But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Alan Aversa

Other · U.S. House, Arizona District 3
✓From their own words
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. In their own words on September 24, 2026.

Aversa told a 2026 voter guide the United States “can remain on good terms with the State of Israel without sending it money that funds the genocide in Gaza.” His campaign site opposes U.S. “funding of genocidal wars by the State of Israel”, Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere.

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Deep Dive

Alan Aversa is the No Labels Party nominee in Arizona's 3rd District, the Phoenix seat Representative Yassamin Ansari holds. He is a physics and astronomy graduate of the University of Arizona who has taught physics and computer programming and now substitute teaches at charter schools, and he ran for the Phoenix Union High School District board in 2022. He ran for this seat in 2024 as the Green Party's candidate and took 2.5 percent in November; this year he was the only candidate in the No Labels Party primary on July 21, 2026. He faces Ansari, David Redkey of the Green Party and Jacob Parkman, a Republican write-in, on November 3.

His most direct answer on American money is in his answers to iVoterGuide's 2026 questionnaire, a voter guide that AFA Action publishes for faith-based voters. Asked “Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?”, he wrote: “The U.S. can remain on good terms with the State of Israel without sending it money that funds the genocide in Gaza.” Asked which of four views of American foreign policy is closest to his own, he chose the last: “The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.” He answered nearly every question on the form.

His campaign site's issues page says the same in one line under the heading Foreign Policy. It says he is against U.S. involvement in and funding of “genocidal wars by the State of Israel”, Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere, and that he is “America first”, with domestic issues to address first. He said much the same two years ago. Answering an Arizona Republic questionnaire published on September 6, 2024, he named the biggest threat to national security as “The U.S.'s policing of the world, toxic relationship with the State of Israel, and funding of the wars in Ukraine and elsewhere.”

Nothing located has him saying anything about U.S. aid to Palestinians, about lobbying organizations on this subject, or about antisemitism. His Ballotpedia surveys of 2022 and 2024 are about abortion, schools and his political philosophy, and do not reach it. His own excerpt of his answers at the Clean Elections Commission's August 2026 debate for this seat is on his campaign's video channel; its chapter list names no foreign policy segment, and neither it nor the full debate could be watched here. Both addresses are on his research page so that anyone who can open them may look.

The money

Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found

2026 support from the five lobbying groups we track
Nothing recorded (as of 2026-09-27) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

In their words

“The U.S. can remain on good terms with the State of Israel without sending it money that funds the genocide in Gaza.”
Source ↗, 2026-09-24
“The U.S.'s policing of the world, toxic relationship with the State of Israel, and funding of the wars in Ukraine and elsewhere. We have domestic issues that need to be addressed first.”
Source ↗, 2024-09-06

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 2026-09-24 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full: its home, issues, contact and donate pages, which are all the pages it has. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Aversa 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.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

  • [Position, read 2026-09-24] iVoterGuide's 2026 general election questionnaire, under National Security. Asked "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?", he answered: "The U.S. can remain on good terms with the State of Israel without sending it money that funds the genocide in Gaza." On the multiple-choice question on America's foreign policy he chose "D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely." The page carries no date for the answers; the guide is for the Arizona general election of November 3, 2026, and they are recorded on the date we read them. The page states that iVoterGuide is a division of AFA Action, which says it informs and mobilizes faith-based voters.
  • [Position, undated; read 2026-09-24] His campaign site's issues page, under the heading Foreign Policy, in full with the flag symbols the page prints after each country: "Aversa is against U.S. 🇺🇸 involvement and funding of genocidal wars by the State of Israel 🇮🇱, Ukraine 🇺🇦, Iran 🇮🇷, and elsewhere. He is “America first”; we have domestic issues that need to be addressed first." The page carries no date of its own; the server reports the file as last changed on September 10, 2026. BallotReady's profile of him reproduces the same sentence under Foreign Policy.
  • [Position, 2024-09-06] The Arizona Republic's questionnaire of the 2024 candidates in this district, by Laura Gersony, published September 6, 2024, sent to candidates before that year's primary. Under the heading "Green Party candidate: Alan Aversa", asked "What do you believe is the biggest threat to national security, and how should we handle it?", he answered: "The U.S.'s policing of the world, toxic relationship with the State of Israel, and funding of the wars in Ukraine and elsewhere. We have domestic issues that need to be addressed first." The same questionnaire is republished on Yassamin Ansari's campaign site, at https://yassaminforcongress.com/news/arizona-republic-arizona-3rd-congressional-district-candidates-where-ansari-zink-aversa-stand-on-issues/ , with typographic apostrophes where the newspaper has straight ones; the newspaper's own page is the one quoted here.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-24] His 2024 answers on iVoterGuide, at https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/8408/race/1120/election/1243?culture=en-us , mark the same Israel question and the foreign policy question as not answered.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, at any date. Neither UNRWA, nor Gaza humanitarian funding, nor the aid pipeline appears in anything he has published or answered.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Position, read 2026-09-24] The two statements above describe the war as "the genocide in Gaza" and speak of "genocidal wars by the State of Israel". Nothing longer from him on the conflict was found: no statement on a ceasefire, on the October 7 attack, on hostages, or on a two-state or one-state settlement.

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. Ballotpedia reports Federal Election Commission receipts of $523 for his campaign as of June 30, 2026.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

  • Nothing located, at any date.

