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Candidates › WI-07 race › 2025–2026
Fred Clark
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, WI-07
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Wisconsin US House 7
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Fairness
- Responsibility
- Innovation
- Border Safety and Immigration
- Health Care for Everyone
- Money
- $863.8K raised, $602.9K spent, $260.8K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 26% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 88% from Wisconsin · largest committee giver JANE FONDA CLIMATE PAC, $9.5K
- Outside groups
- $10 supporting Clark
- Backed by
- David Obey · Angela Stroud · Jim Paine and 43 more. As the campaign lists them
10 priorities from clarkforwi.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
A level playing field.
One of the single biggest reasons why so many people are struggling today is because the largest corporations and the wealthiest people in our society aren't sharing their record profits with the very people who make those companies successful and they're not paying into the tax base that helps support our communities. That model is not working for you and it's not working for your neighbors.
Leveling the economic playing field and making it fair is essential - because if we don't tackle economic fairness then we can't tackle affordability for working people.
We know what we need to do. We need a fair tax code that ensures everybody pays their share, including the wealthiest individuals and corporations. And we need to take the power back from big banks, big pharma, big oil, big media, big tech and the other mega-corporations that have been allowed to prosper while working people have taken hit after hit.
It's time to break the chokehold that corporations and special interests have on our wallets, our politics, our elections and on our lives.
We must end the corruption that has prevented Congress from solving problems for actual working people because they are too busy worrying about where their next corporate campaign contribution is coming from.
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A government that sets the right rules of the game.
The American Dream was supposed to mean that if you worked hard and followed the rules you'd have an opportunity to get ahead. And for a prosperous Northwoods we need everybody to work hard and do their best.
Most one-time government bailouts mean somewhere there's been a policy failure. And when more and more people rely on safety net programs just to stay afloat, that's a sign that the rules governing our economy have failed to keep up with a new reality.
A responsible government fixes system failures and needs fewer bailouts.
If you're a worker and you work hard, there should be a way for you and your family to get ahead. And if you're a producer – a farmer, forester, or business owner - a responsible government should ensure a stable, level playing field, and you in turn have a commitment to care for your people and care for the resources you're using.
We need a responsible government willing to make the kind of public investments in private enterprise that only government can make. Investments that make civic life meaningful: in infrastructure, rural broadband, public lands, small businesses, schools, and making healthcare affordable to everyone, for example. That kind of investment has the power to generate an enormous amount of private growth and entrepreneurship.
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The tools to build a new Northwoods economy.
Innovation is in our DNA. If we want to get back to the prosperity we've enjoyed in years past, we have to adapt to a new future with new risks and new opportunities. We can do that through innovation.
Throughout the 20th Century, smart enterprising people in farming, business and in government worked together to help establish the dairy industry, the pulp and paper and forest products industry and the manufacturing industries that have been the pillars of Wisconsin's economy for over 100 years.
As those industries and the jobs they support change, we need to re-imagine our economy and the products that sustain it. We've re-imagined our economy before, and it's past time to do it again.
Here in the heart of the Northwoods, we can re-engineer the ways we use wood such as by making engineered wood beams and structural lumber from our locally grown forests, producing fuel from our small trees and wood waste and supporting more secondary wood manufacturers.
With some of the Midwest's best farmland, we can support our dairies while also incentivizing a wider range of farm products. We can help producers add more value to their crops and supply more people at home with healthy, locally grown food.
In a state known for our know-how in manufacturing, we can continue to support manufacturing businesses in embracing new technology while providing skilled employment opportunities for emerging markets. And we can end the economic chaos of the last two years by creating a stable trade policy that allows businesses the predictability they need to make new investments
That kind of innovation requires investments in research, development and commercialization of new products.
It takes the kind of all-hands public-private partnerships that bring together businesses, trade groups and organizations, workers and their unions, community leaders, and governments at the local, state and federal levels.
