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Fired-up Trump supporters SHOVE protestors out of Las Vegas rally as ex-president tells Nevada voters ‘your primary vote doesn’t mean anything’ – only hours after he was slapped with staggering $83.8M damages bill

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January 27, 2024

Fired-up Trump supporters SHOVE protestors out of Las Vegas rally as ex-president tells Nevada voters ‘your primary vote doesn’t mean anything’ – only hours after he was slapped with staggering .8M damages bill

Donald Trump’s supporters didn’t even wait for security to get involved with protesters at his Las Vegas rally on Saturday as they took matters into their own hands and shoved the rowdy attendees from the venue.

The day after the former president was ordered to pay $83.8 million to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, he flew to Nevada for a rally just 8 miles from his golden hotel on the Las Vegas strip.

As a group of rally-goers became rowdy – and seemingly anti-Trump – a group of supporters pushed the American Flag-donning attendees out of the venue and shouted at them as the former president said: ‘No, they’re actually friends – enthusiastic friends.’

Trump’s rally in Nevada came off back-to-back victories in Iowa’s caucuses on January 15 and New Hampshire’s primary election on January 23.

Donald Trump urged his supporters to skip the primary election in Nevada and just participate in the caucus because ‘your primary vote doesn’t mean anything’

Supporters of the former president helped push-out protesters from the venue outside of Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday afternoon

Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff played Democratic counter programming in Las Vegas the same day as Trump’s visit to the early primary contest state.

Nevada’s presidential primary contest is next, but nearly no candidates were campaigning in the state – even before all but three dropped out of the race – as confusion swirls over the dueling primary and caucus contests.

‘The message from the voters of our party is clear – It’s time to finish this primary and get going at defeating [Biden],’ Trump said as he went into explaining there are two different primary contests happening this year.

‘And remember this, we all call it a primary, but I like calling it a caucus because it is,’ he said, insisting: ‘Your primary vote doesn’t mean anything – it’s your caucus vote.’

‘In your state you have both the primary and you have a caucus. Don’t worry about the primary, just do the caucus thing,’ Trump instructed his voters. ‘And we’re going to go on to defeat Crooked Joe Biden.’

Nevada is historically the third primary state – but usually only holds caucuses, like Iowa. This year, however, the state decided to run a primary election, while Nevada’s Republican Party said it will hold caucuses and that all delegates will be allocated through that contest.

The primary is on Tuesday, February 6 and the caucuses are on Thursday, February 8.

The ex-president railed against Nikki Haley – the last-standing serious contender against Trump in the presidential primary

A sea of red hats as rally goers listen to Donald Trump speak at his rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, January 27, 2024

The shake-up has led to a lot of confusion and anger from Republicans.

One Trump supporter from Arizona who moved to a Vegas suburb recently told DailyMail.com at Saturday’s rally that the dueling primaries ‘makes everything so confusing.’

Las Vegas-native Billy, 62, said that he didn’t even know there were two contests before showing up for the rally and says he doubts any of his friends and family are tuned into what is going on this year.

Trump is filed for the caucuses – and is a shoe-in to win all the delegates as his only competition is longshot candidate and Texas-based pastor and entrepreneur Ryan Binkley.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley filed for the primary only in Nevada, meaning she cannot pick up any delegates in the state.

After her second place finish in New Hampshire, Haley made it clear her focus is now on her home state of South Carolina, which holds the fourth primary contest on February 24.

‘She’s still campaigning?’ Trump said of Nikki Haley at his rally. ‘She was just endorsed by Liz Cheney, can you believe it? If Liz Cheney ever endorsed me, I’d be like: ‘No, I don’t want it.’

Disgraced former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney urged Haley to stay in the race.

Trump, Haley and Binkley are the three Republicans still running in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

As Trump was en route to his Nevada rally, E Jean Carroll, 80, broke down in tears and hugged her lawyers in court on Friday as she was awarded $83.3 million in her defamation trial against him.

The 80-year-old sued Trump for his defamatory statements disparaging her, and denying her rape allegations.

Trump left court around 4:00 p.m. on Friday to head to Las Vegas despite the imminent decision.

Trump’s rally came the day after he was ordered to pay $83.8 million in the defamation case brought by author E. Jean Carroll, 80, who is seen on Friday leaving court in Manhattan

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Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine – High Country News

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December 11, 2025

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Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine – High Country News

This story was co-published with Public Domain.

Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a project that the Trump administration worked to fast-track during its first term. In recent months, the administration took an equity stake in the mine and the mine’s parent company.

After an unexplained delay, Public Domain and High Country News obtained Budd-Falen’s financial disclosure earlier this month, which details her family’s extensive land holdings. Among them is Home Ranch LLC, a Nevada ranching operation valued at over $1 million. Nevada’s business search database shows a Home Ranch LLC that listed Frank Falen as the manager in February 2022. Frank Falen is also the name of Karen Budd Falen’s husband.

