4 Agriculture and Rural Nebraska We Support:
- Preserving the livability, economic viability, sustainability, and culture of our rural communities, family farms and ranches, and small businesses.
- Providing property tax relief to family farms by taxing their real estate solely on its ability to produce income.
- Restoring Fair Market competition for purchasing seed, feed, fertilizer, and supplies.
- Restoring Fair Market competition to sell crops and livestock.
- Safeguarding a strong, sustainable export strategy of Nebraska’s agricultural products.
- Mandatory country-of-origin labeling.
- Strong Farm Bill programs.
- Raising the payment cap on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrolled farm ground to reflect current production values.
- Efforts to ensure that farm subsidies and disaster relief benefit actual Nebraska family farmers and ranchers.
- The Right to Repair: Producers and their mechanics should have the right to fix the equipment they use to produce agricultural products.
- Ensuring that farmers have control over the data produced by their equipment and implements.
- Protecting landowners’ rights to manage their land in a lawful manner.
- Labeling of all food products produced through artificial genetic modifications.
- Investments and research for the improved profitability of Nebraska agriculture.
- Continued investment in innovative research to maintain Nebraska as a leading agricultural state.
- Livestock and crop diversification.
- Empowering local markets and regional food hubs to sell fresh local products.
- Locally accessible healthcare, including timely and reliable ambulance services.
- Fully funded local rural public schools.
- Public-private partnerships such as agrivoltaics, etc. and incentives for the economic revival of rural Nebraska,
- Laws requiring businesses that have received tax relief or subsidies, and then abandon facilities to be responsible for community impacts.
Expansion of voluntary programs for sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices.
Increasing organic farming in our state.
Regenerative agriculture using conservation methods.
Access to credit at reasonable terms and interest rates.
Research, development, and deployment of advanced biofuels.
Tariffs that negatively affect the agricultural community in our state.
Invasive data collections by farm equipment manufacturers.
Foreign and non-family corporate ownership of farm and ranch land.
The use of eminent domain by non-governmental entities.
The belief that Black lives matter.
Education without discriminatory policies and practices.
Creating spaces where marginalized voices can be heard.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
Individuals with autism and their families.
Early Childhood screening, particularly in underserved communities.
Expanding access to tax-advantaged ABLE savings accounts.
Racism or racial harassment against Latino individuals.
Addressing the high rates of suicide by queer individuals.
Accessible and affordable gender-affirming healthcare.
Legislation negatively targeting the transgender community.
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Freedom of movement, expression, thought, and religion.
Eighteen as the age of marriage without parental consent.
Economic, political, employment, and social inequities for women.
Genital mutilation Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Reform We Support:
- Access to skilled training opportunities, fair wages, and worker protections for inmates.
- Investments in education, jobs, health care, and housing that are proven to keep communities safe.
- Continued reform of the state correctional system, including issues of appropriate staffing, mental health and medical treatment.
- Ending qualified immunity.
- Reducing the number of Americans held in jails and prisons through sentencing reform.
- Independently auditing sentences against sentencing guidelines.
- Offering incarcerated persons rehabilitation opportunities.
- Law enforcement training in implicit bias, trauma, crisis intervention and interaction with disabled individuals.
- Adopting oversight measures of law enforcement including the creation of a public database of law enforcement misconduct.
- All people receiving fair and equitable treatment in the criminal justice system.
Use of pre-trial detention in non-violent offenses.
Public tax dollars going only to public schools.
Civics education as a graduation requirement.
Requiring human relations training for teachers.
Accessible, high quality libraries and information systems.
Age appropriate, comprehensive, and inclusive sex education.
Affordable and equitable access to Nebraska’s public post-secondary educational institutions.
Limit class sizes using research-appropriate student-to-teacher/faculty ratios.
Initiatives to break the school-to-prison pipeline.
Queer students, families, and staff.
School accreditation and certified staff.
Banning books.
Charter schools.
Voucher programs.
Arming teachers.
Mandatory religious instruction in public schools.
Development of clean, sustainable, and affordable energy generation.
Peer-reviewed and credible research based on scientific consensus.
Water conservation by citizens and industry.
A successful public power grid.
Maintaining Nebraska as an all public power state.
Continued dominance of fossil fuels.
All efforts to politicize scientific results.
Family and Parental Rights We support:
- Increasing supply and reducing the costs of quality, affordable childcare, preschool, early childhood development centers and afterschool programs.
- Paid family and medical leave.
- Early childhood development and improving school readiness and educational outcomes in disenfranchised, underserved communities.
- Providing public education for every student in an accredited school with credentialed teachers, community-based afterschool, summer, and vacation programs.
- Ensuring that Child Protective Services and social workers utilize trauma-informed practices and have the resources needed to protect children in family (domestic) and non-family (institutional) environments and addressing the disproportionate effect that our child welfare system has on families of color.
