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

Joe Tache

Other · U.S. Senate, Massachusetts
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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. In their own words on September 5, 2026.

Tache told The Scope in June 2026: "It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel." His platform would "end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately". Nothing located from him on U.S. aid to Palestinians.

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Deep Dive

Tache, a 30-year-old youth worker and organizer from Roxbury, is the Party for Socialism and Liberation's candidate for the seat held by Sen. Ed Markey; the party is a socialist party, and he reached the ballot by petition. Interviewed by The Scope on June 30, 2026, he said that "billions of our tax dollars are used every year to subsidize that oppression and that violence" and that "It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel." In the same answer he called Israel "a colonial society" and "an apartheid state constructed based on racism and an attempted genocide of the Palestinian people, not just starting in 2023 but long before that, starting in 1948." Asked about AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, he said: "I don’t take money from AIPAC. I think it’s disgusting for any politician to take money from AIPAC and to water down the crimes that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people." That is a statement about his campaign's money; his position on U.S. aid is the sentence before it. He also said he does not think Israel controls U.S. policy: "we should see Israel as a tool of US foreign policy."

His campaign site's fourth plank, "Fund our needs, not the war machine! Free Palestine and end the billionaires’ war drive!", is spelled out on his program page: the campaign's Emergency Act to End War and Militarism "will end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately", alongside a 90 percent cut to the military budget and the closure of overseas bases, and his 2026 answers to Progressive Massachusetts, a progressive advocacy group, repeat the sentence. He has written on the question for Liberation News, his party's publication: in August 2024 he called U.S. support for Israel "an unshakeable pillar of its imperialist foreign policy" and cited a poll that most Americans wanted the Biden administration to stop sending weapons, and in September 2024 he wrote that Israel's actions "constitute collective punishment and genocide against the people of Gaza".

Nothing located from him addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians as a distinct question; his statements are about what the United States sends the government of Israel and about the conflict itself. At a Boston rally in October 2025 he told the crowd, "I know it’s been a hard two years, hardest for all for the people in Gaza," and urged them not to feel demoralized. His earlier writing for the same outlet is on the 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 2026-07-13) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

In their words

“It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel.”
Source ↗, 2026-06-30
“I don’t take money from AIPAC. I think it’s disgusting for any politician to take money from AIPAC and to water down the crimes that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people.”
Source ↗, 2026-06-30
“Additionally, the emergency act will end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately and lift the cruel system of U.S. sanctions that make it difficult for countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran to import essential goods such as food and medicine.”
Source ↗, 2026-09-05
“For 76 years, the U.S. government’s support for Israel has been an unshakeable pillar of its imperialist foreign policy.”
Source ↗, 2024-08-07
“it is clear to the majority of people in the world that Israel’s actions constitute collective punishment and genocide against the people of Gaza”
Source ↗, 2024-09-16

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

One search was read as a lead list for this card, run 2026-09-04, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-05 unless marked otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. He has never held office, so there is no vote record. Our funding data shows no contributions to him from the tracked committees. His campaign site's pages are undated and are recorded on the date read.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

  • [Position, 2026-06-30] The Scope's interview (Chloe Craft), a question-and-answer transcript; his answers appear under his own name. Asked about defense companies and AIPAC in Congress: "billions of our tax dollars are used every year to subsidize that oppression and that violence"; "It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel." Both on the card.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-05] His program page, plank 4, "FUND OUR NEEDS, NOT THE WAR MACHINE! FREE PALESTINE AND END THE BILLIONAIRES’ WAR DRIVE!": "Since 2023, as the Democrats and Republicans have both funded and supported the genocide in Gaza, the narrative of the U.S. government as a “peacemaker” and “champion for democracy” has fallen completely flat." The plank proposes an Emergency Act to End War and Militarism "cutting the military budget by 90%" and closing overseas bases; "Additionally, the emergency act will end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately and lift the cruel system of U.S. sanctions that make it difficult for countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran to import essential goods such as food and medicine." The homepage carries the plank in sentence case: "Fund our needs, not the war machine! Free Palestine and end the billionaires’ war drive!"
  • [Undated; address dated February 2026] His written answers to Progressive Massachusetts's 2026 congressional endorsement questionnaire, an eight-page document headed "Candidate: Joe Tache", repeat the platform: the emergency act will "end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately". On the cost of a federal jobs program he writes that in a country "where billions are spent funding Israeli's genocide against the Palestinian people, it's easy to see that a federal jobs program like this is feasible" (as printed). The document itself carries no date; its web address places it in February 2026.
  • [Position, 2024-08-07] "Palestine and Venezuela: Two fronts of struggle against imperialism", Liberation News, bylined Joe Tache: "a CBS News poll from June revealed that 61% of people in the United States now think that the Biden-Harris administration should stop sending weapons and supplies to Israel"; "For 76 years, the U.S. government’s support for Israel has been an unshakeable pillar of its imperialist foreign policy." He also writes that people began to ask how the United States could be concerned with human rights "if it is providing money, weapons, and diplomatic cover to facilitate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people".
  • [Position, read 2026-09-05] His Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey, completed in 2025: "Climate change and war are existential threats to humanity." "I will propose legislation to cut that bloated budget by 90% and usher in a new era of foreign policy based on solidarity and diplomacy, not domination." The survey answers do not mention Israel, Gaza or Palestinians.
  • [Reaction window, 2023-11-28] "From South Africa to Palestine, apartheid will fall", Liberation News, bylined Joe Tache. Not on the card summary; see Characterization below.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located as a distinct question at any date: no statement on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or the aid pipeline. His statements concern what the United States sends the government of Israel and the conflict.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Position, 2026-06-30] The Scope: "Israel is a colonial society. It’s an apartheid state constructed based on racism and an attempted genocide of the Palestinian people, not just starting in 2023 but long before that, starting in 1948." His words, quoted with attribution; the site does not adopt them.
  • [Position, 2024-09-16] "Why the Palestine movement is a struggle for national liberation", Liberation News, bylined Joe Tache September 16, 2024 (page metadata 2024-09-17 UTC): "it is clear to the majority of people in the world that Israel’s actions constitute collective punishment and genocide against the people of Gaza". The text opens "As Israel’s war on the people of Gaza approaches its fifth month", which suggests it was written early in 2024; it is dated here by its byline, and either date is in the position band.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-05] His campaign biography says he has provided leadership to movements "for an end to the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza".
  • [Position, 2025-10-11] Peoples Dispatch, a left-wing news site, quoted him at a Boston rally the previous Sunday: "I know it’s been a hard two years, hardest for all for the people in Gaza," and "But don’t let yourself feel demoralized."
  • [Reaction window, 2023-11-28] The Liberation News article above describes "a genocidal campaign of violence in Gaza" and calls for "an end to the colonialism, genocide, and apartheid that has defined Israel since its creation 75 years ago". Not on the card summary.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Position, 2026-06-30] The Scope: "I don’t take money from AIPAC. I think it’s disgusting for any politician to take money from AIPAC and to water down the crimes that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people." A statement about his own campaign's money; kept separate on the card from his position on U.S. aid. Also: "I would actually say that we should see Israel as a tool of US foreign policy." and "Israel is basically a military outpost of the U.S."
  • [Position, 2026-09-02] His campaign's statement on the general election names "the war profiteers" among the Democratic Party's donors; it does not mention Israel. It reports $270,995.84 raised in individual contributions.
  • [Position, 2025-10-20] Independent Political Report on his October 8, 2025 announcement: his organizing has included "supporting international solidarity movements tied to Palestine"; the report notes the Party for Socialism and Liberation was not a recognized political designation and that he would need 10,000 signatures. No statement on U.S. aid in the report.
  • [Position, 2026-05-18] The Mass Media (UMass Boston) profile: militarism named among the causes of a "bleak" future; nothing specific on Israel or aid.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

