2026 Nebraska General Election

2026 Nebraska Primary Election

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Crystal Rhoades has a college degree. She is a mother.

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Crystal Rhoades is a lifelong resident of Omaha. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology and an M.S. in Political Science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Crystal is the Douglas County Clerk of the District Court. She previously served as a public service commissioner from 2015 to 2023. Before that, she was the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiatives (JDAI) Coordinator for Douglas County. She also worked as an IT analyst with Aquila from 2000 to 2006 and later developed solutions to crime, safety, housing, and health issues at the University of Omaha Neighborhood Center. 

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Crystal previously served as a public service commissioner from 2015 to 2023. Before that, she was the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiatives (JDAI) Coordinator for Douglas County. She also worked as an IT analyst with Aquila from 2000 to 2006 and later developed solutions to crime, safety, housing, and health issues at the University of Omaha Neighborhood Center. 

Crystal is currently the Douglas County Clerk of the District Court. She was elected in 2022 and her term ends in 2027. She previously served as a public service commissioner from 2015 to 2023.

As the Clerk of the District Court Saved taxpayers $186,000 annually by reducing waste, duplication and moving to online services.

Criticizes Washington "insiders" who cut vital social safety net programs to provide tax breaks for billionaires.

As a former PSC Commissioner, she has a strong record of fighting corporate overcharges and implementing reforms to stop waste, fraud, and abuse in public funds.

- As the Clerk of the District Court Saved taxpayers $186,000 annually by reducing waste, duplication and moving to online services.
- Criticizes Washington "insiders" who cut vital social safety net programs to provide tax breaks for billionaires.
- As a former PSC Commissioner, she has a strong record of fighting corporate overcharges and implementing reforms to stop waste, fraud, and abuse in public funds.

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As of March 5, 2026, Crystal Rhoades’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Supports Medicaid, citing its importance for education and family care.

- Supports Medicaid, citing its importance for education and family care.

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Energy & the Environment

Will push back against President Donald Trump's use of tariffs and his approach to immigration

- Will push back against President Donald Trump's use of tariffs and his approach to immigration

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Denise Powell is a mom. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Denise is a small business owner and a former corporate executive. After Donald Trump's election in 2016, she founded an organization that has supported hundreds of Nebraskans running for local office, protected public schools, and helped stop abortion bans in the state. 

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Denise previously ran for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in 2026 but did not win.

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Believes the economy is harmed by reducing Medicaid access for seniors and undermining education from the University of Nebraska to public schools.

Said, "Grocery costs are skyrocketing, small businesses are struggling, and thousands of Nebraskans are about to lose access to their health insurance or have just seen their premiums skyrocket. Our farmers are unsure how they’re going to make it to next season, and veterans and children are losing access to food assistance programs that help keep families afloat during difficult times."

Argues that the "good life" is getting harder to come by for everyday Nebraskans struggling to make ends meet.

Supports more funding and support for small businesses across Nebraska, giving them the tools they need to innovate, hire and grow.

Advocates for fighting back against monopolies that drive up prices and price gouge consumers in order to give CEOs inflated bonuses.

- Believes the economy is harmed by reducing Medicaid access for seniors and undermining education from the University of Nebraska to public schools.
- Said, "Grocery costs are skyrocketing, small businesses are struggling, and thousands of Nebraskans are about to lose access to their health insurance or have just seen their premiums skyrocket. Our farmers are unsure how they’re going to make it to next season, and veterans and children are losing access to food assistance programs that help keep families afloat during difficult times."
- Argues that the "good life" is getting harder to come by for everyday Nebraskans struggling to make ends meet.
- Supports more funding and support for small businesses across Nebraska, giving them the tools they need to innovate, hire and grow.
- Advocates for fighting back against monopolies that drive up prices and price gouge consumers in order to give CEOs inflated bonuses.

Advocates for providing access to training and mental health support to officers.

Supports universal background checks and , red flag laws to prevent convicted felons and gang members from obtaining guns.

