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

Shannon Bray

Libertarian · U.S. Senate, North Carolina
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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.

Bray has not spoken publicly on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. No statement was found in source-checked research across 6 sources.

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Deep Dive

6 sources checked and read, every one listed on the research page. Most candidates at this level have simply never been asked.

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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.

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

Verification, 2026-08-12: checked, and the material has no live source page

An initial search reported that "as part of his general foreign policy platform published on April 16, 2023, he advocates for non-interventionism, cutting foreign aid, reducing the overall size of the U.S. military, and ending foreign military presence abroad". Cutting foreign aid would be in scope for this project as a blanket position, so it was chased.

Both source pages failed, in different ways:

  • His campaign site, `shannonbray.us`, is gone: the address leads to a missing page, not merely a slow or browser-drawn one.
  • His localcandidates.org positions page was read, 327 words, and contains **no** mention of Israel, Gaza, foreign aid, non-interventionism or Ukraine.

So the item goes on the research page flagged as a source that would not open and stays out of the card summary, per the rule that an item whose only source would not open is not used. This is a sourcing outcome and not a judgement that he never said it.

**On the listing-page citation.** This card's research cites aroundtheempire.com/tag/shannon-bray/, which an automated check flags as a listing page. It is a person-tag archive for the candidate himself, which is the safest class of listing, and this card carries no quoted span at all, so there is nothing for it to have misattributed. Recorded rather than silently dismissed.

The generated record, kept

Everything below comes from an initial search’s own notes, and is kept unchanged so that what was looked for, and what came back, stays on the record.

What was looked for, and what came back

  • **U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel:** Shannon Bray has not publicly issued specific personal statements or policy proposals directly addressing U.S. military aid or arms transfers to Israel.
  • **Characterization of the conflict:** There are no public records or published statements of Shannon Bray personally characterizing the Israel/Palestine conflict or the situation in Gaza.
  • **Rhetoric and lobbying:** There are no recorded personal statements or actions by Shannon Bray addressing Israel-related political rhetoric, lobbying organizations, or advocacy groups.
  • **Safety and antisemitism:** There are no public statements or documented actions from Shannon Bray addressing antisemitism, safety measures for Jewish communities, or hate speech regulations.

The rest of what an initial search returned on the questions with no answer

Each line above is the first sentence of what an initial search returned for that question. Where it said more after that sentence, the whole passage is reproduced here word for word, so the qualification stands on the record alongside the finding. Em dashes are rendered as hyphens to satisfy house style; no wording is changed.

### U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel Shannon Bray has not publicly issued specific personal statements or policy proposals directly addressing U.S. military aid or arms transfers to Israel. However, as part of his general foreign policy platform published on April 16, 2023, he advocates for non-interventionism, cutting foreign aid, reducing the overall size of the U.S. military, and ending foreign military presence abroad. On July 27, 2022, he participated in a panel discussion highlighting anti-interventionist foreign policy positions.

### Characterization of the conflict There are no public records or published statements of Shannon Bray personally characterizing the Israel/Palestine conflict or the situation in Gaza. On May 5, 2024, the Libertarian Party of North Carolina Executive Committee voted to adopt a official state party position paper on Israel and Palestine, but this was a party-level platform resolution rather than a personal statement issued by Bray.

### Rhetoric and lobbying There are no recorded personal statements or actions by Shannon Bray addressing Israel-related political rhetoric, lobbying organizations, or advocacy groups.

### Safety and antisemitism There are no public statements or documented actions from Shannon Bray addressing antisemitism, safety measures for Jewish communities, or hate speech regulations.

Sources consulted and read (6)

Not found

  • No position located on U.S. weapons, arms sales or military funding for the government of Israel.
  • No position located on U.S. aid to Palestinians, UNRWA or Gaza humanitarian funding.
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-08-11, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Roy Cooper (Democrat)
  2. ✗ Michael Whatley (Republican)
  3. ✓ Michael Dublin (Green)

All North Carolina candidates.

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