I moved from my hometown in beachfront North Carolina to mid Michigan in July of 2021. The warm weather and beautiful Michigan summer convinced me I made the right choice. The freezing cold winter woke me up to reality, but the beauty was the same, and it just solidified my choice.

Why I'm Running — Felix Thibodeau for Congress

Felix Thibodeau moved from his hometown on the North Carolina coast to mid-Michigan in July 2021.

Felix Thibodeau is seeking a full term on the East Lansing Board of Education. (Courtesy photo)

Felix Thibodeau

I decided to run for school board because I am a young person who is fed up with what is happening to our children.

School Board Candidates Describe Their Qualifications, Priorities If Elected

East Lansing Public Schools Board Member (Vote for 3)
Candidate Party Election Day AV Counting Boards Early Voting Total

Elizabeth Guerrero Lyons 2,604 4,381 2,591 9,576
Estrella Torrez 2,446 4,043 2,472 8,961
Chris Martin 2,148 4,062 1,972 8,182
Felix Thibodeau 1,745 2,050 1,487 5,282

ElectionSummaryReportRPT (Official Ingham November 2024 Election Summary Report)

Felix previously ran for the East Lansing Board of Education in 2024.

School Board Candidates Describe Their Qualifications, Priorities if ...

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2026 Michigan General Election

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# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Land Use
    * Develop National Native Owned and Operated Land Banks

Platform — Felix Thibodeau for Congress

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Land Use
    * Provide Native Land Banks First Right to Purchase Land for Sale

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Land Use
    * Introduce a Progressive Land Value Tax

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Land Use
    * Ban Corporate Land Speculation

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Economy
    * Demonopolize the American Economy and Government

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Labor
    * Create Legal Frameworks for Empowered Workers Councils

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Labor
    * Empower Unions

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Labor
    * Legalize Solidarity Strikes

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Labor
    * Universal Right to Work

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Technology
    * Expand Copyleft Protections

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Technology
    * Tax Relief for Open Source Projects

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Housing
    * Build Thousands of Government Owned Houses

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Housing
    * Tax Relief for First Time Homebuyers

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Housing
    * Invest in Community Revitalization

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Housing
    * Progressive Tax for Multiple Home Ownership

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Housing
    * Manufactured Home Ownership Relief

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Economy
    * Government Bailouts Result in Government Ownership

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Economy
    * Prosecute Billionaires for Decades of Wage Theft and Seize Their Assets

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Labor
    * Return CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio to 1950 Levels

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Technology
    * Adopt EU General Data Protection Regulations

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Technology
    * Breakup Big Tech

Proposes nationally owned and operated Native land banks with a first right to purchase land for sale.

Supports a progressive land-value tax and banning corporate land speculation.

Supports reducing monopolization in the U.S. economy and government.

Supports legal frameworks for empowered worker councils, stronger unions, and legalizing solidarity strikes.

Supports expanding copyleft protections and tax relief for open-source projects.

Supports building thousands of government-owned homes, tax relief for first-time homebuyers, and investment in community revitalization.

Supports a progressive tax on multiple-home ownership and relief for manufactured-home owners.

Proposes government ownership as a condition of government bailouts.

Calls for prosecuting billionaires for wage theft and seizing their assets.

Proposes returning the chief executive officer-to-worker pay ratio to 1950 levels.

Supports adopting European Union General Data Protection Regulation standards and breaking up large technology companies.

- Proposes nationally owned and operated Native land banks with a first right to purchase land for sale.
- Supports a progressive land-value tax and banning corporate land speculation.
- Supports reducing monopolization in the U.S. economy and government.
- Supports legal frameworks for empowered worker councils, stronger unions, and legalizing solidarity strikes.
- Supports a universal right to work.
- Supports expanding copyleft protections and tax relief for open-source projects.
- Supports building thousands of government-owned homes, tax relief for first-time homebuyers, and investment in community revitalization.
- Supports a progressive tax on multiple-home ownership and relief for manufactured-home owners.
- Proposes government ownership as a condition of government bailouts.
- Calls for prosecuting billionaires for wage theft and seizing their assets.
- Proposes returning the chief executive officer-to-worker pay ratio to 1950 levels.
- Supports adopting European Union General Data Protection Regulation standards and breaking up large technology companies.

Economy

Felix Thibodeau
First, guns and weapons do not belong in or near schools. Violence is an easy resolution to a disagreement, but it’s never the proper resolution. Students need to have access to easier conflict resolution strategies, and should frankly have space to express aggression.

School Board Candidates Address School Safety – East Lansing Info

Felix Thibodeau
First, guns and weapons do not belong in or near schools. Violence is an easy resolution to a disagreement, but it’s never the proper resolution. Students need to have access to easier conflict resolution strategies, and should frankly have space to express aggression. Again, kids are unhappy and feel powerless. Violence can feel like power. Kids need safe spaces to express their frustration and reclaim some sense of control.

Students need to have access to easier conflict resolution strategies, and should frankly have space to express aggression. Again, kids are unhappy and feel powerless. Violence can feel like power. Kids need safe spaces to express their frustration and reclaim some sense of control. Adults pay money to access Smash Rooms.

And mandates from unknown authority figures instill distrust. Trusted mentors, friends, and authority figures working towards solution, mutual understanding, and community building deepens interpersonal connection and instills a lasting relationship with their community.

Said guns and weapons do not belong in or near schools and students should have conflict-resolution strategies and safe spaces.

Said trusted mentors, peers, and authority figures can build understanding, community connection, and lasting relationships.

- Said guns and weapons do not belong in or near schools and students should have conflict-resolution strategies and safe spaces.
- Said trusted mentors, peers, and authority figures can build understanding, community connection, and lasting relationships.

Public Safety

# THE PLATFORM

* Healthcare
    * Prescriptions of Cash for Poor and Pregnant People

# THE PLATFORM

* Healthcare
    * Universal MedicAID for All

# THE PLATFORM

* Healthcare
    * Increase Investment in Rural Hospitals

# THE PLATFORM

* Healthcare
    * Expand ADA and Provide Genuine Security for Disabled People

# THE PLATFORM

* Healthcare
    * Mandatory Sick Leave

# THE PLATFORM

* Human Rights
    * Pass Equal Rights Amendment

Proposes cash assistance prescriptions for low-income and pregnant people.

Supports increased investment in rural hospitals.

Supports expanding the Americans with Disabilities Act and increasing security for disabled people.

Supports passing the Equal Rights Amendment.

- Proposes cash assistance prescriptions for low-income and pregnant people.
- Supports universal Medicaid coverage.
- Supports increased investment in rural hospitals.
- Supports expanding the Americans with Disabilities Act and increasing security for disabled people.
- Supports mandatory sick leave.
- Supports passing the Equal Rights Amendment.

Healthcare

Because nothing seems to change. Year after year. No one has any solutions and students have no reason to think one will come. My top priority is to be a student advocate. Schooling, after all, is ALL ABOUT THE STUDENTS! We need to teach them confidence in themselves and their abilities.

Schooling, after all, is ALL ABOUT THE STUDENTS! We need to teach them confidence in themselves and their abilities. Instill in them the knowledge that they are powerful actors for change. Ask any high school graduate if they feel prepared for adulthood and I bet you get a sardonic response.

# THE PLATFORM

* Education
    * Universal Pre-K to Doctoral Degree

# THE PLATFORM

* Education
    * Mandate Life Skills Education in Curriculum

# THE PLATFORM

* Education
    * Reinvest in and Expand Department of Education

# THE PLATFORM

* Education
    * Create Student and Teacher Councils to Strengthen Connection to Schools'

# THE PLATFORM

* Education
    * Provide Free Adult Education Centers

Said student advocacy is a top priority and schools should build students' confidence and capacity to effect change.

Supports universal education from pre-kindergarten through doctoral degree programs.

Supports requiring life-skills education in school curricula.

Supports reinvesting in and expanding the U.S. Department of Education.

Proposes student and teacher councils to strengthen connections to schools.

- Said student advocacy is a top priority and schools should build students' confidence and capacity to effect change.
- Supports universal education from pre-kindergarten through doctoral degree programs.
- Supports requiring life-skills education in school curricula.
- Supports reinvesting in and expanding the U.S. Department of Education.
- Proposes student and teacher councils to strengthen connections to schools.
- Supports free adult education centers.

Education

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Land Use
    * Agricultural Policy Designed for Environmental Reciprocity

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Technology
    * Progressive Charges on Electricity for Data Centers

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Climate
    * Pass Green New Deal

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Climate
    * Prosecute Major Corporate Polluters

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Climate
    * Force Corporations to Clean Up Their Mess

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Climate
    * Ban All PFAS and Other Permanent Destructive Chemicals

# THE PLATFORM

### LAND

* Climate
    * Expand Powers of Environmental Protection Agency

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Economy
    * Massive Investment in Renewable Energy Programs

# THE PLATFORM

### LIBERTY

* Economy
    * Rebuild and Expand Public Transportation Options

Supports agricultural policy designed for environmental reciprocity.

Supports progressive electricity charges on data centers.

Supports prosecuting major corporate polluters and requiring corporations to clean up pollution they cause.

Supports banning per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other permanent destructive chemicals.

Supports expanding the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Supports major investment in renewable-energy programs and rebuilding and expanding public transportation.

- Supports agricultural policy designed for environmental reciprocity.
- Supports progressive electricity charges on data centers.
- Supports passing a Green New Deal.
- Supports prosecuting major corporate polluters and requiring corporations to clean up pollution they cause.
- Supports banning per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other permanent destructive chemicals.
- Supports expanding the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Supports major investment in renewable-energy programs and rebuilding and expanding public transportation.