- Advocates for providing access to training and mental health support to officers.
- Supports universal background checks and , red flag laws to prevent convicted felons and gang members from obtaining guns.

Plans to expand access to affordable healthcare and oppose Medicaid cuts.

Believes Medicaid is important for seniors.

Supports the Right to IVF Act to expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments in health insurance plans, including for federal employees, veterans, and Medicare/Medicaid recipients.

- Plans to expand access to affordable healthcare and oppose Medicaid cuts.
- Believes Medicaid is important for seniors.
- Supports the Right to IVF Act to expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments in health insurance plans, including for federal employees, veterans, and Medicare/Medicaid recipients.

Supports expanding affordable childcare, investing in new centers.

Will fight to expand the Child Tax Credit back to $3,600 and make it permanent, to ensure working families receive the support they need to care for their children.

Supports funding community colleges and state universities.

- Supports expanding affordable childcare, investing in new centers.
- Will fight to expand the Child Tax Credit back to $3,600 and make it permanent, to ensure working families receive the support they need to care for their children.
- Supports funding community colleges and state universities.

As of March 5, 2026, Denise Powell’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Opposes trade wars that she argues drive up costs for standard goods, and she is firmly against providing tax breaks to billionaires at the expense of hardworking families.

Advocates to create a fair path to citizenship for long term immigrants who have worked and paid taxes for decades as essential workers and Dreamers.

Advocates for accountability for the abuses of power committed by Trump, Kristi Noem, DHS, and ICE and their flagrant disregard for the rule of law.

Supports working directly with armed forces leadership to strategically invest in the military capabilities and service members needed to defend against very real threats from nations like China and Russia.

- Opposes trade wars that she argues drive up costs for standard goods, and she is firmly against providing tax breaks to billionaires at the expense of hardworking families.
- Advocates to create a fair path to citizenship for long term immigrants who have worked and paid taxes for decades as essential workers and Dreamers.
- Advocates for accountability for the abuses of power committed by Trump, Kristi Noem, DHS, and ICE and their flagrant disregard for the rule of law.
- Supports working directly with armed forces leadership to strategically invest in the military capabilities and service members needed to defend against very real threats from nations like China and Russia.

Supports overturn of Citizens United to "get dark money out of politics" once and for all.

- Supports overturn of Citizens United to "get dark money out of politics" once and for all.

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James Leuschen has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Creighton University and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago. He lives in St. Margaret Mary with his wife and their three children. 

James previously worked as the policy director and regional leadership council chair for Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, as policy director in the Office of Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, as senior policy advisor in the Office of Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, as senior policy advisor in the Office of Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer, as legislative director for Rep. Jim Cooper, and as legislative assistant for Rep. Jim Cooper.


James' campaign for U.S. Representative in Congressional District 2 is his first run for public office. 

Advocates for restoring certainty and rewarding hard work to help Nebraska families build a good life.

Believes housing should prioritize helping families over enriching hedge funds and aims to make homeownership more accessible.

Believes housing should prioritize helping families over "enriching hedge funds."

Supports restoring investments in clean energy and infrastructure while prioritizing local community protection.

- Advocates for restoring certainty and rewarding hard work to help Nebraska families build a good life.
- Believes housing should prioritize helping families over "enriching hedge funds."
- Supports restoring investments in clean energy and infrastructure while prioritizing local community protection.

As of March 5, 2026, James Leuschen’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports enhancing and expanding ACA tax credits to make insurance more affordable for Americans.

Supports enhancing and expanding ACA (Affordable Care Act) tax credits to make insurance more affordable for Americans.

- Supports enhancing and expanding ACA (Affordable Care Act) tax credits to make insurance more affordable for Americans.

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John Cavanaugh is a lifelong Nebraskan. John received a BA degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and earned a JD and Master’s in Environmental Policy from Vermont Law School.

John is a two-term Nebraska State Senator representing District 9.

Supports reducing taxes for "working Nebraskans."

