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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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Gov. Jim Pillen calls for budget cuts, hiring freeze in new memo

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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Wednesday announced measures to further cut state spending, including a cut in state agency spending and a hiring freeze on most positions.

Pillen said in a news release that the measures are necessary after the state paid out $307 million more in state tax refunds than anticipated in fiscal year 2026, which ended June 30. Tax receipts have come in below projections in March, April and May, leading to a current expected deficit of $172 million.

That’s after lawmakers closed a $646 million budget hole in their most recent legislative session.

The governor has previously sought to cut spending to provide more property tax relief to Nebraska residents and had called for additional cuts during the current fiscal year.

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“I am pleased with the progress we have made, but I’m not satisfied,” Pillen said in a news release.

Accompanying the release was a memo Pillen sent to state agencies, boards and commissions in which he called on them to “exercise additional fiscal restraint.”

Among the measures outlined in the memo:

  • A freeze on creating any new positions or filling any vacancies without approval from the state budget office. The freeze does not apply to law enforcement or corrections positions.
  • A 5% reduction in budgets for all state agencies.
  • All agencies, boards and commissions must provide monthly cash flow projections.
  • Agency leaders are directed to “concentrate” on eliminating redundant processes, services regulation and aid programs.
  • Agency leaders are directed to reduce their agencies’ physical footprint and “consolidate teams and services.”

All state entities are required to submit their plans for reducing spending by the end of the month.

The memo also said agencies should “prepare for downward adjustments to appropriations” not only in the current fiscal year but also in the 2028 and 2029 fiscal years.



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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Nebraska’s lawsuit against Colorado over a proposed canal that would take water out of the South Platte River in Colorado and send it to a reservoir in Nebraska.

Nebraska claims Colorado is deliberately obstructing efforts to build the ditch, known as the Perkins Canal, even though everyone agrees Nebraska has the right to do so. The canal is necessary, Nebraska says, because Colorado isn’t sending enough water into Nebraska.

The Perkins Canal would divert water from the South Platte River near Ovid to a storage site somewhere in Nebraska. The South Platte River Compact, ratified by both states and Congress in 1923, requires Colorado to guarantee a flow in the river of 120 cubic feet per second at a water gauge near the state line during the irrigation season. The compact also authorizes Nebraska to build the canal and grants the right to use the power of eminent domain to acquire land on which to build it. Initial work was done on the canal more than a century ago, but the project was abandoned as unfeasible.

Nebraska resurrected the idea in late 2021, citing fears that urban development along Colorado’s Interstate 25 corridor and plans to expand water storage were causing Colorado to violate the terms of the 1923 compact. 

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The idea that Nebraska might actually build the canal has water users in the lower reaches of the river worried that doing so would disrupt the water augmentation process that underpins much of the crop irrigation along the South Platte, especially between Fort Morgan and the Colorado-Nebraska state line. It is designed to help Colorado meet the terms of the 1923 compact. 

Colorado land owners have resisted Nebraska’s efforts to buy land in the Julesburg area so the canal can be built. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Gov. Jared Polis, while recognizing Nebraska’s right to build the canal, have nevertheless sworn to do all they can to protect Coloradans’ property and water rights. Seeing such rhetoric as subverting Nebraska’s right to build, Nebraska sued Colorado in the Supreme Court in July 2025, alleging that Colorado is obstructing Nebraska’s efforts to go ahead with the Perkins project. Nebraska also attacked Colorado’s water augmentation system, saying it doesn’t work.

To understand augmentation, it’s important to know that Colorado operates on the prior appropriation doctrine, meaning the oldest (senior) water right holders get their water first. During dry periods, senior users may place a “call” on a stream, forcing junior users to stop taking water to ensure the senior rights are fulfilled. When someone pumps water out of a river basin, it eventually pulls water out of nearby streams and rivers, which can illegally shortchange senior surface-right holders. In that case, the junior wells would have to be shut down until senior rights were satisfied

To avoid such shutdowns, called “curtailment,” Colorado devised a system called augmentation in which the water that is pumped during the irrigation season must be replaced during the winter months so it flows back through the aquifer into the river in the following irrigation season. Some augmentation is done simply by buying water rights from upstream users, increasing the amount of water in the river. The system is highly complex and requires detailed accounting of river flows.

