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Nebraska voters voted pro-life on two key measures in last nights presidential election. Nebraska voters rejected an extreme abortion ballot proposal, Initiative 439, and simultaneously passed pro-life Initiative 434. First, Nebraska voters rejected the “Protect the Right to Abortion” amendment, which would enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution – defeating it on a 51.2-48.8 margin. Secondly, they voted for a pro-life measure that would ban late-term abortions, adopting it on a 55.3-44.7 margin. Nebraska Right to Life and other pro-life advocates joins other members of the Protect Women and Children coalition in celebrating passage of the ballot...

Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. Then there’s Nebraska and Maine. Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country. The two states each award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide vote, as well as one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and five total electoral votes, while Maine has two congressional districts...

Jordyn Bahl, a two-time national champion and standout on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) softball team, is firing back after facing criticism for taking part in a political ad campaigning for a pro-life ballot measure in Nebraska. Bahl, 22, was one of six athletes from the university who appeared in a series of commercials encouraging Nebraskans to vote on two competing abortion measures that will be on the state’s general election ballot Tuesday, Initiative Measure 434 and Initiative Measure

CV NEWSFEED // Protect Women and Children on Monday released two new ads to encourage Nebraskans to vote on two major abortion initiatives on the state’s November ballot. The ads are in favor of the pro-life Initiative 434 and against the pro-abortion Initiative 439. The 30-second and 60-second ads feature female athletes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: UNL volleyball star Rebekah Allick, a Catholic, and UNL softball players Malia Thomas, Hannah Camenzind, Lauren Camenzind, Jordyn Bahl, and Abbie Squier. The athletes shared their thoughts on the initiatives. “With out-of-state activists lying about the radical Initiative 439, my teammates and I...

Pro-lifers should vote FOR Initiative 434, and vote AGAINST Initiative 439. (Vote for “four” and decline “nine”!) Contrary to some well-meaning, but erroneous misinformation, initiative 434 DOES NOT create a right to abortion in the constitution. We’ve heard a few say that they are going to vote against 434 or simply abstain from 434. Avoid these key mistakes and make your pro-life vote count! Here is what Initiative 434 DOES : * Protects babies in the womb from abortion in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, except in cases of medical emergency, sexual assault or incest. * Preserves the many pro-life...

CV NEWS FEED // In a shift that has stunned the pro-abortion community, Dr. Forrest Smith, a veteran abortion provider, is now calling on voters across the nation to reject all 10 state abortion amendments on the ballot in the upcoming election. Having performed thousands of abortions over his long career, Dr. Smith has undergone a profound change of heart and now advocates for ending abortion, especially for viable babies. “There is no need to kill viable babies,” he declared, urging the nation to consider alternatives. Dr. Smith, who has also delivered thousands of babies over his 54-year career as...

Dozens of people across the U.S. have contracted E. coli traced to ingredients in McDonald's Quarter Pounders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. So far, 49 people from 10 states have fallen ill with a strain known as E. coli O157:H7, which causes a severe intestinal infection in humans. Most of the cases have been in Colorado, which has 27 reported cases, and Nebraska, which has nine reported cases, according to the CDC. MORE: Listeria recall expands to nearly 12 million pounds of meat, hits US schools Ten people have been hospitalized, including a child with...

Touchdown Tim" Walz's Student Officially Releases All The Details? Allegations Explode To help us spread the truth & partner with ministry, click here: https://allypoirot.betterworld.org/ca... Could TIM Walz be a liar? Allegations are now swirling of his checkered past as a coach at a high school. These are just rumors that are not being addressed by the news media. Could these be true or are they just rumors to discredit the amazing Minnesota Governor and awesome Vice Presidential candidate? Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff should never be questioned right?

Former President Donald Trump has made gains in 19 states in the past week, according to a major election forecast. Pollster Nate Silver's forecast shows that the Republican presidential nominee has made marginal gains in six swing states during the past week and in Florida, Texas and New Mexico. Trump has also made gains in New Hampshire, California, Montana, Washington, Massachusetts, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland, Rhode Island and Nebraska, including in its 2nd Congressional District. Nebraska does not use the "winner takes all" system for awarding Electoral College votes. Two votes are awarded to the winner of the statewide popular vote,...

