The candidates and ballot details for this 2026 U.S. House race, with the original election records attached.
The Stated Record analysis: Toss-up
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Derrick Van OrdenRepublican
Rebecca CookeDemocratic
Alexander Valiensi KentIndependent
Rustin ProvanceIndependent
The sample ballot also includes an unnamed write-in line.
Source: La Crosse County Clerk official sample ballot
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
The sitting member for Wisconsin's third district, in his second term; Congress.gov records his service beginning with the 118th Congress in January 2023. Congress.gov
His campaign says he served 26 years in the Navy, 21 of them as a SEAL, and returned to Wisconsin to open a small business. Van Orden for Congress
He chairs the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee, receives his own health care through the VA, and says he is the first Wisconsin member in more than a decade to sit on the House Agriculture Committee. Van Orden for Congress
What they say they want to do
Safe drinking water, well-maintained roads and bridges, and reliable rural broadband for western Wisconsin. Van Orden for Congress
Protection for people with pre-existing conditions once the Affordable Care Act is repealed and replaced by a system he says would drive costs down through competition. Van Orden for Congress
Term limits on all legislators, so that election to Congress “remains an act of public service, not a way to enrich one's self”. Van Orden for Congress
Data centre development that needs local consent, spares productive farmland, protects ratepayers from new grid costs, and uses closed-loop or air-cooled systems rather than local water. Van Orden for Congress
Continued support for border enforcement and for legislation classifying fentanyl as a controlled substance. Van Orden for Congress
Introduced H.R. 985 to enlarge the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives; it was referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry and went no further, as his earlier bill on the same subject had. Congress.gov, Congress.gov
His own VA Home Loan Program Reform Act, which he introduced alone and which passed both chambers by voice vote, became Public Law 119-31. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov
The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act became Public Law 119-69; he was an original cosponsor of the House companion, one of 118. Congress.gov, Congress.gov
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 9 committees
Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through July 22, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 3,088,213.16 dollars. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here.
Holds no public office. Her campaign describes her as a waitress, small business owner and nonprofit leader who grew up on a sixth-generation Wisconsin dairy farm. Cooke for Congress
She says she moved back to Eau Claire in 2014 to start her own small business, and that the nonprofit she founded has helped more than seventy small businesses create local jobs. Cooke for Congress
The state records her appointment as a Private Sector Representative on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, read and referred in February 2019 and withdrawn by the Governor in October 2021. Wisconsin State Legislature
What they say they want to do
Cap out-of-pocket costs on insulin, inhalers and cancer drugs at thirty dollars a month, and expand Medicare to vision, dental and hearing. Cooke for Congress
Ban stock trading by members of Congress and the White House, and end Citizens United. Cooke for Congress
Raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars on a rolling schedule beginning with the largest employers. Cooke for Congress
Enforce antitrust law against agricultural conglomerates, direct subsidies to small and midsize farms, and protect farmland from purchase by foreign nationals. Cooke for Congress
A moratorium on new hyperscale data centre development and an end to its tax breaks, which she ties to rising utility rates. Cooke for Congress
What the official record shows
Appointed by the Governor as a Private Sector Representative on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation; the appointment was read and referred to committee on this date. Wisconsin State Legislature
Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through July 22, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 1,348,284.40 dollars. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here.
