The economy and inflation will be big issues in the 2022 election cycle. Already, Mike Flood and Don Bacon have been shamelessly lying about this issue. The point of this piece is to rebut these lies and spell out the stakes in election 2022. We’re not in a recession. The…

The six radical Republicans on the Supreme Court have put your freedom in their crosshairs. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the GOP controlled Supreme Court might take out marriage equality and the right to birth control. …

During his first eight years in the Nebraska legislature between 2005 and 2013, Mike Flood conducted himself as a moderate who worked across party lines to get things done. During his second stint in the legislature during 2021 and 2022, Flood morphed into a hardcore, right wing GOP partisan. Similarly…

Pete Ricketts suffered a stunning defeat at the Nebraska Republican convention over the weekend. Supporters of Trump and Herbster organized a coup and packed the room with their supporters. As a consequence, Ricketts lost control of the Nebraska GOP. Party Chair Dan Welch lost his post by an overwhelming 204–120…

“I will win this election and make these Republicans like it — don’t you forget that!” Those were the immortal words of Harry Truman in his acceptance speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention. At the time, Truman was trailing in the polls and the conventional wisdom was that he…

State Senator Patty Pansing Brooks shocked the political world when she outperformed all previous Democrats candidates in CD01 going back to 1974. Fellow State Senator Mike Flood (R) narrowly defeated Pansing Brooks (D) 53% to 47% in a congressional district that Trump won 54% to 43% in 2020. …

Nebraska in 1968 was critical because it was one of only fifteen states that held a presidential primary election. …

Now that Roe v. Wade has been overruled, the red states will now be free to ban abortion. In approximately 25 red states, there will soon be a total or near total ban without any exceptions for rape and incest. (Thirteen red states have so-called “trigger laws” that already banned…

President Biden and the Democrats in Congress inherited a nation in crisis from Trump. The economy lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020 and the Trump Administration didn’t have a plan to distribute the life saving vaccines. …