Candidate · November 3, 2026
Brenda K. Sanders
On the ballot for U.S. House · Michigan's 12th District
- issues with public statements
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. House · Michigan's 12th District1 |
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| Party on the ballot | Green Party1 |
| Status | Challenger |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Her campaign website describes her as a native of Detroit, a former trial attorney and former Michigan judge, and an author, and says she still practices law regularly, as a pro se litigator.2 It says she graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a major in political science and received a law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1983.2 It says she ran a law practice in Wayne, Oakland and Washtenaw counties for 21 years, practiced in federal and state courts, and served for a year as a Washtenaw County public defender.2
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website says she is running because she believes Michigan’s 12th District is ready for a new chapter in which the issues that matter most to the community are treated as priorities, and she wants every resident to have a voice and a stake in the shared future.3
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websitebrendaksanders.com3,
4 - Instagraminstagram.com/brendaksanders4thepeople2,
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§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Economy, Jobs and Trade
Her campaign website says she wants to sponsor efforts to set the federal minimum wage at $25 or more and have it rise regularly along with cost-of-living increases.2
- Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
- Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
- Raise to $15 or more
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says she believes mail-in voting has become something of a burden on elections, and that making Election Day a federal holiday would partly ease the need to handle and count millions of ballots by hand.5