Supports private-public partnerships that aim to create and retain jobs across various industries.

Opposes President Trump's tariffs, believing they harm Nebraska's agricultural economy by reducing crop prices.

Supports reducing bureaucratic hurdles to boost housing supply and lower costs for renters and buyers.

Opposes large out-of-state private equity companies buying Nebraska homes, saying it keeps first-time home buyers out of the market and raises rent costs.

Supports federal tax credits for first-time homebuyers and has advocated for down payment assistance.

Supports federal protections for fair housing and reducing discrimination based on gender, age, race, and ethnicity.

- Supports raising the minimum wage.
- Supports reducing taxes for "working Nebraskans."
- Supports private-public partnerships that aim to create and retain jobs across various industries.
- Opposes President Trump's tariffs, believing they harm Nebraska's agricultural economy by reducing crop prices.
- Supports reducing bureaucratic hurdles to boost housing supply and lower costs for renters and buyers.
- Opposes large out-of-state private equity companies buying Nebraska homes, saying it keeps first-time home buyers out of the market and raises rent costs.
- Supports federal tax credits for first-time homebuyers and has advocated for down payment assistance.
- Supports federal protections for fair housing and reducing discrimination based on gender, age, race, and ethnicity.

Supports a constitutional amendment to prevent billionaires from "buying our elections."

- Supports a constitutional amendment to prevent billionaires from "buying our elections."

Supports lowering prescription drug costs.

Promises to work towards reducing healthcare costs.

Opposes Medicaid cuts that will eliminate health coverage for 8,000 Nebraskans in Omaha, many of whom are young people, and plans to reverse these cuts in Congress.

- Supports lowering prescription drug costs.
- Promises to work towards reducing healthcare costs.
- Opposes Medicaid cuts that will eliminate health coverage for 8,000 Nebraskans in Omaha, many of whom are young people, and plans to reverse these cuts in Congress.
- Promises to work towards reducing healthcare costs.

As of March 5, 2026, John Cavanaugh’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Plans to refuse corporate PAC money and advocate for a ban on Congress members trading stocks.

- Plans to refuse corporate PAC money and advocate for a ban on Congress members trading stocks.

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Kishla Askins is from Nebraska. She has a doctorate in public health from the University of Nebraska. She is married to her wife, Alison, and they live in Omaha, Nebraska, with their dog, Bentley.

Kishla Askins has a doctorate in public health from the University of Nebraska. She is married to her wife, Alison, and they live in Omaha, Nebraska.

Kishla previously served as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor. She also served in the U.S. Army.

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Kishla currently is the chief operating officer of Polar Pangea and serves as environmental policy commissioner for the City of Alexandria, Virginia. She previously worked as deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Enterprise Integration at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, as CEO and co-founder of Global Bridge Health Strategies LLC, and as the principal staff officer and senior policy advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She also served in the U.S. Navy.

Kishla previously served as a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Defense.

Kishla's campaign for U.S. Representative in Congressional District 2 is her first run for public office. 

Supports providing tax incentives for small businesses that hire Nebraskans in high-demand fields.

Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act and prevailing wage requirements to ensure fair pay and safe workplaces.

Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, an act that protects employees bargaining for higher raises.

Supports modernizing and stabilizing trade and tariff policies to benefit Nebraska producers and manufacturers.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue economy:  
Supports bringing agricultural security into the national security discussion.

Supports "bringing agricultural security into the national security discussion."

Supports incentivizing housing development to increase access to safe, stable neighborhoods.

Supports family leave programs to assist working parents in caring for their children and aging relatives.

Wants to expand cost-of-living-adjusted Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) for working families.

Supports simplifying the tax code to reduce the burden on middle-class Nebraskans.

Supports rewarding small businesses that reinvest in their workers and communities.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue economy:  
Advocates for ensuring that everyone pays their fair share of taxes.