Karen Budd-Falen, senior partner at Budd-Falen Law Offices LLC, speaks at the 2024 Western Ag and Environmental Law Conference. Budd-Falen is a top official at the Interior Department. Credit: uacescomm / CC via Flickr

In November 2018, not long after Karen Budd-Falen joined the first Trump administration as a top legal official at the Interior Department, Home Ranch LLC agreed to sell water rights to Lithium Nevada Corporation, the company developing the Thacker Pass mine, for an undisclosed amount of money, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Frank Falen is listed on the document.

A Home Ranch also appears in planning documents that Lithium Nevada submitted to federal regulators during Trump’s first term. A monitoring plan for Thacker Pass, dated July 2021, notes that the company intended to use existing stock water wells owned by Home Ranch LLC to “monitor potential drawdown impacts” from its mining operations.

The water purchase agreement and other records raise questions about potential conflicts of interest. Budd-Falen was appointed in March as associate deputy secretary to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — a position that does not require Senate confirmation. She also served as a high-ranking legal official at the Interior Department during President Trump’s first term.

It was during that earlier government stint that her official calendar lists a November 6, 2019 meeting in which Budd-Falen was scheduled to have “lunch with Lithium Nevada.”

In 2019, Lithium Nevada, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining firm Lithium Americas, was seeking speedy approval for its Thacker Pass mine in northern Nevada. In the waning days of the first Trump administration it received just that. In January 2021, the Bureau of Land Management approved the mine project, which includes some 5,700 acres of public land.

The $2.2 billion, open-pit mine project has drawn fierce opposition from area tribes and environmentalists, who argue it threatens water resources, endangered species and sacred cultural sites. Thacker Pass, known as Peehee Mu’huh to the Paiute Shoshone people, was the site of an 1865 massacre of at least 31 Paiute people.

Budd-Falen was being considered to lead the BLM during Trump’s first term, but turned down the director job when she learned that she and her husband would have to sell their interests in their family ranches to avoid conflicts of interest, she told The Fence Post in 2018.

Since returning to power, Trump and his team have again worked to move the project forward, as part of a broader push to boost critical mineral mining in the U.S. In September, the Trump administration struck a deal with Lithium Americas to take a 5% equity stake in both the Thacker Pass mine and the company, in exchange for the release of loan money from the Department of Energy.

Budd-Falen has largely worked behind the scenes at the Interior Department. Little is known about what issues she has focused on since returning to the sprawling agency. Notably, Interior officials have yet to release her ethics agreement, which would detail any companies or projects that are off limits.

“Did she have any oversight of the environmental review process regarding Thacker Pass? It is a big question,” said Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, a water conservation group in Nevada. “If she didn’t recuse herself, it would fly in the face of the impartial decisionmaking that Americans expect from government officials.”

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BTI moves into larger Nevada facility

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December 10, 2025

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SPARKS, Nev. (BRAIN) — Bicycle Technologies International relocated its warehouse and service operations to a new distribution center with a footprint 50% larger than its previous location about a half mile away.

The facility increases BTI’s inventory capacity, and accelerates order fulfillment for its dealer network. It also expands BTI’s suspension service workspace. All the daily cutoff times will remain unchanged for shops, and the facility is fully operational and shipping packages.

“Our new Sparks distribution center represents a major investment in the future of our company and in the success of our retailer partners,” said Preston Martin, BTI co-founder. “The expanded footprint is timely given that BTI will be introducing more top brands in 2026.”

The company is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and continues to ship from there as well.

BTI said more stock at the new facility means fewer split shipments from multiple locations, reducing the average carbon footprint per order.

Supplementing the building’s skylights and office windows, BTI upgraded all lighting to LEDs with occupancy sensors that save energy by turning off lights in vacant areas. The Sparks’ staff can utilize BTI’s Green Machine benefit that pays employees cash to ride, walk, or take public transit to work.

BTI’s new address is 740 E Glendale Ave., Sparks, Nevada, 89431.

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ACLU challenges Nevada’s public records exemption in court

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December 10, 2025

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ACLU challenges Nevada’s public records exemption in court

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The ACLU of Nevada presented a case before the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday, challenging the Clark County School District’s (CCSD) refusal to release records related to a 2023 incident at Durango High School.

The incident involved a police officer throwing a student to the ground. CCSD claims the records are part of an “investigative file,” making them exempt from public disclosure.

The court will decide if public agencies can withhold records by labeling them as such. ACLU Executive Director Athar Haseebullah stated, “This case is really going to determine whether or not public agencies can hide records from the public by simply labeling them as investigative files. Public agencies should not act transparently.”

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