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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. 

Melanie Williams Nebraska

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

2026 Nebraska General Election

2026 Nebraska Primary Election

Democrat

Libertarian

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Nonpartisan

Republican

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.

Economy

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.

Public Safety

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.

Healthcare

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.

Education

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.

Energy & the Environment

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."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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.

Voting & Elections

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

Ethics & Conduct

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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."

- 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 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 raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, adjusted to inflation.
- Supports a wealth tax on fortunes over $10 million.

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

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

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As of March 5, 2026, Melanie Williams did not have a website or any information online.

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