Michael Steger
Michael Steger (Republican Party) (also known as Mike) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 11th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Steger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mike Steger was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999. His career experience includes working in business and managing Promethean Action. Steger has been affiliated with LaRouchePAC National Policy Committee and joined the presidential campaign of Lyndon LaRouche in 2004.[1][2]
Elections
2026
See also: Michigan's 11th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Michigan District 11
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 11 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
| Stu Baker (D) | ||
 | Aisha Farooqi (D) | |
 | Anil Kumar (D) | |
 | Jeremy Moss (D) | |
 | John Paul Torres (D) | |
| Don Ufford (D) | ||
| Anthony Paesano (R) | ||
 | Tony Prieto (R)  | |
 | Michael Steger (R) | |
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2014
Steger ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent California's 12th District. Steger was defeated in the blanket primary on June 3, 2014.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
 Nancy Pelosi Incumbent |
73.6% | 79,816 | |
| Republican | John Dennis |
11.9% | 12,922 | |
| Green | Barry Hermanson | 5.7% | 6,156 | |
| Democratic | David Peterson | 3.5% | 3,774 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Frank Lara | 1.9% | 2,107 | |
| Democratic | Michael Steger | 1.4% | 1,514 | |
| Independent | Desmond Thorsson | 1.2% | 1,270 | |
| Independent | Jim Welles | 0.8% | 879 | |
| Total Votes | 108,438 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Steger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Steger's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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For ten years Mike ran a company with thirty employees and millions in revenue providing the best political intelligence reports available to hard working, main street Americans. He knows what it means to meet a payroll, create jobs, and hustle to grow a company. For the last five years Mike has built Promethean Action, a policy advocacy group with online videos viewed by millions.
Mike has been married for twenty-four years to his beautiful wife, who is a talented musician, singer, and church organist. Mike was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a Vietnam Marine combat veteran and a Burr Oak farm girl. They taught him to love God, his country, and his neighbor. He believes in the Constitution and self-government, and wants to rebuild America like never before.- For too long our nation has been pushed down by fake elites and bad politicians. The forever wars, bailouts, mass immigration, and the off-shoring of industry were not accidents. We need to empower the next generation of Americans with bold, unrelenting leadership.
This means re-shoring and rebuilding American industry, increasing the real energy grid, and investing in America - and in Americans. Strong borders and protective tariffs will raise the wages and the value of the American worker. We need to build more homes, increase construction, lower costs, and revive the American dream.
This great experiment of self-government is not dead. It lives within us. It's time to unleash the creative power of the American spirit. - We need to secure peace abroad and rebuild America. No longer can our nation help the world while we drown at home. Our younger generations are enraged and hopeless because of decades of failures. We need to end the political divisions that stem from foreign wars and failed globalist policies. For decades we have lowered wages, increased debt, and expanded poverty while politicians got rich from endless wars. This was just stupid and insane. America became the greatest nation on Earth by building the strongest industrial and scientific economy in history. We need to end the wars, secure peace, and launch the greatest reconstruction of American industry and society the world has ever seen.
- Our children are suffering the worst social crisis imaginable. Literacy rates in Michigan have collapsed. Our culture has become obsessed with sexual education and academic ideologies rather than focused on literacy, civic responsibility, and great ideas. We have a real mental health crisis. The climate apocalypse agenda has sown fear; social media creates isolation and addiction; and drug use kills hundreds of thousands of our precious young. Today, young adults cannot imagine ever buying a home because inflation is over 50% in five years. This is a wake up call. We need to reprioritize our national culture and devote ourselves to creating a future for the next generations.
In terms of our young people, we need to have an ironclad commitment to build up the talents, skills, and souls of our children. Too many young people feel unneeded. This starts at the top with vision and leadership, but has to be implemented at the local and family level.
At 10, I cut lawns for the neighbors for two years.
First time home ownership is hard enough. We need to reprioritize the livelihood of our citizens, their freedoms, their dreams, and their endeavors. Public bureaucrats who mistreat our citizens and violate the spirit of our laws - whether at the level of the Federal Reserve or the county assessor, whether during public health emergencies or over property taxes - should be seen as the most heinous criminals and be punishable by law.
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2014
Steger's campaign website listed the following issues:[4]
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| —Michael Steger's campaign website, http://www.michaelsteger.us/policies | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
- United States House of Representatives
- California's 12th Congressional District elections, 2014
- California's 12th Congressional District
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Campaign website, "About," accessed April 15, 2014
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 22, 2025
- ↑ The New York Times, "California Primary Results," June 3, 2014
- ↑ Campaign website, "Policies," accessed April 15, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
