Vote for Women’s Reproductive Freedom A message from women farmers of the Heartland Nov 7, 2022 (Neligh, Nebraska) – Farmers in support of Women’s Reproductive Freedom etched a giant 33-acre crop art image depicting a free woman on a rearing horse surrounded by the words ‘Vote Freedom’ with the woman’s symbol serving as the o […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 22, 2021 Contact: Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska, jane@boldnebraska.org NEW NYT AD: Pipeline Fighters Thank President Biden for Rejecting Keystone XL, Ask Him to Keep Going, Reject All Trump Pipelines Farmers, Ranchers and Tribal Nations threatened by KXL applaud President Biden basing his decision on science, honoring treaties, respecting property rights and […]

Landowners’ attorney Brian Jorde with Domina Law Group will provide a legal update, and answer questions from landowners who were recently served eminent domain condemnation lawsuits from TransCanada. Bold’s Jane Kleeb and Tom Genung from the Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT) will also discuss the State Department’s new draft Environmental Impact Statement for KXL, and […]

You may have already heard, but TransCanada just filed new eminent domain claims in court against 90 Nebraska family farmers and ranchers — including my family — who refuse to give up our land for this foreign corporation’s Keystone XL tarsands export pipeline. [1] TransCanada has been bullying my family and other Nebraska landowners for […]

CANCELLED: Update Oct. 25th: We’re sorry to announce we must cancel this year’s Harvest of Sacred Ponca Corn event scheduled for next Saturday, Nov. 2nd. Due to climate-impacted Nebraska weather this year, the corn yield was extremely small. We’re all sad to miss our annual tradition and coming together on the Tanderup farm this fall. […]

(Written by Lincoln resident Mary Anne Andrei) Back when smaller was better, Christa Yoakum spent her childhood days at a one-room, white clapboard schoolhouse on Haines Branch, a tributary of Salt Creek that winds through prairie and farmland just outside of Lincoln. She remembers science classes spent wading into the water to explore its aquatic […]

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We can stop Keystone XL and #FlipThePSC by electing Christa Yoakum to the Nebraska Public Service Commission.  In 2017, the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) reached a contested 3-2 decision to approve a “Mainline Alternative Route” for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.  Two of the seats on the Commission who were “yes” votes, to approve the […]

We can stop Keystone XL and #FlipThePSC by electing Christa Yoakum to the Nebraska Public Service Commission.  ACTION: Volunteer to make calls or knock doors to #FlipThePSC In 2017, the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) reached a contested 3-2 decision to approve a “Mainline Alternative Route” for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline.  Two of the seats […]

“I don’t think it’s a big deal.” —Dan Watermeier, on accepting campaign contributions from TransCanada, backer of proposed Keystone XL pipeline project that may come back up for a vote before the Public Service Commission (Associated Press, May 29, 2018) Dan Watermeier, the former state legislator and now Republican candidate for Nebraska Public Service Commission, […]