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Election 2026: Democrat announces bid for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District as others consider run


OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – We are a year and a half away from ballots being cast in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, and a new name has entered the race.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) has held his seat in Congress for four election cycles, but will the Nebraska Republican run again in 2026?

For now, that is up in the air.

“You know, I’ve been married for 41 years right now; but I spent 40 of those years in the Air Force and Congress — and I have eight grandchildren,” Congressman Bacon said Thursday. “So there are the family considerations as well on this.”

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But family isn’t the only factor in his decision.

“I am not going to lie to you: The dysfunction does wear on me,” Bacon said. “It’s one thing to fight the other party; but when you have fights in your own party, in Congress, but the Republicans back home.”

Bacon said he does not want to put Republicans behind in the primary process, so he will make a final decision this summer.

In the meantime, a new Democratic contestant entered the field on Thursday: Women Who Run Nebraska co-founder Denise Powell threw her name in the ring.

“This just seems like the time and the need for kind of a regular Nebraskan who is feeling it too, to step in and speak up for our neighbors and our friends who are really scared right now,” Powell said.

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Women Who Run Nebraska supports and promotes women of all parties who run for office in the state.

“I think watching those women who come from all walks of life, run and do this big courageous thing, definitely inspires me to feel like maybe I can do this courageous thing too,” Powell tells First Alert 6.

Fellow Democrat John Cavanaugh told First Alert 6 on Thursday that he is also considering a run. However, the state senator says a final decision won’t come until after the legislative session concludes in Lincoln.

“I have got a very strong record; and so because of that, a lot of people have reached out to me and have asked me to consider running,” Cavanaugh said. “So I am thinking about it.”

First Alert 6 asked each potential candidate what issues will be top of mind for voters this time around. Each touched on different topics, but the economy was a common theme among each of them.

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“We need to protect Social Security, the VA, Medicaid, Medicare, and we need to make sure that people can afford to buy groceries,” Cavanaugh said. “I have a track record of protecting affordability at the grocery store.”

Powell said she also has her eye on the toll the economy could take on programs Nebraskans rely on.

“I am worried about my parents, and their abilities to access Social Security and Medicaid — and what that is going to mean for my family,” she said. “I just think this is a consistent issue we hear across the board, that people are just worried about their ability to thrive.”

Bacon acknowledged the importance of the economy, but said he’s just as concerned about

“The economy is always going to be the No. 1 issue, good or bad; and right now, we have had a retraction in the economy. I think a lot of people think it’s because of tariffs, but there is a debate about that,” he said. “I think we can surely talk about how the border is better — the border is 95% better than it was under Joe Biden.”

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First Alert 6 also reached out to former congressional candidate Tony Vargas. He said Thursday that he will not run again for the Dist. 2 seat, which he lost twice in close races with Bacon.

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6 things you need to know on Friday, May 29

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – First Alert 6 has the headlines you need to know to get your Friday started.

One hurt in Friday morning crash on I-80 in Omaha

One person was taken to the hospital after a crash Friday morning on Interstate 80 in Omaha.

The crash happened shortly before 6 a.m. on I-80 westbound near 72nd Street. Cameras show the car is completely flipped upside down.

Traffic is being impacted Friday morning, as the far left lane remains blocked.

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Police dispatch says initial reports show the victim’s injuries are considered serious.

Nebraska softball defeats Arkansas in extra innings at WCWS

Ava Kuszak hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning as Nebraska defeated Arkansas 5-3 Thursday night at the Women’s College World Series. The victory marks the Huskers’ first WCWS win since 2002.

Jordy Frahm pitched all 10 innings for Nebraska, striking out nine batters. Hannah Coor also homered for the Huskers. Nebraska advances to face Alabama on Saturday at 6 p.m.

The fourth-seeded Huskers are making their eighth WCWS appearance and first since 2013. Six players on the roster are Omaha natives who developed through Nebraska Gold Softball.

Papillion native Frahm earned NFCA Player of the Year honors this season. Gretna’s Alexis Jensen also earned All-American recognition.

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The WCWS runs through June 5. The full tournament bracket can be found here.

Nebraska baseball to open NCAA regional Friday

The first Lincoln baseball regional in nearly two decades will begin on Friday.

Nebraska hosts South Dakota State, Ole Miss and Arizona State in the double-elimination pod, hoping to advance to the program’s first super regional since 2005.

