Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Nebraska 2nd Congressional District in 2026 Nebraska Primary Election.
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Get StartedAbortion is healthcare. Melanie will fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians — not doctors — are never in the exam room. No exceptions, no apologies. Learn more
Melanie will be an unapologetic champion for LGBTQ rights — advocating for the Equality Act, protecting trans youth from cruel anti-transgender legislation, and ensuring every person can live openly without fear of discrimination. Learn more
She supports direct reparations payments to descendants of enslaved people, alongside targeted investment in Black communities, as a moral imperative and a down payment on the promise of equality America has never fully kept. Learn more
She supports strong procedural protections for families navigating courts, child welfare, and public institutions — and extends that same commitment to juvenile justice, where young people are too often processed through a system with few safeguards and little transparency. No family, and no child, should be left without a voice, a lawyer, or a fair hearing. Learn more
Melanie supports ending qualified immunity, establishing strong civilian oversight of police, banning chokeholds and no-knock raids, and investing in community-based mental health crisis response as an alternative to armed police for non-violent situations. Learn more
The United States incarcerates more people than any nation on earth. Melanie supports ending mandatory minimums, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions, abolishing private prisons, and investing in rehabilitation over punishment. Learn more
Melanie supports full federal legalization of cannabis, automatic expungement of all past convictions, and a tightly regulated industry with strong consumer protections, product safety standards, and guardrails against corporate consolidation — ensuring that the legal market is built with equity at its center so that the communities most harmed by prohibition are first in line to benefit from legalization. Learn more
The student debt crisis is crushing a generation. Melanie supports broad student debt cancellation and tuition-free public college and trade school — because your zip code and your family's wealth shouldn't determine your access to education. Learn more
Childcare costs are a second mortgage for working families. Melanie supports universal, free pre-K and subsidized childcare for all families — so parents can work and kids get the strong start they deserve. Learn more
The climate crisis is an existential threat — and our greatest economic opportunity. Melanie supports a Green New Deal that creates millions of good-paying union jobs in renewable energy, rebuilds our infrastructure, and delivers environmental justice to frontline communities. Learn more
She supports an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to U.S. Military aid to Israel until international law is respected, and a genuine two-state solution that guarantees security, dignity, and self-determination for both Palestinians and Israelis. Every people deserves to live in freedom and peace on their land. Learn more
Melanie believes unequivocally in Palestinian sovereignty and self-determination. She views the decades-long occupation, blockade, and systematic displacement of the Palestinian people as a profound injustice — and the ongoing military campaign in Gaza as a humanitarian catastrophe that the U.S. Must not fund or enable. Learn more
She will fight to claw back the war powers that have been handed to the executive branch over decades, end the blank checks to the Pentagon, and redirect those resources to healthcare, housing, and the needs of the people who actually pay for them. Learn more
The United States must stop waging — or funding — wars that Congress never authorized and the American people never consented to. Melanie opposes any military action against Iran or any other nation without a formal declaration of war from Congress, period. Learn more
Our democracy is being bought. Melanie supports overturning Citizens United, public financing of elections, and a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists. Government should work for people, not billionaire donors and corporate PACs. Learn more
Healthcare is a human right, full stop. Melanie supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays — covering every American for medical, dental, vision, and mental health care. Learn more
Housing is a human right, not a commodity for hedge funds to profit from. Melanie supports massive investment in public and affordable housing, a national rent stabilization framework, and cracking down on corporate landlords and private equity buying up homes. Learn more
ICE as it currently exists is a instrument of fear, family separation, and racial profiling — not public safety. Melanie supports abolishing ICE and replacing it with a humane, accountable immigration enforcement system that respects due process and the dignity of every person. Tearing families apart and terrorizing immigrant communities is not who we are as a nation. Learn more
Melanie supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, protecting DACA recipients, ending family detention, and treating asylum seekers with dignity. Immigrants are our neighbors, our coworkers, and the backbone of our communities. Learn more
Billionaires and corporations must pay their fair share. Melanie supports a wealth tax on fortunes over 10 million, closing corporate tax loopholes, and ending the era of the ultra-rich rigging the system while working families struggle. Learn more
Melanie will fight to expand — not cut — Social Security benefits and make the program solvent for generations by lifting the payroll tax cap so the wealthy pay the same rate as everyone else. Retirement security is a promise we must keep. Learn more
Unions built the middle class. Melanie strongly supports the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to organize, abolish right-to-work laws, and ensure every worker has the power to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions. Learn more
No one working full time should live in poverty. Melanie supports raising the federal minimum wage to 20 an hour, indexed to inflation — so workers in Omaha and across the country can afford rent, groceries, and a dignified life. Learn more
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