In this country we know-how to take an opportunity and do big things. We are no strangers to boldness and innovation and when that spirit meets the unity of purpose and work ethic of the Northwoods we have the tools we need to bring about a new economic renaissance to northern Wisconsin
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America is a nation of immigrants and throughout our history immigrants have added important benefits to our economy and to our culture. There is no question we need a secure border, and we need to actively prosecute and deport criminals. We also need to guarantee the rights of law-abiding people who are in this country legally, and we need a rational policy for guest workers that allows the legal immigration needed to fill the demand generated by American farms and businesses.
As a result of the Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant agenda, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) will triple in size and is building a detention system larger than the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. The White House quota-driven deportation program has resulted in large numbers of legal immigrants, legal visa holders, and even American citizens, being seized in public without warrants by people in masks without uniforms, who are being detained or deported while being denied any of the due process guaranteed by our Constitution. These unconstitutional actions are not making America safer, they are terrorizing citizens and non-citizens in every community in America.
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- Requiring federal law enforcement officers to wear their uniforms and show their faces.
- Focusing immigration enforcement on keeping violent criminals off of our streets, not harassing legal immigrants while executing mass, quota-driven deportations.
- Securing the border with better technology, ensuring safe and humane treatment for every person apprehended at the border, and investing in modernized ports of entry.
- Reforming our guest worker programs so that farms, manufacturers, and service businesses can complement their labor force with legal immigrant workers.
- Reforming the asylum process so that immigrants with legitimate fear for their lives or their families can enter America legally and have their case heard. We need to hire more judges and officers to clear the asylum backlog, and ensure that legitimate asylum claims are heard and honored.
- We need a smarter immigration policy that keeps our border secure and addresses criminal and drug-related activity, while allowing safe entry and humane treatment for legal immigrants to help meet the demands of American businesses and allow for a prosperous cross-border economy.
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Despite having some of the finest doctors, clinics, and hospitals in the world, Americans pay far more for health care and suffer from worse health care access and poorer overall health outcomes than any other developed nation.
American health care was already in need of reform, when Congress voted for another one-two punch to our health in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) .
Because of drastic cuts to Medicaid funding in the OBBB and the elimination of Affordable Care Act subsidies in 2026, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services projects that over 270,000 Wisconsin residents will lose their health insurance coverage, affecting families, seniors, children, and disabled individuals who rely on Medicaid.
The OBBB eliminates premium tax credits for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will hike ACA premiums an average of at least 75% in 2026, causing many self-employed people and middle-income Wisconsin residents to lose affordable insurance.
In addition to loss of health coverage for thousands of low income people, and hugely increased premiums for middle-income people under the ACA, the OBBB will lead to the closure of rural hospitals and loss of providers in rural clinics - reducing access to health care for everyone, regardless of income.
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- Protecting, expanding, and strengthening Medicare and Medicaid
- Reforming Medicare Advantage to address the more than $80 Billion dollars of overpayment to private insurers from taxpayers.
- Providing a public health care option available for everyone.
- Requiring Medicare to negotiate with drug makers to make prescription drugs affordable.
- Ensuring that mental health care is treated and prioritized equally with physical health.
- Ensuring access to abortion, contraception, and the full scope of maternal and reproductive health care in federal law.
- There is no reason the wealthiest country in the world should live with the most expensive health care in the world, that leaves millions without coverage, while insurance companies reap record profits. We CAN do better and we have to.
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The United States Constitution has been a blueprint for democracy for America and for the World. But no constitution can guarantee the vision of its founders unless leaders do their part to uphold it. Today the guarantees of our constitution for Americans are at risk.
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." – James Madison, Jan 30, 1788.
In 2025 the Trump Administration has consistently violated the clear language of court orders, engaged in an unprecedented pattern of contempt of courts, verbally attacked judges, and fired agency Inspectors General and other officials who have simply tried to do their job consistent with their oath to the Constitution. Trump officials have used the power of government to threaten and silence voices of dissent, clear violations of the First Amendment.
And the Republican majority in Congress has, time after time, refused to use the power given to them in our Constitution to check that abuse of power.
We don’t take oaths to kings, and that is not our America.
