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Enough with the Race-Baiting

In this election year in which overheated rhetoric is already a hallmark and at a time when everyone’s emotions are already running high, Nebraskans must take a stand against the use of race-baiting in political advertising and messaging by local candidates and campaigns.  In this context, “race-baiting” means instances when a politician, political party, or […]

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In Her Boots: Behind the Scenes with Jane Kleeb

With a primary election on the immediate horizon, I thought it would be useful to sit down with Jane Kleeb, the head of Nebraska’s Democratic Party, to ask her some questions. In particular, I wanted to shed some additional light on what exactly the state party does, what its goals are, and what Kleeb—who recently […]

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Don Bacon Fights Antisemitism…When It’s Politically Expedient

Bacon went so far out of his way to ignore REPEATED antisemitic remarks from within his political party that he actually went to a community rabbi to see if he would disagree with me that the President’s “disloyal” remarks were antisemitic. The rabbi didn’t.

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Nebraska Politics

For Secretary of State, There’s Only One Choice

The ongoing controversy about voter registration in Georgia and in North Dakota, both of which have made national news in the last week, provides the clearest possible example of why the upcoming election for Secretary of State matters to citizens here in Nebraska and why they should vote for Spencer Danner.     For many years […]

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Nebraska Politics

Meet Your New Secretary of State, Selected by Ricketts

When it comes to the least visible of the Constitutional officers of their state, Nebraskans can be forgiven for not knowing two things: What their Secretary of State does, and Who their new Secretary of State will be. For the past several years, the identity of the Nebraska Secretary of State might not have seemed […]

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