I made a video last weekend featuring some Nebraskan voices that I'd like to share with you now.

These are real Nebraskans expressing their support for Scott in their own words:

If you support the 50 State Strategy, I don't think I need to tell you that these Nebraskans are counting on you...

Last week, I traveled to Afghanistan to get a firsthand perspective of the situation on the ground. I arranged the trip with help from the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Center for Afghanistan Studies. The center is one of the foremost resources in our country for information and expertise regarding Afghanistan. I spent about a week in the country, and met with Afghans, Americans, and others who are dealing day-to-day with the delicate situation in this volatile region.

It's rodeo season in Nebraska.  Jake is a young cowboy who travels rodeo to rodeo trying to make a living and seeking a little bit of glory along the way.  While politics is not the main topic of conversation for folks in the rodeo community, it definitely does come up, especially this year.  Come listen to Jake and see what issues he is voting on this November while catching a glimpse of what it’s like to live on the rodeo road.

Come on over to my MTV Street Team page to check out the video

Working on Scott Kleeb's Senate campaign in Nebraska can sure be a work out! It's hard to keep up with Scott sometimes...

Here's a video I made explaining why:

I get so tired of people acting as if political party dictates the values of our citizens.  In my view, it might order those values, but there are some key issues that we all agree on.  Who do I mean by 'we all'.  Well check out this message board from an independent newspaper in Nebraska.  What is so amazing about this?  This is the most contentious message board you could probably find.  We've duked it out on poverty, healthcare, rape, abortion, religion, etc., ad nauseam.  But when it comes to the first ammendment and independent Nebraskans, 9 out of 10 agree.

Tomorrow night, as Nebraskan families sit down to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, my campaign is going to launch the first ad of the Senate general election cycle in homes across the state.

Significantly, we are going up on TV before my opponent. We will have the airwaves to ourselves, and we've crafted an ad to take advantage of the moment. This ad, called "Future," will introduce me to Nebraskans as a father and a candidate for United States Senate...

I'm sure most of you have seen the Republican Party's latest stunt on energy. If you haven't, here's a brief overview.

On Friday, after the House adjourned for its August recess, some House Republicans stayed after school to hold a pretend session of Congress. Some, like Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), John Boehner (R-Ohio), and Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), stayed on Friday to speak to an empty room and a handful of press - grandstanding that their partisan legislation on drilling was ignored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Others, like Lee Terry, Jr. (R-Neb.), used the opportunity to go back to their district for the weekend and place the blame for their lack of action on everyone else. Six years in the majority with a Republican President, and House Republicans were unable to come up with a solution to our energy crisis. Now, since they have impeded progress in the actual House of Representatives, Congressmen like Lee Terry are playing "make-believe Congress" instead of focusing on the concerns of their constituents.

Before you read anything else I have to say tonight, I'd like to invite you to take five minutes to watch a video:

This video says what I can't always find the words for myself: that this campaign is about something much bigger than just me or my opponent.  It's about the people we've met and the communities we've visited over these last several months.

The people of Nebraska are the heart and soul of our campaign.

When we launched this campaign, no one believed it would be easy. We knew that, this time, our opponent could not take this race for granted. We knew that he would attempt to distract the voters of this district from his ten-year record of failed leadership.

It's clear now that Lee Terry is frightened, and his campaign will say and do anything in order to win this race. He hired an east-coast political operative who is a master of dirty campaigning. He recruited our former primary opponent to head up a "truth squad" that is hardly interested in the truth. He has been spreading lies and disinformation on websites and blogs, all in an attempt to tear his opponent down so that he won't have to answer for his own record.

Dear Friends,

Incredible, simply incredible.  What we thought would take us a week turned out to take only a weekend.  We're happy to announce that due to the overwhelming response to our "Picture is Worth a Million Dollars" challenge, our campaign has now raised over one million dollars since February.

Help us keep the momentum growing!  Will you donate $35 to Scott Kleeb for Senate today?

For all that you've done to help us in that effort, I can only say: thank you.

Greetings from Austin Texas!

Some of you may recognize my new screen name already, others might need a hint...(most of you know me as "k/o.")

I'm here at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas in my new role working to elect Scott Kleeb for United States Senate in Nebraska. And, yep, this is the handle I'll be using as I tell you about Scott's campaign to give Nebraskans a vote for change this November.

Please add me to your hotlist and read on!

Dear Friends,

When I heard that we were closing in on our first million dollars raised, I started thinking about all the thousands of Nebraskans who have opened their homes and their hearts to this campaign.  And honestly, I just couldn't think of a way to say "thank you" enough.  So to mark this significant milestone, I've decided to offer a little something special to the donor who pushes us past the million dollar mark.

Please, join our community of supporters and contribute $500, $250, $100, or $25 today.

McCain:  I Can Win Here!

That was the headline of my local paper that greeted me this morning.  Do I live in Michigan or Wisconsin or a swing state?  No, the headline was from the Lincoln(Nebraska) Journal Star.  

In the 2004 presidential election, George Bush won 66 percent of the votes cast.  Kerry only hit 50 percent in one county which is located on a reservation.   In Lincoln and Omaha where a good share of the state's Democrats reside only yield 42 percent and 40 percent respectively for Kerry.

Hey there, this is Scott Kleeb's world-famous bodyman Kevin "Cheese" Bieging, here to provide you the thrilling conclusion to our four-day Panhandle Progress Tour here in Western Nebraska (make sure to check out part 1, part 2 and part 3).

First of all, I'd just like to apologize for the delay.  We had a big day yesterday, with news coming out that we outraised our opponent Mike Johanns for the second fundraising quarter.  The momentum for Scott Kleeb is building.  I know because I've seen it firsthand.

Jim Esch, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Nebraska's Second District, posted record second quarter numbers for a Democratic challenger in this district with $219,000 raised between April 1st and June 30th. 93% of the individual contributors this quarter are from Nebraska.

Esch ran for Congress in 2006 against Lee Terry, falling 9% short and delivering the best Democratic performance for a Congressional candidate in the Omaha-metro area for a decade. Terry has done absolutely nothing in ten years as a Congressman, only authoring one bill - to rename a post office.

It shouldn't come as any surprise, then, that Terry is afraid of losing this race.

Every State. Every race. Right here.

This is number 23 in a planned series of 50 entries between now and November, looking at each of the 50 states in terms of every race on that state's ticket--Presidential, Gubernatorial, Senate, House, State legislatures--the whole ear of corn. Special attention paid to identifying and promoting the most important contests per state.

This time, we look at NEBRASKA!

Dear Friends,

I wanted you to be the first to hear the good news: thanks to your contributions, our grassroots campaign has managed to shatter expectations and outraise our opponent, a former two-term Governor and Bush Cabinet member, for the most recent fundraising quarter. Make no mistakes about it - change is in the air here in Nebraska.

The Journal Star reports: "Democratic Senate candidate Scott Kleeb seems to be finding fundraising traction in this heavily Republican state, bringing in nearly $700,000 in the latest reporting period and besting Republican Mike Johanns for the first time."

For those of you just tuning in, this is Kevin "Cheese" Bieging, Scott Kleeb's very own personal body man, reporting to you live from the road out here in Western Nebraska.  

Yesterday was day three of our four day, fifteen event Panhandle Progress Tour (make sure to check out part 1 and part 2), and this time our travels brought us to the Oregon Trail Days celebration in Scottsbluff/Gering.  No sight-seeing today, just some good 'ole-fashion retail politics, with Scott making a lot of new friends and seeing a lot of familiar faces as well.