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Republican Lawyer, Mom, and Former State Senator living the dream in Southeast Nebraska ❤️🇺🇸💙

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10/05/2026

Family farms are the backbone of Nebraska's economy. They're also disappearing.

I'm a lawyer and former lawmaker- let's break down inheritance taxes and what they mean for the futures of family farms in Nebraska.

There are only five states left with an inheritance tax: Nebraska, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. All of Nebraska's neighbors have eliminated the inheritance tax, and it's easy to see why.

A multi-generational family farm can easily be worth several million dollars; all in land, equipment, and livestock. None of it in cash.

Problem one: even Nebraska's LOWEST inheritance tax rate- 1% for a child inheriting from a parent- generates a real bill. On a $5 million farm, that's over $49,000 (the first $100k in value is excluded from taxation). Due in cash, immediately. Most farm families don't have that sitting in savings. That 1% is often the difference between keeping the farm whole and being forced to sell acreage just to pay the tax.

Problem two, and it's getting worse: fewer Nebraska farms are passing parent to child anymore. The number of Nebraska farmers under 35 has dropped 75% since the 1980s, while the number over 65 keeps climbing. More family land is passing to nieces and nephews — the ones who actually stayed and worked the ground — because there's no direct heir left. That transfer isn't taxed at 1%. It's 11 to 13%. On a multi-million dollar farm, that's a six-figure bill, due immediately, on an asset that generates income seasonally, not on demand.

That's how you lose a family farm that's been in operation for generations- not because anyone wanted to sell, but Nebraska's one of the last states demanding a death tax.

Follow for more- I break down the policies actually shaping rural Nebraska. 🌾

Yesterday in Omaha, an illegal immigrant killed 70-year-old Christopher Szalkowski. Christopher was enjoying a sunny Sun...
10/05/2026

Yesterday in Omaha, an illegal immigrant killed 70-year-old Christopher Szalkowski.

Christopher was enjoying a sunny Sunday afternoon drive in his Porsche.

Jose Ortega-Romero is a Mexican citizen (without a U.S. driver’s license) who blew through a red light and killed him.

Crickets from the Defund ICE crowd.

10/04/2026

My kudos this week goes to the teammates at Cooper Nuclear Station, currently in the middle of their fall refueling outage.

Here's what that means: Cooper is the largest single-unit power generator in Nebraska, providing emission-free, around-the-clock electricity to the state. Every couple of years, the plant has to shut down entirely- to refuel the reactor and run every maintenance job that can't happen while it's operating.

To pull that off, NPPD brings in hundreds of additional skilled workers on top of its regular crew. Right now, many of those teammates are working six twelve-hour shifts a week to get it done, and get it done safely.

That's not a normal workweek. That's real sacrifice, especially when you figure in security and commute time.

So to every operator, technician, engineer, support worker, and family member grinding through toutage right now: thank you. Nebraska runs because you're willing to do the hard, unglamorous work most of us will never see.

Follow for more- I highlight the people actually keeping Nebraska running, not just the ones in the headlines. ⚡

10/03/2026

Lindsay Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, might get DISBARRED for his conduct.

I'm a lawyer, here to explain how Reddington's behavior has crossed both ethical and professional boundaries.

At trial, Lindsay Clancy's own lawyer told the jury she killed her children- he just argued she shouldn't be held responsible for it. At a hearing this week, in the same courtroom, in front of the same judge, he said the opposite: "Where is the evidence that she did this?"

Kevin Reddington spent a weekslong trial building an insanity defense- a defense that only exists with the concession that Lindsay Clancy committed the crime. Now, arguing for an outright acquittal, he's claiming prosecutors never proved she killed her kids at all. Prosecutors told the judge, bluntly, this is the first time the court has ever heard Reddington question the evidence itself.

And it's not just prosecutors calling this out. The holdout juror's own attorney told Fox News he believes Reddington has "lost his mind," accusing him of attacking the Sixth Amendment itself and vowing to file a bar complaint over how he's treated the juror who refused to acquit.

