What you can do
It’s Time to Clean House!
Over 2,300 Nebraskans, from over 150 Nebraska cities and towns, have signed an open letter calling for our members of Congress to honor their oath of office and defend our Constitution. We have published this call, complete with many of these names, in newspapers across the state. We have personally visited with our members of Congress and their staff and they have not responded to our call to Defend Our Democracy.
It’s Time to Clean House!
Help Us Spread the Message
Newspaper Ads. Help us spread the “It’s Time to Clean House” message via newspaper ads all across the state. $35 will buy 1,000 digital ad impressions*, $70 will buy 2,000 impression, $100 will buy 3,000 impressions, etc. *One digital impression is one banner ad (like above) showing up on one person’s laptop or phone screen. With just a $35 donation you can help 1,000 Nebraskans see this message. Click here to help us spread this message across the state with your donation.
Email. Everyone of us has at least 20-30 Nebraska friends, family and co-workers in our email contact list. Copy the “It’s Time to Clean House” image to the left and paste it into an email to these folks. This is so easy and it is great outreach. As part of you email message consider asking them to forward this email message to 20-30 of their friends, family and co-workers and include a hyperlink to this webpage (https://www.standupnebraska.org/act) Now you might reach 300 - 400 folks.
Social Media. Many of us have some form of personal social media platform (Facebook, Instagram, Tik-Toc, Snapchat, YouTube, etc.) through which we communicate and share with our friends. Please consider using the poster image to the left to post on you social media account and ask your friends to share your post. Please also consider including the hyperlink to this webpage. (https://www.standupnebraska.org/act)
Help Elect Pro-Democracy Public Officials
The Primary Elections are now over and Nebraskans now have five months to help elect public officials who will work with us to defend our democracy. The Stand Up Nebraska Campaign leadership, after consulting with other pro-democracy activists, has compiled and shared their reflections on key upcoming election campaigns. For your consideration, their thoughts and suggestions are available here.
Now that the Primary Elections are over, the candidates for November’s General Election are now fairly clear. Therefore, some considerations and actions related to specific election campaigns are warranted.
First Congressional District Action Suggestions
Second Congressional District Action Suggestions
Third Congressional District Action Suggestions
Help Elect Pro-Democracy Public Officials
The Primary Elections are now over and Nebraskans now have five months to help elect public officials who will work with us to defend our democracy. The Stand Up Nebraska Campaign leadership, after consulting with other pro-democracy activists, has compiled and shared their reflections on key upcoming election campaigns. For your consideration, their thoughts and suggestions are available here.
Now that the Primary Elections are over, the candidates for November’s General Election are now fairly clear. Therefore, some considerations and actions related to specific election campaigns are warranted.
First Congressional District Action Suggestions
Second Congressional District Action Suggestions
Third Congressional District Action Suggestions
Highlight the Threats to Our Democracy
Helping to elect pro-democracy candidates is important. But it is also important that we continue to highlight the on-going threats to our democracy. We can do that by :
Placing “Defend Our Democracy” signs in your yard along with candidate’s yard signs,
Being a visible pro-democracy presence at election campaign events with signs and banners and asking questions of the candidates regarding their positions on threats to our democracy and their oath of office,
Writing letters-to-the-editor or opinion pieces for local newspaper,”
Reaching out to your friends and co-workers personally or through social media or email and urge them to consider joining you and the 2,300 Nebraskans who have endorsed the “Defend Our Democracy” open letter.
Your support and input is critical to our success.
The Stand Up Nebraska Campaign is a grassroots campaign entirely “staffed” and funded by volunteers. A report on what we have been able to accomplish with your support is available here. Every project we undertake is supported and funded by concerned Nebraskans like yourself. With no paid staff, all our funding goes to directly support our outreach and organizing projects. Please use the online donation form to help make this on-going outreach and mobilization effort a success.
Yard Signs
The Stand Up Nebraska Campaign has designed and distributed over 400 yard signs. Place one of these signs in your yard, along with a candidate’s sign, as one more way to make your concerns seen and heard. These custom designed yard signs may be ordered here.
Supporting Elections
Here are some ideas and links to go to if any of these activities sounds right for you.
Sign up to be a poll worker. Most urban counties have an election commissioner whose office is responsible for recruiting and managing poll workers.
Volunteer with the election protection program. Civic Nebraska is a non-partisan organization and this effort involves a brief training, and then on election day watching for and reporting violations of voting rules, https://civic-nebraska.vomo.org/opportunity/election26
Volunteer for voter registration efforts (Civic Nebraska, or political parties)
Volunteer for non-candidate-specific Get Out the Vote Campaign Efforts (League of Women Voters)
Publicize Vote 411, https://www.vote411.org/, People can register to vote, learn what will be on their ballot, and check their registration.