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

Scott Collier

Republican · U.S. House, Maryland District 7
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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.

Nothing located has Collier taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. A three-time nominee for this seat, his campaign site runs on local advocacy and does not reach foreign policy.

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Deep Dive

Collier is the Republican nominee in Maryland’s 7th District, unopposed in the June 2026 primary and the party’s nominee here in 2022 and 2024.

His own material was read: his campaign site (scottcollier.org, which serves plain-http only) runs on local advocacy and biography, with no Israel, Gaza or foreign-policy content. Nothing located reaches any of this project’s questions.

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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

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located. No tracked funding badge appears because no committee support is recorded for him.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

Where the absence was checked

  • [Consulted, read 2026-08-21] His campaign site (scottcollier.org), retrieved over plain http: no in-scope content. The site has no https service, so it is written out here rather than linked; readers can type the address. His Ballotpedia profile.

Race and status context

  • Republican nominee in a heavily Democratic district, facing the sitting member. He has held no office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Kweisi Mfume (Democrat)

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