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- Immediately curbing the abuse of emergency powers claimed by the President to enact tariffs due to a supposed trade emergency, or to violate environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act in order to greenlight mineral or fossil fuel projects due to a supposed energy emergency, or claiming emergency powers to suspend Congressionally authorized programs.
- Legislation to reform the National Emergencies Act (NEA) to clarify and tighten Congressional authority of Presidential actions and prevent such abuses in the future.
- Calling for the resignation, and if necessary investigation and impeachment of agency directors and cabinet officials who violate the Constitution, violate federal law, and who display gross incompetence and reckless behavior.
- Legislation to further clarify and reinforce the role of Congress as a co-equal branch of government, and create meaningful penalties and consequences for the administration’s failure to adhere to court orders.
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Artificial intelligence and the technology that drives it has tremendous potential to remake and improve our society and our lives. We can only realize those benefits however by taking a strong public oversight of this technology and how it is built out.
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The huge footprint of hyper-scale data centers and their demand for electricity and water for cooling can affect neighboring property owners as well as energy rate payers.
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon collectively estimate their capital expenditures into AI will reach $700-800 billion in 2026. Data center build out today is proceeding like an arms race, with speed and too often with secrecy, often making it impossible for residents in smaller communities to have their voices heard when new data centers are proposed. Much of the hyper-scale data center build out is highly-leveraged by debt, however there is no certainty that all of these investments will prove profitable.
Unlike in previous eras, a financial bust in the tech sector today would mean huge costs and impacts to communities where data centers are constructed, including the risk that data centers constructed today could soon be sitting empty.
Private developments occurring at this scale, speed, and potential impact require strong, well-informed public oversight. Federal and State lawmakers need to get ahead of the data center buildout boom before more data centers are approved.
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- Allowing states to regulate data centers similar to utilities through Public Service Commissions that evaluate and permit proposed developments.
- Ensuring that data center developments do not result in utility rate hikes so other energy consumers are not forced to subsidize data center energy costs.
- Requiring data centers cover 100% of the costs of grid upgrades and heavily incentivize use of renewable energy with community benefits to prevent data center developments powered primarily by fossil fuels.
- Subjecting data centers to environmental assessments that consider water usage in light of groundwater availability to ensure there is no detrimental impact to water sources for local communities.
- Holding data center developers accountable for the impact of their developments and possible financial losses through binding community benefit agreements.
- Requiring data center developers to contribute substantial ongoing payments to community benefit funds, and close the loopholes that let data centers dodge property taxes.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the technology that drives it has tremendous potential to remake and improve many aspects of our society and our lives. But without adequate guardrails, AI also creates huge new risks for all of us. We can only capture the opportunities and benefits of AI with effective government oversight and that needs to happen now.
AI is a powerful tool for productivity, however use of AI is already causing job losses in the information and tech sectors and the scale of those losses are expected to accelerate in the next few years, possibly dramatically.
Unrestrained use of AI opens the door to risks for misinformation that would be disruptive to our elections and politics, that would allow for new forms of fraud and theft, and that could corrupt almost any form of digital communications.
Unregulated access to AI re-wires the brains of users, which can be especially damaging for young people still developing communication and reasoning skills.
The AI tech billionaires who attend Met Galas and are funding the White House Ballroom are the same people fighting to keep Congress from putting any meaningful oversight of their business.
Congress needs to lead today to make sure the innovations spurred by AI don’t simply roll over families, workers, and our democracy.
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- Passing a National Data Privacy law with clear data ownership standards and prevent AI companies from selling personal data.
- Promoting and requiring use of open source data standards that positively identify when any written, visual, or audio content is AI generated.
- Protecting kids and students by requiring age verification, parental consent, controls on AI in classrooms, and stiff penalties and enforcement for AI used in child pornography.
- Requiring independent safety testing and mandatory cyber-security for powerful AI models, and creating restrictions on AI model use and mandatory reporting for cybersecurity incidents.
- Establishing a federal agency dedicated to AI monitoring and regulation and ensuring AI expertise and capacity becomes established throughout the federal government.
