But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Kedner Maxime
Other · U.S. House, Florida District 20
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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.
No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Nothing located as of September 2026 has Maxime taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His campaign platform is domestic; a September post lists an end to wars overseas among his priorities, naming no country.
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Kedner Maxime is the Independent Party of Florida's candidate in Florida's 20th District, and the Division of Elections lists him as qualified for the November 3, 2026 ballot; the party's primary was cancelled and he advanced without appearing on a primary ballot. His campaign site says he came to the United States from Port-de-Paix, Haiti, in 1981 at 18, founded a tax and immigration consulting firm in Oakland Park in 1996, has been pastor of a Fort Lauderdale church since 2010 and has hosted a radio program for two decades. He writes that he has been a Democrat all his life and chose to run as an independent. He faces Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Brent Andersen, the Republican nominee. He has held no office, so there are no votes on this record.
This is an empty record on these questions rather than a thin one. His platform covers lower costs, jobs, small business, education, students, health care, immigration, ownership, accountability, and civility and unity, and none of its pages mentions foreign policy. His campaign's posts since August are about Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, immigration courts, Florida's property tax amendment and the district. The nearest thing to the subject is one line: a September 30 post lists "An end to wars overseas" among the issues that matter to every family, between lower costs and affordable housing, and says "Other nations no longer see the United States as the only superpower." Neither names a country. The words Israel, Gaza and Palestinian appear nowhere on his site. He has not completed Ballotpedia's candidate survey. An empty record carries no implication either way.
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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.
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Our research for this card began with a search run on 2026-09-28, and every page below was opened and read on 2026-10-01 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full: its home page, its biography page, all ten of its issue pages, its blog page and all ten of its posts. His Ballotpedia page and a local report of the field were read. He has held no office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
Nothing located, at any date. The word Israel appears nowhere on his campaign site. Nothing was found about arms transfers, Foreign Military Financing, the memorandum of understanding, or any bill or amendment on this subject.
[Position, 2026-09-30] The closest material names no country. His post headed Why FL-20 Must Stay Rooted in Our Community says: "This is also bigger than one district. The world is changing. Other nations no longer see the United States as the only superpower." It then lists the issues "that matter to every family": "Healthcare for all", "Lower gas prices", "Lower everyday costs, including property insurance", "An end to wars overseas", "Affordable housing" and "Pathways to legal immigration status for people who contribute to our communities and obey the law". No war or country is named.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date. Gaza, the West Bank, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and humanitarian funding appear nowhere on his campaign site.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located from him, at any date. No lobbying organization on this subject is named on his site.
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; undated live pages, read 2026-10-01] His home page sets out four campaign priorities: affordability and lower inflation, immigration ("Secure borders, fair laws, and a path forward."), health care ("Healthcare is a right, not a luxury.") and education. Its ten issue pages are headed Lower Costs & Affordability, Jobs & Economic Security, Small Business, World-Class Education in Every Zip Code, Students & Opportunity, Healthcare Is a Right, Immigration: Secure Borders, Humane Path, Ownership & Equity, Accountability, and Civility & Unity. None mentions foreign policy.
[Position; undated live page, read 2026-10-01] His biography page says he was born and raised in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, arrived in the United States in April 1981 as an 18-year-old student, founded Advantage Tax Firm Consulting Services in Oakland Park in 1996, began a weekly radio program on WLQY 1320AM in 2006, was ordained pastor of L’Eglise la Voix du Salut in Fort Lauderdale in April 2010, and ran for the Oakland Park City Commission in 2022.
[Position, 2026-08-25 to 2026-09-30; read 2026-10-01] His campaign's blog carries ten posts: on unity in the district (August 25), Temporary Protected Status for Haiti (August 26 and September 4), the death of a Haitian student (September 3), a podcast interview, immigration courts in Miami, Florida's Amendment 3 on property taxes and a reply to attacks on Black women in politics (all September 9), a barbershop conversation series (September 14), and the September 30 post above. Only the September 30 post touches foreign affairs, in the lines quoted above. In it he also writes: "I have been a Democrat my whole life. I chose to run as an independent because I believe this seat must stay rooted in the community it was built to serve, and because voters deserve a real choice."
The race
[Read 2026-10-01] The Division of Elections' record for him lists Kedner Maxime (IND) for United States Representative, District 20, of Oakland Park, filed on 05/18/2026 and qualified on 06/09/2026 by paying the qualifying fee. The page carries a street address, which is not reproduced.
[Read 2026-10-01] His Ballotpedia page lists him as the Independent Party of Florida's candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot with Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Brent Andersen (R), records that the party's August 18 primary was cancelled and that he advanced without appearing on a ballot, and says he has not completed its 2026 Candidate Connection survey.
[Position, 2026-07-22] The Miami Herald's guide to the race, published before the primary, lists him as "Kedner Maxime, Independent candidate" with no positions. Politics1 describes him as "Businessman, Pastor & '25 City Commission Candidate"; his own site gives the city commission race as 2022.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
His campaign's accounts linked from its site: Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/MaximeForCongress , Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/maximeforcongress/ , X, https://x.com/KednerMaxime , and YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/@MaximeforCongress . None was read, and the podcast and video interviews his posts embed were not watched.
Not on the card, and why
His September 30 post's criticism of his Democratic opponent: it is about another candidate and about representation in the district, not about this subject.
His posts on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and on immigration courts: out of scope.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz's and Brent Andersen's records: they belong on their own cards.
Sources read for this card (address; opened or could not open; date read)
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