Our goal is to empower concerned Nebraskans to join together and make our collective voices heard. An initial focus will be to publish, in our local newspaper, a full-page, open letter to Nebraska’s Congressional delegation. The letter expresses our serious concerns about the authoritarian policies of the current Administration. The full-page ad will include the text of the letter and the names of approximately 600-700 local citizens who have endorsed it. The text of the letter is here. 

In the Lincoln area we should be able to collect the 600-1,000 signers that would fill a full-page ad without too much trouble.  Individually, we all know 10-20 people who share our concerns. Please use the online endorsement form that is available here to sign up today. Our you can download a PDF endorsement form, sign it yourself and return it promptly.  Then ask your friends, co-workers, and family members to join with you and other concerned Nebraskans in publishing our collective concerns.  It is a great way to start a non-threatening conversation with acquaintances about current policies.

We know that hundreds of thousands of Nebraskans have concerns about the threats to our democracy from the current Administration and its Congressional allies.  Polls, back in June, of Nebraska’s 1,258,588 registered voters found that over 40% (about 500,000) disapprove of Trump’s job performance. 

Our challenge is to help those 500,000+ Nebraskans who disapprove of the Administration’s authoritarian efforts to first, find each other, and then jointly develop ways to make our collective voices heard.  Such efforts will help us overcome our sense of personal isolation and exercise our collective power.   

Please consider using this online sign up link today. Or you can download the endorsement form here . The endorsement form is in a PDF format and can be easily printed or attached to emails and texts and sent to your friends, family and co-workers. Don’t delay too long if you, and your friends, want to be among those listed in this ad, because we expect those 600 to 700 names to fill up pretty fast.

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Sample text of a possible email or text message to a friend

(enter name of friend), I am sending you this note because I am very seriously concerned about the obvious authoritarian nature of the current Administration.  I feel the need to personally respond in some manner.  Therefore, I have decided to join with other concerned Nebraskans in adding my name to a local newspaper advertisement publicly expressing our concerns about this threat to our democracy.  This full-page ad will contain the names of approximately 600-700 Lincoln-area residents.  I thought that you might also be interested in this initiative.  You can find out more information at https://standupnebraska.org.  

 The online endorsement form is available here. Or I have attached an endorsement form in hopes that you decide you would also like to participate.  Please also consider copying the endorsement form​ and encouraging your friends to participate. ​ This one-to-one outreach will be the key to our success. 

 Please​ let me know what you think.