Today I spoke at the Nebraska State AFL-CIO COPE Convention​, something I've been looking forward to for a long time. I believe that when unions in Nebraska succeed, all Nebraskans succeed. The right to organize and bargain collectively are critical to raising wages, strengthening the middle class, and securing the economic fairness every worker deserves, and all Nebraskan workers, families, and communities benefit from that.

Tonight I got to meet Paul Schmitz, a former Obama Administration adviser who now works for the Collective Impact Forum. He is speaking tomorrow at the Heartland 2050 Summit about how cities can build cultures of collaboration. Tonight he said something I agree with...

It is not the role of the State Legislature to choose who my healthcare provider will be—politicians are not doctors. While Nebraska refuses to take policy measures to expand access to affordable healthcare, they continue to double down on anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-family positions by removing funding for the only access to healthcare some of us have.

My response to the 18th school shooting in the past 45 days, this tragic massacre in Parkland, Florida, struck a nerve with many people who are following my campaign. And I will address that pushback.

​LB 988 is a bill to create an affirmative consent standard for sexual assault. In other words, this bill changes the legal definition of consent from "no means no” a “yes means yes.” Victims will be better protected as a result of this change. This legislation is long overdue.

Please join me in supporting survivors of sex trafficking by contacting the senators on the Judiciary Committee. Ask them to protect survivors of sex trafficking and move LB 1132 to general file.

This analysis ranks Nebraska dead last in the list of best states for women entrepreneurs. I'm proud to be part of a movement that is doing something about that.

The Holocaust did not begin with labor camps, ghettos, concentration camps, pogroms, or death squads. None of it suddenly happened. It happened under our noses and it began with the normalization of discrimination and hate. It began with party loyalty over moral integrity.