John Cavanaugh: Greedy self-dealing is destroying faith in Congress. Here's what I'd do about it

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John Cavanaugh 7 mins ago

If I’m elected to serve Nebraska in Congress, I pledge not to trade any individual stocks and will lead bipartisan legislation to ban congressional stock trading, so that members of Congress put working people’s interests above their own financial gains.

Americans have lost faith in Congress, and it is Congress’ fault. We look at Washington and see political fighting and posturing with very little progress. We see self-dealing and sweetheart deals for billionaires and corporations while members of Congress get rich off the stock market.

The self-dealing must stop.

Just in the last year alone, 129 members of Congress have personally traded nearly $600 million worth of stock.

FULL story at link above.

Original PAY link: https://omaha.com/opinion/column/article_3d698e9c-caa9-4d05-99f5-83f49542b094.html

The DU has raised OVER $3.5 MILLION for Democrat candidates over the years!

Our first 4 links for the 2026 mid-term cycle are in (Omaha) the Blue Dot.

Both Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, two of the leading election forecast publications, have upgraded their ratings for Nebraska’s 2nd District from toss-up to leans Democratic. Making it a likely candidate for big spending as the GOP attempts to maintain or bolster its small majority, and Democrats try to take back control.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2026-house/

The Cook Political Report wrote: “If Democrats don’t win Nebraska’s 2nd District next year, it’s almost impossible to see them taking control of the House.”


There will be at least 5 Democrats that will be running in the primary next May. The DU is neutral in all races between Democrats. That said, here are the four DU ActBlue links we have so far for the NE-2 primary Blue Dot race.

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Democratic Underground for Kishla Askins (NE-2) https://secure.actblue.com/donate/du4kishlaaskins

A fifth candidate (Evangelos Argyrakis) has no ActBlue page for a donation link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220506044

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