But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Douglas P. Marsh
Green · U.S. Senate, Michigan
✓Opposes
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.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: His platform's ceasefire plank names Gaza and calls continued U.S. weapons and funding for apartheid and genocide unconscionable, and his questionnaire demands an end to material support to such states; read together that is a call to end the arms to Israel even though the sentence never names it. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
Marsh is a freelance journalist and community activist, and the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, having also been the party's nominee in 2024.
His campaign platform, under the heading Ceasefire, reads: "The United States of America should immediately cease hostilities against Iran and use all its economic and diplomatic leverage to effect permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Ukraine, and other countries where war profiteers use the United States as a broker. The continued supply of weapons and funding for proxy wars, apartheid, and genocide is unconscionable." That is a position about what the United States supplies, and it is his own campaign's wording. It does not name the government of Israel or any other government as the recipient. Among the three key messages in his 2026 Ballotpedia questionnaire is the same demand in other words: "We demand an end to illegal wars and military operations, and an end to material support to states engaged in apartheid and genocide."
His journalism is the other part of the record. In Jacobin on July 9, 2026, under his own byline, he wrote that Israel deliberately killed journalists reporting on the invasion of Lebanon, and that the Union of Journalists in Lebanon is campaigning for justice "while the US works to shield Israel from accountability".
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
“We demand an end to illegal wars and military operations, and an end to material support to states engaged in apartheid and genocide.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Our research for this card began on 2026-08-11 and was brought up to date on 2026-09-26, when every page linked below was opened and read 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. Marsh has never held federal office, so none of the votes this site tracks is his, and he has no federal campaign committee on file.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
[Position, read 2026-09-26] His campaign site, under "CEASEFIRE": "The United States of America should immediately cease hostilities against Iran and use all its economic and diplomatic leverage to effect permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Ukraine, and other countries where war profiteers use the United States as a broker. The continued supply of weapons and funding for proxy wars, apartheid, and genocide is unconscionable." The text names no government as the recipient. It has changed since August 2026, when it called for permanent ceasefires in Gaza and Ukraine and had no Iran clause. The site carries no date, so the entry is dated to the day it was read.
[Position, 2026] His 2026 Ballotpedia questionnaire, one of three key messages: "We demand an end to illegal wars and military operations, and an end to material support to states engaged in apartheid and genocide." No government is named.
[Position, 2024, year only] His 2024 Ballotpedia questionnaire, on the same page, listed as its first key message: "CEASEFIRE. Seek diplomatic solutions. Stop the flow of weapons and funds to conflict zones and end practices of proxy war and covert, undemocratic regime change". Ballotpedia gives only the year.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located. His campaign site and both Ballotpedia questionnaires do not mention U.S. aid to Palestinians or UNRWA.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2026-07-09] Jacobin, under his own byline, "Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Lebanon’s Journalists". The standfirst: "The list of civilians deliberately killed by Israel in Lebanon includes journalists trying to report on the invasion. The Union of Journalists in Lebanon is campaigning for justice while the US works to shield Israel from accountability."
[Position, read 2026-09-26] His platform sentence above opposes weapons and funding "for proxy wars, apartheid, and genocide" without naming a country.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2024-10-18] A Green Party of Michigan release reports that, as the party's 2024 Senate candidate, he protested outside WXYZ Channel 7 in Southfield during the broadcast of a Slotkin-Rogers debate, demanding equal time for third-party candidates. It quotes him: "These two candidates in here are fighting to see who is going to dump more money into the military industrial complex—they're fighting each other to say who is going to spend more on war abroad and weapons for genocide instead of investing in education; instead of giving reparations to descendants of slaves; instead of giving universal basic income to our most vulnerable; instead of providing Medicare for All—the funding for all these things is possible." The protest itself was about debate access.
[Position, 2024-10] CAIR Action's 2024 Michigan voter guide lists him as "Endorsed" for U.S. Senate. CAIR Action is the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group; the guide says its highest level "may include support for a ceasefire in Palestine or an arms embargo to Israel". This is the group's rating, not his words.
He describes his campaign in his 2026 Ballotpedia answers as "a grassroots campaign with no PACs." That is about his own fundraising, not about what the United States sends.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
Nothing located.
What the campaign site and own pages say
His campaign site is a single page listing five priorities: Affordability, Universal Healthcare, Housing Market Reforms, Ceasefire and Clean Water. Only Ceasefire touches this question.
The race
Douglas P. Marsh (G), Abdul El-Sayed (D), Mike Rogers (R), Lydia Christensen (L), Walter Kristy (Natural Law Party) and Timothy Long (U.S. Taxpayers Party) are running in the general election on November 3, 2026, per Ballotpedia's race page. He advanced from the Green Party convention on February 21, 2026.
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