What the campaign site and own pages say

  • [Undated; read 2026-09-24] His campaign site is headed "Life, Liberty, and Justice Under God". Its issues page has four headings: Life, Education, Economics and Foreign Policy. The Life section is about abortion and says he is one of a team of ten pro-life federal candidates running television advertisements; the Education section is about parents' rights and his teaching; the Economics section calls for a return to local, sustainable farming and decentralized ownership. The Foreign Policy line quoted above is the only foreign policy text on the site.
  • [Position, submitted 2024-09-08; read 2026-09-24] His Ballotpedia page carries his 2024 Candidate Connection survey. He describes himself as "a middle school science teacher", lists his three key messages as "Life", "Liberty" and "Justice", and names "right to life, pro-life" as the policy area he is passionate about. His 2022 survey, submitted June 14, 2022 for the school board race, is about education and parental rights. Neither mentions Israel, Gaza or foreign policy. He has not completed the 2026 survey.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-24] The 2026 iVoterGuide form shows him answering nearly all of its questions, on abortion, the economy, religious liberty, health care, national security, immigration, education, values, elections, energy and guns, and leaving one, on government waste, unanswered. His Israel answer sits among answers he gave throughout the form.
  • [Position, 2026-09-01] His campaign's video channel, https://www.youtube.com/@AlanAversa , carries a video posted September 1, 2026 and titled "2026 Arizona General Election Debates: Congressional District 3 (Aversa only)", at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEh9leSAU4s . Its description says it is his excerpt of the full debate posted by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission on August 26, 2026, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiTUCu4Vs , and lists its chapters: why he is running, local and corporate farming, federal and local government, federal programs, taxes, data centers, Arizona sovereignty, abortion, nutrition and health care, education, and a closing statement. No chapter is about foreign policy. Neither video was watched.

The race

  • [Read 2026-09-24] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Arizona's 3rd District: "Incumbent Yassamin Ansari, David Redkey, Alan Aversa, and Jacob Parkman are running in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 3 on November 3, 2026." He was the only candidate in the No Labels Party primary on July 21, 2026, with 527 votes. The same page records that in 2024 he ran as the Green Party candidate, unopposed in its July 30 primary with 29 votes, and took 2.5 percent, 5,008 votes, in the November 5, 2024 general election. Jacob Parkman is a Republican write-in. All four rating outlets the page lists rate the seat safe or solid Democratic.
  • [Position, 2024-09-06] In the 2024 Arizona Republic questionnaire he gave his party as: "I am a registered independent voter running as a third-party candidate in this election." He listed his experience as "Candidate for U.S. House in Iowa, 2012. Write-in candidate for Arizona House, 2012. Phoenix Union High School District (Ward 2) school board candidate, 2022." iVoterGuide links the same profile to a 2012 race for Iowa's 2nd District.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

  • The two debate videos above, whose titles and descriptions were read and whose contents were not watched. The Clean Elections debate put the same questions to the candidates in this district; whether any was about foreign policy is not known.
  • His account on X, https://x.com/SententiaeDeo , linked from his campaign site. The page returned no readable posts.
  • His LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-aversa/ , linked from his campaign site and from Ballotpedia, which needs a signed-in reader.
  • Two pages on localcandidates.org offered to us, https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/alan-aversa and https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/alan-aversa/positions/075419f6-1c48-4805-8e74-92bd3d275d11 , a host that does not render for us and that this project does not use. The foreign policy wording attributed to that host is on his own campaign site and is quoted from there.

Not on the card, and why

  • His positions on abortion, education, farming, taxes, immigration, elections, energy and guns, on his site and in his questionnaires: out of scope, listed above so the shape of his record is checkable.
  • His iVoterGuide answer that Islamic terrorism is a threat, marked Neutral with the comment "The CCP is a greater threat." It is about terrorism and China, not about what the United States sends.
  • His 2024 endorsement from Randall Terry, recorded on Ballotpedia. An endorsement is someone else's recommendation, and no position is inferred from it.
  • Yassamin Ansari's and Jeff Zink's answers in the 2024 Arizona Republic questionnaire, and the records of David Redkey and Jacob Parkman. Other candidates' material belongs on their own cards.

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

  • https://aversa.vote/ , https://aversa.vote/issues.html , https://aversa.vote/contact.html and https://aversa.vote/donate.html (opened; 2026-09-24)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/8408/race/30411/election/1455 (opened; 2026-09-24)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/8408/race/1120/election/1243?culture=en-us (opened; 2026-09-24; his 2024 profile)
  • https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/06/arizona-3rd-congressional-district-election-candidates-stand/75063731007/ (opened; 2026-09-24; published 2024-09-06)
  • https://yassaminforcongress.com/news/arizona-republic-arizona-3rd-congressional-district-candidates-where-ansari-zink-aversa-stand-on-issues/ (opened; 2026-09-24; the same questionnaire republished on 2024-09-06)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Alan_Aversa (opened; 2026-09-24; surveys submitted 2022-06-14 and 2024-09-08)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-24)
  • https://www.ballotready.org/people/alan-aversa (opened; 2026-09-24)
  • https://www.youtube.com/@AlanAversa and the title and description pages of its ten videos (opened; 2026-09-24; the videos were not watched)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiTUCu4Vs (title and description opened; 2026-09-24; not watched)
  • https://x.com/SententiaeDeo (opened, no readable posts; 2026-09-24)
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-aversa/ (not opened; needs a signed-in reader)
  • https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/alan-aversa (not used; 2026-09-24)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-24, not a claim that no other statement exists.

Also in this race

  1. ? Yassamin Ansari (Democrat)
  2. ✓ David Redkey (Green)

All Arizona candidates.

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