Wilson County Commissioner · District 7
Michael Swope
For Faith. For Farmland. For Freedom.
Husband, father, farmer - fighting for our land, our families, and our way of life.
Pillar I · Faith
The family is not a political invention. It is a divine one.
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
and the fruit of the womb a reward.”
Psalm 127:3
The first government is not a county commission. It is the family - the divine pattern of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, made flesh in our homes. To defend the nuclear family is to defend the very image of God on earth.
Michael and his wife are raising five children to follow Jesus Christ. He left his hometown in Washington State because the schools and the courts there had made raising a biblical family unsafe - gender ideology pushed on small children, parental authority dismissed. He moved here to make sure that fight never arrives.
District 7 must be a place where faith is free, families are first, and children are raised - not redefined.
Pillar II · Farmland
You cannot feed a family on asphalt.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. America’s food supply is being consolidated, paved over, and bought up - by foreign powers, by four meatpackers controlling our protein, by out-of-state developers who see our soil as a balance sheet. None of them answer to anyone in this county.
Michael stood up when Hillwood targeted 1,400 acres of District 7 for warehouses. He has been fighting the future land use map ever since.
Once the land is gone, the freedom that grew on it goes with it.
by Hillwood
development proposed
signed the petition
The community won.
Pillar III · Freedom
Serve the country. Serve the county. Serve the home.
Michael’s experience in the Coast Guard and law enforcement has shown him what we’re up against from both ends. This isn’t a county problem - it’s a country one. Open borders, the radical-left riots that drove urban flight, and rapid growth all show up here - as developers at the courthouse, asphalt where there used to be hay, and a way of life that’s getting harder to recognize. The same instinct that took him into uniform brings him to the courthouse - a belief that ordinary families deserve to live ordinary lives, raising their children, working their land, deciding for themselves what their community becomes.
The work he does in uniform and the work he’ll do as commissioner are the same - showing up for the people who actually live here.
From a Neighbor
“Outside of Perry Neal, no private citizen in our community has come close to the personal sacrifice for this community that Michael has. When Hillwood popped up in our backyard, Michael was at the DG handing out his personal cell phone number to total strangers and T-shirts he had purchased out of pocket. He bought street signs himself - and left his own name off them. He has spent countless hours at the courthouse pushing elected officials to follow what is clearly the will of the people.”
“He is an active-duty Coast Guard reservist, with a doctorate-educated homemaker wife holding down the fort with five kids while he serves his country. And that is exactly the type of person you want guarding the border. He does not take nights or weekends off. He does not lower his guard when the coast looks clear.”
“Less than 24 hours after defeating Hillwood, Swope was already on the phone with neighbors warning that the real fight was the future land use map. He has been relentlessly focused on it ever since - and he has donated thousands of dollars of professional hours helping neighbors, including some who openly opposed him.”
“I’ll entrust my vote to people who have already been serving this community long before a campaign was ever on the table. Michael Swope for 7 - and it’s not even close.”