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 Firment

Republican · U.S. House, Louisiana District 5
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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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No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.

Nothing located has Firment taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. As a state legislator he co-authored a resolution condemning antisemitic violence on college campuses.

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Deep Dive

Firment is a Republican candidate in Louisiana's 5th District and has served in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2019.

His record touches this subject only through state law on safety, never through the federal question of what America sends. In 2024 he was among the authors of a House resolution condemning antisemitic violence on college campuses and expressing the state's support for its Jewish students, faculty, staff and communities. A further resolution the following year condemned an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado, along with violence targeting people for their religion, race, gender or ethnicity.

In 2026 he authored House Bill 294, which became law and gives places of worship clearer authority to remove trespassers and people causing substantial disruption during services. Coverage of the signed law notes that it covers churches, synagogues and other places of worship. He described the bill as a response to protesters entering a church service in another state, so it is not specific to this conflict.

Safety material of this kind is context on this site and never the answer to what the United States sends. On that question, on weapons, on money, and on aid to Palestinians, nothing was located under his name at all.

What was checked to reach that conclusion is listed on this card's research page. You are better placed to get an answer than we are. Ask Firment directly, or at a candidate forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in his 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 2026-09-27) 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.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

  • Nothing located.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located. No statement of his characterizing the conflict was found.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • [Position, 2024-06-03] Co-author of Louisiana House Resolution 353. Opened and confirmed on the Louisiana Legislature's own bill record, which lists "Gabe Firment" among the authors and describes the measure as one that "Condemns antisemitic violence on college campuses and expresses support for the state's Jewish students, faculty, staff, and communities". A multi-author resolution; the co-authorship is stated as such and the resolution's language is not attributed to him individually.
  • [Position, 2025-06-10] Co-sponsor of Louisiana House Resolution 279, condemning an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado on 2025-06-01 along with acts of violence or hatred targeting people on grounds of religion, race, gender or ethnicity. The address offered, https://legiscan.com/LA/bill/HR279/2025, returns 403, so it is written out here rather than linked and the resolution's wording is not quoted.
  • [Position, 2026-05-21] Author of House Bill 294, enacted as Act 148. Confirmed on two carriers. WORLD reports the committee vote and states: "Rep. Gabe Firment, who authored the bill, described it as a response to protesters' recent incursion into a Minnesota church service." The Baptist Paper reports the signing and states that the measure "sponsored by Rep. Gabe Firment (R-La.), strengthens existing trespassing laws to give churches, synagogues and other places of worship clear authority to quickly remove disruptive individuals from their property". Also covered by Harbinger's Daily, which opens but does not name him.

⚠ By his own account the bill responded to an incident at a church in another state, so it is not specific to this conflict. It is recorded as safety context and, under the standing rule, is never presented as an answer to what the United States sends.

Where the absence was checked

Race and status context

  • Qualified on Louisiana's certified list for the all-candidate November election in the 5th District, with a December runoff between the top two if nobody clears half the vote. Nine candidates are on the ballot in this district.
  • He has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card. His state legislative record is not a federal voting record and is not presented as one.

Also in this race

  1. – Austin Magee (Republican)
  2. ✗ Michael Echols (Republican)
  3. – Misti Cordell (Republican)
  4. – Oscar "Omar" Dantzler (Republican)
  5. ? Stewart Cathey Jr. (Republican)
  6. – Antonio Wilson (Democrat)
  7. ? Dan McKay (Democrat)
  8. – Patricia "Pat" Moore (Democrat)

All Louisiana candidates.

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