Dan Osborn Is Ready to Mount an Even Bolder Campaign Against Our Billionaire-Dominated Politics

The Nebrascus steam fitter Dan Osborne, whose unexpectedly strong independent US Senate campaign attracted public attention in 2024, is running once again against political corruption bought by Republican senators as well as billionaires.

Osborne’s name will appear on the independent voting line in November 2026. Pete Ricketts. But in many ways, the real target of former union leadership candidates is the corruption of American democracy, which allowed filthy, abundant campaign donors to buy influence within both major parties. “I’m tired of being ruled by billionaires who don’t know what life is like for ordinary workers,” says Osborne, expressing frustration among Americans struggling to pay the bill while a new class of oligarchs accumulates so much wealth. The world’s first sign. That volume of discussion rose considerably last week After the council passes The so-called “one big, beautiful bill” passes a very rich tax deduction while robbing funds for Medicaid and hunger-fed programs.

One of the Republican senators who led the support The biggest transfer of wealth in US history It was Rickett, The eldest son of billionaire Joe Ricketts. After appointing himself to the Open Senate seat in 2023, Pete Trickets is preparing to seek a six-year term in 2026. Family teacher It has long been linked to high-stakes investment and financial speculation, and is the perfect opportunity to expand the already enormous wealth of billionaires class. It doesn’t sit correctly with Osborne. Osborne expresses his concern, saying, “I don’t think private lenders should run the American economy.” Simple questions: “Do you really think Pete Ricketts, who has attracted billions of people through financial speculation, wants to hold him down on Wall Street?”

Osborne bets that Nebraskan agrees with him and rejects the absurdity of giving one of America’s most identifiable rich people a long opportunity to make the rich rich. So, veteran union activists It was announced on Tuesday That he challenges the incumbent senator. And unlike when he began his 2024 bid, he ultimately won him 47% of the votes against state Republican Sen. Deb Fisher, political observer and Nebraska voters.

“I feel like I still have a desire for brand politics… I believe we still need more champions for those who work to make a living. Nation In an exclusive interview before his presentation.

True to his Nebraska upbringing, Osborne may be a bit of a reserved understatedness about the growing appeal of his unappreciative economic populism. The fact is that since Democrats lost their presidency and Congress in 2024, interest in Osborne’s political brand has been growing in the campaign that has been widely accused of not putting enough emphasis on working class concerns. That’s because he accepts that both major parties have not been able to stand firmly on the side of working Americans of all races, backgrounds and regions.

Osborne is leaning towards his populism as he prepares to challenge his privileged son in 2026. [the empty promise that] “The billionaires are going to save us,” Trickle Down Economics, everything that doesn’t work, feels like we’re in the race to the bottom, and these guys are just [creating a situation where there is] The migration of wealth is at the top. They carve it for themselves. ”

That reality has been well shown in the first few months of Donald Trump’s second term. The billionaire president has clung his cabinet with other billionaires and temporarily handed over the federal restructuring. Elon Musk, The wealthiest man in the world. For tens of millions of Americans, the harsh evidence of elite self-dealing and corruption has created an insatiable hunger for politics that challenges the power of billionaires. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who spoke enthusiastically about Osborne’s populist approach, recognized the increased frustration among Americans in general, and Nebraskan in particular. When he began his national “Battle Oligarchy” tour in Omaha. And the biggest political tale of Trump’s second term in the first few months was the overwhelming rejection of “investment” of more than $25 million in Wisconsin Supreme Court’s campaign to support conservatives of Chip Trump. ”

Senate speaks quickly to approve Massive tax cuts for the rich, Osborne observed that on an understatement scale – in 2026, it was a very good year for billionaires to make their pay for fair shares, raise workers’ wages, remove barriers to organizing unions, and campaign on a platform focused on helping family farmers stay on the land, protect small businesses on Main Street, and helping to support the veterans who served when large veterans served. He led the prominent 2021 strike at Grain Millers International Union Local 50G and the vast Kellogg factory in Omaha.

The prominent he achieved as a leader in the strike led Nebraska union activists and their allies to urge Osborne to run for the Senate in 2024. The fact that he held a dynamic campaign that almost defeated Fisher; Veteran Republican politicians with deep roots in very red states have shaken up Nebraska’s politics and brought out considerable national interests. Not only was Osborne support for abortion rights, expressing skepticism about gun control measures, as an independent mix of his economic populism and somewhat libertarian approaches to many hot button issues, but he was not just about denounced what he called the “two-party fate loop.” His message was related to the entire partisan line with Nebraska voters who gave Fisher a six-point margin, as opposed to Trump’s 20-point victory. The 2024 campaign made Osborne famous across Nebraska, giving him something unusual for an independent candidate, a network of supporters across the state.