  We explore the possibility that the muon $g-2$ anomaly and the nature of dark
matter can be simultaneously explained within the framework of gaugino
mediation, focusing on bino-like dark matter where the observed abundance is
obtained via co-annihilations. The minimal model with non-universal gaugino
masses is excluded by stau vacuum instability, although this constraint can be
somewhat relaxed via the addition of a universal soft scalar mass (or $B-L$
gaugino mediation). A more promising alternative is gaugino+Higgs mediation,
which significantly raises the soft masses of the third generation sfermions
leading to a split spectrum. In this framework, the muon $g-2$ can be easily
explained and the dark matter abundance obtained through either bino-wino or
bino-slepton co-annihilations.
