Kara Eastman and Dana Balter are giving the left a second chance to show it can win swing districts. But progressive organizations are playing a minimal role.
Nebraska
Posted inPolitics
The Congressional District That Could Decide the Presidency
Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, in some scenarios, provides the margin of victory for Joe Biden. So why isn’t the House race there getting more attention from Democratic leaders?
Posted inCoronavirus
Nebraska Meatpacking Workers Continue to Struggle During the Pandemic
Workers testified in the state legislature, supporting an amendment to set protective standards at plants across the state.
Posted inCoronavirus
Meatpacking Workers at Risk
For weeks, large conglomerates ignored the threat of COVID-19. The new safety procedures they’ve finally instituted could be making things worse.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Nebraska’s Hidden Progressivism
Despite GOP dominance in the heartland, a unique legislature, grassroots activism, and some forward-looking ballot measures have made for more nuanced politics in this red state.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Nebraska Voters Could Decide to Expand Medicaid
While many Republican governors have refused to expand Medicaid, some conservative-led states may have to resign themselves to letting direct democracy decide the question, thanks to the efforts of advocacy groups across the country. In Nebraska last week, advocacy group Insure the Good Life announced that it had received the number of required signatures for […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Republicans Have Learned from Their Tax Cut Debacles: Nothing
Despite the failures of trickle-down economics in Kansas and Oklahoma, Nebraska seems poised to give it a go.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Nebraska Approves Keystone XL Pipeline, But Fight Continues
The state’s decision is the pipeline’s last regulatory hurdle. Next stop: the courts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Latino Immigrants Are Changing the Politics of … Nebraska!
Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states.