market perspective into the mainstream bloodstream. When the “Hollywood Handout” proponents tried to quietly pass their tax credits, our analysts were there—publishing blistering op-eds like “We’ve Seen This Movie Before” in the Reno Gazette Journal to expose the sequel nobody asked for.
Our experts didn’t just comment on the news; they drove it. Policy Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan became a go-to voice on the home insurance crisis, explaining to public radio listeners why government price controls were actually torching their policies. Fellow Cameron Belt took on the regulatory state in the Review-Journal, exposing the red tape strangling Nevada businesses.
We dominated the op-ed pages, cited research in major features, and turned complex policy papers into soundbites that reporters couldn’t resist. The result? A year where the “other side” didn’t just have to fight us in the legislature—they had to fight us in the morning paper, too.
To fight a bureaucracy that thinks it knows how to run a business, you need someone who has actually run one. That’s why in August, we officially brought Cameron Belt on board as our newest Fellow.
Cameron isn’t just an academic theorizing from an ivory tower. As a former executive at Uber and Lyft, he has spent his career in the trenches of the “sharing economy,” battling the kind of outdated red tape that tries to strangle innovation in its crib. He understands that the heaviest burden a business carries is often the government on its back.
While he has supported our work as a research associate for a decade, his new role as a Fellow allows him to go on the offensive. His mission is distinct: develop private solutions to public problems.
Cameron is leading our charge to identify and dismantle the specific regulations that hold back Nevada’s entrepreneurs. He has previously authored a Nevada Policy white paper on “regulatory sandboxes”—safe harbors where new ideas can be tested without asking for a permission slip from the state. With his background as a Senior Economist at RCG Economics and author of Economics for Busy People, Cameron brings the data to back up the disruption. He is here to ensure that in Nevada, the only limit on a business is the owner’s imagination, not the state’s statutes.
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