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In June, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed yet another multistate lawsuit—this time against California for its single-use plastics crackdown. ✏️: Jonny Lupsha

During a townhall hosted in Bellevue on Tuesday, Nebraska 1st District Rep. Mike Flood (R) cited disputed statistics and defended support from AIPAC and the Israeli government when pressed about big money donors by constituents.

The Omaha City Council will soon consider a local ordinance that would restore language from Nebraska’s 2022 minimum wage ballot measure, including annual cost-of-living increases and the elimination of a youth subminimum wage created by lawmakers. Gab Rima, co-founder of Strongly Worded Letters Omaha, testified in support of the ordinance before the council in June.

A new Nebraska petition could change how much power lawmakers have to alter voter-approved laws. The campaign turned in more than 186,500 signatures on Thursday. Now, state officials will determine whether it qualifies for November’s ballot. Read more at our link in bio.

Nebraska’s Supreme Court just upheld Secretary of State Bob Evnen’s decision to release sensitive voter data to the Department of Justice. The DOJ has sued more than 30 other states for refusing to do so. Nine of those lawsuits have already been dismissed.

A new political party is collecting signatures to get on Nebraska’s November ballot… but questions remain about who is behind it. Critics believe it could be an attempt to siphon support from independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn. So who is behind the Nebraska Working People Party?

Pennsylvania Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta hit the doors in Omaha, shouting out Cindy Johnson, Christy Knorr, and Jess Goldoni as candidates who could help flip and protect key Nebraska legislative seats.

During a debate over LGBTQ+ books in public libraries, Lincoln City Councilmember James Michael Bowers shared how library access helped him as a young gay man searching for answers he was too afraid to ask anyone else. He says public libraries saved his life—and called access to books “a form of suicide prevention.”

A new lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee against Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, a fellow Republican, is the latest attempt to restrict voting eligibility in elections. Similar suits in Michigan and North Carolina have already been decided.

In February, Gov. Jim Pillen received a public records request for the previous two years of his cell phone call logs. Four months later, Pillen’s attorney responded by saying no such records exist. Transparency advocates say Pillen is trying to skirt public disclosure laws. ✏️: Jonny Lupsha