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

Jeff Peckman

Other · Governor, Colorado
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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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Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: Answering an October 2026 voter-guide question about the U.S. relationship with Israel, he calls it "important, but in the right proportion and for the right reasons", 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.

Peckman, the Unity Party nominee, campaigns on what he calls coherence. Asked whether the U.S. relationship with Israel is important, he wrote “It’s important, but in the right proportion and for the right reasons”, adding that the federal government, not the states, is responsible for deciding what those are.

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Deep Dive

Jeff Peckman is the Unity Party's nominee for governor of Colorado, with the party's state chair, T.J. Cole, as his running mate. He won the party's June 30 primary against Paul Fiorino. He is an author, entrepreneur and consultant who calls himself a “solutionist”, and he has run before, for the U.S. Senate in 1998, the state House in 2004 and mayor of Denver in 2011. The seat is open. He faces Victor Marx, the Republican, Phil Weiser, the Democrat, Stephen Hamilton of the American Constitution Party, Eric Mulder, the Libertarian, Erik Underwood of the Approval Voting Party and Greg Lopez, who is unaffiliated, on November 3.

His campaign rests on a principle he calls coherence, which he told Colorado Public Radio would bring the parts of state government into line toward the same goals. He would appoint a chief coherence officer and promote technologies he says can cut vehicle emissions and ground-level ozone; the station noted that those technologies have yet to be fully verified by independent scientific evidence. His campaign site sets out plans to produce graphene and hydrogen from methane in Colorado, to budget by what is most affordable and effective, and to end tax support for electric vehicles. He has written that many actions of federal immigration agents meet the USA PATRIOT Act's definition of domestic terrorism, and promises state laws to penalize them.

On the question this site asks, his one statement is an answer to iVoterGuide, a voter guide published by the conservative group AFA Action. Asked whether the United States' relationship with Israel is important, and why, he wrote: “It’s important, but in the right proportion and for the right reasons.” He went on: “Relationships between the U.S. and all countries are important.” He added that determining the right proportion and the right reasons is the responsibility of the federal government, not state governments, and ended: “I’m campaigning to be governor of Colorado.” He gave the same reasoning on the same form about threats from China, calling them “concerns of the U.S. administration, and not Colorado state government.”

Nothing located from him addresses U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or U.S. aid to Palestinians. The words Israel, Gaza and Palestinian appear nowhere on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia survey or in the thirteen other questionnaires his site publishes. A governor casts no federal votes on any of this.

In their words

“It’s important, but in the right proportion and for the right reasons. Relationships between the U.S. and all countries are important. However, determining what is the “right proportion” and “right reasons” is the responsibility of the Federal government and not state governments. I’m campaigning to be governor of Colorado.”
Source ↗, 2026-10-05

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 2026-10-05 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full: the home page and its ten linked pages (Solutions Blueprint, About Jeff, Endorsements, In the News, Volunteer, Press Releases, Candidate Q & A, AI Rankings, Election Fraud, Contact), and the thirteen questionnaire files linked from its Candidate Q & A page. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Peckman has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his, and a campaign for state office is not covered by the federal funding records this site tracks.

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

  • Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about arms transfers, Foreign Military Financing, security assistance or any federal bill on those subjects appears on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia survey, in iVoterGuide's questionnaire or in the questionnaires his site publishes.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, at any date.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located, at any date. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, Middle East and antisemitism appear nowhere on his campaign site or in its questionnaire files.
  • [Position, read 2026-10-05] On iVoterGuide's form, in an answer on abortion, he wrote that many people who agree that human life deserves protection "don’t care that the U.S. is murdering innocent fishermen or blowing up children and adults in other countries." It names no country and is not about Israel or Gaza.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Position, 2026 general-election questionnaire; read 2026-10-05] iVoterGuide's profile for him, under its question "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?": "It’s important, but in the right proportion and for the right reasons. Relationships between the U.S. and all countries are important. However, determining what is the “right proportion” and “right reasons” is the responsibility of the Federal government and not state governments. I’m campaigning to be governor of Colorado." He answered the whole form, with written answers throughout. The profile carries no date of its own and is recorded on the date we read it. iVoterGuide is a division of AFA Action, as its own page says, and rates him "Moderate"; the rating is its judgment and is not used on the card.
  • [Position, same form] Asked whether the Chinese Communist Party poses serious threats to the United States, he chose Agree and wrote: "Those are concerns of the U.S. administration, and not Colorado state government."

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

  • Nothing located, at any date.