Believes that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

- Supports providing tax incentives for small businesses that hire Nebraskans in high-demand fields.
- Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, an act that protects employees bargaining for higher raises.
- Supports modernizing and stabilizing trade and tariff policies to benefit Nebraska producers and manufacturers.
- Supports "bringing agricultural security into the national security discussion."
- Supports incentivizing housing development to increase access to safe, stable neighborhoods.
- Supports family leave programs to assist working parents in caring for their children and aging relatives.
- Wants to expand cost-of-living-adjusted Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) for working families.
- Supports simplifying the tax code to reduce the burden on middle-class Nebraskans.
- Supports rewarding small businesses that reinvest in their workers and communities.
- Believes that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue public-safety:  
Supports strengthening security at home and abroad through preparedness and innovation.

Supports strengthening security at home and abroad.

Supports upgrading cybersecurity protections for utilities, transportation, and healthcare systems.

Supports integrating health, cyber, and infrastructure programs to ensure the nation can withstand and recover from disasters.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue public-safety:  
Wants to address Russia and China as strategic threats while monitoring Arctic interests related to natural resources, biosecurity, and climate resilience.

Wants to address Russia and China as strategic threats while monitoring Arctic interests related to natural resources, biosecurity, and climate resilience.

Wants to strengthen public-private and international partnerships to enhance innovation, readiness, and security jobs.

- Supports strengthening security at home and abroad.
- Supports upgrading cybersecurity protections for utilities, transportation, and healthcare systems.
- Supports integrating health, cyber, and infrastructure programs to ensure the nation can withstand and recover from disasters.
- Wants to address Russia and China as strategic threats while monitoring Arctic interests related to natural resources, biosecurity, and climate resilience.
- Wants to strengthen public-private and international partnerships to enhance innovation, readiness, and security jobs.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue healthcare: Supports lowering drug costs by expanding insulin caps and adding protections for inhalers, EpiPens, and cancer medications.

Supports lowering drug costs by expanding insulin caps and adding protections for inhalers, EpiPens, and cancer medications.

Supports expanding telehealth and broadband access to every ZIP code.

Supports establishing a Mental Health Innovation Center for Farmers and Ranchers to enhance rural access, workforce training, and suicide-prevention outreach.

Opposes Medicaid cuts that threaten rural hospitals and clinics.

Supports protecting VA funding and ensuring service members and veterans receive culturally competent care in a timely manner.

Supports funding mobile clinics for maternal care, cancer screenings, and behavioral health services.

- Supports lowering drug costs by expanding insulin caps and adding protections for inhalers, EpiPens, and cancer medications.
- Supports expanding telehealth and broadband access to every ZIP code.
- Supports establishing a Mental Health Innovation Center for Farmers and Ranchers to enhance rural access, workforce training, and suicide-prevention outreach.
- Opposes Medicaid cuts that threaten rural hospitals and clinics.
- Supports protecting VA funding and ensuring service members and veterans receive culturally competent care in a timely manner.
- Supports funding mobile clinics for maternal care, cancer screenings, and behavioral health services.

Supports expanding affordable childcare and early education to enable parents to work and help children thrive.

Supports increasing funding for community colleges, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training.

- Supports expanding affordable childcare and early education to enable parents to work and help children thrive.
- Supports increasing funding for community colleges, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training.

Supports public-private partnerships to expand clean energy, broadband, and agricultural innovation.

- Supports public-private partnerships to expand clean energy, broadband, and agricultural innovation.

Addresses Russia and China as strategic threats while monitoring Arctic interests related to natural resources, biosecurity, and climate resilience.

Supports strengthening public-private and international partnerships to enhance innovation, readiness, and security jobs.

- Addresses Russia and China as strategic threats while monitoring Arctic interests related to natural resources, biosecurity, and climate resilience.
- Supports strengthening public-private and international partnerships to enhance innovation, readiness, and security jobs.