Newly unearthed reports contradict previous claims made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his travel to China, including a claim that the Democratic vice presidential nominee traveled to China for a teaching position in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests... Walz had previously said he visited Hong Kong in “May of ’89,” weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. ... But contemporaneous newspaper reports first resurfaced by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet, place Walz in Nebraska around that time. An issue of the Alliance Times-Herald dated May 16, 1989, features a photo of Walz touring...

The state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws. The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws. Global Fiberglass Solutions and its CEO, Donald Lilly, are named as defendants in...

A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move. GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district. McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off...

The retired Nebraska National Guard soldier, who worked with Walz for three years, recounted the disappearance in an interview as a congressional investigation into Walz's China ties continues. ... It was September 1995, and Tim Walz’s Nebraska National Guard unit, the 1-168th Field Artillery, upgraded to the M109A5 self-propelled howitzer. One of its capabilities was firing nuclear artillery shells. Critical SOP manual for nuclear artillery allegedly disappears .. Alpha News has learned from a former National Guard colleague of Walz that, during that time, a classified document allegedly went missing—the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual detailing the howitzer’s nuclear capabilities....

In 2023, Operation Rescue received an email from a whistleblower about illegal activity at a notorious abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska. The whistleblower stated that felon abortionist Tyrone Malloy, who lost his medical license for fraud, would be illegally seeing patients the following day. The email was received days after late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart died, on April 29, 2023. Carhart previously owned and operated the facility, and his daughter, Janine Weatherby, assumed the role of administrator after his death. Operation Rescue and a local resident of Bellevue, who observed on-site clues supporting the whistleblower’s claims, filed complaints with the Nebraska...

A new image of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's family shows a portion that are supporting his rival in November. Eight members of Walz's family posed for a photo wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts while standing in front of a 'Trump 2024 – Take America Back' flag. The photo was initially shared by a friend of the family with a representative for former Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles W. Herbster, who first posted the image to X on Wednesday.

Vice President Harris is leading former President Trump in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District by 8 points, according to a new survey. The poll, commissioned by GOP firm Remington Research Group, shows Harris with 50 percent support compared to Trump’s 42 percent in the eastern district encompassing the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The lead is outside of the poll’s margin of error. Third-party candidates, meanwhile, received little support in the area. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. garnered just 2 percent support; Cornell West earned 1 percent and Jill Stein and Chase Oliver each received less than 1 percent, per...

Walz had a blood alcohol concentration of .128 at the time of the incident, according to a court transcript. Gov. Tim Walz has said in past campaigns that he wasn’t actually drunk when he was pulled over for driving under the influence in 1995, but a court transcript from the case tells a different story. Walz was working as a teacher in Alliance, Neb., his home state, when he was pulled over Sept. 23, 1995 for going 96 mph in a 55-mph zone. “A strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected emitting from Mr. Walz[‘s] breath and person,” says a...

This coming November, Nebraska voters will likely be faced with two ballot measures that deal with abortion in varying degrees. Though they have similar names, they would have radically different impacts on abortion in the state. Protect Our Rights The first proposed ballot initiative is the “Protect Our Rights” measure, which would establish a constitutional “right” to abortion up until the point of viability — an arbitrary guideline usually considered to be around 24 weeks gestation though babies born as early as 21 weeks have survived. Notable supporters include Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Nebraska. The measure reads: All...

Former New Jersey governor helps launch Republicans for Harris By David Wildstein, August 04 2024 8:28 pm Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman was one of 24 Republican elected officials to endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president on Sunday. “I was a proud Republican, but Donald Trump is unfit to lead our nation. We saw during his four years in office how he consistently chose himself, his pursuit of power, and his billionaire friends over the American people while spewing lies and spreading chaos at every turn,” said Whitman. “It’s time to move forward by electing Vice President Kamala...

The Liberal Party of Nebraska became the ninth official affiliate of the Liberal Party USA last month, according to an announcement from the state organization made via social media. According to a map of state affiliates maintained on the Liberal Party USA website, a ninth state has been added since the national party announced at the beginning of June that it was planning a convention. Additionally, available information on the Liberal Party of Nebraska indicates that the organization went public in the second half of June. Later that same month, it announced it had officially become an affiliate of the...