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I’m Michael Gist, and I’m running for Congress in Florida’s 6th District because I believe it’s time to put power back where it belongs — with the People.
My grandparents chose Ormond Beach over the cosy confines of New York because they believed in the potential of the community. I was born and raised right here in our community. My family has lived, worked, and served in this district for over 100 years. I’ve walked these same streets, competed on these same fields, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Volusia County my entire life. I earned a football scholarship from our schools to play in the Big-Ten at the University of Minnesota before serving the people in the Marine Corps.
I first served the People in the United States Marine Corps as an Artillery and then Intelligence Officer. With over 20 years of experience military experience, I held top security clearance and worked in critical roles across the world in multiple countries. I coordinated high-level operations, built vital international partnerships, and supported warfighters to protect American interests on the international stage.
After leaving duty, I came home and continued serving as a full-time teacher in Volusia County Schools. I brought the same intelligence, operational, analytical, and leadership skills I developed in the Marine Corps into our classrooms to protect students, support families, and help drive real student focused academic success.
Now I’m running for Congress with one clear mission: to represent the PEOPLE and fight for their interests to the very best of my ability, so help me God.
My policy positions are summed up in one bold proposal — Freedom Accounts — because I believe, as a conservative, that Freedom defines our values and spirit. I want to redirect trillions of wasted tax dollars out of Washington bureaucracies and special interests and put them directly into your personal Freedom Account, so you control your own money, your children’s education, your healthcare, your home, and your future.
I’ve spent my life protecting and serving the people of this district — first in uniform, then in our classrooms. I’m ready to continue that fight in Congress
For the People and By the People.

I am a lifelong resident of Florida’s 6th Congressional District, born and raised in poverty in Ormond Beach where my family has lived for over 100 years. As a U.S. Marine Corps Officer I served as Operations Officer and Assistant Defense Attaché around the world providing critical information to National Decision makers for almost a decade. I was awarded multiple times for meritorious service. Official citations describe me as a “"warrior-diplomat" who “distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious achievement” and demonstrated “the highest level of professional competence, outstanding leadership and dedication to the mission.” I coordinated and executed more than twenty military-to-military bilateral engagements throughout Europe, and more than two-dozen throughout Asia that supported Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism. My performance reviews called me an “Exceptionally Qualified Marine” who “far exceeded all expectations for his grade and time in service,” whose “superior skills at problem solving far exceed those of his peers,” and who “consistently found solutions to outstanding issues.” After my military service, I taught in Volusia County public schools. Having seen government bureaucracy and retaliation firsthand, I am running for Congress as an Independent conservative to fight for the people — not elites or political parties — policy solutions that benefit the PEOPLE through FREEDOM Accounts.
During my time in National Security, I consistently observed political parties were always for the political party first and NOT PEOPLE! I am running for Congress as an Independent conservative to fight for people — not the elites or political parties through what I have named Freedom Accounts.
As a veteran I believe, just as our Founders did, that power is For the People and By the People. My mission is simple: to represent the PEOPLE and their interests to the very best of my ability, so help me God.
I am a proud Independent conservative who deeply believes in America and our exceptionalism and that we can do better. Ideas are what makes FREEDOM thrive! I know that FREEDOM defines our values and spirit. That’s why my entire campaign and policy platform is built around one bold idea: FREEDOM Accounts.
My Promise to You is that I will fight to:
FREEDOM Accounts is more than a policy — it is my commitment to return power, money, and opportunity back to the American people where it belongs.

America is more divided and polarized than ever before. While politicians and special interests thrive, our communities are struggling, our values are under attack, and our children’s future is being destroyed by wasteful spending, failing institutions, and bureaucratic overreach.
Government has spent $80 trillion of your hard-earned money — yet too often it has served bureaucrats, NGOs, special interests, and big corporations instead of you.
Freedom Accounts changes that.
We are redirecting that money For the People — straight into your personal Freedom Account. No more waste. No more middlemen. Just your money, working for you and your family.
This campaign is For the People — not the politicians.

Real change will never come from Washington elites or a divided political class. It must come By the PEOPLE — grounded in conservative principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, and constitutional rule of law.
Freedom Accounts puts power By the PEOPLE — giving every American direct ownership of their tax dollars, real choices in education and healthcare, the ability to build generational wealth, and the freedom to live according to their values.
This is your country. Your money. Your future.
It’s time to set aside the division and unite For the People and By the PEOPLE.
I am running for Congress as the candidate who will fight for us — the PEOPLE. Together, we will take our country back.

If you want a representative who puts You First and fights to make government serve the people, I humbly ask for your support.
Together, let’s restore FREEDOM and prosperity in Florida’s 6th District and to the American people first.
Your Money. Your Choices. Your Future.
Michael GIST for Congress
Florida’s 6th Congressional District
Born & Raised • For the People • By the People
GIST for Congress
Ormond Beach, FL 32174