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

Monique Appeaning

Republican · U.S. House, Louisiana District 6
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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: In an undated voter-guide answer she answers "Strongly Disagree" to a statement supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure 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.

Nothing located has Appeaning taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. She answered "Strongly Disagree" to a proposition supporting boycotts of Israel on a candidate survey.

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Deep Dive

Appeaning is a Republican candidate in Louisiana's 6th District.

One item on her record touches this subject. Filling in a candidate survey during a state legislative campaign, she was given a proposition supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel over the occupied territories, the West Bank barrier, equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens and the rights of Palestinian refugees. She marked "Strongly Disagree".

That is a position on an economic-pressure campaign rather than on what the United States sends, and it is the whole of what was located. The form itself carries no date against her answers; the guide's own description places it in an earlier state election cycle, so this record bands it to the day it was read rather than inventing a submission date. Nothing else was located on weapons, on money, on aid to Palestinians, on the conflict, or on antisemitism, and no campaign website was found for her.

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What was checked to reach that conclusion is listed on this card's research page.

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

  • [Position, read 2026-08-20] Her candidate survey, filled in for a state legislative campaign. Opened and read under its own proposition. Against "I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees", her answer is "Strongly Disagree". Confirmed word for word.

⚠ **On the date.** The page carries no date against her answers. Its own description names the election the form was prepared for, an October 2023 state primary, but that is the election date rather than the date she answered, and no submission date exists anywhere on the page. It is therefore banded to the day it was read, which is the standing treatment for a live page with no publication date, and no quote entry is created. This is noted explicitly because an October 2023 election date is close to a window in which material is kept off cards entirely; the item is undated rather than in that window, and it is not treated as if a date had been established. ⚠ This is a position on an economic-pressure campaign, not on United States transfers, and the card says so.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located beyond the survey answer above.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

Where else the absence was checked

  • [Consulted, read 2026-08-20] Her Ballotpedia profile. Opened; it records that she has not completed the 2026 candidate survey and carries nothing in scope.
  • [Consulted, read 2026-08-20] Her Federal Election Commission committee record. Opens; filing data only.
  • No campaign website was located for her, and none is recorded in our records. The own-site check the standing rule requires could not be run, which is recorded rather than passed over.

Race and status context

  • Qualified on Louisiana's certified list for the all-candidate November election in the 6th District, with a December runoff between the top two if nobody clears half the vote. Ten candidates are on the ballot in this district.
  • She has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.

Also in this race

  1. – Blake Miguez (Republican)
  2. – Larry Davis III (Republican)
  3. – Michael Mebruer (Republican)
  4. ? Rick Edmonds (Republican)
  5. – Stephen Wagley (Republican)
  6. – Chauna Banks (Democrat)
  7. ? Lindsay "Rubia" Garcia (Democrat)
  8. – Patrick "Pat" Forbes (Democrat)
  9. – Rufus Craig (Libertarian)

All Louisiana candidates.

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