Dan Cox

Cox's 2024 congressional platform called the region's fighting Iran's "proxy war with our ally Israel" and said he would keep America out of unnecessary foreign wars. Nothing was located from him on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on aid to Palestinians.

Cox is the Republican nominee for governor of Maryland. He was his party's nominee for the same office once before, and he served in the Maryland House of Delegates for District 4. He has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his.

He ran for Congress in 2024, and that campaign's website is the one place he has been recorded touching this subject at all. Under a heading on American leadership and peace through strength, it says the previous administration "surrendered our strength to the Taliban, enabling Iran and its proxy war with our ally Israel", and that he would stand with President Trump to defend America "and keep America out of unnecessary foreign wars". Read carefully, that is two things at once: the government of Israel is named as an ally, and the case being made is against foreign entanglement. It says nothing about arms transfers, about aid levels, or about conditions on either.

His current campaign platform, which he is running for governor on, does not return to it. It is an America First agenda covering the economy, trade, energy, the border, crime, veterans, parents' rights, elections and free speech. Its two foreign-policy planks, one on American strength and leadership and one against globalism, say nothing about the government of Israel, nothing about Gaza, nothing about the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and nothing about state contracting and boycotts.

One further set of answers is reported and could not be read. A Jewish community relations council in the Washington area published a Maryland voter guide for his earlier run for governor, and he is reported to have answered it at length, including on state trade with Israel and on organized boycotts. The guide is published as a scanned document whose text we could not extract, so nothing from it is quoted here and none of it is on the card. The address is written out on the research page.

If you want his position on what the United States sends now, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Cox directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.

Research

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

Nothing located, in any band. Neither his 2024 congressional platform nor his 2026 gubernatorial platform names arms transfers, aid levels, or conditions.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

[Position, 2024] His congressional campaign website, quoted in full by Ballotpedia under its 2024 heading and verified verbatim against that page: "Dan Cox stands with President Reagan and President Trump's 'Peace through Strength' initiatives that kept America out of never-ending wars. Joe Biden has undermined our military readiness and surrendered our strength to the Taliban, enabling Iran and its proxy war with our ally Israel. Dan Cox will stand with President Trump to defend America against all threats, protect America against all dangers, and keep America out of unnecessary foreign wars." The words are the campaign's, written about him in the third person, which is how they are attributed here. Ballotpedia dates the passage only to the 2024 cycle, so no day-precise quote entry is created from it. The same page records that he did not complete Ballotpedia's own 2024 candidate survey.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

[Earlier record, 2022, unverified] A Jewish community relations council in the Washington area published a Maryland voter guide for the 2022 election, at https://www.jcouncil.org/sites/default/files/documents/JCRC-WJW_MD%20Voter%20Guide_0.pdf. It is reported to carry answers from him saying the government of Israel must be defended at all costs, describing organized boycotts of Israel as discrimination, saying he had worked for years with a Christian and Jewish pro-Israel group against that movement on college campuses, and proposing state tax credits to draw Israeli businesses to Maryland. The file downloads but is a scanned document whose text we could not extract, and the gather round's own check records that it does not name him in any searchable form. Nothing from it is quoted, linked or used on the card. It is set out here so a reader knows the answers are reported to exist and that we could not read them.
[Position, read 2026-08-17] His campaign site: an America First platform, with no plank or statement on Israel, U.S. weapons or aid, Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or boycott and contracting measures. Checked again on 2026-08-18; the finding holds.
No endorsement from any tracked advocacy group, on either side.
Source problems, stated plainly. Two addresses in this record did not open on 2026-08-17, so neither is linked anywhere on this card: https://coxforfreedom.com/ , an older campaign domain that no longer resolves, and https://www.ontheissues.org/Dan_Cox.htm , a site that catalogues candidates' issue positions and that refused our request. The record's own note on the second one says its issue grid for him was empty in July, which is a fact about that site's coverage rather than about him, and it is not used as evidence of anything.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

[Earlier record, 2022-08-29] During his earlier run for governor, a Washington Post opinion piece reported that he had kept an account on Gab, a social network known for hosting antisemitic and far-right content, and that the account and its posts were deleted before the general election. It is an opinion column rather than a news report, it concerns a platform rather than anything he is quoted as saying about Jewish people or about Israel, and nothing on the card rests on it. Recorded because it is the only item on this record touching this heading and leaving it out would be a silence of our own choosing.

Race and status context

Republican nominee for governor of Maryland, running against the Democratic incumbent Wes Moore and the Green Party's Andy Ellis, per Ballotpedia's race page and his Ballotpedia profile. Previously his party's nominee for the same office and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 4.
The record's own caveat, kept because it is still right: the absence has not been tested against his 2019 to 2023 voting record in the Maryland General Assembly. The gather round covered his campaign material, his Ballotpedia entry and press coverage, and did not reach the legislative record.