Here's what makes this even more serious: Reddington is already under investigation. The Massachusetts Office of Bar Counsel has an active disciplinary petition against him -separate from Lindsay Clancy- alleging he demanded an extra $50,000 on top of an agreed flat fee right before trial in another case. That investigation alone could end in public censure, suspension, or disbarment.

So here's where this all stands: Lindsay Clancy's attorney was already facing bar discipline, is now contradicting his own trial strategy in open court, while a second bar complaint over his conduct toward a juror is actively being prepared.

This is bringing serious professional risk down on Reddington's own practice.

Follow for more- I break down the legal chaos everyone else is just reacting to. ⚖️

10/02/2026

Euthanasia. Medical Assistance in Dying. Whatever you call it, I'm a lawyer here to talk about it.

Here's a question nobody wants to ask: why do the countries most eager to help sick people die are the same countries that refuse to execute murderers?

Take the Netherlands. Last year, a nearly two-year-old child with severe disabilities was euthanized. It was the first case under the country's expanded rules allowing children up to age 12 to be killed with parental consent. The child couldn't communicate. Couldn't ask to die. A government review committee concluded the doctor "handled it well."

And in Canada, an 83-year-old grandmother fighting stomach cancer explicitly told her doctors she did not want to be euthanized. Her family objected. Doctors moved forward anyway — while her family was on a scheduled vacation — and she died without ever giving verbal consent, silently clasping her hands in prayer.

Here's the pattern that should stop you cold: every single country that has legalized euthanasia- the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Spain, New Zealand, Portugal- has also abolished the death penalty entirely. Not one executes convicted murderers.

These governments have decided a convicted killer's life is too sacred to end, even after due process, a trial, and a conviction. But a two-year-old with a disability, or a grandmother who said no? Their lives are negotiable.

That's not compassion. That's a value system that protects the guilty and discards the innocent.

Follow for more- I call out the contradictions nobody else will. ⚖️

Just a thought. 💗
10/02/2026

Just a thought. 💗

Ever wonder why your taxes are so high?Government spending. It's always government spending.
10/01/2026

Ever wonder why your taxes are so high?

Government spending. It's always government spending.

10/01/2026

Christa Pike is still alive and Tennessee just botched its second ex*****on this year. I'm a lawyer and former lawmaker who supports the death penalty, here to break down what happened and what it means for this case and beyond.

Death penalties should not take three decades to carry out. Both botched ex*****ons in Tennessee this year stem from crimes committed in the 1990s. As the saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied.

Christa Pike was convicted for the brutal 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. She was injected twice last night with lethal drugs. Witnesses say she was still audibly breathing nearly an hour later — which, if everything was done by the book, should've been impossible. The process was halted, and Pike is now recovering in a Tennessee hospital. Back in May, the state tried to execute Tony Carruthers for a 1994 triple murder. That ex*****on failed when medical staff spent over an hour unable to find a vein, then attempted a central line in his chest. He's now on a one-year reprieve.

Here's the detail that should alarm everyone, regardless of where you stand on the death penalty: the same physician, Dr. Mark Fowler, oversaw both botched attempts.

I don't care about the suffering of these murderers — it's a fraction of what they inflicted on their victims. I care about what this means for the victims' families, who have waited over three decades for closure. Trials. Appeals. Decades of waiting. And when the state finally tried to carry out the sentence they were promised, they got confusion, delay, and a botched attempt instead.

Executions, in states where they're legal, are one of the most solemn duties of government. They shouldn't take 30 years. Lethal injection has been shaped by those hoping to end the death penalty altogether — not to provide these families the closure they were promised. I support states adding alternative methods — firing squad being one. These families don't deserve repeated, botched attempts that retraumatize them and show a lack of professionalism from the state.

Follow for more — I break down the legal stories that deserve more than a headline. ⚖️

Yikes.
10/01/2026

Yikes.

Today, the White House declared war on mosquitoes and ticks. 🦟This is the kind of large scale public health policy initi...
09/30/2026

Today, the White House declared war on mosquitoes and ticks. 🦟

This is the kind of large scale public health policy initiative that I happily endorse.

From West Nile to Alpha Gal and Lyme Disease, eliminating ticks and mosquitoes would be a generational win for public health.

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