Holds no public office. His candidate page describes him as a social worker with a master's degree, and the author of a book called Voter Directed Democracy. Voter Directed Network
He founded the Voter Directed Network, which is both the organisation behind his candidacy and the mechanism his platform proposes. Voter Directed Network
What they say they want to do
Full voter empowerment: online, issue-by-issue voting by verified voters, on the principle of one voter, one vote, on all issues. Voter Directed Network
Ending political corruption rather than reducing it, through a system with “no donors, no lobbyists, no Super PACs, and no political parties”. Voter Directed Network
Servant leadership, which he defines as a commitment to help the people served become freer, wiser, healthier and more capable than before. Voter Directed Network
What the official record shows
He has never held public office, so there is no official record of votes, bills or decisions to list. What he offers instead is a platform, which is above, and a book. His campaign makes no claim about a record of his own for this column to test. Voter Directed Network, Voter Directed Network
Campaign money from other committees, by type
There is no money table because there is no money report. His principal campaign committee has filed two things with the Federal Election Commission: a statement of organization in April 2026 and a miscellaneous submission in July. It has never filed a report of receipts and disbursements, which is consistent with the no-donor campaign he says he is running. Federal Election Commission, Voter Directed Network
Holds no public office. He writes that he went to prison weeks after his eighteenth birthday for property crimes committed as a minor, served thirteen and a half years, and tutored for the G.E.D. while inside. Rustin Provance for Congress
Since his release he has earned an HVAC-R certificate through trade school and moved to Wisconsin; he describes a family of seven. Rustin Provance for Congress
He stood for this seat as a Libertarian in 2022 and as an independent in 2024, and his committee has been registered with the Federal Election Commission since December 2023. Federal Election Commission
What they say they want to do
A two-term limit on legislators, matching the presidency, which he says he will hold himself to whether or not it is enacted. Rustin Provance for Congress
Ending the Federal Reserve and its fiat currency, with the currency backed by tangible goods instead. Rustin Provance for Congress
Dismantling the Department of Education, with funding following home-schooled children and any surplus going toward college. Rustin Provance for Congress
Accountability for judges and prosecutors, and term limits on the Supreme Court, while distinguishing individual officers from a system he says is broken. Rustin Provance for Congress
Stronger relations with native nations, which he describes as poor at best, and steady rather than swinging military funding. Rustin Provance for Congress
What the official record shows
He has never held public office, so there is no official record of votes, bills or decisions to list. He withdrew from this race in 2022 and again in 2024 before either election, so neither run produced a result to record. His campaign makes no claim about a record of his own for this column to test. Rustin Provance for Congress, Federal Election Commission
Campaign money from other committees, by type
There is no money table because there is no money report. His principal campaign committee has filed statements of organization in December 2023 and April 2025, and nothing else. Across two cycles it has never filed a report of receipts and disbursements, which is consistent with his statement that he will not be taking donations. Federal Election Commission, Rustin Provance for Congress
Facebook alexander.valiensi.kentListed as his campaign social media on PBS Wisconsin's candidate page. His own site links no social accounts, so this is the only one the desk found.
X: not foundNo X account is linked from his candidate page, his site's home page, or PBS Wisconsin's entry for him.
Instagram: not foundNo Instagram account is linked from his candidate page, his site's home page, or PBS Wisconsin's entry for him.
Holds no public office. His campaign biography describes him as holding an HVAC-R certificate and having previously studied toward a paralegal qualification.
Facebook 61590917901907His campaign page. His own site links no social accounts, so this was found by search rather than from the site.
X: not foundNo X account is linked from any of the four pages his site serves, and none was found by search.
Instagram: not foundNo Instagram account is linked from any of the four pages his site serves, and none was found by search.
Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each link was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise. Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.
Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
Would end political corruption rather than reduce it, through a political system with “no donors, no lobbyists, no Super PACs, and no political parties”, none of which he notes are in the Constitution.
Would protect people with pre-existing conditions “when Obamacare is fully repealed and a new system is implemented allowing for true competition in healthcare, driving costs down”. While that happens, his campaign says he has already delivered for the district: $1 billion annually for BadgerCare, $500 million to strengthen Wisconsin’s rural hospital infrastructure, and a further $600,000 for new ambulances in underserved parts of the district. He describes the goal as health care that is “high quality, readily available, and actually affordable”.
Would cap out-of-pocket costs on insulin, inhalers and cancer drugs at thirty dollars a month, expand Medicare to cover vision, dental and hearing — “the very things that deteriorate as we age” — and reverse Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts while funding rural hospitals. She would also lower the Medicare eligibility age by a year at a time, raise Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates so rural hospitals can keep providing care, and address antitrust in a system she says leaves consumers little choice. She writes as a small business owner who buys her own coverage on the exchange.
No position on health care is stated. His platform is the process by which policy is decided — issue-by-issue voting by verified voters, one voter and one vote on all issues — rather than an outcome on any given issue. Health care is not among the examples he uses.
Would “remove federal control over healthcare, as it is an individual issue”, on the grounds that “you know what is best for you and your family”, and would take preventative measures so that what he calls the federal overstep of recent years cannot recur.
Says he is the first Wisconsin member in more than a decade on the House Agriculture Committee, and names the Dairy Business Innovation Act and the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act as wins he delivered.
