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Independent

Dan Osborn

Running for U.S. Senate — 2026 election

Raised · 2026 cycle

$5.8M

Source: FEC

Top PAC industries

Labor Unions · Education

By PAC dollars · Source: FEC

As of July 2026, Dan Osborn is a Independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $5,751,951 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. The largest identified industry sources of PAC money to the campaign are Labor Unions and Education. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.

Data last updated July 2026.

Dan Osborn, of Omaha, Nebraska, is running as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska's 2026 election, challenging Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts. Osborn served four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Constellation and worked as an industrial mechanic at the Kellogg's Omaha plant beginning in 2004. He later became president of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 50G and led a 77-day strike against Kellogg's in 2021 over the company's two-tier pay system. In 2024, Osborn ran as an independent against Republican Senator Deb Fischer, receiving 46.5% of the certified vote to her 53.2%.

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96% of fundraising comes from individual donors — one of the more grassroots-funded profiles in this cycle.

$5.8M

Total raised

$3.4M

Total spent

$2.4M

Cash on hand

Where the money comes from

Individual donations ≥$200$3.3M · 58%
Small dollar donations <$200$2.2M · 38%
PAC contributions$140K · 2%
Transfers from other committees$20K · 0%
Loans and other receipts$50K · 1%

Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.

Totals through 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC