Elizabeth Fitzgibbon

Elizabeth Fitzgibbon earned a high school diploma from Neenah High School and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, in 2010.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I’m not a career politician. I’m a mother, a neighbor, and a litigant for liberty who was thrown headfirst into a system that was supposed to protect people—but instead, did the exact opposite.

When I took my own landmark family law case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, I wasn’t just defending my rights—I was auditing the system for yours. And the deeper I looked, the more I realized something that most politicians miss: America’s biggest problems aren’t isolated failures. They’re the predictable outcomes of institutions structured to expand their own authority.

Think about it. Grocery bills rise. Healthcare costs soar. Privacy disappears. Yet very year, Washington tells us that more government is the solution.

James Madison warned us: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” But angels don’t run Washington, so power has expanded because it’s unchecked.

That’s the gap I’m running to close: the gap between what the Constitution guarantees and what a runaway government actually delivers. This campaign isn’t about left versus right. It’s about whether we choose freedom—or accept being governed by those who act without limits.

Together, we can restore balance, reclaim our rights, and ensure a future where liberty is real, enforceable, and protected—not just for ourselves, but for the generations to come.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Families across Wisconsin are being squeezed by higher grocery bills, housing costs, utility bills, health care costs, and taxes while Washington keeps spending money it does not have.

As such, I believe affordability should be the top priority in Congress, so I will fight to reduce wasteful federal spending, oppose policies that drive up everyday costs, ease burdens on small businesses and working families, and restore basic fiscal responsibility before politicians pass even more debt onto the next generation.Government must be transparent, accountable, and limited. We have all watched politicians campaign as outsiders, go to Washington, and become the very machine they claimed to oppose.

The incumbent is the perfect example: He explicitly promised he would not become a career politician, yet here he is, running again after years in Congress, breaking his own word.

That hypocrisy is the problem.

I am running to expose waste, directly challenge government overreach, and restore authority to the people—not the political class. I won’t go to Washington to join the club; I’m going there to disrupt it.I am running as an Independent because the two-party system is too comfortable managing problems instead of solving them, and when the goal is just "winning the news cycle," the people lose every time.

I am running to end this manufactured stalemate and bring an objective, fearless, and investigative eye to Congress. I will work with anyone serious about lowering costs, protecting individual rights, and restoring accountability—and I will fiercely oppose anyone, in either party, who puts partisan games ahead of Wisconsin families.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am personally passionate about policies that make government more accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. That accountability begins with fiscal discipline: reducing wasteful federal spending, lowering the financial burden on families and small businesses, and refusing to drag the next generation into an unsustainable debt cycle.

But true accountability also demands transparency and the protection of our civil liberties.

Too much power has been concentrated in Washington, often through unelected agencies and institutions that ordinary citizens have little ability to challenge. I believe government must be limited, open, and strictly answerable when it overreaches.