Dan Osborn has built his entire campaign on a single lie — that he's a blue-collar outsider beholden to nobody. Here's what his donors, his FEC filings, his own staff, and his own recorded words actually reveal.
The full library of our ads exposing Dan Osborn’s record — his donors, his payments to himself, and his own words.
Audio from a private July 2026 meeting with Latino and Black Democrats — first reported by Politico Playbook — catches Osborn calling President Trump’s border wall “a symbol of racism” that “does nothing,” and conceding his past support for it was about “trying to win votes in a Republican state.” Plus footage from a September 2026 campaign stop in Sidney, where Osborn tells the room he is open to packing the Supreme Court, and hot-mic audio released in September 2026 in which he says rural Nebraskans who back President Trump just know they are “on the winning team” and that “their lives probably suck.”
"So you know, my politics are plastic. They're malleable. I can change as I go and as people change my mind."— Dan Osborn, in his own words · That's Based Podcast · May 2024
The host committee includes Dana Chasin — named in the Epstein files — and former Congressman Ron Kind, who rented his properties to massage parlors advertising sex services on "RubMaps," "AssortList," and "BodyRubsMap." Osborn organized this event and only cancelled it after Politico broke the story. His advisor Bob Kerrey — who resigned from a separate board amid Epstein fallout — publicly stood by the co-host.
Dan Osborn is not who he says he is.
He never was. Nebraska deserves better.