Progressive voter advocacy group to fund voter turnout in Nebraska

Progressive Turnout Project, a democratic-aligned voter contact group, is pouring funding into Nebraska’s voter turnout. Group President Alex Morgan said they believe Americans are fed up with Republican overreach and the time to get Democrat seats back is now.

“It’s a real opportunity for us to diversify the representation in the Nebraska delegation for the first time in a long time,” Morgan said.

Progressive Turnout Project has supported more than 2,200 Democrats since 2015 and raised more than $403 million. This year, Nebraska will be part of a $44 million investment in voter turnout around the country. The group hopes to reach more than 72,000 Nebraskan voters through door-to-door conversations, handwritten postcards and other strategies. Morgan hopes the push will flip a particularly narrow U.S. House of Representatives majority.

Morgan argued that President Donald Trump’s campaign was built on lowering costs, not engaging in wars and putting Americans first. He feels those promises have been broken.

“Voters across the country have seen that the Trump administration is not putting Americans first,” Morgan said. “We know in states like Nebraska, farmers have been hit disproportionately by these prices and it has ripple effects throughout your state and throughout your region. And so we know folks are hungry for different representation, a check on this administration and some balance in our democracy.”

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans hold a razor thin majority. Morgan harkened back to the 2018 midterms, in which Democrats broke a Republican majority. He feels this election can make a similar change in national politics.

In Nebraska, Morgan said Progressive Turnout Project will focus the bulk of its funding and campaign on the state’s second congressional district - a seat currently held by retiring Republican Don Bacon. It faces stiff competition between seven Democrat candidates who will face off with one Republican.

Progressive Turnout Project is a federal political action committee registered with the FEC. Morgan said it is required to disclose all of its donors.