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Nebraska 2nd District

9 FEC-registered candidates, campaign money through July 15, 2026, and direct links to every source.

Next vote
November 3, 2026
General election
$9.4M
Candidate receipts
$6.9M
Candidate spending
$2.7M
Cash on hand
$659
Verified influence monitor
Candidate money comparison

See who has money behind them.

Campaign filings, current-election outside spending, and career pro-Israel lobby history stay separate. “No verified” means this monitor has not attached a sourced amount, not that the amount is necessarily zero.

FEC records, ballot not verified

Denise Powell

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$2.7M
Cash
$997K
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

Brinker Harding

Republican · FEC registered
Raised
$2.0M
Cash
$1.1M
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

Donald J Bacon

Republican · FEC registered
Raised
$1.5M
Cash
$433K
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

John Cavanaugh

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$1.4M
Cash
$82K
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match
Verified outside support vs. campaign receipts0.0× receipts

Kishla Askins

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$902K
Cash
$0
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

James Leuschen

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$394K
Cash
$125K
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

Brett Lindstrom

Republican · FEC registered
Raised
$375K
Cash
$0
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

Crystal Rhoades

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$183K
Cash
$112
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match

Mark Edmund Johnston

Democratic · FEC registered
Raised
$10K
Cash
$0
Current support
No verified
Career lobby history
No match
Intervention ledger

Who intervened, for whom, and how much.

Each line is sourced. Cumulative totals describe a committee’s activity through the listed date, not a single payment.

FEC verified
$659
Broader reported context
None
April 27
Committees in the Gen Us monitor
$659
Oppose John Cavanaugh
FEC verified · Cumulative
Aggregate from the committees currently covered by the Gen Us monitor. The source data does not allocate this total across candidates.
Source records

All FEC campaign finance records

Includes records that may not appear on the verified ballot.

9 records ＋
Candidate
Receipts
Spent
Cash
Debt
Coverage
Denise Powell
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$2.7M
$1.7M
$997K
$75K
June 30
Brinker Harding
Republican · Challenger · FEC C
$2.0M
$964K
$1.1M
$0
June 30
Donald J Bacon
Republican · Incumbent · FEC C
$1.5M
$1.3M
$433K
$0
June 30
John Cavanaugh
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$1.4M
$1.3M
$82K
$0
June 30
Kishla Askins
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$902K
$902K
$0
$0
June 30
James Leuschen
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$394K
$269K
$125K
$0
June 30
Brett Lindstrom
Republican · Challenger · FEC C
$375K
$375K
$0
$0
July 15
Crystal Rhoades
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$183K
$183K
$112
$24K
May 31
Mark Edmund Johnston
Democratic · Challenger · FEC C
$10K
$10K
$0
$0
March 31

Outside spending monitor

$659

Verified independent expenditures by the pro-Israel committees currently covered by the Gen Us influence monitor. This is not a total of every outside group in the race.

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Primary
Held
May 12
General election
Up next
November 3
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