Would enforce antitrust law against agricultural conglomerates, direct tax incentives to small and midsize farms rather than large ones, restructure the Farm Bill toward farming itself, and protect farmland from purchase by foreign nationals.
Would work with regional stakeholders to “rapidly address the PFAS issue in our water — including more testing, remediation and research”, and build coalitions with farmers on run-off affecting waterways.
No position on water quality is stated. His platform does address the environment, on the long-term effects of nuclear testing, which is a different subject.
Chairs the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee, receives his own care through the VA, and says he fought to protect veterans from foreclosure through the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act.
No position on veterans is stated in her platform, which runs to more than two thousand words across ten subject headings. Her biography refers to a family of farmers and veterans.
Would keep military funding steady rather than swinging with each administration, and says “Veterans will have access to the resources they need, as people are not expendable.”
Says four years of the previous administration strained Wisconsin family finances, and champions what he calls the Working Family Tax Cuts to keep more earnings with the earner.
Would raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars on a rolling schedule starting with large employers, expand community block grants for rural affordable housing, defer property tax for first-time buyers up to five years, and fund child care incubators in small towns.
Would end the Federal Reserve and its fiat currency to bring down inflation and what he calls over-taxation, and states of tax generally: “It’s your money, you should keep it.”
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
His campaign says he has demanded accountability from the VA and fought to protect veterans from foreclosure through the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act.
“fought to protect veterans from foreclosure through the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act”
He introduced that Act as H.R. 1815 on March 3, 2025, as its only sponsor, with no cosponsors. The House passed it by voice vote on May 19 and the Senate by voice vote on July 15. It became Public Law 119-31 on July 30, 2025, and authorises the VA to pay a loan holder the amount needed to avoid foreclosure, and to establish a partial claim programme.
Limit: Both chambers passed the bill by voice vote, so no roll call records which members supported it. The law's effect on any individual foreclosure is not something this record can show — what it establishes is that the Act exists, that he alone introduced it, and that it was signed.
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 authorises “not more than $350,000,000 to carry out the PFAS replacement program”, which reimburses certificated airports for moving to approved fluorine-free firefighting foams at a 100 percent federal share. He voted Yea on House passage on July 20, 2023, which carried 351-69, and Yea on final passage on May 15, 2024, which carried 387-26. It became Public Law 118-63 the next day.
Limit: The figure is an authorisation ceiling — the most that may later be appropriated — rather than money appropriated. The programme is national and applies to airports holding a part 139 certificate, not specifically to Wisconsin. He was one of 387 members voting for it. The same $350,000,000 figure appears beside PFAS language in nine other public laws, all of them enacted before he took office on January 3, 2023, and none of those can be the one he means.
His campaign says he championed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which was signed into law by President Trump and ensures children have access to whole milk.
“championed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act which was signed into law by President Trump”
He was an original cosponsor of the House bill, H.R. 649, on January 23, 2025, one of 118 cosponsors. That bill never left the Union Calendar. The measure that became law was the Senate companion, S. 222, which became Public Law 119-69 on January 14, 2026.
Limit: The Act was signed into law, and he put his name to the House version on the day it was introduced. But the bill he cosponsored is not the bill that passed, and he was one of 118 cosponsors of it. A first check of this claim found the Act's name in no public law and would have called it false; the Senate bill had been enacted and not yet indexed, which is why the enacted text rather than the bill index settles it.
His campaign says bringing together law enforcement leaders across the district led to his support for legislation that classifies fentanyl as a controlled substance.
“his support for legislation that classifies fentanyl as a controlled substance”
He voted Yea on passage of S. 331, the HALT Fentanyl Act, on June 12, 2025, which carried 217-1. It became Public Law 119-26 on July 16, 2025. He had also voted Yea on the House companion, H.R. 27, on February 6, 2025, which carried 214-1 and went no further than the Senate.
Limit: The Act makes the Schedule I treatment of fentanyl-related substances permanent. Fentanyl itself was already a controlled substance before it, so the claim is loosely worded even though the vote behind it is real. He was one of 217 members voting for it, and as with the whole-milk Act the measure that became law was the Senate bill rather than the House companion he also voted for.
His campaign lists, among major wins for Wisconsin farmers, passing the Dairy Business Innovation Act to support the development, production, marketing and distribution of Wisconsin dairy products.
