R. Tyler MacAllister

Republican · U.S. House, Massachusetts District 9

Nothing located as of September 2026 has MacAllister taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His campaign platform runs to nine headings, every one of them local or domestic.

MacAllister is the Republican candidate in Massachusetts’ 9th District, which covers the South Shore, New Bedford and the South Coast, Cape Cod and the Islands. He is a commercial fisherman and charter boat captain who sat on the Mattapoisett Select Board until this year. He advanced from the Republican primary on September 1, 2026 and faces Representative Bill Keating on November 3.

This is an empty record on these questions rather than a thin one. He runs two campaign sites, and both set out his priorities at length: between them they name the cost of living, energy, taxes, fishing and the working waterfront, offshore wind and data centres, protecting the coastline, public safety, veterans and seniors, prescription drug costs, immigration enforcement, and replacing the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. Neither site uses the words Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid or weapons anywhere. He has not filled in Ballotpedia’s candidate survey, and the local coverage of his campaign, from his announcement at a Marion Republican Town Committee meeting in June 2025 onward, is about fisheries, the bridges and the cost of living. An empty record carries no implication either way.

Two places worth a reader’s own look are linked on the research page: his campaign’s Facebook page, and the forty-minute hour he gave on WBZ NewsRadio’s NightSide on August 17, 2026, which exists only as audio. Neither could be read here, so neither is treated as saying anything on these questions.

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Research

Every page listed below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. MacAllister has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism

What was read, and what it was about

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

Not on the card, and why

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

Also in this race: Bill Keating (Democrat) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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