What the campaign site and own pages say

  • [Position, read 2026-10-05] His campaign site presents the ticket as Peckman and Cole, with the slogan "Raise the Zone for a Coherent Colorado". It names his running mate as Tijani "T.J." Cole, chair of the Unity Party of Colorado. His Solutions Blueprint, about 20,000 words, covers air quality and climate change, technology and innovation, public safety, crime and terrorism, roads and infrastructure and other areas; its public-safety section describes his 2003 Denver ballot initiative, Safety through Peace, and proposes state laws against domestic terrorism. None of it concerns any foreign government.
  • [Position, read 2026-10-05] His Candidate Q & A page publishes his answers to six general-election questionnaires (Stance on Science, the Coloradoan, the Denver Post, ECHO Fremont, the League of Women Voters and the NAACP) and seven primary questionnaires (Ballotpedia, Church Voter Guides, Colorado Newsline, the American Friends Service Committee with the Shut Down GEO Aurora Campaign, KRDO, a science group and an immigrant and refugee coalition). The answers to the Friends Service Committee questionnaire, which concerns immigration detention, say that "many actions and operations of DHS/ICE perfectly match the definition of “Domestic terrorism” in Sec. 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001" and set out a plan to "Enact enforceable state laws against domestic terrorism". None of the thirteen mentions Israel, Gaza or Palestinians.
  • [Position, 2026 survey; read 2026-10-05] His Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey lists among the areas where he has promoted solutions "world peace, counterterrorism, and even disclosure of UFO secrecy", and among his passions "Disclosure of UFO/UAP/extraterrestrial secrets". It names no country and says nothing on this subject.

The race

  • [Read 2026-10-05] His Ballotpedia page: "Jeff Peckman (Unity Party) is running for election for Governor of Colorado. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026." It records that he defeated Paul Fiorino in the Unity Party primary on June 30, 2026, with 53.7 percent (146 votes), lists the general-election field as Phil Weiser (D), Victor Marx (R), Stephen Hamilton (American Constitution Party), Erik Underwood (Approval Voting Party), Eric Mulder (L), Greg Lopez (Unaffiliated) and Jeff Peckman (Unity Party), and says there are no incumbents in the race.
  • [Position, published 2026-05-29] Colorado Public Radio's primary profile says he is "singularly devoted to the principle of coherence", describes him as "an author, entrepreneur and consultant, a devoted practitioner of transcendental meditation, and a longtime advocate for government disclosure of UFO-related evidence", reports his plan for a chief coherence officer and adds that the technologies he names "have yet to be fully verified by independent scientific evidence." It reports that he described ICE's actions under President Trump as domestic terrorism.
  • [Position, published 2026-09-25] Colorado Public Radio's general-election guide lists the same seven candidates and says Democrats hold all of Colorado's statewide offices, which are open seats this year.
  • [Read 2026-10-05] iVoterGuide's profile lists the offices he has sought: U.S. Senate (1998), Colorado State Representative, House District 2 (2004), mayor of Denver (2011) and governor (2026).

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

  • His Facebook account, listed by Ballotpedia: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.peckman/ . Not read.
  • A KKTV 11 News primary profile listed by iVoterGuide, https://www.kktv.com/video/2026/06/23/primary-profile-jeff-peckman-governor/ . A video; not watched.

Not on the card, and why

  • His platform on coherence technologies, emissions, graphene and hydrogen, budgeting, immigration enforcement and the other areas above: real positions, but not about U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or about U.S. aid to Palestinians.
  • His abortion answer's line about the U.S. "blowing up children and adults in other countries": it names no country and is not about this question.
  • His UFO-disclosure advocacy: his own words and a news description, recorded above; not about this question.
  • iVoterGuide's "Moderate" rating: a third party's judgment, not his words.
  • The other six candidates' records: they belong on their own cards.

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

  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/95518 (opened; 2026-10-05)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_Peckman (opened; 2026-10-05)
  • https://jeffpeckman.com/ and its ten linked pages, including https://jeffpeckman.com/solutions-blueprint and https://jeffpeckman.com/candidate-q-%26-a (opened; 2026-10-05)
  • The thirteen questionnaire PDF files linked from https://jeffpeckman.com/candidate-q-%26-a (opened and read as text; 2026-10-05)
  • https://www.cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-primary-election-colorado-governor-jeff-peckman/ (opened; 2026-10-05; published 2026-05-29)
  • https://www.cpr.org/2026/09/24/vg-2026-colorado-governor-voter-guide/ (opened; 2026-10-05; published 2026-09-25)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-10-05, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ? Phil Weiser (Democrat)
  2. – Victor Marx (Republican)
  3. – Eric Mulder (Libertarian)
  4. ✓ Erik Underwood (Other)
  5. ? Greg Lopez (Other)
  6. – Stephen Hamilton (Other)

All Colorado candidates.

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