- Establishing comprehensive limits on uses of AI that impact personal opportunities such as final hiring decisions, mortgage approvals, medical insurance approvals, rental applications, probation and parole decisions, court rulings, and other decisions by public agencies.
- Allow states to develop more specific guidance on use of AI.
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As a candidate and as a former legislator I have firmly supported women’s freedom to make choices about reproductive care with their doctors, and I have consistently supported funding and access to a full range of reproductive health care for women of all ages including contraception.
Access to health care is one of the best determinants of long term health and lower long-term health care expenses. However, far too many women today lack access to adequate reproductive health care, and even the basic health care they need.
Maternal mortality and related complications and infant mortality in the U.S. are far higher (>23%) than those in similarly large and developed countries. At least 10% of women under the age of 65 are uninsured, and many millions more are underinsured or otherwise lack access to comprehensive health care.
Access to health care is an even greater challenge for women in low-income households, for women in rural areas like much of northern Wisconsin, for women of color including Native American women, and in states like Wisconsin that have placed burdens on reproductive care and that have failed to invest adequately in health care access and services.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 striking down Roe v. Wade has created even greater disparities for women’s reproductive health and has created a patchwork of conflicting state laws that limit or criminalize access to abortion even in instances where mothers' lives are at risk, and that limit access to other forms of reproductive health. This has to change.
Recent actions by the FDA and state courts to ban or limit use of mifepristone will further limit access to one of the safest and most effective means of early stage abortion.
Health outcomes for women are continuing to get worse under the Trump Administration. The massive cuts to Medicaid funding in 2027 are likely to dramatically limit access to health care and maternal care for low income women, and further worsen health care outcomes for women of all ages.
The impacts of Medicaid cuts will affect northern Wisconsin especially hard as our region already suffers from sparsity of health care providers and because a higher proportion of northern Wisconsin residents currently rely on Medicaid for basic care.
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- Passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act, creating a new legal protection for the right to provide and access abortion, free from medically unnecessary restrictions and bans.
- Codifying a right to sell and distribute mifepristone and other abortion medications in interstate commerce.
- Ensuring access and adequate funding for preventative health, maternal care, pre-natal and post-natal care, for women of all ages and incomes.
- Requiring states receiving federal funds to guarantee to provide medically indicated care to all women before, during, and after pregnancy.
- Immediately restoring funding for Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
- Immediately restoring funding for Medicaid to ensure women in need of financial assistance retain access to basic care.
- Expanding Medicare services to cover more of women’s unique health care needs
- Establishing a viable and comprehensive public option for health care available for reasonable cost to all Americans.
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To ban corporate money and reform campaign financing, establish term limits and ban insider trading.
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That claws back 40 years of tax giveaways to the wealthiest Americans and our most profitable corporations.
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The big corporations and restoring an antitrust agenda to control the corporate monopolies that stifle price competition.
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Such as the federal milk pricing formula that makes it so difficult for dairies to remain profitable.
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Comes to a quick, responsible end.
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Restoring trading partnerships with our allies, and developing a fair trade policy that encourages and promotes more jobs to stay in Wisconsin.
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to Medicaid and further protecting, expanding, and strengthening Medicare and Medicaid.
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Providing a public health care option available for everyone.
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And reproductive health care in federal law.
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And forest productivity with conservation and restores and strengthens our Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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In infrastructure we all depend on, including schools, roads and transit, broadband internet, and public lands.
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Trust Fund and creating incentives for builders to build affordable housing.
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And small business owners who generate jobs by investing in targeted incentives for business startups and expansions.
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With major new investments in forest products research and support to incentivize commercialization of new products.
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Providing opportunities for farm families, and supplying healthy food at home by continued research and development for farm products and farm practices that meet the needs of evolving markets while ensuring conservation of soil, water and wildlife.
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Our infrastructure and our farms and forests for the ongoing impacts of a changing climate by re-investing in the research and applied work to adopt climate-smart agriculture, climate-smart forestry, and climate-ready watersheds across northern Wisconsin.
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