Derrick Van Orden
RepublicanIncumbent
U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 3rd district since 2023; retired Navy SEAL
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U.S. House · Nov 3, 2026
Incumbent: Derrick Van Orden, running for re-election.
Candidates and their order come from one municipality's official sample ballot (Town of Farmington, La Crosse County), because the Wisconsin Elections Commission's certified list could not be opened.
U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 3rd district since 2023; retired Navy SEAL
Eau Claire small business owner; Democratic nominee for this seat in 2024
Social worker from La Crosse; founder of the Voter Directed Network
HVAC-R technician who earned his certificate through trade school
What each candidate says they support or would do, on the issues they campaign on. Summaries use the same neutral words for everyone and link to the candidate’s own words.
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RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Supports term limits for all legislators.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress and the White House, ending Citizens United and enforcing term limits for members of Congress.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
Does not accept campaign donations and supports a political system with no donors, lobbyists, Super PACs or political parties.
IndependentRustin Provance
Supports a two-term limit for members of Congress and says he would serve one term unless there is an overwhelming request that he run again.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Would work to protect people with preexisting conditions when the Affordable Care Act is fully repealed and replaced with a system he says would allow more competition and lower costs.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports capping out-of-pocket costs for drugs such as insulin, asthma inhalers and cancer medications at $30 a month, expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental and hearing, reversing Medicaid and ACA cuts, and lowering the Medicare eligibility age each year.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
Would remove federal control over health care, which he calls an individual issue.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Says he is committed to working for farmers as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, and cites the Dairy Business Innovation Act and the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which became law.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports expanding export markets, enforcing antitrust laws against large agribusiness, keeping foreign nationals from buying farmland, and directing tax incentives and subsidies to small and midsize farms.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Says data centers should not be built without local consent or on productive farmland, should not start construction until they agree to cover their energy and grid costs, and should limit their water use.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers and ending their tax breaks, ending surveillance pricing, and stronger data privacy protections.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports repealing the tax on Social Security benefits for current recipients and removing the cap on earnings subject to Social Security taxes.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
Says the options for Social Security are ending it and paying out what people are owed, making it optional, or cutting its ties to other programs, and that the public, not Congress, should vote on it.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Says he is committed to safe drinking water, maintained roads and bridges, and rural broadband in western Wisconsin, and cites federal funding he secured for drinking water and for replacing PFAS firefighting foams.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Supports legislation such as the Working Family Tax Cuts, which he says keeps more of people's earnings in their pockets.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Says he works to cut red tape at the VA so physical and mental health treatment is more accessible, and cites the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act to protect veterans from foreclosure and his work on GI Bill transparency.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
Supports President Trump's border policies and deporting immigrants in the country illegally who commit crimes, and says border patrol agents and law enforcement need the resources to secure the border.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports ending the use of tariffs, which she says have created trade tensions and cut off agricultural markets.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, passing the PRO Act, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage protections, and project labor agreements on federally funded projects in the district.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
Supports upholding Roe v. Wade, keeping Planned Parenthood federally funded and ending the Hyde Amendment.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
Supports online, issue-by-issue voting by verified voters on his Voter Directed Network app, and says representatives should carry out what voters decide on every issue.
IndependentRustin Provance
No published position found.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
Supports holding judges and prosecutors accountable and term limits for Supreme Court justices, and says he supports good officers but not the current justice system.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
Would work to end the Federal Reserve and its fiat currency and back the dollar with tangible goods, which he says would bring down inflation and over-taxation.
RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
No published position found.
DemocraticRebecca Cooke
No published position found.
IndependentAlexander Valiensi Kent
No published position found.
IndependentRustin Provance
Supports dismantling the Department of Education and giving home-schooled students funding as if they were in public school.