The Huskers open the weekend with the Jackrabbits on Friday at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+. The Rebels and Sun Devils play at 8 p.m.

Nebraska defeated South Dakota State 5-4 in a close midweek game on March 4. The Jackrabbits (24-31) made an unlikely run to a Summit League championship as the No. 4 seed to earn their place in this weekend’s regional.

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STB pauses Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger proceedings

The Surface Transportation Board has accepted Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s updated merger application but is seeking more information before a full review.

The agency ordered an Environmental Impact Statement under federal environmental law and requested details on nine issues, including passenger rail, market-share projections and service assurance plans. Responses are due by July 27.

The EIS process will include at least 12 in-person public meetings and several virtual sessions.

In a release Thursday, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern called the move “an important step forward” as the deal continues to advance.

Shareholders have backed the merger, and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has endorsed it.

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NU Board of Regents to hold emergency meeting Friday

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents is set to hold an emergency meeting Friday.

A notice sent to First Alert 6 does not state why the meeting was called.

According to the notice, the only business on the agenda is a motion to go into a closed session.

First Alert 6 is told the session is private to protect people who have not requested a public meeting to discuss confidential real estate acquisitions.

Farnam Street to close Friday morning for streetcar work

Farnam Street in Omaha is scheduled to be temporarily closed Friday morning for work in the streetcar project.

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The closure is set between Turner Boulevard and 33rd Street for streetcar track concrete placement. Work is expected to begin at 6 a.m. and go until 10 a.m.

City officials say the street will reopen once the last truck has finished.

The full streetcar system is still on track to open by fall 2028.

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Will Bolt and Nebraska baseball are not interested in overlooking South Dakota State on Friday afternoon.

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Even after earning the program’s first regional host bid since 2008, the Huskers made it clear Thursday that advancing is top of mind. Home-field advantage inside Haymarket Park should help, but taking advantage of the opportunity in front of them remains the goal.

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Nebraska players take batting practice on Thursday ahead of play beginning for the Lincoln Regional. | Kenny Larabee, KLIN

With the Big Red preparing to begin what it hopes becomes a deep postseason run, Bolt and several players addressed the media following Thursday’s open practice. Here’s everything they had to say.

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Electing to Throw Carson Jasa in Regional Opener

Nebraska’s ace is getting the nod, despite the fan base raising somewhat of a concern over the decision. For Bolt and his team, it comes based on respecting their opponent on Friday afternoon.

“He’s been our most consistent pitcher all year long,” Bolt said. “We feel like he gives us the best chance to set the tone for the weekend. No matter who you’re playing this time of year, it’s three wins to win the tournament. And we feel like he gives us a really good chance tomorrow to set a great tone for the entire weekend”. 

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Nebraska is hosting a regional for the first time since 2008. | Kenny Larabee, KLIN

Bolt continued by saying the decision was made far before the Huskers found out they’d host. About a month before postseason play began, Nebraska switched up its pitching rotation. Now, even after exceeding expectations, they’ll stick with the plan.

“We feel like sending Jasa out there is our only option,” Bolt said. “At the end of the day, respect your opponent. South Dakota State’s coming in here to beat us. So, our best bet to win the game tomorrow, in our opinion, is to throw Carson Jasa”.

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Tucker TImmerman pitched a scoreless top of the eighth. | Amarillo Mullen

Timmerman’s Confidence in Huskers Pitching Decision

NU’s players fully understand the decision made by the coaching staff, especially knowing the kind of challenge South Dakota State is expected to present. The two programs met back in early March, when the Huskers narrowly escaped with a victory. Entering Friday, Nebraska expects a similar battle.

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“No matter who’s on the mound, everyone in the dugout, everyone in the bullpen has the utmost confidence in each and every person,” Tucker Timmerman said. “But, Carson, especially, we all love going out and watching him throw. His stuff’s electric. He gets everybody going in the dugout. He’s everyone’s No. 1 fan. So it’s great to have a guy on the mound like that to start us off on a weekend”.

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The decision to start Jasa has the full backing of the locker room. With Omaha serving as the ultimate goal, nobody inside Nebraska’s program is under the impression that getting there will come easily. That much is clear.

National Attention Set on Lincoln

Senior infielder Rhett Stokes enters his third postseason run with Nebraska, understanding just how different this year feels. After spending the last tw,o NCAA Tournament appearances traveling on the road, the Huskers now have the opportunity to play on their home field. Something they’ve been very successful at defending this spring.

