Peggy Belt

Live wildly and boldly. Love your crazy beautiful life! Retired HS language arts teacher and grandma extraordinaire who loves to travel!

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

We have far more in common with each other than with the political elites and billionaires trying to tear us apart #Independent #Nebraska

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo at Port of Arguineguín: “Human dignity has no passport, nor does it lose value when crossing a border.”

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

Two of the questions I get most often are: Why run as an Independent? Why run now?

It’s time to remind people of Nebraska’s history. 🟥🌽📖

Right now, we are living through the second Gilded Age. The corporate sellouts in Washington want you to believe we have no choice but to accept Wall Street buying up our homes and renting them back to us. They want you to believe there’s nothing we can do about Silicon Valley censoring our speech and shoving costly AI data centers down our throats. And they want you to believe that it’s inevitable for the defense lobbyists in Northern Virginia to ship our tax dollars abroad to fund endless wars while our local Main Streets wither and die.

They tell us an Independent can't win. They say we have to pick between Team Red or Team Blue or we’re wasting our votes.

But they forgot who we are. They forgot that Nebraskans have beat them before.

In the late 1800s, during the first Gilded Age, this country was similarly controlled by a handful of corporate monopolies, their wealthy owners, and the politicians they had bought. Regular people were entirely at the mercy of the steel, oil, and railroad tycoons.

Competition and innovation died, communities were ripped apart, and average Americans were squeezed to the point of desperation. Sound familiar?

Most people continued to accept the system. They voted the party line, blamed the other team, and stuck their heads in the sand. They looked left, they looked right, but they never dared look up.

Not Nebraskans.

Regular Nebraskans realized that neither major party was coming to save us. So, we didn't just complain or accept it—we revolted at the ballot box.

We overthrew the establishment by electing a massive wave of Independent and outsider candidates. We started by sending populists like Omer M. Kem and William A. McKeighan to the U.S. House of Representatives to disrupt Washington and putting insurgents like Silas A. Holcomb in the governor’s mansion.

Our rebellion produced the legendary Omaha Platform of 1892, demanding a complete dismantling of corporate monopolies and political reforms that put power back into the hands of ordinary people.

It scared the living hell out of both parties, and birthed a movement that forced the entire nation to take notice. And it worked.

To survive our uprising, both major parties were forced to start addressing the real needs of working people again. It’s the reason presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had to run—and win—on platforms that brought corporate monopolies and the political machines they had bought to their knees. And it’s why those politicians finally started keeping their promises. Because they knew we were watching.

History is repeating itself, and Nebraskans are rising up to save this country again.

The mega-corporations and foreign interests buying up our agricultural land, the tech elites controlling our data and stealing our way of life, and the war machine that is lining its pockets with our children’s futures think they are untouchable. They think Nebraska is just flyover country populated by people who will allow ourselves to be controlled by whoever spends the most on TV ads.

But they don’t understand how angry we are. And they don’t understand that we’re waking up.

I am running as an Independent because you cannot fix a corrupt system from the inside. We shattered the first Gilded Age right here in Nebraska, and saved this entire country from itself once. Together, we are going to do it again. ✊🌾

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

Together, we have far more in common with each other than with the lobbyists and corporate donors who try to tear us apart with identity politics and absurd culture wars. Im so excited to announce my first town hall tour. Every county, real people, real conversations. Let’s do this!
First stop: Norfolk!
📍 VFW Hall
🗓️ Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30 PM
See you there!

[Maren Angus-Coombs @Maren_Angus]

Jordy Frahm is a certified badass.

She was named USA Softball Player of the Year and NFCA Player of the Year while pregnant.

#WCWS #NCAASoftball #Nebraska

https://t.co/SZCZ3WMM94

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

"Truth is not a territory to be defended, but a good to be shared."

- Magnifica humanitas, 25

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'Rolling Stone' Magazine has hailed Pope Leo XIV as 'The Planet's Pope' after the publication of Magnifica Humanitas

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

The night show. 🎥

12,605 fans break the WCWS session attendance record ‼️

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

Admin signing off.

Sweet dreams, Husker Nation.

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

WALK-OFF WINNER.

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

A dazzling double play ✨

#WCWS x 🎥 ESPN / @HuskerSoftball

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

DOUBLE PLAY BIG RED. 😤

Husker bats are back up with Kuszak.

E6 | Huskers 2, Razorbacks 2

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

Today's the day.

🆚: Arkansas
📍: Devon Park
⌚️: 8:30 PM CT
📺: @espn
📻: @HuskersRadio

[The Plains Sentinel @Plains_Sentinel]

'Handing Mike Flood a Gift': Dems Defiant as Burbank Endorses Independent Ahlman
https://t.co/nwMEyTljrB

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

I spent the morning putting up neighborhood flags with a new but dear friend.

Our veterans, especially those who gave us their very lives, are examples to live by. We must never forget that acts of service and sacrifice are what keep a community and nation strong.

[HuskGuys @HuskGuys]

It's hard not to feel the unbelievable momentum across all sports at Nebraska.

Softball is headed to the College World Series. Baseball is hosting a Regional for the 1st time since '08. Hoops won their 1st tourney game and made a Sweet 16 run. Wrestling finished 3rd.

This momentum will absolutely continue for Football in the Fall

[Nebraska Baseball @HuskerBaseball]

The road to Omaha starts in Lincoln.

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

THIS TEAM.
THESE FANS.
THIS PLACE.

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

B̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶f̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶.
Best fans in the world.

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

A Republican from Stanton County who signed our petition today told me, “I know you’re LGBT, but I don’t really care, as long as you aren’t shoving it down my throat or telling me how to live.”

And that’s the thing—I respect everyone’s views, and I’m running to fight for everyone’s liberty to live their life the way they choose.

Too often, Democratic candidates condescend instead of looking for shared values. They are so wrapped up in identity politics that they will argue that a woman or a gay person simply can’t win, instead of taking responsibility for their message and how they’re treating the people they could be persuading.

Meanwhile, Republican candidates often exploit people’s fear and try to turn every difference into a threat. They emphasize the things that separate us, when the truth is working people of all stripes have far more in common than not.

We’ll never do either of those things. We’ll show up everywhere and respect everyone’s background and way of life. We won’t talk down to anyone or incite division. We’ll listen earnestly, find common ground, and unite people. And that’s why we’ll win.