Dan Osborn

Daniel L. Osborn (born March 29, 1975) is an American labor union leader and independent politician from Nebraska. After serving in the United States Navy, Osborn joined the Nebraska Army National Guard. While working at Kellogg's Omaha plant as an industrial mechanic, he eventually became president of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 50G and led the strike at Kellogg's Omaha plant in 2021. Osborn ran in the regular 2024 United States Senate election in Nebraska. He drew attention for his unorthodox, populist platform and his unusually high-level support as a moderate independent candidate in what is usually a strongly Republican state. Some polls showed him in a dead heat with incumbent Deb Fischer, but she won by 7 points. Osborn's performance was the best ever for an independent candidate in a Nebraska US Senate race. Split Ticket, a data-driven political analysis and forecasting site, wrote that his performance was the strongest relative to the partisan nature of Senate elections. In 2024, Osborn established the Working Class Heroes Fund, a political action committee (PAC) supporting working-class candidates. In 2025, he formed an exploratory committee for a potential run in the 2026 United States Senate election in Nebraska. On July 8, 2025, he entered the race as an independent, challenging incumbent U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts.