But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Gabe Evans
- Backed with $13K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC +1 more
Evans’s two votes oppose both amendments to cut aid to Israel; he called the Israel vote “the most clean-cut” of the aid packages. In a 2024 guide he said humanitarian aid to Gaza often ends up “funding both sides of the war. I stand by Israel.”
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Deep Dive
Evans represents Colorado’s 8th District and is the sitting member, first elected in 2024, an Army National Guard veteran who flew helicopters in the region.
His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card: he took office after the 2024 packages, and both recorded votes are against amendments to cut aid to Israel. In a January 2025 interview reposted by his own office he described the Israel portion of the foreign-aid votes as "the most clean-cut", said most U.S. aid to Israel is spent in the United States, and named among his priorities that Israel maintain its "qualitative military edge" and have "the ability to chart its own peace".
On aid to Palestinians, asked in the Colorado Sun’s 2024 candidate guide whether he supported continued military funding for Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza, he answered: “If you give humanitarian aid to Gaza, it's quite often that stuff gets turned right back around and you end up funding both sides of the war. I stand by Israel. I would need to see an awful lot of concessions from Gaza before I would even begin having that conversation.” The guide’s interactive module was read by a volunteer.
After the June 2025 Boulder firebombing he introduced the resolution condemning the attack; it passed with 113 Democrats voting no over language crediting immigration enforcement, and reporting on a companion measure said House Republicans sought to declare the slogan "Free Palestine" antisemitic. The fight over his resolution’s framing is part of this record and is laid out on the research page.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes
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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Voted to send weapons or funding in more than half of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes.)
The money
$13K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
AIPAC (2026 endorsement) · Republican Jewish Coalition (2026 endorsement)
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
- His recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on the FY26 amendment striking Israeli Cooperative Programs funding, No on the 2026 Massie amendment.
- [Position, 2025-01-15] The Jewish Insider interview, reposted on his official site, verified: "the most clean-cut", the spent-in-America point, the qualitative-military-edge and chart-its-own-peace priorities, and an Iran-cannot-obtain-a-nuclear-weapon priority (Iran material stays off the front of the card). The interview also references co-produced defensive platforms; defensive-systems detail stays off the front.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position, 2024-10-09, read by a volunteer] The Colorado Sun guide, asked about continued military funding for Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza: “If you give humanitarian aid to Gaza, it's quite often that stuff gets turned right back around and you end up funding both sides of the war. I stand by Israel. I would need to see an awful lot of concessions from Gaza before I would even begin having that conversation.” The page’s plain rendering is a shell without the Q&A; a volunteer read the guide’s interactive module in September 2026 and transcribed the answer.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-10-09, reported] From the same guide: Biden’s Middle East strategy handled "disastrously", drawing on his service background. Same source limits.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card (Republican Jewish Coalition support recorded).
- [Endorsement] DMFI’s page on swing-district races names the district; the committee’s own framing, not adopted.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-06-05] His resolution condemning the Boulder attack, his own release, verified.
- [Context, 2025-06-09] Axios, verified: the resolution passed with 113 Democrats opposed, objecting to language including gratitude to Immigration and Customs Enforcement; The New Republic, verified: coverage of the House Republican effort to declare "Free Palestine" an antisemitic slogan, naming him as introducing the resolution after the Boulder attack. Both outlets’ framings carried as theirs.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated, in a competitive district. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- ✗Supports Manny Rutinel (Democrat)
- –Research Underway Dave Wood (Libertarian)
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