Yesterday, we told you about the Nebraska State Senator who removed the portraits of the founding fathers from the PragerU exhibit. Today, she is 'explaining' why she did it. This should be good.
Nebraska state senator caught on video removing Founders’ portraits defends actions https://t.co/V980oSqJH2 pic.twitter.com/BV0TBUq9Ei
— New York Post (@nypost) January 9, 2026
A Nebraska state senator caught on video removing portraits of America’s Founders from a hallway in the state Capitol is defending her actions.
Democratic State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh was shown on Capitol security footage taking down portraits from an exhibit celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.
The exhibit was provided by conservative nonprofit PragerU and included images of signers of the Declaration of Independence and prominent women in American history, according to Gov. Jim Pillen, who criticized the lawmaker’s actions.
“Celebrating America during our 250th year should be a moment of unity and patriotism, not divisiveness and destructive partisanship,” Pillen wrote in a post on X. “I am disappointed in this shameful and selfish bad example.”
Cavanaugh told KETV7 Omaha that she removed the portraits because she believed they violated the rules and regulations of the State Capitol and did not believe they had been approved.
She cited Rule 4.07, which limits displays to the first-floor rotunda for a one-week period in most cases and prohibits leafleting within the state Capitol or on its grounds.
“I don’t even know what the pictures were. I wasn’t really paying attention as I was taking them down. I just took them down,” Cavanaugh said, denying her actions were political. “I will say that I know that the picture that he tweeted is not one of the ones that I took down, because I saw it in a different hallway.”
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She claims she was just really concerned with an obscure rule and she didn't even look at what she was taking down. If you believe that, you are pretty gullible. Or dumb.
There’s no defending doing something that wasn’t necessary and wrong on so many levels! Her dad was a legislator, and her brother currently is a Senator. Complete embarrassment!! Not “Nebraska Nice”!!! https://t.co/4uRBJ8Woz1
— Lynns (@LaChewieLynns) January 9, 2026
It's actually very 'Nebraska Naughty'.
Just ban all women and people who want to be women for like 4 years. Just to really sort everything out https://t.co/yZky0fXv9v
— Radec (@Katorga8) January 9, 2026
At this point, that seems fair.
🤦🏻♂️ can the left be normal for 5 minutes?? https://t.co/rVEH3Mfsru
— Red Mammoth Victory Alliance (@TeamRedMammoth) January 9, 2026
It seems impossible.
Today's modern left is full people who are true revolutionaries that believe our entire history and system of government needs to be torn down and replaced. The only effective way to accomplish that is to swap out past notable figures for new Party approved figures. https://t.co/WuopCTp6LY
— Thomas Schumacher (@SchumacherTommy) January 9, 2026
Sounds kind of like Commies.
Told you they wouldn’t stop at just Civil War monuments….. https://t.co/nQA4fSC6LZ
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 9, 2026
Every female librarian - and many control sizable budgets - is like this https://t.co/muUMe6DogP
— Ted Kottler, Bookseller (@TKottler59216) January 9, 2026
Very true.