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Candidates › MI-07 race › 2025–2026
William Lawrence
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, MI-07
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Won the general electionNov 3, 2026 · 138,575 votes (49.4%)
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Make housing affordable
- Guarantee healthcare
- End homelessness
- Care for our mental health
- Tax the billionaires
- Money
- $4.2M raised, $3.5M spent, $629K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 24% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 47% from Michigan · largest committee giver WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC, $10K
- Outside groups
- $2.1M supporting, $6.1M opposing Lawrence
- Backed by
- Michigan AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · Social Security Works and 43 more. As the campaign lists them
- Polling
- 53% in the latest poll (Emerson College). The polls
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The rent is too damn high! So is the cost of a mortgage. If you aren’t personally dealing with high housing costs, your kids probably are.
We need major federal investment in quality housing, at all price points. I am particularly excited about the mixed-income housing model that has been pioneered in Montgomery County, MD, and is now being adopted around the country.
I also support a federal tenant bill of rights that would level the playing field between tenants and price-gouging landlords. Many of our worst landlords are owned by Wall Street firms and have no commitment whatsoever to our communities.
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We pay more for our healthcare than any other nation in the developed world, while receiving worse care, and living shorter lives. Big Pharma gets rich from pushing pills, while Big Insurance gets rich by denying us care.
Tom Barrett voted to kick up to 700,000 Michiganders off of Medicaid. The ripple impacts of these cuts will raise healthcare costs for all of us.
Our healthcare technology is a marvel of modern science and engineering. I am deeply grateful that my family members have benefited from chemotherapy, heart bypasses, and other life-saving treatments. Every family deserves the same standard of care. I support Medicare for All, which would remove the profit motive from health insurance and allow us all to access quality care, for a lower price.
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It’s a disgrace that in the richest country in the world, nearly a million people are without homes, and millions more are teetering on the edge. We have experienced a noticeable rise in homelessness in Mid-Michigan since the pandemic.
Ending homelessness requires more affordable housing, as well as rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. I support a “Housing First” approach, because having housing is the essential condition to rebuild a stable life.
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Social media and AI misinformation has fractured our reality and is literally driving people insane. Economic and political insecurity also cause deep worry about the future. Our kids, our elders, and everyone in between are struggling with isolation, depression and anxiety.
Billionaire-aligned Republican politicians are making the problem worse by cutting essential mental services, such as the steep proposed federal cuts to the VA, and local cuts to Community Mental Health being pushed through in Eaton County.
Defending existing mental health programs is the baseline. Moving forward, we need a district-wide conversation about what’s driving us mad, and what would make us whole and healthy. This will require investment in community, in care, and a genuine collective effort to re-stitch the social fabric.
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You and I pay a higher tax rate than billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg who are poisoning our politics and destroying our democracy.
Taxing the billionaires would pay for all of the basic goods that the people of this district deserve. I support a billionaire minimum tax, which is a minimum wealth tax rate that the mega-wealthy must pay. (Don’t feel bad for Elon — he’d still be rich even after the tax.)
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Unions are proven to increase wages, benefits, and job security. Workers in the 7th District, from coffee shops to warehouses and manufacturing plants, are working to form unions to improve their conditions, but retaliation from CEOs makes it an uphill climb.
I support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which lowers barriers to unionization by holding corporations accountable for labor law violations.
I’ve walked on the picket line with GM and Starbucks workers in the 7th District, and I will always stand with labor as your representative.
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Michigan State University is one of the cultural and economic centers of the 7th District. Its undergraduate programs were once a ladder to a good life for young people across Michigan. Its science research, graduate programs, and international programs have made it a globally renowned institution.
Now MSU is under attack from the billionaires and bullies in the Trump administration, enabled by Tom Barrett.
We need to defend the political independence and long-term funding of Michigan State and other public universities across the country. Public universities actually make America great.
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Our seniors worked their whole lives and paid into social security with the promise they would be able to collect in their retirement. Now the billionaires are trying to break that promise.
Trump and Musk’s DOGE has been pushing cuts to social security to make it less responsive. They want to weaken the program now, so they can kill it later.
I support lifting the payroll tax cap, which would guarantee social security for our seniors now, and all of us in the future.
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I learned about climate change when I was 12 years old and spent the next 18 years working to stop it. I saw first-hand how Big Utilities have sabotaged the clean energy transition so they can keep getting rich off our monthly gas and electric bills.
A stable climate is the foundation of our economy and way of life. Michigan’s lakes are suffering from rising temperatures and pollution. Michigan’s farmers are uncertain when the last freeze will come, or when the rain will arrive. Mount Brighton isn’t open as many days as when I skied there in high school.
I will be among the most knowledgeable and dedicated members of Congress on water, climate and energy policy. I will fight for investment to secure the climate we depend on, adapt to the changes we can’t prevent, and finally drive our electric bills down.
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Billionaires are attacking our public education system because an educated population is an empowered public. We need to stand strong for the principle of public education at every level.
In our K-12 schools, we need to take a firm stand for the value of literacy, against encroachment by the AI corporations who are eroding our ability to read, write, and think for ourselves.
In higher education, we need to not only support 4-year universities, but community colleges and trade schools as well. A blue-collar education in the trades is the best path to a middle-class life for many of our young people and it should be encouraged, especially if the alternative is taking on debt.
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As a nation, we spend a trillion dollars every year to enrich military contractors and drop bombs, while robbing ourselves of real security here at home. Every dollar we spend blowing things up and killing people abroad is a dollar we don’t spend building housing and caring for people at home.
The damage caused by militarism is not only economic, but ethical. I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1967: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
The United States must work for peace around the globe, rather than pursuing escalation. Most urgently, we must stop arming Israel, which is pursuing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with U.S. weapons and tax dollars.
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Big Tech is coming for every last second of your attention, and every last bit of your data, so they can package it and sell it. They are strip-mining our attention, and degrading it in the process. The impacts on our mental health, our community life, and the job market are already severe. There’s also the huge invasion of privacy from 24/7 surveillance.
We need to squarely face the negative impacts of AI and surveillance, and question whether we want Big Tech making the biggest decisions about our shared future. I don’t have the answers here, but I know the question needs to be asked.
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