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John Hauer

LibertarianFirst-time candidate

Delivery driver

John Hauer is a delivery driver and Libertarian candidate for U.S. House Kansas District 2 in his first campaign. A U.S. Army veteran (2004-2009) and Kansas State University graduate, he emphasizes ending wars, ending income taxation, reducing federal government size, and stopping military spending.

From the candidate’s published profile

Background

John Hauer served in the U.S. Army from 2004 to 2009. He earned a bachelor's degree from Kansas State University in 2014. His career experience includes working as a delivery driver.[1]

Bachelor's:
Kansas State University, 2014
High school:
GED

Campaign money

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In their own words

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a working class, blue collar guy. I am currently employed in a car battery warehouse, where I stack old batteries for recycling and make deliveries all over the beautiful state of Kansas. I also donate plasma for spending money, and with my good buddy am working on starting an ice cream business. If you're looking for someone who understands the plight of the proletariat, that's me.

I consider my constituents to be the working poor. Yes, this may be a bad campaign strategy because most of us don't vote, but I can respect that. Who are we going to vote for anyway? Neither duopoly party has our best interests at heart. Both tax the heck out of us, and send our hard-earned money overseas, to the military-industrial complex, to bail out big banks and corporations, to give tax breaks to their friends, to somehow extremely profitable "nonprofits" or to the nonproductive class. We're fed up and angry and there's no voting our way out of this mess.

People are not the enemy. Be they Republican, Democrat, Liberta

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?

End all the wars. I am veteran of two deployments to Iraq and have seen the evil and stupidity of war firsthand. This will always be my number one policy issue. First of all, war is evil. The con is to arm some working-class young people, throw them together, shake the jar of ants and violent things start happening. The instigators in the White House and Pentagon and the military-industrial complex never bear the consequences of their decisions. In fact, they get rich while the ground is soaked with innocent blood. After the war mercifully ends, they get rich once again on government contracts to rebuild the war-torn countries. End all the wars. Don't start new ones. Close all foreign miliary bases. Bring our troops home!The system is the problem. The federal government has become a giant spending machine. It takes from the working class and gives to whom it wills. This part does not change no matter who is in charge. The recipients of who the government says gets our tax money may change but the working poor are always the ones footing the bill. End the income tax and replace it with nothing. Delete most of the infamous alphabet agencies. Reduce the federal government to a tiny, bare bones operation. Stop printing money. Stop inflating away our future. While the system is operational, it doesn't matter to us who's stealing our money. We just resent the fact that inflation and income tax are destroying our chances at a better life.Income tax and inflation very much grind my gears, but not as much as what the government does with the money that I work so hard for. First of all, any dollar that gets sent to any other country is a slap in the face to every citizen here. And not only does the federal government send it away, it's used to fund more wars, more genocide, and line their pockets through international government contracts. Some of it may be used for humanitarian efforts, but if we didn't fund the bombs that caused the death and destruction in the first place that wouldn't be an issue. Stop funding genocide! Bailing out big business with working class taxes is another big problem I have. Literally taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

1. Ending all wars, closing all foreign bases, bringing all the troops home.

2. Stop stealing money from the working class through income tax and inflation.

3. Stop sending our hard-earned money overseas to fund more wars and genocide.

4. Reduce the size and scope of the federal government to almost nothing and return power to the most local level.

John Hauer did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Hauer's campaign website stated the following:

Pro Freedom

Pro Family

Pro Life

Pro 2A

Pro Tax Cuts

Anti War

Anti Drug War

Anti Foreign Intervention

Anti Government Spending

Anti Income Tax[2]

—John Hauer's campaign website (2024)[3]

On the 2026 ballot

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Compiled from the candidate’s published profile as of September 30, 2026 and FEC filings.

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