As of March 5, 2026, Kishla Askins’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Kishla Askins

- Supports providing tax incentives for small businesses that hire Nebraskans in high-demand fields.
- Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, an act that protects employees bargaining for higher raises.
- Supports modernizing and stabilizing trade and tariff policies to benefit Nebraska producers and manufacturers.
- Supports "bringing agricultural security into the national security discussion."
- Supports family leave programs to assist working parents in caring for their children and aging relatives.
- Wants to expand cost-of-living-adjusted Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) for working families.
- Supports simplifying the tax code to reduce the burden on middle-class Nebraskans.
- Supports rewarding small businesses that reinvest in their workers and communities.
- Believes that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

- Supports providing tax incentives for small businesses that hire Nebraskans in high-demand fields.
- Supports modernizing and stabilizing trade and tariff policies to benefit Nebraska producers and manufacturers.
- Supports "bringing agricultural security into the national security discussion."
- Supports family leave programs to assist working parents in caring for their children and aging relatives.
- Wants to expand cost-of-living-adjusted Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) for working families.
- Supports simplifying the tax code to reduce the burden on middle-class Nebraskans.
- Supports rewarding small businesses that reinvest in their workers and communities.
- Believes that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

- Supports lowering drug costs by expanding insulin caps and adding protections for inhalers, EpiPens, and cancer medications.
- Supports expanding telehealth and broadband access to every ZIP code.
- Supports establishing a Mental Health Innovation Center for Farmers and Ranchers to enhance rural access, workforce training, and suicide-prevention outreach.
- Opposes Medicaid cuts that threaten rural hospitals and clinics.
- Supports protecting VA funding and ensuring service members and veterans receive culturally competent care in a timely manner.

Supports promoting innovation in sustainable agriculture, biofuels, and precision technology to maintain competitiveness and profitability for Nebraska farms.

Supports ensuring access to timely, high-quality specialty, women’s, and mental healthcare.

Supports public-private partnerships to expand clean energy, broadband, and agricultural innovation across the state.

For Candidate Kishla Askins on Issue Voting & Elections: Supports simplifying the tax code to reduce the burden on middle-class Nebraskans.

Melanie Williams is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she studied English literature, sociology, journalism, and Black studies.

Melanie currently works as the co-founder of Cricket Song Media and as the executive director of Family Advocacy Movement. She previously worked as co-founder and executive director of Family Advocacy Movement, as program director and assistant chess coach at North Omaha Chess Academy & Club, and as co-founder and art director of KidJuice. 

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Melanie previously ran for State Senator in District 31 in 2020 but did not win. 

Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, adjusted to inflation.

Seeks to implement direct reparations payments to descendants of enslaved people alongside targeted investment in Black communities.

Supports a wealth tax on fortunes over $10 million.

Supports making it easier for workers to organize, abolishing right-to-work laws, and ensuring every worker has the power to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.

Supports investment in public and affordable housing, a national rent stabilization framework, and "cracking down" on corporate landlords and private equity buying up homes.

- Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, adjusted to inflation.
- Seeks to implement direct reparations payments to descendants of enslaved people alongside targeted investment in Black communities.
- Supports a wealth tax on fortunes over $10 million.
- Supports making it easier for workers to organize, abolishing right-to-work laws, and ensuring every worker has the power to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.
- Supports investment in public and affordable housing, a national rent stabilization framework, and "cracking down" on corporate landlords and private equity buying up homes.

Supports ending mandatory minimums, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions, abolishing private prisons, and investing in rehabilitation over punishment.

Advocates ending qualified immunity, establishing strong civilian oversight of police, banning chokeholds and no-knock raids, and investing in community-based mental health crisis response as an alternative to armed police for non-violent situations.

Supports strong procedural protections for families navigating courts, child welfare, public institutions, and juvenile justice.

- Supports ending mandatory minimums, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions, abolishing private prisons, and investing in rehabilitation over punishment.
- Advocates ending qualified immunity, establishing strong civilian oversight of police, banning chokeholds and no-knock raids, and investing in community-based mental health crisis response as an alternative to armed police for non-violent situations.
- Supports strong procedural protections for families navigating courts, child welfare, public institutions, and juvenile justice.

Supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.

Plans to fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law,  protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians "are never in the exam room."

Plans to fight to expand Social Security benefits and lifting the payroll tax cap "so the wealthy pay the same rate as everyone else."

Supports protecting trans youth from anti-transgender legislation.

- Supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.
- Plans to fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law,  protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians "are never in the exam room."
- Plans to fight to expand Social Security benefits and lifting the payroll tax cap "so the wealthy pay the same rate as everyone else."
- Supports protecting trans youth from anti-transgender legislation.

Supports broad student debt cancellation and tuition-free public college and trade school.

Seeks universal, free pre-K and subsidized childcare for all families.

- Supports broad student debt cancellation and tuition-free public college and trade school.
- Seeks universal, free pre-K and subsidized childcare for all families.

Advocates for a Green New Deal that creates union jobs in renewable energy, rebuilds infrastructure, and delivers environmental justice to frontline communities.

- Advocates for a Green New Deal that creates union jobs in renewable energy, rebuilds infrastructure, and delivers environmental justice to frontline communities.

Supports an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military aid to Israel until international law is respected, and a two-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis.

Supports citizenship pathways for undocumented immigrants, protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and ending family detention.

Advocates abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and replacing it with "a humane, accountable immigration enforcement system that respects due process and the dignity of every person."

Opposes any military action against Iran or any other nation without a formal declaration of war from Congress.

Said she will fight to "claw back the war powers that have been handed to the executive branch over decades, end the blank checks to the Pentagon, and redirect those resources to healthcare, housing, and the needs of the people who actually pay for them."

- Supports an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military aid to Israel until international law is respected, and a two-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis.
- Supports citizenship pathways for undocumented immigrants, protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and ending family detention.
- Advocates abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and replacing it with "a humane, accountable immigration enforcement system that respects due process and the dignity of every person."
- Opposes any military action against Iran or any other nation without a formal declaration of war from Congress.
- Said she will fight to "claw back the war powers that have been handed to the executive branch over decades, end the blank checks to the Pentagon, and redirect those resources to healthcare, housing, and the needs of the people who actually pay for them."

Supports overturning Citizens United, public financing of elections, and a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists.

- Supports overturning Citizens United, public financing of elections, and a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists.

As of March 5, 2026, Melanie Williams’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Melanie Williams

- Supports ending mandatory minimums, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions, abolishing private prisons, and investing in rehabilitation over punishment.
- Advocates ending qualified immunity, establishing strong civilian oversight of police, banning chokeholds and no-knock raids, and investing in community-based mental health crisis response as an alternative to armed police for non-violent situations.

- Supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.
- Plans to fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law,  protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians "are never in the exam room."
- Plans to fight to expand Social Security benefits and lifting the payroll tax cap "so the wealthy pay the same rate as everyone else."

- Supports an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military aid to Israel until international law is respected, and a two-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis.
- Supports citizenship pathways for undocumented immigrants, protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and ending family detention.
- Advocates abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and replacing it with "a humane, accountable immigration enforcement system that respects due process and the dignity of every person."

- Supports broad student debt cancellation and tuition-free public college and trade school.

- Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, adjusted to inflation.
- Supports a wealth tax on fortunes over $10 million.
- Supports making it easier for workers to organize, abolishing right-to-work laws, and ensuring every worker has the power to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.
- Supports investment in public and affordable housing, a national rent stabilization framework, and "cracking down" on corporate landlords and private equity buying up homes.

- Supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.
- Plans to fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law,  protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians "are never in the exam room."

- Your U.S. representative represents the interests of your district in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Nebraska currently has three U.S. representatives.
- U.S. representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become federal law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain areas of policy, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the speaker of the house or majority/minority leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms and there are no term limits. U.S. representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.
-  Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he or she is elected. 

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