John Macho
John Macho (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Macho completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
John Macho was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Macho's career experience includes working as a teacher, child abuse investigator, mental health case manager, correctional officer, mental health educator, and lay minister. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1981 to 2004. Macho served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh in 1987.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 6
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 6 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Glenn Grothman (R) | |
| Amanda Bell (D) | ||
 | Kelly Brown (D)  | |
 | Michael Heidenreich (D) | |
 | John Macho (D) | |
 | Joey Marschall (D) | |
 | Kortney Oldham (D) | |
 | Bradley Smith (D) | |
 | Aaron Wojciechowski (D) | |
| Jonathan Peetz (R) | ||
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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I also served in the Peace Corps in Ghana, where I trained future teachers and embodied American values through my daily actions. That experience deepened my belief in education, community, and cross-cultural understanding.
Back home, I worked as a teacher, child abuse investigator, and mental health case manager. I led by example and identified what my clients needed in terms of education, justice, and mental stability.
I found myself working in the Wisconsin prison system for the second half of my career. I worked as a correctional officer and a prison educator, where I saw that true public safety meant preparing people for success after incarceration, not just punishing them.
My Christian faith shapes my life. I believe in compassion, unity, and loving our neighbors, not using religion to divide.
Above all, I am a father. As a widowed dad raising twin sons, now college seniors, I have found joy, purpose, and strength. They inspire me to keep serving. - We need to have government oversight of corporations and equity firms that are gaining too much control of certain sectors of our economy and raising their profits at the consumers' expense.
- The U.S. needs to get back into the business of leading: militarily, technologically, and morally.
- We need to talk to one another again. We are all unique. Some of us are more friendly than others, but we need to find the right distance for us to interact. We need to have a cup of coffee and have a conversation.
2. Secure the borders, but have a pathway for citizenship for people here so they come out of the shadows.
3. Global Warming: what can we do to limit the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice? We need to limit the effects of cataclysmic weather events.
4. Sustainable development aid to the developing world. They need hope! Restore USAID and Peace Corps funding.
5. Reforming prisons by offering education, training, and a way to contribute productively to society. Recidivism drops with programs that work towards mental and physical health.
2. Ensure that the government pays its bills by being fiscally responsible. This includes creating revenue on one side and cutting waste/abuse on the other.
3. Listening to people in the district, so I keep in touch with what their needs are. Directing some to the services they are looking for and getting input from others about issues they need assistance with. Daily conversations, not limited to town hall meetings, participating in community events, and going to local governmental meetings.
4. Work on committees that oversee governmental departments. Investigate shortcomings and discuss new policies. Make the government work more efficiently for everyone.
I have learned to deal with these thoughts. My final job before retirement was teaching mental health classes in a prison. My students were trying to find strategies to deal with the loss of their freedom and everything they had grown used to in the outside world. I learned, like they did, that one can only control your own actions and much of life is the ability to accept and adapt to what we can’t control. The Serenity prayer.
Large corporations, equity firms, and billionaires are commoditizing key parts of our economy, such as farm land, food processing, technology, housing, and medicine/health care. This lack of competition is driving prices up. To add to this, large corporations have for years been offshoring production to raise profits to even higher levels.Some of us look at our mutual funds and are happy with these increased corporate profits. There is a cost to the 37 % of the U.S. population that does not own stock. They are seeing costs rise with none of the benefits. These inequities are not going to get better without laws.
2. A young college student explained how she is working through being a victim of assault and has dedicated her life to making the system respond better to people who are living through experiences like her own.
Tariffs are taxes on consumers. Congress needs to take back control from the president’s sledgehammer approach to world trade. If there is something wrong with our long-term trading practices, let Congress make the laws to fix them. Attacking friends and foes alike is counterproductive to economic stability.
2. A young college student explained how she is working through being a victim of assault and has dedicated her life to making the system respond better to people who are living through experiences like her own.
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See also
2026 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 6, 2025