- Reunifying foster youth and families when safe and possible.
Encouraging foster youth to successfully complete high school.
Ensuring access to affordable infertility services and providers.
Gun ownership as an individual right and responsibility.
○ Storing firearms and ammunition separately and securely.
○ Education regarding gun responsibility and safety.
A society free of gun violence.
○ Ensuring domestic abusers do not have access to firearms.
A national gun buyback program.
Passage of common sense gun safety legislation.
Fully funding the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) programs.
○ Enacting a strong, effective assault weapons ban.
○ Enacting a ban on high-capacity magazines.
○ Enacting strong handgun regulations.
○ Requiring safe firearm storage under federal law.
The use of firearms for intimidation and unlawful purposes.
Freedom of and/or from religion.
Right to peaceably assemble and protest.
Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Any infringement on the separation of church and state.
Financially-accessible legal representation for victims.
Union representation on relevant governing and administrative boards.
A free and fair election process.
Standards and a Code of Ethics for elected officials.
An independent commission to draw our legislative and congressional districts.
Expanding the number of members in Congress.
Legislation to repeal Citizens United.
A Convention of States calling for an Article V Convention.
Privatization of the United States Postal Service.
The use of eminent domain for private gain.
Expanding the current healthcare system to Medicare for All.
Expanding Medicaid coverage in Nebraska.
Full funding for the Children’s Health Information Program (CHIP).
Medical cannabis as a prescribed treatment for medically diagnosed conditions.
Expanded rehabilitation and destigmatization for persons struggling with drug addiction.
Government negotiations for better prices on healthcare and prescriptions.
Any and all attacks on our health benefits.
Housing/Homeownership that is accessible to all citizens.
Increasing the availability of affordable housing.
The rights of tenants to organize without fear or retribution.
Affordable homeowners’ and renters insurance.
Action to end the crisis of homelessness.
Strong protections against housing discrimination.
A People First approach to all matters of housing.
Redlining and predatory lending practices.
Large investment firms that buy up single family homes.
Fair, effective, and humane immigration reform.
Refugee protections for individuals fleeing war and violence.
Employment-based visas that meet labor market needs.
Guaranteed legal counsel in all immigration proceedings.
Inclusion of immigrants’ contributions in this nation’s history.
consultation of stakeholders and community leaders.
Detention, caging, and/or separation of children from their families.
Attacks on asylum and lawful dual, naturalized, and birthright citizenship.
22 Labor and Economy We Support:
- Efforts to protect labor from the negative effects of the development of artificial intelligence.
- Inclusion of Cost-of-Living Adjustments (“COLA”) in defined benefit plans.
- Enhanced enforcement to punish wage theft, including wage theft perpetrated against tipped employees.
- Development, funding, and promotion of intrastate and interstate passenger rail service.
- Small businesses.
- An economy that creates jobs, invests in industries, and improves infrastructure.
- Investment that elevates minority and BIPOC owned businesses.
- Access to credit for those who are disenfranchised by the current system that holds back those that lack starting capital.
- Rural economic development to support economic revival, affordable housing, and access to quality education.
- Investment in Rural Broadband and subsidizing innovation in underserved areas.
- Access to health care including telehealth, mental health professionals and senior care and investments that recognize the geographical challenges posed in rural areas.
- Strengthening rural postal services.
- Economic development in urban areas benefiting the diverse communities and elevating those people and areas that need it the most.
- Urban development that considers input from affected communities and gives weight to the negative impact on long standing residents and businesses as well as those who will benefit.
- The right of all workers to organize and join Unions.
- Safe workplaces for everyone including the many agricultural workers, railroad workers, first responders, medical professionals, and construction workers.
- A livable wage that includes a COLA.
- Retirement security, access to affordable health care and child care, maternity and paternity leave, paid sick leave, and earned paid time off for workers.
- Area wage standards and continued support for Davis-Bacon laws.
- Protecting Labor agreements.
Responsible bidder requirements for public projects.
State licensing of trades workers.
Immigrant workers.
Public investments that inordinately benefit owners/investors over the public.
Increasing the age of full retirement under Social Security.
Legalization of Recreational Cannabis We support:
- Legalization of recreational cannabis for those 21 years of age and older under a state-regulated system.
- Modifying Nebraska business and tax law, zoning, grower and business permissions to promote the regulation, growing, and sales of cannabis for recreational use.
- Use of tax revenue from the regulation and sale of cannabis to help reduce the reliance on property and income taxes, and bolster Nebraska’s economy.
Libraries and Information We support:
- Adequate public financing.
Employment of certified professional librarians.
Access to supportive technologies and multiple forms of technology.
The right of the public to read what they choose.
National Security and International Policy We Support:
- Strengthening our relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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