But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Adam Withrow
Withrow's campaign site says: "We must stop sending weapons to Israel." Asking whether it is OK for people "to be killed and expelled from their land based solely on their race and religion," it answers: "I don't, and I don't want to pay for it to happen."
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Deep Dive
Withrow is the Unity Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in Colorado. He has not held federal office, so there are no votes on this card.
His one act in scope belongs to a different race. Running for a Colorado House seat in 2024, he signed the Ceasefire Coalition Candidate Pledge, started that January by an independent congressional candidate in Ohio. Signers commit, as members of Congress, to "speak out and vote against sending any more money or weapons to Israel" until the government of Israel implements a permanent ceasefire and negotiates the release of all hostages and prisoners, ends its military occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and allows humanitarian aid into all of Palestine. The same document commits signers to refuse money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The pledge organisation listed him among twenty-two congressional candidates.
The pledge's own pages have gone, which is why its signing is cited from the radio report.
His campaign site now has an Israel and Palestine page, read on October 30, 2026; the page is undated. It says: "We must stop sending weapons to Israel. 'Self defense' doesn't mean you get to kill people because their neighbors did something horrible." Asking "Do you think it is OK for people to be killed and expelled from their land based solely on their race and religion?", it answers: "I don't, and I don't want to pay for it to happen." It calls a two-state solution on pre-1967 borders "extremely generous" and "already globally recognized as the best possible solution."
What his current campaign does say is general. Under "Anti-War, Every War" it says "It is not in our best interest to prop up brutal regimes, nor is it in our interest to fund conflicts against our business competitors", and that the United States has "long since abandoned even the appearance of the moral high ground". His foreign aid page says the United States "should not prop up nations engaged in apartheid or conquest." No country is named on either page, and this card does not name one for him.
The record
• Signed the Ceasefire Coalition Candidate Pledge during his 2024 Unity Party campaign for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. The pledge commits signers, as members of Congress, to speak out and vote against sending any more money or weapons to Israel until Israel implements a permanent ceasefire and negotiates the release of all hostages and prisoners, ends its military occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and allows humanitarian aid into all of Palestine; and to refuse any money from AIPAC. The pledge organization listed him as 'Adam Withrow (I) CO-03' on its endorsed-candidates page, identified by his campaign site withrowcd3.com, and Colorado Public Radio reported the signature on 2024-10-16.
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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His campaign site says "We must stop sending weapons to Israel," and that he does not want to pay for people to be killed and expelled from their land. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-30. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found
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
- [Position, undated page read 2026-10-30] His campaign site's Israel and Palestine page: "We must stop sending weapons to Israel. 'Self defense' doesn't mean you get to kill people because their neighbors did something horrible." and, of people "killed and expelled from their land based solely on their race and religion": "I don't, and I don't want to pay for it to happen." It supports a two-state solution on pre-1967 borders. Sent in by a reader on 2026-10-28.
- [Position, 2024, signature date not established] Signed the Ceasefire Coalition Candidate Pledge during his 2024 campaign for a Colorado House seat. The pledge text: "We hereby pledge as members of Congress we will speak out and vote against sending any more money or weapons to Israel until: 1. Israel implements a permanent ceasefire and negotiates the release of all hostages and prisoners between Israel and Palestine 2. Israel ends its military occupation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem, & Golan Heights 3. Israel allows humanitarian aid into all of Palestine." Direction named: against further U.S. money and weapons to the government of Israel, conditionally.
- Source problems, stated plainly. The pledge exists only as an image on a site that is now off the internet, and the two archived addresses this record holds, https://web.archive.org/web/20240831104831/https://www.ceasefirepledge.com/ccc-endorsed-candidates and the archived copy of the pledge graphic, both returned 503 when we tried them on 2026-08-17, twice. Neither is linked. What can still be opened, and what the card therefore cites, is Colorado Public Radio's report of 2024-10-16: "Withrow has signed onto a ceasefire pledge." The station did not name which pledge.
- The listing page was titled endorsed candidates, but the pledge's own instructions show the listing records a candidate endorsing the pledge, not a group endorsing the candidate. It is carried as his action, not as an endorsement of him.
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] His campaign's "Anti-War, Every War" platform: "It is not in our best interest to prop up brutal regimes, nor is it in our interest to fund conflicts against our business competitors. While military readiness is important, global dominance is foolish and impossible. It is a waste of both lives and money to try, and we have long since abandoned even the appearance of the moral high ground." Confirmed word for word. General opposition to foreign military funding, naming no recipient.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Carried inside the pledge's third condition above. Nothing separate located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, read 2026-07-29] His 2026 campaign's foreign aid page: "We should not prop up nations engaged in apartheid or conquest. Brutal regimes should fend for themselves." No country is named on the page and none is supplied here.
- [Attributed by another candidate, 2024-10-21] In Yellow Scene magazine's 2024 election guide, a different Unity Party candidate writes in his own answer: "I join Susan Hall, Ron Tupa, and Adam Withrow as Unity Party candidates calling for peace with justice and respect for human rights in Palestine and Israel." That sentence is the other candidate's, and the rest of that answer, which supports an arms embargo and the genocide case at the International Court of Justice, is his own and is NOT Withrow's. Recorded here for completeness, and nothing from it is attributed to Withrow.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- The pledge also commits signers "to not accept any money from AIPAC due to their lobbying efforts against a Ceasefire". Recorded as part of the pledge, not as a separate weapons or funding position.
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] His campaign site says he is "not serving the interests of any corporation, political party, foreign government, or industry". A general statement about influence, naming nobody.
- No money from any tracked committee appears on his record.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing located.
Race and status context
- Unity Party nominee for the U.S. Senate per Ballotpedia and his profile. He did not serve in Congress during any of the tracked votes. The Colorado Secretary of State's historical candidate record carries his earlier run.
- Identity chain between the 2024 candidate and the 2026 candidate confirmed through the American Promise candidate record, which carries the same 2024 campaign domain the pledge listed.
- Other candidates in this race have their own cards on this site.
Also in this race
- ✗Supports John Hickenlooper (Democrat)
- –No Position Found Mark Baisley (Republican)
- ?Mixed Bob Chew (Other)
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