Energy & the Environment

# THE PLATFORM

* Human Rights
    * Abolish Department of Homeland Security

# THE PLATFORM

* Human Rights
    * Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Is Israel Committing a Genocide?
Israel is committing a genocide. One akin to the US genocide of the Native Americans. It is a simple playbook: relocate the existing population, break treaties, provoke an attack, decimate, seize land, relocate the existing population. It is our moral responsibility to stop the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, on the grounds that we are complicit. It is therefore also our burden to provide reparations to the victims, both foreign and domestic, of American endorsed genocide.

FAQ — Felix Thibodeau for Congress

Israel is committing a genocide. One akin to the US genocide of the Native Americans. It is a simple playbook: relocate the existing population, break treaties, provoke an attack, decimate, seize land, relocate the existing population. It is our moral responsibility to stop the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, on the grounds that we are complicit. It is therefore also our burden to provide reparations to the victims, both foreign and domestic, of American endorsed genocide.

Supports abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Said Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians and calls for stopping it and providing reparations to victims of U.S.-endorsed genocide.

- Supports abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- Said Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians and calls for stopping it and providing reparations to victims of U.S.-endorsed genocide.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

As of September 4, 2026, Felix Thibodeau’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Felix Thibodeau

- Supports building thousands of government-owned homes, tax relief for first-time homebuyers, and investment in community revitalization.
- Supports a progressive tax on multiple-home ownership and relief for manufactured-home owners.
- Proposes government ownership as a condition of government bailouts.
- Calls for prosecuting billionaires for wage theft and seizing their assets.
- Proposes returning the chief executive officer-to-worker pay ratio to 1950 levels.
- Supports adopting European Union General Data Protection Regulation standards and breaking up large technology companies.

- Supports universal Medicaid coverage.
- Supports increased investment in rural hospitals.
- Supports expanding the Americans with Disabilities Act and increasing security for disabled people.
- Supports mandatory sick leave.
- Supports passing the Equal Rights Amendment.

- Supports universal education from pre-kindergarten through doctoral degree programs.
- Supports requiring life-skills education in school curricula.
- Supports reinvesting in and expanding the U.S. Department of Education.
- Proposes student and teacher councils to strengthen connections to schools.
- Supports free adult education centers.

- Supports passing a Green New Deal.
- Supports prosecuting major corporate polluters and requiring corporations to clean up pollution they cause.
- Supports banning per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other permanent destructive chemicals.
- Supports expanding the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Supports major investment in renewable-energy programs and rebuilding and expanding public transportation.

  * Housing

    * Build Thousands of Government Owned Houses

  * Housing

    * Build Thousands of Government Owned Houses

    * Tax Relief for First Time Homebuyers

    * Tax Relief for First Time Homebuyers

    * Invest in Community Revitalization

    * Invest in Community Revitalization

    * Progressive Tax for Multiple Home Ownership

    * Provide Native Land Banks First Right to Purchase Land for Sale

    * Introduce a Progressive Land Value Tax

    * Massive Investment in Renewable Energy Programs

    * Government Bailouts Result in Government Ownership

    * Government Bailouts Result in Government Ownership

    * Rebuild and Expand Public Transportation Options

  * Labor

    * Create Legal Frameworks for Empowered Workers Councils

    * Create Legal Frameworks for Empowered Workers Councils

    * Empower Unions

  * Technology

    * Adopt EU General Data Protection Regulations

    * Adopt EU General Data Protection Regulations

    * Breakup Big Tech

Plans to establish a universal right to work and legalize solidarity strikes.

Plans to impose progressive electricity charges on data centers.

Plans to expand copyleft protections and provide tax relief for open-source projects.

Plans to provide relief for manufactured-home ownership.

Plans to prosecute billionaires for wage theft and seize their assets.

Plans to reduce monopoly power in the U.S. economy and government.

Plans to return the chief executive officer-to-worker pay ratio to 1950 levels.

Plans to build thousands of government-owned homes.

Plans to provide tax relief for first-time homebuyers.

Plans to invest in community revitalization.

Plans to establish progressive taxes on multiple-home ownership and land value.

Plans to provide relief for manufactured-home owners.

Plans to rebuild and expand public transportation options.

Plans to create legal frameworks for worker councils and strengthen unions.

Plans to adopt European Union General Data Protection Regulations and break up large technology companies.

- Plans to build thousands of government-owned homes.
- Plans to provide tax relief for first-time homebuyers.
- Plans to invest in community revitalization.
- Plans to establish progressive taxes on multiple-home ownership and land value.
- Plans to provide relief for manufactured-home owners.
- Plans to rebuild and expand public transportation options.
- Plans to create legal frameworks for worker councils and strengthen unions.
- Plans to adopt European Union General Data Protection Regulations and break up large technology companies.

