Tony Wied has represented Wisconsin's 8th District — the Green Bay area — since 2024. Two years is short, but it's long enough to see a pattern. Here are 3 things Northeast Wisconsin voters should know.
His campaign got caught tricking voters — and he wants to make voting harder for you
To get on the ballot in the first place, Wied's campaign circulators were accused of tricking voters into signing his nomination papers — telling people they were signing a petition to help the homeless, not a form to put Tony Wied on the ballot.
Once in office, he got to work making it harder for the rest of us to vote. Wied supports the SAVE Act, which would force every American to prove citizenship in person — with a passport or birth certificate — just to register to vote or update a registration. That would hit millions of eligible citizens: 146 million Americans don't have a passport, and 69 million married women don't have a birth certificate that matches their legal name. All to fight voter fraud that barely exists. You can see his full record on elections for yourself.
Deception to get your signature. New hurdles before you can cast your vote. Both point the same direction.
He trades millions in stocks while voting on the policies that move them
Wied is one of the most active stock traders in Wisconsin's congressional delegation. In a single month, he filed 11 stock transactions worth between $1.6 million and $6.5 million.
Here's the part that should bother you. As the stock market shook from Trump's tariff announcements, Wied quietly moved $1–5 million into safe Treasury bills — parking his own money somewhere safe while ordinary Wisconsinites watched their grocery bills and retirement accounts take the hit.
A bipartisan bill would ban members of Congress from trading stocks entirely, for exactly this reason: lawmakers vote on the policies that move markets, and they hear about them before we do. Wied keeps trading anyway.
He scored a 0% on protecting our air and water
Not low. Not below average. Zero. Wied has a 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters for 2025 — he didn't cast a single pro-environment vote they tracked.
Instead, he's backed the agenda that's rolling back protections so big business can pollute for profit: an EPA that will stop counting lives saved when it writes air pollution rules, the erasure of the government's power to fight climate change, and a budget bill that slashed through America's clean energy programs. We're the ones who pay for that — in asthma, cancer, and dirtier water in the bay.
One instinct, three receipts
These aren't three separate stories. They're one story told three times: when Tony Wied has to choose between his own interests and yours, he picks his — a ballot line won with deception, a portfolio protected while your bills went up, a 0% score on the air your kids breathe. He's only been in Washington two years, and the instinct is already this clear. In 2026, the 8th District gets to decide whether it wants two more.
