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

Gary Grossi

Republican · U.S. House, Massachusetts District 3
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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.

Grossi has taken no public position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His campaign platform covers affordability, public safety, government transparency and constitutional rights, and puts local needs first; it does not mention foreign policy.

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Deep Dive

Grossi is the Republican nominee in Massachusetts’s 3rd District, a retired Army colonel and former VA nurse from Acton, running against Rep. Lori Trahan and independent Kevin Ades.

His platform has four headings: affordability, safe communities, government transparency and defending our rights. Under transparency it says: “Shift government focus to local, then state, then federal, then global -- in that order.” Nothing on his site, in his Ballotpedia entry or in any report located mentions Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid or antisemitism. 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.

One search (run 2026-09-04) was read as a lead list for this card, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-04 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. Grossi holds no office and has no voting record.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

  • Nothing located. The search returned no statement, interview, questionnaire answer or campaign text by Gary Grossi on U.S. weapons or military funding for the government of Israel. Six further searches were run for this card (his name with Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, antisemitism, foreign policy and foreign aid; his name with Lowell, Lawrence and Fitchburg forum, debate and interview coverage; his name with questionnaire and voter-guide terms; his name with Congress and Massachusetts); none returned anything on this question.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-04] His campaign site was read in full: home (375 words), about (480 words) and issues (555 words), static text rather than a script shell. The issues page has four headings, Affordability, Safe Communities, Government Transparency and Defending Our Rights, with sub-items on energy and heating bills, housing, health care, law enforcement partnerships, economic opportunity zones, intact families, mental health and addiction, local-first priorities, waste and fraud, term limits, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. Under Local-First Priorities: “Shift government focus to local, then state, then federal, then global -- in that order. ‘Think Globally, Act Locally,’ placing the needs of the taxpayer first.” No page mentions Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid, the Middle East or foreign policy.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or how aid is delivered.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located: no statement on lobbying organizations, no endorsements on this question sought or refused, no anti-boycott material.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] Ballotpedia: “Gary Grossi (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Massachusetts’ 3rd Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. He advanced from the Republican primary on September 1, 2026.” The general-election field is “Incumbent Lori Trahan (D), Gary Grossi (R), and Kevin Ades (Unenrolled)”. Ballotpedia records no endorsements and reproduces his platform text as of August 28, 2026; it says he has not completed its 2026 Candidate Connection survey and did not complete the 2024 one. A guide’s empty survey is a fact about the guide, not about him.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] The iVoterGuide Massachusetts page for the September 1, 2026 Republican primary lists “Gary J. Grossi, Republican, MA, U.S. House, District 3”; no candidate detail page or questionnaire was located from it.
  • Biography, from his about page: born and raised in Cambridge’s Corcoran Park housing project; 29 years in the Army and Army Reserve, including deployment to Mosul and Al Asad, Iraq, in 2006 to 2007, retiring as a colonel and deputy commander for nursing services of the 399th Combat Support Hospital; a VA nurse at West Palm Beach and Bedford from 1995 to 2022; vice chair of the Acton Republican Town Committee. The site says he was a candidate for state representative in 2024. Not this topic; recorded for identity.

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

  • Nothing located. The Safe Communities heading on his platform concerns law enforcement partnerships, economic opportunity zones, intact families and community mental health and addiction services; it does not address antisemitism, hate crimes or the security of religious institutions.

Not on the card, and why

  • The Safe Communities plank: the search raised it under antisemitism; it does not touch the subject and is described here only.
  • The MassGOP announcement of his candidacy (posts on X and Facebook returned by the search): biography only, and neither address renders to a text reader; not opened, listed below.
  • The iVoterGuide listing and the Ballotpedia survey status: facts about the guides’ coverage, not about him; recorded here and kept out of the card summary.
  • Rep. Trahan’s and Kevin Ades’s positions: their own cards; nothing of theirs is narrated here.

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

  • https://www.votegarygrossi.com/ (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.votegarygrossi.com/about (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.votegarygrossi.com/issues (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Grossi (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/voter-guide/state/ma (opened; names him in the District 3 list; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/research-and-statistics/rep-state-primary-candidates2026.htm (returned by the search; the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s Republican primary candidate list; not opened)
  • https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6MA03100/ (returned by the search; his FEC candidate page, id H6MA03100; not opened)
  • https://x.com/massgop/status/2077458752899567891 and https://www.facebook.com/massgop/posts/gary-grossi-is-stepping-up-once-again-to-serve-massachusetts-a-29-year-us-army-v/1594073028748934/ (returned by the search; MassGOP’s candidacy announcement; not readable here)
  • https://www.facebook.com/votegarygrossi/ (his campaign’s Facebook page, linked from the iVoterGuide listing; not readable here)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-04, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ? Lori Trahan (Democrat)
  2. – Dennis R. Conlon (Other)

All Massachusetts candidates.

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