Released as early voting opened, Tiffany's plan would require parental consent before a student can go by a different name or pronouns at school, ban transgender students from the bathrooms and locker rooms that match who they are, and bar 'gender transition procedures' for anyone under 18.
A States United Action count finds nearly 200 Republicans who backed Trump's attempt to overturn 2020 on this November's ballot. Capital & Main profiled nine who have report cards on this site — six voted on Jan. 6 to throw out two states' results, and some won't say they'd certify the next one.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
At the only governor's debate, Tiffany said grant money from Mark Zuckerberg was one reason he tried to overturn the 2020 election. Those grants were legal at the time, and back then he was claiming mass illegal voting that two reviews never found.
Tom Tiffany, the Republican running for Wisconsin governor, amplified a Libs of TikTok post targeting an Eau Claire school board member over a Black parents' group. She says what followed were accusations, misogynistic messages, and police keeping watch on her house.
Tom Tiffany says he won't cut Social Security. But he's floated raising the retirement age, belongs to the caucus whose budget would have raised it to 69, voted to squeeze the agency that pays benefits, and twice cosponsored an amendment AARP warned could force deep cuts.
Campaign finance records show Tom Tiffany's campaign for Wisconsin governor took the legal maximum from Dallas billionaire Darwin Deason on Dec. 29, 2025. Deason died Dec. 2. It also took a second $20,000 from the same Windsor household that put one donor over the limit, and the state's records show no refund. It didn't respond to Civic Media's request for comment.
Three weeks from Election Day, Wisconsin's Republican nominee for governor shared a Green Bay stage with Ted Nugent — a rocker who began a relationship with a 17-year-old when he was 30, wrote a song called 'Jailbait,' and once called the first Black president a 'subhuman mongrel.' Tiffany's campaign didn't answer questions about it.
Audio obtained by WKOW has Tom Tiffany telling a voter he hopes to eliminate Wisconsin's income tax after his first budget. Individual and corporate income taxes bring in $13.5 billion — 58% of the state's general fund, which pays for schools, healthcare and property tax relief.
In 2014, while a state senator, Tiffany helped craft mailers telling Oneida County voters that county board members wanted to eliminate the area's dams. All four candidates named on them said it was false. A newly released state Justice Department file shows the investigation that followed.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
New filings show Diane Hendricks and Richard and Liz Uihlein bankrolled most of Tom Tiffany's run for Wisconsin governor by routing money through the state Republican Party — a loophole that lets them blow past the $20,000 limit on giving to a candidate.
As a state senator, Tom Tiffany sponsored a bill to eliminate Wisconsin's personal property tax, which the state's own fiscal analysts said would push up taxes on the average home. Tiffany has owned a billboard taxed as personal property since 1995, and didn't report it to the state Ethics Commission until 2025.
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Tom Tiffany claims he believes in a free and open press.
Two days after promising reporters access, Tiffany's campaign blocked Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Mary Spicuzza and David Clarey from a campaign event and called Spicuzza a 'liberal activist' — the same week she reported three billionaires had supplied about two-thirds of his campaign cash.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
Two Trump-endorsed governor candidates, Michigan's John James and Wisconsin's Tom Tiffany, told reporters this week the Iran war needs to wrap up. Every time they voted on ending it in the House, they voted no.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
Wisconsin diesel hit a record $6.11 and Green Bay gas reached $4.30. Tiffany's answer is repealing a state markup law worth about 50 cents. The thing actually moving the price is a war he has voted five times not to end.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
At a September 17 campaign stop, Tom Tiffany told supporters the U.S. Department of Justice is 'coming to Wisconsin for this election.' His campaign couldn't point to anything specific to Wisconsin, as the Trump administration talks about putting ICE and FBI agents near polling places.
In four states, in three days, four Republicans on this site said no to a debate or forum their opponent was ready to do. A Michigan Senate debate went on with an empty podium, South Dakota's public broadcaster aired its Senate debate without the senator, and a second Wisconsin governor's debate was canceled.
The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation has run a governor's debate every cycle since 1990. It canceled this year's because Tiffany would not accept. The same day he said one debate is enough, he would not say whether he backs Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting.
Trump ordered Interior to start stripping gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protection. Tiffany, who has spent five years trying to legislate the same thing, cheered. Wisconsin's own 2021 hunt blew past its quota by 99 wolves and the state couldn't stop it.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
The FDA has lost nearly 4,300 employees and USDA's meat inspection service about 900 since the start of 2025. On June 4, both Wisconsin Republicans voted for a bill cutting the agriculture and FDA budget another 1.4% — one that, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses 'to account for staffing reductions.'
Asked in Superior about union support, Tiffany said he doesn't worry about the 'kingpins.' The roll calls show he was the sole non-voter on the PRO Act, and voted no on ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims.
Wisconsin Department of Revenue records show Tiffany had zero net personal state income tax liability for 2006 through 2010 and again in 2019. One of his two companies owed the state nothing for more than a decade, then paid $65.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
Tiffany voted for Act 10 in 2011 and has cosponsored a national right-to-work bill in three different terms. He is running for governor as a dairy-farm kid who understands working people.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
ACA enrollment in Wisconsin fell 16% after Republicans let the enhanced subsidies expire. A DeForest childcare owner doubled her insurance stipend, lost staff and closed a classroom. Tiffany is defending the vote.
Wisconsin's Act 10 is back before the state Supreme Court, 15 years after it stripped bargaining rights from most public workers. The man who ran it through the Senate is now in Congress — and he has plenty of company.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Tiffany is attacking David Crowley over data centers while taking money from the industry's registered lobbyist — and the coalition that lobbyist works for fought the exact NDA ban and tax change Tiffany now says he supports.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
Tiffany told a tavern crowd he's open to splitting Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources so hunting and fishing are separated from environmental permitting. The state's largest sportsmen's group says the real problem is license fees frozen since 2005 — and a former DNR secretary warned in 2016 that a split gives Republicans 'one agency they can feed and one they can starve.'
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
Tiffany twice cosponsored a six-week national abortion ban — the first version with no exception for rape or incest — and belongs to the caucus whose budget endorsed fetal personhood. Now he won't say whether he still supports any of it.
Four years after Roe fell, 41 states have abortion bans on the books. These Republicans didn't just go along with it — they wrote the bills, filed the briefs, and are working to take it national.
Wisconsin ranks 13th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the better states in the country. All six of its Republicans in Congress just voted to spend that down.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
Wisconsin governor candidate Tom Tiffany appeared on a podcast whose host said Hitler 'actually done some good things' and defended a 'Camp Auschwitz' shirt — and accepted the host's offer to help his campaign.
Tom Tiffany told a TV station he backs the big bipartisan housing bill Congress just passed. But he was the only Wisconsin House member who didn't vote 'Yea' — he was 'Not Voting' all three times it came up.
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
A year after Tom Tiffany voted for Trump's budget bill, protesters brought a dead ambulance to GOP headquarters — because, Democrats say, as many as 270,000 Wisconsinites could lose healthcare and tens of thousands could lose food help.
The Supreme Court said states MAY ban transgender kids from girls' sports — not that they must. Tiffany immediately promised Wisconsin would, if he becomes governor.
Tom Tiffany voted No on the Respect for Marriage Act, the bipartisan law protecting same-sex and interracial couples. It fits a long pattern of putting politicians in charge of people's private lives.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