“including passing the Dairy Business Innovation Act”
He sponsored a Dairy Business Innovation bill twice, H.R. 4894 in the 118th Congress and H.R. 985 in the 119th; each was referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry and went no further. Two of the three changes his bill would have made — raising the number of regional initiatives from three to four in both places the statute sets it — did pass the House, inside section 1015 of the 2026 farm bill, which he voted for on April 30, 2026. That bill has not become law. The third change, raising the authorisation from $20,000,000 to $36,000,000, is not in it. The initiative itself is section 12513 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, four years before he took office.
Limit: The label rests on the words he used: the Act he names did not pass, and the vehicle that carries two thirds of it is not law either. But the distance between the claim and the record is narrower than a first pass found. This desk published this card citing only his two dead bills, which omitted that the operative text of one of them cleared the House inside the farm bill with his vote. Whether “passing the Dairy Business Innovation Act” is fairly called unsupported, given that, is a judgment the owner should make rather than this note.
The final FY2024 Interior funding tables list the City of Eau Claire Water Treatment Project at $2,000,000 and the Town of Campbell Water Utility Project at $2,000,000, each naming Van Orden in the House requester column, alongside a third Wisconsin drinking-water project at $800,000 requested by him. His congressional office had announced the first two as requests in November 2023.
Limit: The tables establish that the money was appropriated and that he was the member who requested it. They do not establish that the water is now free of contaminants: an appropriation is not a finished treatment plant, and no source here shows when either project was built or what it delivered. This desk first published this card with no verdict, saying the settling evidence was not published anywhere it could cite. That was wrong. Community project funding is listed in the joint explanatory statement rather than in the law, and the statute and the Congressional Record were searched while the explanatory statement was not.
Her campaign says she started a nonprofit that has helped over 70 small businesses create local jobs, and that she served on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation board, aiding in the success of rural businesses.
“she served on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation board, aiding in the success of rural businesses”
The Wisconsin State Legislature records the appointment: Rebecca Cooke, of Eau Claire, Private Sector Representative on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, read and referred on February 8, 2019. The committee recommended confirmation on February 20, 2020 by Ayes 5, Noes 0. The Governor withdrew the appointment on October 13, 2021.
Limit: The state's record establishes that she held the seat and for how long. It records nothing about what she did in it, so the second half of her sentence — aiding the success of rural businesses — is not something this record can test either way. The nonprofit figure is separate and is not checked here.
His platform calls for ending political corruption rather than reducing it, through a system with no donors, no lobbyists, no Super PACs and no political parties, and he runs his own campaign on that basis.
“no donors, no lobbyists, no Super PACs, and no political parties”
His principal campaign committee holds two filings of any kind with the Federal Election Commission: a Form 1 statement of organization dated April 24, 2026, and a Form 99 dated July 8, 2026. That Form 99 is not a blank submission. It repeats the pledge to take no donor, lobbyist, Super PAC or party money, states that the campaign had not reached $5,000 raised or spent, and files that statement in place of a July quarterly report. No report of receipts and disbursements has ever been filed.
Limit: His own filed statement is stronger evidence than silence, and it is still not a reported zero: below five thousand dollars is not nothing, and the statement speaks only to July 8. What the record shows is his testimony and the absence of a financial report, not an audited figure.
His principal campaign committee holds three filings of any kind with the Federal Election Commission: Form 1 statements of organization dated December 7, 2023 and April 14, 2025, and a 2024 request for additional information. Across two cycles it has never filed a report of receipts and disbursements.
Limit: Registering a committee and filing no report of receipts is consistent with raising nothing, but it is not the same as a filed statement that nothing was raised. What the record shows is the absence of a report, not a reported zero. The quotation reproduces his site's own wording, repeated word included.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jul 22, 2026
Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.
Derrick Van Orden: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 22, 2026, received Jul 30, 2026, file 2003094, image 202607309899247516.
Rebecca Cooke: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 22, 2026, received Jul 30, 2026, file 2003110, image 202607309899249797.
Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 22, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.
Chronology
How the field took shape
Van Orden's service begins
Congress.gov records Van Orden's first term beginning with the 118th Congress on January 3, 2023. The date settles one of his claims: the $350 million figure he cites for moving firefighting foams off PFAS appears in eleven public laws, and nine of them were enacted before this day.
