But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Treg Taylor
Republican · Governor, Alaska
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How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: A February 2024 letter he signed says "The United States must end financial contributions to UNRWA", without saying where he stands on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
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Taylor was Alaska's attorney general from 2021 to 2025 and is one of three Republicans among the four candidates for governor on the November 3 ballot; he took the fourth place on it when Tom Begich withdrew after the primary. His record here is made of multistate letters and court filings he signed in that job.
The clearest of them is about American money. On February 1, 2024 he was one of twenty-six state attorneys general who wrote to congressional leaders calling on them to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The ask is unconditional: "The United States must end financial contributions to UNRWA, both in the future and currently scheduled to be paid." And it reaches past that one agency to the aid pipeline itself, saying "no United States funds should go to humanitarian aid in Gaza until and unless the United States audits their staff" to check that no terrorists are employed. Alaska is named in the body among the twenty-six signing states, and the signature block carries "Treg Taylor" over "Attorney General of Alaska". This is the one item on his record that answers the question this site asks head on, and the answer it gives is about American money reaching Palestinians.
Six months later he was one of twenty-four attorneys general who wrote to Brown University's trustees urging them to reject a divestment proposal before a vote that autumn. The letter calls the proposal "antisemitic and unlawful" and spells out a threat: adopting it may require the signing states "to terminate any existing relationships with Brown", divest from university debt held by state pension plans, and stop doing business with it, because most states have laws barring public bodies from contracting with entities that discriminate against Israel or Israelis. The lead attorney general's release lists the signing states, Alaska among them.
In between, in June 2024, he signed a letter asking the President to reverse the decision to defer removing certain Palestinians from the United States. That is an immigration measure rather than an aid programme, and it is carried here as what it is. He has also signed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting American victims of the Hamas attack and supporting the federal government against Harvard in a case about antisemitism on campus.
On what the United States sends in weapons, nothing from him was located. On money to Palestinians, on divestment, and in the courts, he has signed his name repeatedly and in the same direction. On arms transfers to the government of Israel he has not been recorded saying anything at all.
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
Nothing located from him.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
[Position, 2024-02-01] Signed, with the attorneys general of twenty-five other states, a letter to the Speaker, the Majority Leader and both Minority Leaders asking Congress to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees: "The United States must end financial contributions to UNRWA, both in the future and currently scheduled to be paid." The Oklahoma attorney general's copy names Alaska among the signing states and carries his name and title in the signature block. Another circulating version (https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-31_-_Letter_re_UNRWA_Funding_-_Final.pdf) lists twenty-five states and does not name Alaska.
[Position, 2024-06-17] Signed a letter from eighteen states asking President Biden to reverse Deferred Enforced Departure for Palestinians: "we urge you to reverse the decision to defer their removal from the United States." Opened and his signature confirmed under "TREG TAYLOR, Alaska Attorney General". This is an immigration measure, not an aid programme, and it is described that way.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2024-08-26] The Brown University letter calls the divestment proposal "only the latest part of an antisemitic pressure campaign" and "antisemitic and unlawful". Joint wording, so it is not sharpened into a personal characterization.
[Position, 2024-03-28] An eighteen-state letter to the index provider MSCI is reported to describe the boycott campaign as having "fundamentally genocidal goals" aimed at "elimination of Israel as a Jewish state". The copy at https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-03/msci-letter.pdf downloads but is a scan with no recoverable text, so we could not read the wording or the signature block. Nothing from it is quoted or claimed.
[Position, 2024-06-26] A twenty-five-state letter to Senate leadership on the International Criminal Court's pursuit of Israeli officials is reported at https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-06/2024-06-26-arkansas-icc-act-letter.pdf. That file is also a scan with no recoverable text, so the signature could not be confirmed and nothing is claimed from it.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2024-08-26] The Brown letter's mechanism is the point: it warns that divestment may require the signing states "to terminate any existing relationships with Brown" and to divest from university debt held by state pension plans, because most states bar public bodies from contracting with entities that discriminate against Israel or Israelis. Alaska's own such order is cited in the letter's own footnote.
[Position, 2024-04-17] Testified to the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee on House Bill 386 and Senate Bill 255, which would penalise blocking streets, bridges, highways and runways, as Must Read Alaska reported. The bill is written generally; the outlet frames it against road blockades by demonstrators. His own words at that hearing were not recovered.
[Earlier record, 2021-07-21] After The Guardian reported that an assistant attorney general in his department had posted antisemitic and racist material under a pseudonym, his office opened an internal review. Context, not a position on what the United States sends.
Race and status context
On the November 3 general-election ballot, having taken the fourth place when Tom Begich withdrew after the primary, per Ballotpedia's race page and his Ballotpedia profile.
[Position, read 2026-07-11] Campaign site: state issues.
He has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.
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