  • Nothing located.

Earlier record

  • Nothing before 2023-10-07 located in scope. His biography and The Scope interview say he took part in student campaigns at Northeastern from about 2014 against university investment in companies connected to Israel; no dated statement from that period was found.

Not on the card, and why

  • The November 28, 2023 Liberation News article: reaction window; research page only.
  • The AIPAC money refusal: on the card as a statement about his campaign's funding, placed after and separate from his aid position so it does not read as one.
  • The Progressive Massachusetts questionnaire: quoted here and cited in the deep dive; not in the quotes record because the document carries no day-precise date.
  • The 2026-09-02 campaign statement and the Mass Media profile: nothing specific on Israel or aid; recorded for completeness.
  • The Workers Party of Massachusetts page, the Who Bought My Rep race page and the Inside Elections page: identity or race listings; nothing by him on the subject.
  • His "Lonely Liberal" interview of 2026-07-31 is listed on his campaign's news page as an embedded audio item with no text; not read.

Sources read for this card (address; opened or could not open; date read)

  • https://thescopeboston.org/10547/boston-elections/the-scopes-conversation-with-senate-candidate-joe-tache/ (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2026-06-30)
  • https://www.tache4ma.com/our-program (opened; 2026-09-05)
  • https://www.tache4ma.com/ (opened; 2026-09-05)
  • https://www.tache4ma.com/about (opened; 2026-09-05)
  • https://www.tache4ma.com/news (opened; 2026-09-05)
  • https://www.tache4ma.com/news/socialist-joe-tache-on-general-election-against-ed-markey-a-vote-for-ed-markey-is-a-vote-for-the-status-quo (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2026-09-02)
  • https://www.progressivemass.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Joe-Tache-2026-PM-CONGRESSIONAL-Questionnaire.docx-2.pdf (opened; 2026-09-05; undated document)
  • https://liberationnews.org/palestine-venezuela-and-the-struggle-against-imperialism/ (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2024-08-07)
  • https://liberationnews.org/palestine-the-struggle-for-national-liberation-and-the-role-of-the-u-s-working-class/ (opened; 2026-09-05; bylined 2024-09-16)
  • https://liberationnews.org/from-south-africa-to-palestine-apartheid-will-fall/ (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2023-11-28)
  • https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/11/within-the-us-pro-palestine-movement-vows-to-continue-struggle-for-lasting-peace/ (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2025-10-11)
  • https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2025/10/psl-member-joe-tache-announces-u-s-senate-campaign-in-massachusetts/ (opened; 2026-09-05; published 2025-10-20)
  • https://umassmedia.com/41737/news/meet-joe-tache-the-socialist-trying-to-unseat-ed-markey/ (opened; 2026-09-05; the campaign's news page dates it 2026-05-18)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Joseph_Tache (opened; 2026-09-05)
  • https://whoboughtmyrep.com/elections/ma-senate (opened; 2026-09-05; race listing)
  • https://workerspartyma.nationbuilder.com/joseph_tache_for_u_s_senate_in_2026_election (opened; 2026-09-05; nothing on the subject)
  • Not opened: the lead list's Local Candidates profile page (that site cannot be read; his own site carries his biography).
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-05, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ? Ed Markey (Democrat)
  2. ? John Deaton (Republican)
  3. ✓ Shiva Ayyadurai (Independent)

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