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 becomes Public Law 118-63, authorising not more than $350,000,000 for a programme that reimburses certificated airports for the transition to fluorine-free firefighting foams. Van Orden had voted for the bill at both House stages.
The VA Home Loan Program Reform Act, which Van Orden introduced alone on March 3, 2025 and which passed both chambers by voice vote, becomes Public Law 119-31. It authorises the VA to pay a loan holder what is needed to avoid foreclosure and establishes a partial claim programme.
S. 222, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, becomes Public Law 119-69. Van Orden was an original cosponsor of the House companion, H.R. 649, which never left the Union Calendar.
The two committees that file reports of receipts and disbursements lodge their pre-primary reports on the same day, covering July 1 to July 22, 2026. The other two printed candidates have registered principal campaign committees and have never filed such a report, in either cycle.
The La Crosse County Clerk's official sample ballot for the November 3 election prints four candidates for this seat, plus an unnamed write-in line. Every candidate on this page is on that ballot, and nobody else is.
La Crosse County Clerk. The county's own sample ballot for the November 3, 2026 general election, metadata dated August 26, 2026. It prints four candidates for this seat and an unnamed write-in line.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22: all 1,158 itemized non-individual rows the FEC reports for the cycle, of which 1,110 carry a contributing-committee identifier and are grouped in the table. OpenFEC would not page through this committee at any page size — the second page returned a timeout every time — so it was read one month at a time and the total checked against the FEC's own count before anything was published. No individual contributor row was read.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22: all 14,228 itemized non-individual rows the FEC reports for the cycle, of which 14,222 carry a contributing-committee identifier and are grouped in the table. Read one month at a time and checked against the FEC's own count before anything was published. No individual contributor row was read.
U.S. House of Representatives. The final funding tables accompanying the FY2024 Interior appropriation. Read on 2026-09-22: the drinking water state revolving fund rows list "City of Eau Claire for Water Treatment Project 2,000,000 Van Orden" and "Town of Campbell for Water Utility Project 2,000,000 Van Orden", with a third Wisconsin project at 800,000 also requested by him. Community project funding is listed here rather than in the statute, which is why searching the enacted law and the Congressional Record for these projects returns nothing.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The 2026 farm bill as engrossed. Section 1015 amends section 12513 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 by striking "3" and inserting "4" in subsection (b) and in subsection (g)(1)(A) — the first two of the three clauses of Van Orden's own H.R. 985, word for word. His bill's third clause, raising the authorisation from $20,000,000 to $36,000,000, is not in it. Read from the GovInfo package text on 2026-09-22.
Congress.gov. Read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-22. Became Public Law 119-26 on 2025-07-16. It makes permanent the Schedule I treatment of fentanyl-related substances; fentanyl itself was already controlled.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On passage of H.R. 27, the House companion HALT Fentanyl Act, 2025-02-06. Passed 214-1. Van Orden voted Yea. The bill was received in the Senate and went no further; the Senate's own bill became law instead.
Federal Election Commission. A one-page miscellaneous submission for committee C00948240. It repeats his pledge to take no donor, lobbyist, Super PAC or party money, states the campaign had not reached $5,000 raised or spent, and files that statement in lieu of a July quarterly report. It is his own testimony, not an audited financial report.
Congress.gov. Read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-22. Records two terms for Wisconsin's 3rd district, the 118th beginning 2023 and the 119th beginning 2025, 62 sponsored and 719 cosponsored measures.
Van Orden for Congress. Captured 2026-09-22; 1,074 words. The campaign's own site, identified by its "Paid for by Van Orden for Congress" line. Note that derrickvanorden.com is a registrar parking page and is not this site.
Office of Rep. Derrick Van Orden. His congressional office's own account of two community project funding items requested in the FY2024 Interior appropriations bill: $2,000,000 for PFAS filtration equipment in Eau Claire and $2,000,000 for a new water system for the Town of Campbell. A request is what this source records; it is not an appropriation.
Cooke for Congress. Captured 2026-09-22, identified by its "Paid for by Cooke for Congress" line. Carries her biography and links her X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Note that rebeccacooke.org is a registrar parking page and is not this site.
Wisconsin State Legislature. The state's own record of the appointment: Rebecca Cooke, of Eau Claire, Private Sector Representative on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, read and referred February 8, 2019; committee recommended confirmation February 20, 2020 by Ayes 5, Noes 0; withdrawn by the Governor October 13, 2021.
