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Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell (R-5) announced he is fleeing the Democrat party to become a Republican, giving the GOP what U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) calls a “filibuster-proof majority” in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature.

Sen. Ted Budd introduced legislation to block Joe Biden from releasing oil from the SPR until he allows for American energy development.

Republican lawmakers demand the Biden administration fly the pro-life flag on the White House lawn during October’s Respect Life Month.

On Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen.-designate Pete Ricketts (R-NE) stated that small businesses are the key to job creation and need to be supported and argued that “big companies like regulation,” because their size allows them to handle the costs

Outgoing Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R), unable to run again due to term limits, announced on Tuesday that he would like to receive an appointment to the state’s U.S. Senate seat that will soon be vacated by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).

Twenty-two Republican governors, led by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, issued a letter slamming President Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” scheme, which would cancel up to $20,000 in student loans and cost taxpayers an average of more than $2,500 per year, according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) canceled plans for a special session of the state’s legislature because there was insufficient support from senators to ban abortions after 12 weeks.

Former Gov. Eric Greitens (R-MO) slammed “Never Trump politician” Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) for contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Show Me Values PAC, which was established to stop Greitens from securing the Republican nomination in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race.

Candidates backed by former President Donald Trump are now 58-1 in Republican primaries, as three Trump-endorsed candidates secured the Republican nominations in their respective races in West Virginia and Nebraska Tuesday, while one candidate came up short.

A hotly contested gubernatorial primary happening in Nebraska on Tuesday could put an end to former President Donald Trump’s current primary winning streak.

Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson (R) announced Thursday that he filed a lawsuit in Douglas County District Court aiming to stop Omaha’s temporary mask mandate.

As leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is trying to implement critical race theory “into every corner of campus,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) spoke to Breitbart News about why the ideology is so harmful and how conservatives can fight it in his state and nationwide.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) is standing up for American union workers, currently on strike against the Kellogg Company, urging the corporation to make “retaining your people” a priority.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) has taken on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) as he uncovered its hiring of a firm pushing UNL to incorporate the tenets of critical race theory into nearly all aspects of the university system.

During a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) called for the end of vaccine mandates.

Seizing on the fervor surrounding Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s unlikely victory in a blue state, Republicans across the country gearing up for the midterms are promising a major education reform push, focused on parental rights and educational standards.

Emails revealed a Nebraska board of ed member tapped a Planned Parenthood activist to advise in the drafting of a sex ed curriculum, though bureaucrats denied outside activists were involved.

President Joe Biden’s border chief should resign because his policies have created chaos, expanded illegal migration, and boosted drug deaths, GOP governors told an October 6 press conference in Texas.

A group of Republican governors visiting the Rio Grande Vally border with Mexico said the border crisis is also a drug crisis. The governors said the explosion of fentanyl and methamphetamine pouring across the unsecured border is killing young people all across the nation.

More Republican governors across the United States are publicly supporting President Joe Biden’s massive refugee resettlement operation out of Afghanistan which is set to bring at least 95,000 Afghans to the U.S. over the next year. 

During an interview on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” FNC’s Chris Wallace challenged Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) for opposing President Joe Biden’s mandate for the COVID-19 vaccine but not for other diseases.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” host Stuart Varney said President Joe Biden “really almost declared war” on unvaccinated Americans during his speech announcing his coronavirus vaccine mandates, and “many of those 80 million are

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) said that given the “disaster in Afghanistan,” and President Joe Biden’s previous statements that he didn’t support a vaccine mandate, the timing of his

DES MOINES, Iowa — Possible GOP presidential candidates are already hitting the would-be campaign trail in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire nearly three years before the first caucus-goers and primary voters will make their decisions on who should represent the Republican Party in the upcoming 2024 presidential race.

A group of 15 Republican governors sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo requesting the release of the Census data to be sped up due to the burdening the delay is causing on the redistricting process across the nation.

Utah’s 29 sheriffs signed a statement pledging to protect Second Amendment rights from federal gun controls.

President Joe Biden’s border policies have worsened nationwide humanitarian, housing, crime, and drug crises, says a letter released Tuesday by 20 GOP governors.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation Friday to protect the Second Amendment from new federal laws and regulations.

On Wednesday, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) declared Nebraska a “2nd Amendment Sanctuary State.”

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on Tuesday declined a request from the Biden administration to provide housing to migrant children in the state.

During Tuesday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) criticized the proposed coronavirus relief bill because it allocates stimulus funds based on unemployment rate rather than per capita.

Nebraska is loosening coronavirus restrictions in the state beginning Saturday, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) announced Friday.

“So most people have never built a positive economy,” Trump said. “We’re going to do it twice, and the second time is going to be better than the first.”

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Friday announced restaurants and several other businesses are allowed to restart operations on May 4 if they follow public health guidelines.

Vice President Mike Pence traveled on behalf of President Trump to flooding disaster areas in Nebraska on Tuesday.

Pipeline protest violence is the subject of a new North Dakota Republican Party ad hitting Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for not intervening to stop it.