The following survey has been mailed to all filed Republican and Democrat candidates for State House and Senate. Please encourage your candidates to return their survey. In addition to returning the survey by mail, they may complete the survey at this link.
You can read the survey below. The ten questions address ten completely different, but all important issues, including:
• Right to Work
• Gun rights
• Transgender child mutilation
• Data centers
• COVID emergency abuses of power
• Free speech versus the censorship of criticism of Israel
• Radical gender ideology
• Articlve V Constititonal Convention
• Vaccine mandates
• Nominating powers of party delegates
It's critical that we put candidates on the record, so please encourage your local candidates to return their survey.
And if possible, make a donation to help us promote the results of the survey in key races and keep up the pressure!
Rescue Michigan 2026 Michigan State Legislative Candidate Survey
If a floor vote were held today on the following pieces of legislation, indicate how would you vote. All bills are from the 2025-2026 legislative session except as noted.
1. SB 436: Restore Michigan’s right-to-work law
Yes No
2. HB 5653: Repeal permit requirement to carry a concealed firearm (aka “right to carry” or “constitutional carry”)
Yes No
3. SB 289: Prohibit sexual mutilation of children
Yes No
4. SB 1018: Impose a one-year moratorium on new data centers
Yes No
5. 2024 SB 734: Terminate health code emergency powers abused during COVID-19 lockdowns
Yes No
6. HB 4548: Expand civil rights law to include antisemitism and criticism of the State of Israel
Yes No
7. HB 4751: Remove “sexual orientation and gender identity or expression” as protected categories in civil rights law
Yes No
8. HCR 7: Apply to Congress to convene an Article V Constitutional Convention, ostensibly to pass a “balanced budget amendment” but potentially unbounded
Yes No
9. SB 797: Prohibit executive branch rules on vaccines being more stringent than required by statute
Yes No
10. HJR U (as introduced, not as voted on): Amend Michigan Constitution to nominate Attorney General and Secretary of State candidates by primary election, and to give the governor appointment power for Michigan/MSU/Wayne State university board members
Yes No
Please encourage your candidates to return their survey!