Teresa Benitez-Thompson: The Progressive Machine Politician Nevada Cannot Afford

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Reno(TNVC News)– With less than 100 days til the General election we’re focusing on the candidates. Teresa Benitez-Thompson is a career Democrat from Reno who spent a dozen years in the Nevada Assembly representing District 27. She rose to Majority Leader and now serves as the Democratic nominee for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District—the open Northern Nevada seat long held by Republican Mark Amodei. Before politics she worked as a social worker, earned a master’s degree, and once wore the Miss Nevada crown. She later became chief of staff to Attorney General Aaron Ford.

That résumé sounds polished. Her actual record tells a different story—one of relentless progressive ideology that puts identity politics, government mandates, and union power ahead of Nevada families, parental rights, free markets, and common sense.

As Majority Leader she helped drive bills that force medical and residential facilities to use preferred pronouns and rewrite records according to gender identity. She backed legislation turning single-stall restrooms into “all-gender” facilities. She supported requiring public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade to teach the “history and contributions” of groups defined by sexual orientation and gender identity. She co-sponsored measures embedding gender-identity non-discrimination rules into insurance that open the door to covering transition-related procedures. She voted for government-backed “diversity” surveys probing workplaces about microaggressions, implicit bias, and the number of women of color in management. She backed expanding state business preferences for LGBTQ-owned companies.

These are not fringe votes. They form a consistent pattern: using the power of the state to enforce the left’s cultural agenda on hospitals, schools, bathrooms, workplaces, and private insurance. Nevada parents who want schools focused on reading, math, and American history instead of gender ideology have every reason to reject that approach. Families who believe biological reality matters in restrooms and sports have every reason to be concerned.

Benitez-Thompson also earned the Teamsters’ endorsement by promising to repeal right-to-work laws. Nevada’s right-to-work status has long protected workers from forced union dues and helped keep the state’s economy competitive. Rolling that back would hand more power to union bosses at the expense of individual freedom and job growth—especially in a district that includes rural counties dependent on mining, agriculture, and energy.

She has made no secret of her opposition to President Trump’s agenda, framing her campaign as a fight against it. Northern Nevada’s ranchers, miners, small business owners, and veterans who supported Trump’s policies on energy, border security, and economic growth would find themselves represented by someone who spent years advancing the opposite priorities in Carson City.

Nevada is not New York. Our values are rooted in personal responsibility, traditional family structure, the sanctity of life, and limited government. Benitez-Thompson’s legislative record shows a politician comfortable expanding government’s reach into speech, education, and private enterprise to advance progressive social engineering. Sending her to Congress would import more of that same failed ideology into a district that has never elected a Democrat.

Northern Nevada deserves a representative who defends biological reality, parental authority, free enterprise, and the Constitution—not one who treats the culture wars as governing priorities. Voters should look past the polished biography and examine the votes. The record is clear.