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Nebraska baseball players practice ahead of the Lincoln Regional at Haymarket Park. | Kenny Larabee, KLIN

“This year’s a lot different than the last two years,” Stokes said. “We’re obviously hosting this year, which is a big advantage to us and gives us the best chance to move on to the next round”.

As the top seed in the Lincoln Regional, the Huskers enter Friday with clear advantages on paper. Even so, NU understands how difficult advancing through the postseason is sure to be. While respecting the challenge South Dakota State presents, NU knows it’ll be expected to win.

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The Huskers’ Resiliency Could Be a Factor

Nebraska has built its season on resilience. Time and time again, the Huskers have found ways to battle back, keeping themselves alive in games that at times appeared out of reach. That mentality could become a critical characteristic of the team as postseason play begins this weekend.

“We’re a team that’s never out of the fight,” Timmerman said. “That’s a huge thing when you’re in postseason play. Even though we could be down a couple runs, up a couple runs, we’re still going to be playing as hard as we can for as long as the game is going on”.

The Lincoln Regional is the only regional in the country featuring three ranked teams, underscoring just how difficult the path ahead could be for the Big Red. With Nebraska posting a 23-1 record at home this season, continuing that level of play inside Haymarket Park will likely determine whether they make it to the supers.

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Why Nebraska Can’t Afford to Overlook SDSU

Despite the Huskers having already beaten SDSU earlier in the year, the Big Red can’t afford to go into the matchup overconfident. They know that early March is much different than late May, and they’ll need their play on the field to reflect that.

“It’s postseason baseball,” Stokes said. “Anything can happen; that’s the nature of it. You can’t treat any one opponent differently. They’ve made it here for a reason. They’re a good team, and they’re hot. I mean, they won the Summit League, so there’s no difference in how we prepare for tomorrow”.

NU will prepare as if the Jackrabbits are a great team. Because, to this point in their season, they’ve proved to be. They won’t sleepwalk their way to a victory, and they know it. That mentality will need to be carried with them through every one of their remaining games.

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Expected Attendance at Haymarket Park

Postseason ticket demand has become a serious topic of discussion in recent weeks, but Nebraska’s focus remains centered on the games themselves. Even so, the Huskers fully expect Haymarket Park to provide one of the best atmospheres the venue has ever seen this upcoming weekend.

“I haven’t thought a ton about the number,” Bolt said. “I know that tickets sold out pretty quickly. There’s going to be standing room only everywhere you look. It’s going to be a great environment. I’m not sure how many they’re going to let in the doors; I guess as many as the fire marshal allows, is what I’ve been told. [We’re] excited to play in front of our fans, and to treat them to postseason baseball here in Lincoln”.

Excitement around the program has reached its highest since the move to the Big Ten. Now, the challenge becomes matching that energy on the field and rewarding the fans in attendance who cheer them on.

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Nebraska’s game against South Dakota State is set for 3:00 PM CDT on ESPN+. The second game between Arizona State and Ole Miss will follow at 8 p.m. CDT on ESPN2.

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The full schedule is below. All times are central.

Friday, May 29

  • Game 1: #1 Nebraska (home) vs. #4 South Dakota State (away) 3 p.m.
  • Game 2: #2 Ole Miss (home) vs. #3 Arizona State (away) 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 30

  • Game 3: Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser 2 p.m.
  • Game 4: Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 31

  • Game 5: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser 2 p.m.
  • Game 6: Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner 7 p.m.

Monday, June 1

  • Game 7: Game 6 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser (if necessary) TBA

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Nebraska climate officials are keeping an eye on El Niño, and its potential impact on the Midwest


Parts of Nebraska are devastatingly dry right now, prompting some to look forward to the incoming El Niño weather pattern. Nebraska Public Media’s Dale Johnson spoke with the Nebraska State Climate Office’s Eric Hunt about what’s lurking around the corner.

Eric Hunt: Well, I’ve heard lots of things to describe the pending El Niño. Super El Niño I think has been the most common one. The prognosis is certainly that we’re going to be into a stronger El Niño.

Dale Johnson: Most of the El Niño stories that I’ve found tend to focus on hurricanes, and Nebraska doesn’t get too many of those.

Hunt: That would be a first.

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Johnson: So let’s talk about tornadoes. Does an El Niño weather pattern lend itself to more tornadoes?

