Your Nebraska

📚Nebraskans voted against school vouchers in 2024.📚
This morning, our senators blocked adding $3.5 million taxpayer dollars for school vouchers into the state budget. If your senator voted NO, make sure to thank them for respecting your vote. If your senator voted YES, reach out and respectfully remind them Nebraskans have already spoken: No public dollars for private schools!
Find your senator: nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/senator_find.php

✏️Nebraskans spoke on school vouchers.✏️
In 2024, Nebraskans voted against spending taxpayer money for private school vouchers. Now, while our state faces a historic deficit, Nebraska senators are holding the state budget hostage, demanding $3.5 million taxpayer dollars for another school voucher scheme.
Contact your senator and tell them we meant what we said: No public dollars for private schools!
Find your senator: nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/senator_find.php

💲Nebraskans spoke on Minimum Wage💲
In 2026, the Legislature passed LB258, significantly weakening the minimum wage guidelines voters approved. This legislation limited the promised cost of living increases to a fixed percentage and established a subminimum wage for workers under the age of 20. At a time when hardworking families are struggling to make ends meet, Nebraskans of all ages deserve fair wages that keep pace with the true cost of living.

Learn more at: yournebraska.org/minimum-wage

🤒 Nebraskans Spoke on Paid Sick Leave 🤒

In 2024, almost 75% of Nebraskans voted to pass Paid Sick Leave and support Nebraskans.

This year, the legislature voted for LB415, which harms workers by severely weakening Nebraska’s paid sick leave law. This bill exempts several groups of workers from receiving earned sick leave, including seasonal and temporary agricultural workers, and workers under the age of 16. It also exempts businesses with 10 or fewer employees from providing paid sick leave. This bill also removes important protections for workers who face retaliation from their employers for using paid sick leave.

Learn more: yournebraska.org/paid-sick-leave

💊 Nebraskans Spoke on Medical Ma*****na 💊

Nebraskans overwhelmingly voted for Medical Ma*****na in 2024.

Over 71% of Nebraskans voted FOR medical ma*****na, but the legislature refused to pass regulations supported by the campaign and confirmed two anti-medical cannabis activists to the commission.

Learn more: yournebraska.org/medical-ma*****na

👩‍🏫 Nebraskans Spoke on School Vouchers 👩‍🏫

We said no to public funds for private schools in the November 2024 General Election — but state legislators are still pushing workarounds, and, in a year with a steep budget deficit, still trying to send our tax dollars to private schools.

Learn more: yournebraska.org/schoolvouchers

Our Nebraska…

…appreciates and nurtures strong and vibrant communities.

…offers good paying jobs that give folks a shot at financial security.

…demands its representatives are honest and true to their word.

…is a place where everyone has the opportunity to earn the Good Life.

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Your Nebraska advocates for strong communities and more opportunities to achieve the Good Life.

“While Pete Ricketts was governor, he and his parents spent serious money supporting state senators – and opposing fellow Republicans who had displeased the governor. Longtime observers say that money helped morph the Legislature, making it less independent and more partisan.”

Ricketts' Riches: Wealthy governor widened gulf in Nebraska Legislature, observers say - Flatwater Free Press While Pete Ricketts was governor, he and his parents spent serious money supporting state senators – and opposing fellow Republicans who had displeased the governor. Longtime observers say that money helped morph the Legislature, making it less independent and more partisan.

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Abortion rights group calls Gov. Pillen’s recent news conference ‘misleading propaganda’ Emily Patel, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Omaha, noted that Pillen did not fact-check disinformation being spread by those behind an anti-abortion ballot measure.

"The sweeping property tax cut package championed by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and his allies in the Legislature died Tuesday afternoon after it became evident the plan did not have the votes to advance.

Fierce opposition from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, who cast the plan as the largest tax increase in state history and blasted what they described as a chaotic process to bring it to the floor, kept the Legislature from ever voting directly on the 122-page tax plan.

The bill (LB34) would have cut the state's collective property tax bill by more than $1 billion, replacing locally collected tax revenue with approximately $700 million in new sales taxes on previously untaxed goods and services, and increased "sin taxes."

Nebraska lawmakers kill tax plan championed by Pillen, advance scaled-back proposal Fierce opposition from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, who cast the plan as the largest tax increase in state history, kept the Legislature from ever voting directly on the plan.