Undercover Video Catches Nebraska Senate Candidate’s Union Boss Ally Bragging He Doxxed an ICE Agent Through Campaign Staffer

ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good on a Minneapolis street in January.

A federal union boss just bragged on camera about doxxing that same agent.

What he admitted on camera could carry a federal prison sentence of five years.

Hotopp's Own Words Put Him at the Center of a Federal Crime

Townhall Media obtained undercover video of Ruark Hotopp, the national vice president of the AFGE federal employees union's District 8.

Hotopp is no outsider to the government he claims to be exposing.

DHS hired him back in 2013 to work inside U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In the video, dated May 2026, someone asks Hotopp if he's talking about doxxing ICE agents.

He doesn't dodge the question.

Hotopp says the agent he doxxed is Jonathan Ross, the man who shot Renee Good after she used her car to try to run him down.

He calls Ross a former dues-paying member of his own union and sneers about catching him "on video shooting someone in the face."

Then Hotopp describes exactly how the agent's information got out.

"Alright, I'll take it from here, chief," Hotopp recalls a man named McCollister telling him.

Dan McCollister is Osborn's campaign communications director, and campaign finance records show he was on the payroll at the time of that exchange.

Federal law spells out precisely what Hotopp just admitted to on camera.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 119, publishing a federal agent's personal information with intent to threaten or facilitate violence carries up to five years in prison.

Hotopp didn't get tricked into saying any of this.

He laughed his way through it.

Renee Good is not some abstract case file to Hotopp, either.

She died trying to run over a federal agent with her own car, and Hotopp still talks about the man who stopped her like he's the villain of the story.

That inversion tells you everything about how the activist left has come to see law enforcement.

The agent who survived an attempted vehicular assault becomes the target, and the woman who tried to kill him becomes the cause.

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Osborn's Campaign Says It Knew Nothing About Any of This

McCollister denies any involvement once Townhall Media came calling.

He insists Osborn had no idea Hotopp ever had the agent's information.

That claim gets harder to swallow next to the photo of Hotopp standing at Osborn's campaign launch event, wearing an "Osborn For Senate" shirt.

AFGE endorsed Osborn back in December, and Hotopp personally praised him by name in the union's own release.

This isn't Osborn's first campaign headache of the year, either.

FEC filings reviewed by reporters show his campaign and affiliated PAC steered more than $350,000 to his own family members earlier in 2026.

A Senate candidate keeps ending up surrounded by people careless with the truth, and at some point that stops being bad luck.

It starts looking like a pattern.

Osborn built his entire brand on being the union mechanic who isn't a typical politician.

Nebraska's Democratic Party still endorsed him anyway, betting his working-class image can flip a Republican Senate seat that Trump carried easily.

A union vice president bragging about doxxing a federal agent, standing next to Osborn's own communications director, is exactly the kind of story that brand was supposed to prevent.

The Five-Year Felony Hiding in Hotopp's Own Words

DHS has been warning for more than a year that doxxing ICE agents is a felony, not a form of protest.

"We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a memo to federal prosecutors.

That warning has already produced real indictments.

Federal prosecutors indicted three California women after they livestreamed themselves following an ICE agent home and posted his address for others to see.

Federal agents also arrested a California man accused of posting an ICE attorney's personal information and directing followers to "swat" her.

Assaults on ICE agents have climbed more than 800 percent since enforcement ramped back up, and doxxing is the tool that makes those assaults possible.

Every one of those doxxing cases started the same way this one did, with someone convinced that publishing a federal agent's identity was activism instead of a felony.

AFGE represents federal employees across five states, and its own national vice president just modeled that thinking on camera.

That's not a fringe view inside parts of the labor movement anymore, it's apparently something a candidate's own inner circle jokes about.

Hotopp named the campaign staffer he says took the agent's information off his hands.

Nebraska voters now get to decide whether a Senate candidate whose own inner circle allegedly passed around a dead federal agent's file deserves a promotion to Washington.

Sources:

• Ward Clark, "Video Exposes Nebraska Senate Candidate Ally Bragging of ICE Doxxing," RedState, July 23, 2026.
• Kyle Olson, "Caught on Camera: Dan Osborn Ally Brags About Doxxing ICE Agent," Townhall, July 23, 2026.
• Catherine Salgado, "Nebraska Lefty Candidate's Ally Caught, Admits to Doxxing ICE Agent," PJ Media, July 23, 2026.
• Matt Finn and Michael Dorgan, "ICE Mask Debate Heats Up as Doxxing and Agent Assaults Surge," Fox News, July 17, 2025.
• The Center Square Staff, "Those Doxxing, Threatening ICE Agents, Arrested, Indicted," The Center Square, October 12, 2025.
• Alec Schemmel and Cameron Cawthorne, "Senate Hopeful With Deep Dem Ties Has Paid Family Over $350K From His Campaign Coffers," Fox News, February 19, 2026.