In a prepared statement issued last week, after the high court agreed to hear the case, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Colorado is in compliance with the compact.

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The court’s decision, he wrote, “merely opens the door for Nebraska to bring its claims against Colorado. Nebraska’s burden to prove those claims is incredibly high and we will vigorously defend Colorado’s full entitlements under the compact.”

Perkins Canal needed because Colorado is harming Nebraska

But Nebraska officials insist water augmentation isn’t doing what it was supposed to do. In its 55-page complaint to the U.S. Supreme Court, Nebraska calls the augmentation system illegal and a violation of the river compact.

“Colorado’s water administration system, including its augmentation plans, have harmed and will continue to harm Nebraska,” the lawsuit reads. “For example, many augmentation projects … allow junior well owners to pump water out of priority during the irrigation season, provided they pump or divert additional water during the non-irrigation season and apply it to recharge ponds. This method assumes that water will percolate back into the water table and make its way to the South Platte River in time to make whole downstream senior users.”

Kent Miller is general manager of the Twin Platte Natural Resources District, which includes most of the South Platte River in Nebraska. He’s said he’s watched the river since 1972 and is skeptical that augmentation even works.

“Those plans have not been working, and I base that on the fact that the Western Irrigation District rarely receives what it’s supposed to receive,” Miller said. 

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In May, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer filed an amicus brief with the high court recommending that the court allow the suit to go ahead, but with conditions. 

In its lawsuit, Nebraska addresses augmentation because of its complexity and insists that any mechanism Colorado uses to comply with the compact should be simple. In his amicus brief, Sauer recommended tossing the argument.

“Nebraska reads Article VIII (of the compact) as mandating that compliance mechanisms be ‘simple,’ and it alleges that Colorado has violated that requirement,” Sauer wrote. “But Article VIII imposes no such requirement; it merely authorizes Colorado officials to enforce the Compact without action by the Colorado legislature. Because Nebraska’s Article VIII claim is facially meritless, it should not be permitted to proceed further.”

Sauer further recommended disallowing arguments that Colorado is obstructing Nebraska’s efforts to build the canal, saying Nebraska offers no evidence of such obstruction.

In signaling its acceptance of the lawsuit on Monday, the Supreme Court said it wants to hear all of Nebraska’s complaints and let the justices judge for themselves whether parts of it lack merit. Colorado originally had 30 days to respond to the court’s action but, on July 2, requested a 60-day extension.

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Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood faces frustrated constituents at second town hall of year

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Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood faces frustrated constituents at second town hall of year


Some Nebraskans arrived early with signs outside U.S. Rep. Mike Flood’s second town hall of the year, hoping to press the congressman on issues ranging from food assistance to the conflict in the Middle East.

Rhonda Mays said she brought a sign to show Flood what some constituents think and to encourage others heading inside to speak up. “People walking by that plan on going in there need a reminder to speak out, to ask the right question, and don’t just go to listen but to actually challenge the representative,” Mays said.

Flood said Nebraskans are able to treat each other with respect while also having tough conversations.

During the hourlong event, attendees asked about a range of topics, including multiple questions about SNAP benefits. Some Nebraskans said there is a large population facing food insecurity. Flood responded, “I understand your concerns with SNAP I work often with the foodbanks and with Nebraskans that need assistance. I appreciate the question and I will double back with some of my sources when I get a chance this week, but I have not heard anything about that from any of my sources.”

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The crowd became particularly rowdy during discussion of the conflict in the Middle East. Flood said, “We have no greater ally in the middle east than Israel. We have no greater ally than Israel.”

Asked about the outcry after the town hall, Flood reiterated his position, saying, “Isreal was attacked by Hamas; a terrorist organization and horrific things were done to Israelis. At the same time Hezbollah working to do the same on the northern border and then you have the Houthis. Israel has the right to defend itself and we would as well if we were put in that situation.”

Flood holds three town halls a year. It was not known where his third town hall will be.

The town hall was held in Bellevue.



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