Hunt: It could, I mean, I would just say El Niño’s impacts on our sensible weather tend to be strongest starting in September, October, going through the winter and into at least early portion of the spring of the next year. So I think our biggest impacts from this El Niño are going to be probably the very tail end of summer into the next one, early spring. That being said, it would certainly be possible, given the fact that we would likely have a stormier pattern this fall than we’ve had in recent years, which wouldn’t take much for a lot of the state to be stormier than we’ve been in recent falls. So that may open up the possibility for more chances for severe weather, including tornadoes. That may mean next spring might be the one we really have to watch out for. For example, 2024 we did actually have a couple tornado outbreaks in this portion of the country, the Arbor Day tornado outbreak was probably the most prominent one. That was the first tornado outbreak we’d had here in about 10 years. That was coming off at El Niño, so I would say next spring might be the year that we really would want to watch out for more severe weather, including tornadoes, in this portion of the country.

Johnson: So these patterns last more than a year?

Hunt: El Niño tends to peak in what we call the boreal winter, so the northern hemisphere winter, so it probably would peak sometime between Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Valentine’s Day, and then would start slowly weakening as we head into next summer, and then it would maybe go back to more neutral conditions, or maybe even flip over to a La Nina, but the impacts from El NNiño do tend to stick around for a while, so I would anticipate starting to see some impacts from it. I think we’re already starting to see some impacts from El Niño development. I think they’ll pick up a little bit the summer, then they’ll really be noticeable, at least to a point, in fall, winter, and into next spring.

Johnson: What does an El Niño do to temperatures and precipitation?

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Hunt: We tend to get better chances of rain, so we don’t often have major drought development during a summer where we’re going in El Niño. We tend to get some precipitation. We also tend to be about average, maybe some cases a little bit cooler on temperatures. We can get some severe weather. Getting into the fall, I think we do tend to be a bit wetter and sometimes cooler than average in October. We often obtain those really mild winters during a strong El Niño by having a lot of days, the highs of the upper 30s to mid-upper 40s, lows in the maybe the low 20s in this part of the state, maybe further west it’ll be a little bit colder, so it’s not necessarily that just T-shirt weather. It often can actually be kind of damp and to some degree kind of miserable, but we just don’t tend to have as much of the 10 to 15 to 20-below air temperatures and really cold wind chills, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t necessarily get more snow than we’ve had in recent years, too. If we have more active weather patterns, we could certainly see some more snowfall, and for the western portion of the state and getting in the front range, I cannot stress how critical it will be that we actually have decent moisture this fall, going this next winter, because if we don’t, next spring, next summer may be even worse in that portion of the state and that portion of the country in general.

Johnson: How does El Niño affect agriculture?

Hunt: Well, in this part of the world, it actually tends to be favorable because we tend to get decent summer moisture during the summers we’re going into an El Niño, and often the year following, depending on how quickly we transition into neutral or La Nina. The next growing season can be decent, too, in terms of getting adequate spring moisture so we actually have good moisture, a decent reserve of moisture for the corn, soybean crop, wheat crops often do fairly well, sorghum would have a pretty good year. But elsewhere in the world though, El Niño can be a major issue, because El Niño does tend to cause more drought in places like Australia, Indonesia, India, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa can also be very dry, so there are some bread baskets that do tend to be kind of dry. One concern I do have is other parts of the world where you tend to have less industrialized agriculture than we have here. With regards to efficiencies, they’re more vulnerable to drought than we are here in the U.S., and I am very concerned about drought being a major issue in, say Kenya, India, parts of China this summer. I do think it’s possible we have to start maybe thinking about the possibility of famine. I don’t say that lightly, but if we do see what’s happened in some years, or we just have a very late onset of the monsoon in India, for example, we could be very, very dry in parts of Australia, so that may really impact some global staple crops like corn and wheat.

Johnson: To circle back to where we began before we end our conversation here. Eric, how do you know the day when you go to work that El Niño has begun?

Hunt: The most official way is NOAA and other global centers that follow sea surface temperature anomalies in the upper winds, the lower part of the atmosphere, say we are already a full blown El Niño. I believe we already have met the criteria for El Niño, but once they say it’s official, then it is truly official.

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Johnson: Happy El Niño to you, Eric.

Hunt: Thank you, Dale.

Johnson: Eric Hunt from the State Climate Office, joining me for the conversation on Nebraska Public Media. I’m Dale Johnson.



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