Voter Directed Network. Captured 2026-09-22; 7,855 words. His own platform, in the form of a keynote address. Note that kentforcongress.com is a registrar parking page belonging to someone else and is not his site.
PBS Wisconsin. Read 2026-09-22. Lists his campaign social media as a Facebook account, which his own site does not link. Used only to locate the profile.
Rustin Provance for Congress. Captured 2026-09-22; ninety words and a slogan. Reading only this page is what produced a first, wrong finding that he had published no platform.
Rustin Provance for Congress. Captured 2026-09-22. His platform: policing, Social Security, the Federal Reserve, health care, nuclear testing, the Department of Education, term limits, taxation, the military, veterans and relations with native nations. The page is at /projects-1; /projects returns 404.
Congress.gov. Read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-22. Introduced 2025-03-03 by Rep. Van Orden with no cosponsors; passed the House by voice vote 2025-05-19 and the Senate by voice vote 2025-07-15.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted 2025-07-30. The Public Law summary records that it authorises the VA to pay a loan holder the amount needed to avoid foreclosure, establishes a partial claim programme, and temporarily raises amounts for transitional housing and supportive services for veterans experiencing homelessness.
Congress.gov. Read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-22. Van Orden is one of 118 cosponsors and an original one, dated 2025-01-23. The bill itself went no further than the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 111, on 2025-06-05.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted 2024-05-16. Its text reads: "There is authorized to be appropriated not more than $350,000,000 to carry out the PFAS replacement program", which reimburses airports holding a part 139 operating certificate for the transition to approved fluorine-free firefighting foams, at a federal share of 100 percent. Read from the GovInfo package text on 2026-09-22.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On the motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 3935, 2024-05-15. Passed 387-26. Van Orden voted Yea. This is the vote that sent the bill to the President.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Van Orden. Congress.gov summarises it as increasing the authorization of appropriations for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives and requiring a minimum of four regionally located initiatives instead of three. Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry; no further action.
Congress.gov. His earlier bill on the same subject, also sponsored by him and also referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry with no further action.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Read from the GovInfo package text on 2026-09-22. Under the Agricultural Marketing Service it provides that of the amounts made available, $13,750,000 shall carry out section 12513 of Public Law 115-334, "of which $11,250,000 shall be for dairy business innovation". Section 12513 is a provision of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22. Unamended pre-primary report covering 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-22, file number 2003094, beginning image 202607309899247516, received 2026-07-30. Cash on hand and debt are period-end figures.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22. Unamended pre-primary report covering 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-22, file number 2003110, beginning image 202607309899249797, received 2026-07-30. Cash on hand and debt are period-end figures.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22. His principal campaign committee holds two filings of any kind: a Form 1 statement of organization dated 2026-04-24 and a Form 99 miscellaneous submission dated 2026-07-08. No report of receipts and disbursements has ever been filed.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-22. His principal campaign committee holds three filings of any kind: Form 1 statements of organization dated 2023-12-07 and 2025-04-14, and a 2024 request for additional information. No report of receipts and disbursements has ever been filed, across two cycles.
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The details
Election facts. Original sources.
Election date
November 3, 2026
Launch rating
Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 25, 2026
Ballot source updated
Sample-ballot metadata dated August 26, 2026; reviewed September 2, 2026.
Candidate field
Printed candidates checked against official election records.
What this page includes, and what is not yet included.
As of Sep 23, 2026. Each area lists only what has passed its source check. How coverage works.
BallotIncluded
4 printed candidates, checked September 2, 2026 against the official election record.
Race outlookPartial
2 of 3 specialist ratings are current as of Sep 23, 2026. 1 stale rating stays visible with its date but is excluded from our analysis.
Reported contextIncluded
1 dated development with original reporting attached.
Words and recordIncluded
9 statement-to-action comparisons across 4 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.
Campaign financeIncluded
FEC filing snapshots for 2 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.
PollingNot yet
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Snapshot as of Sep 23, 2026. The live page may have changed since this copy was printed: https://statedrecord.com/races/wisconsin-us-house-03-2026
La Crosse County Clerk official sample ballothttps://www.lacrossecounty.org/docs/default-source/county-clerk/sample-ballots/hc7-samp.pdf?sfvrsn=205238b3_1
Cook Political Report House ratingshttps://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings