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Mike Thurow

Independent · Wisconsin · 2026

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U.S. House, WI-6Wisconsin · 2026
Top priorities
  • Economic affordability: wants to lower costs by tackling corporate greed, reducing utility costs, and breaking up monopolies in food supply chains and housing markets
  • Protecting workers and jobs: supports labor law enforcement, opposing outsourcing trade deals, and bringing back American manufacturing
  • Combating corruption: backs banning congressional stock trading, campaign finance reform to limit billionaire influence, term limits, and eliminating gerrymandering

Per the campaign site.

Biography

Thurow is a Milwaukee Fire Department fire captain and director of the department's HAZMAT team, per his campaign site. Before becoming a professional firefighter in 2013, he spent nearly a decade working at Health Care for the Homeless. He is a lifelong Mequon resident and father of four running as an independent for Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District.

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