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Philip Tanis
Republican · Michigan · 2026Director of the Van Raalte Institute at Hope College and editor of Van Raalte Press, following a decade as a communications and operations executive with the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Hannover, Germany, and 16 years on staff at the Reformed Church in America, per his campaign site. He was elected to Holland's city council as a Hope College student and then became the city's youngest mayor, per his campaign site. He says he will not accept donations, seek endorsements or hire consultants, framing the run as an act of protest, per his campaign site.
Priorities
- Fiscal discipline, saying Congress must reassert control over the federal budget while lowering taxes for middle and working class families, per his campaign site
- Equal branches of government, saying Congress has done nothing to check executive abuses, per his campaign site
- Listening to constituents instead of raising money from special interests, per his campaign site
On the ballot
U.S. House, MI-4 · Michigan · 2026
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