But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Chris Dardzinski
Other · U.S. House, Michigan District 13
✓OpposesFrom their own words
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.
No recorded votes on the bills we track. In their own words on August 11, 2026.
Dardzinski wrote that "Israel and Taiwan do not need any military aid packages, they should pay for everything". He calls both key allies. He also opposes U.S. money for Gaza, saying it "only turns it into weapons and tunnels for Hamas".
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Dardzinski is the U.S. Taxpayers Party candidate in Michigan’s 13th District. He has held no federal office.
His position is a spending position applied in both directions, and both halves are on his own site. In campaign op-eds he sets out per-capita economic figures for several U.S. allies and concludes: "Israel and Taiwan do not need any military aid packages, they should pay for everything." He adds that they are "wealthy nations who should be sending us checks for everything", and, in the same passage, that "For Geo-political necessity, these are two key allies we do need." So the objection is to the payment, not to the alliance.
On the other recipient he is equally blunt: "Why we send money to the Gaza strip, which only turns it into weapons and tunnels for Hamas, is beyond any rational thinking." He opposes U.S. money going to the Israeli military and U.S. money going to Gaza, for different stated reasons. The card names both recipients so neither reads as the other.
His foreign policy page sets out how he sees the conflict. He describes Israel as a "smart small nation" established by the United Nations in 1948 on which "a lot of hatred, suspicion and fear is heaped", and says the United States chose it as an ally "because of intelligence and military necessity". On the other side he writes: "I do believe they should have a sovereign state of Palestine. I also believe they do not want a stable, respectible government", and "Hamas is a terrorist organization, period."
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 2026-07-23) 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
“Israel and Taiwan do not need any military aid packages, they should pay for everything.”
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U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
2024 [Current position; VERIFIED]: In campaign op-eds from his 2024 congressional run: "Israel and Taiwan do not need any military aid packages, they should pay for everything. For Geo-political necessity, these are two key allies we do need. They're also wealthy nations who should be sending us checks for everything." Read on the page.
⚠ **AN INITIAL SEARCH CLIPPED THE MIDDLE SENTENCE.** It reported the first and third sentences and omitted "For Geo-political necessity, these are two key allies we do need." That sentence materially changes the reading: he objects to paying, not to the alliance. The card carries it.
2024 [Current position; VERIFIED]: Same source, on the other recipient: "Why we send money to the Gaza strip, which only turns it into weapons and tunnels for Hamas, is beyond any rational thinking."
⚠ **DIRECTION.** He opposes U.S. military aid to the government of Israel and opposes U.S. money to Gaza. Those are opposite acts with a common motive, and the card names both recipients rather than letting one read as the other.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Covered above: he opposes U.S. money to the Gaza Strip, on the stated ground that it is converted into weapons and tunnels for Hamas.
Characterization of the conflict
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: On his foreign policy page: "Israel: A lot of hatred, suspicion and fear is heaped on them. This does not dismiss the fact that they are a smart small nation: In 1948 the United Nations established the State of Israel, as a sovereign nation for the Jews and other people in the boundaries of the state." He adds the observation that Arab nations direct anger at Israel rather than at the United Nations.
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: Same page, on Palestinians: "I do believe they should have a sovereign state of Palestine. I also believe they do not want a stable, respectible government." And: "Hamas is a terrorist organization, period." He argues Palestinians must build political, judicial and legislative institutions that respect individual rights. ("respectible" is his spelling.)
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: Same page, on Gaza's future, he asks whether an international "Board of Peace" could rebuild Gaza, remarking that if it did it would have "accomplished more than the U.N. has in the last 75 years".
Rhetoric and lobbying
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: On the same page he writes that the United States chose Israel as an ally "because of intelligence and military necessity", and that Israel needed "a very power free nation as a friend".
2024-08-14 [Current position]: In an op-ed on Middle East policy he argued Iran will not change its government "until their intellectual class recognises Israel as a sovereign nation".
No statement located on domestic pro-Israel lobbying groups or political action committees.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located. No statement on antisemitism or threats to Jewish communities.
Earlier record
Nothing located before 2023-10-07. The op-ed material is from his 2024 run and sits in the current period.
Eleven of the thirteen sources found are two pages of his own site, counted repeatedly. The effective source set for this record is his campaign site plus a Ballotpedia race page.
His site pages carry no publication dates, so the foreign policy material is banded undated within the current period.
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