But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Curtis Goodwin
Libertarian · U.S. House, Arizona District 2
–No Position Found
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.
Curtis Goodwin, a maintenance technician born and raised in Mesa, is the Libertarian nominee in Arizona's 2nd District. He won the Libertarian primary on July 21, 2026 and faces Representative Eli Crane, the Republican, and Jonathan Nez, the Democrat, on November 3. He has never held office, so there are no votes on this record.
This is an empty record on these questions. He answered Ballotpedia's candidate questionnaire on June 18, 2026. His three key messages are individual freedom, limited government and strong communities, and fiscal responsibility, and the policy areas he lists as his own, from Second Amendment rights to federal spending, housing and criminal justice reform, are all domestic. The form asks nothing about foreign policy, and he raised none. His iVoterGuide profile carries no answers to any of its questions, and the Arizona Mirror's voter guide records nothing from him on the five issues it covers. No campaign website was found. An empty record carries no implication either way.
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Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-10-06 unless the entry says otherwise. No campaign website was found: Ballotpedia, BallotReady and the Arizona Mirror's voter guide list none for him, and a search for one returned nothing. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Undated pages are recorded on the date we read them. Goodwin has never held office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his, and no funding from the committees this site tracks is recorded on this record. Nothing located on this subject falls in the reaction window.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about arms transfers, military aid, security assistance or any bill on those subjects appears in his Ballotpedia questionnaire answers, in the Arizona Mirror's voter guide, on his iVoterGuide profile or in any news report about the race read for this card.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date. Neither UNRWA, nor Gaza humanitarian funding, nor the aid pipeline appears anywhere in his published material.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, Middle East and foreign policy appear nowhere in his questionnaire answers.
[Undated, read 2026-10-06] His iVoterGuide profile for the November 3, 2026 general election lists the question "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" with "Did not answer" beneath it. Every one of the profile's 32 questions reads "Did not answer", and every biography field reads "Candidate did not provide". A profile left entirely blank is a fact about the guide's coverage of him, not a choice about this one question, and no position is drawn from it.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or any other advocacy organization on this subject, was found. Asked in his Ballotpedia questionnaire which organizations or individuals have endorsed his campaign, he answered "None".
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located, at any date.
What his own words say
[Position, submitted 2026-06-18; read 2026-10-06] Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey, which Ballotpedia's footnote dates June 18, 2026. His three key messages, with the line he wrote under each: Individual Freedom, "Your life belongs to you, not the government."; Limited Government, Strong Communities, "The solutions to local problems are found closest to home."; Fiscal Responsibility, "Washington doesn't have a revenue problem—it has a spending problem." The policy areas he says he is personally passionate about: Second Amendment rights; government accountability and transparency; reducing federal spending and the national debt; protecting constitutional rights; supporting working Americans and small businesses; housing and property rights; veterans and workforce development; criminal justice reform; and limiting federal overreach. His biography answer is about his family and his travels. None of it touches foreign policy, and the form does not ask about it.
[Read 2026-10-06] The Arizona Mirror's 2026 general-election voter guide republishes those same answers with Ballotpedia's permission. On the five issues the guide covers for this race (abortion, health care, immigration, the war with Iran and voting rules) it records "No response." for him on each.
The race
[Read 2026-10-06] Ballotpedia lists Representative Eli Crane (R), Jonathan Nez (D) and Curtis Goodwin (L) in the general election on November 3, 2026, and records that Goodwin won the Libertarian primary on July 21, 2026 with 318 votes, 97.0 percent, against a write-in candidate. His Ballotpedia profile gives his profession as technician and his education as a homeschool high school; his BallotReady profile lists maintenance and technician jobs from 2024 onward. Ballotpedia says campaign finance information for him is not yet available from the Federal Election Commission.
[2026-09-24] The Navajo Times' report on the race says neither of the two polls it describes included him in its ballot test. It reports nothing he has said.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
His LinkedIn profile, the one personal page Ballotpedia and BallotReady list for him, needs a signed-in reader: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-goodwin-2513b3a2/
Not on the card, and why
His questionnaire answers on freedom, government, spending and domestic policy are out of scope and are listed above in full so the absence can be checked.
The blank iVoterGuide profile is a fact about the guide's coverage, not a position.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
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