But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Hallie Shoffner
Shoffner has taken no position we could open on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on aid to Palestinians. On the war with Iran she said there is no appetite "for an expensive, prolonged foreign conflict" and backed limiting the president's war powers (research).
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Deep Dive
Shoffner is a sixth-generation farmer, a first-time candidate, and the Democratic nominee against Arkansas's senior senator.
Her published platform is domestic. Her campaign's own priorities page, read again on 2026-08-18, runs from the cost of living and farming to healthcare, unions, Social Security and public safety, with nothing on foreign policy at all.
The nearest thing to a foreign-policy record we can open is about Iran, not Israel. Asked by the Arkansas Advocate in April 2026 about the war, she said she would have supported the congressional effort to rein in the president's war powers, and that "There is not the appetite for an expensive, prolonged foreign conflict because we have real problems right here at home." That is an argument about cost and about who decides on war. It is not a position on what the United States sends the government of Israel, and it is not treated as one here.
One caution belongs on this card rather than buried. A campaign video is reported to carry a far more direct statement from her about Gaza, and a pledge about which political money she will take. It sits on Facebook, which does not answer us, so we have not read it and nothing from it is used. Its address is on her research page. If you want her position in her own words, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Shoffner directly and send us the reply.
The record
• On the 2026 U.S.-Israel war against Iran (adjacent, not Israel-aid): Shoffner said she would have supported Congress' effort to rein in President Trump's war powers and criticized the cost of the conflict, saying 'There is not the appetite for an expensive, prolonged foreign conflict because we have real problems right here at home.' She has not stated a position on U.S. arms or funding to the government of Israel.
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.
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No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found
In their words
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 that we could open. Her campaign priorities page and biography page were read on 2026-07-24 and the priorities page again on 2026-08-18; neither carries foreign-policy content.
- [Reported, around June 2026, unread] A policy profile is said to record her as supporting Israel's right to self-defence alongside Ukraine's sovereignty. The page named for it, https://www.ontheissues.org/International/Hallie_Shoffner_Foreign_Policy.htm, returns 403 to us, so nothing from it is used.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reported, 2025-08-26, unread] A campaign video is reported to carry the sentence "I unequivocally condemn the genocide in Gaza". Its address is https://www.facebook.com/farmherhallie/posts/hey-yall-welcome-to-my-page-let-me-re-introduce-myself-hallieshoffner-arkansas-t/794583989793794/. Facebook returns an error to us, a search for the same words on any other carrier found nothing, and her own campaign site does not carry them. We have therefore not read it, and it is not on the card. If it is hers, it is the most important thing on this record and the card understates her.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Reported, 2025-08-26, unread] The same unreadable post is said to carry a campaign-finance pledge: "I don't take corporate PAC or AIPAC money. My campaign is supported by grassroots, small dollar donors". A pledge about which political money a campaign accepts is about fundraising, not about weapons or aid, and would be recorded as such if it could be read.
- [Position, 2026-04-07, adjacent] Arkansas Advocate issue spotlight on the Iran war: she would have supported the effort to limit the president's war powers, and "There is not the appetite for an expensive, prolonged foreign conflict because we have real problems right here at home." She also argued that the case for striking Iran contradicted the claim that Iran had been an imminent threat for decades, and that the war is raising fuel and fertiliser prices for Arkansas farmers. Adjacent, and labelled adjacent: it says nothing about arms or funding for the government of Israel. The Mountain Home Observer carries the same Arkansas Advocate piece, opened and read on 2026-08-18.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing located.
Race and status context
- Won the March 2026 Democratic primary and faces the incumbent, per Ballotpedia and an Associated Press race call.
- She was not in office for any of the tracked votes: she has not served in Congress.
- The incumbent she is challenging has his own card on this site.
Also in this race
- ✗Supports Tom Cotton (Republican)
- ?Mixed Jeff Wadlin (Libertarian)
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