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

Christy Peterson

Republican · U.S. House, Colorado District 1
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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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Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: As of August 2026 her campaign platform lists "Yes to the protection, defense & alliance with Israel", without saying where she 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.

Peterson’s platform answers in one line: "Yes to the protection, defense & alliance with Israel", fifth in a yes-list between veterans and fiscal spending. Nothing located reaches U.S. weapons transfers, aid packages or conditions, and nothing located has her addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians.

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Deep Dive

Peterson is the Republican nominee in Colorado’s 1st District (Denver, where no Republican has won since the early 1970s), a construction-company office manager who was unopposed for the nomination.

Her platform page carries her whole Israel record: a yes-list whose fifth line reads "Yes to the protection, defense & alliance with Israel". It names no transfer, package, or condition, and this card does not supply one. The line sits between "Yes to protecting & serving our Veterans" and "Yes to conservative fiscal spending", and that placement is the honest measure of its depth.

Her profile coverage, Denverite and Colorado Politics, runs on public safety, taxes and her long-shot race against the Democratic nominee, and does not reach these questions.

If you want to know what she would vote to send, ask her directly and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her own words.

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 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

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 reaches transfers, packages or conditions.
  • [Position, read 2026-08-21] Her platform: "Yes to the protection, defense & alliance with Israel", verbatim, in her OUR YES’s list. A live page, recorded on the date we read it. A familiar pattern: relationship endorsed, nothing operational.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located. No tracked funding badge appears because no committee support is recorded for her.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Her platform’s top priority is general public safety; nothing located addresses antisemitism specifically.

Identity notes

  • The research’s disambiguation separated her from a children’s-book author of the same name (who wrote a Sesame Street Israel title); nothing from the namesake is used.

Where the absence was checked

  • [Consulted, read 2026-08-21] Her platform page; the Israel line above is its only in-scope content. The research offered only a host this project does not cite (localcandidates.org) for her platform; her own site was found by search and the verification is against it.
  • [Consulted] Denverite’s profile and Colorado Politics’ profile. Race facts and domestic themes.

Race and status context

  • Republican nominee in a safely Democratic seat, facing a Democratic nominee whose card carries its own record. She has held no office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.

Also in this race

  1. ✓ Melat Kiros (Democrat)
  2. – Chad Humphrey (Libertarian)
  3. – Critter Milton (Other)
  4. – Shimon Blau (Other)

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