Said guns and weapons do not belong in or near schools.

Advocates for students to have access to conflict-resolution strategies and spaces to express aggression safely.

Advocates for supportive communities, trusted mentors, and formal conflict-resolution structures to reduce student violence.

  * Healthcare

    * Universal MedicAID for All

    * Increase Investment in Rural Hospitals

    * Expand ADA and Provide Genuine Security for Disabled People

    * Mandatory Sick Leave

Proposes cash payments for poor and pregnant people.

Plans to expand the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide security for disabled people.

Plans to establish universal Medicaid coverage.

Plans to address violence against transgender people.

Plans to increase investment in rural hospitals.

- Plans to increase investment in rural hospitals.
- Plans to require sick leave.

# THE PLATFORM

  * Education

    * Universal Pre-K to Doctoral Degree

  * Education

    * Universal Pre-K to Doctoral Degree

    * Mandate Life Skills Education in Curriculum

  * Education

    * Mandate Life Skills Education in Curriculum

    * Reinvest in and Expand Department of Education

    * Create Student and Teacher Councils to Strengthen Connection to Schools'

    * Provide Free Adult Education Centers

Plans to create student and teacher councils to strengthen connections to schools.

Plans to provide education from universal prekindergarten through doctoral degrees.

Plans to require life-skills education in school curricula.

Plans to reinvest in and expand the U.S. Department of Education.

Plans to provide free adult education centers.

- Plans to provide education from universal prekindergarten through doctoral degrees.
- Plans to require life-skills education in school curricula.
- Plans to reinvest in and expand the U.S. Department of Education.
- Plans to provide free adult education centers.

  ### LAND

  * Climate

    * Pass Green New Deal

  * Climate

    * Pass Green New Deal

    * Prosecute Major Corporate Polluters

    * Expand Powers of Environmental Protection Agency

    * Force Corporations to Clean Up Their Mess

    * Ban All PFAS and Other Permanent Destructive Chemicals

    * Expand Powers of Environmental Protection Agency

  * Land Use

    * Develop National Native Owned and Operated Land Banks

    * Develop National Native Owned and Operated Land Banks

    * Provide Native Land Banks First Right to Purchase Land for Sale

    * Introduce a Progressive Land Value Tax

    * Ban Corporate Land Speculation

  * Economy

    * Massive Investment in Renewable Energy Programs

Plans to ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other permanent destructive chemicals.

Plans to design agricultural policy around environmental reciprocity.

Plans to prosecute major corporate polluters and require corporations to clean up pollution they cause.

Plans to expand the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Plans to develop Native-owned and Native-operated national land banks and give them first rights to purchase land that is for sale.

Plans to make major investments in renewable-energy programs.

- Plans to pass a Green New Deal.
- Plans to prosecute major corporate polluters and require corporations to clean up pollution they cause.
- Plans to expand the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Plans to develop Native-owned and Native-operated national land banks and give them first rights to purchase land that is for sale.
- Plans to ban corporate land speculation.
- Plans to make major investments in renewable-energy programs.

  * Human Rights

    * Abolish Department of Homeland Security

    * Abolish Department of Homeland Security

    * Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Plans to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

Plans to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

- Plans to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.
- Plans to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Photo caption: Myself, my best friend Weston, and my partner Yaz, attending a Graduate Employee’s Union action prior to contract ratification.

Felix Thibodeau is from a beachfront town in North Carolina and moved to mid-Michigan in July 2021. He has a partner, Yaz.

Housing

* Build Thousands of Government Owned Houses

Housing

* Tax Relief for First Time Homebuyers

Housing

* Invest in Community Revitalization

Housing

* Manufactured Home Ownership Relief

Housing

* Progressive Tax for Multiple Home Ownership

Economy

* Government Bailouts Result in Government Ownership

Labor

* Create Legal Frameworks for Empowered Workers Councils

Labor

* Return CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio to 1950 Levels

Technology

* Adopt EU General Data Protection Regulations

Proposes Native-owned and operated land banks with a first right to buy land offered for sale.

Proposes a progressive land-value tax and banning corporate land speculation.

Proposes reducing monopolization in the American economy and government.

Supports a universal right to work and legalizing solidarity strikes.

Proposes building thousands of government-owned homes and providing tax relief for first-time homebuyers.

- Proposes building thousands of government-owned homes and providing tax relief for first-time homebuyers.
- Supports investment in community revitalization and relief for manufactured-home ownership.
- Proposes a progressive tax on multiple-home ownership.
- Proposes government ownership as a condition of government bailouts.
- Proposes legal frameworks for worker councils and policies to empower unions.
- Proposes returning the chief executive officer-to-worker pay ratio to 1950 levels.
- Proposes adopting the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and breaking up large technology companies.