But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Ashley Bell
Democrat · U.S. House, North Carolina District 10
✓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.
Bell's campaign platform says it in four words and a reason: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it."
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Bell is the Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 10th District.
Her position is on her own campaign issues page, stated as a policy plank rather than in an interview: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it." It sits in a numbered list of platform commitments alongside her domestic positions.
She also solicits donations through an ActBlue page whose title says she rejects AIPAC, and the research turns up endorsements from groups campaigning for an arms embargo, including a voting group founded by former Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash.
She has no federal voting record.
Beyond the platform plank, no separate statement was located from her on U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians, on which specific transfers she would halt, or on Palestinian statehood in her own words.
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.
✓ Endorsed by Track AIPAC
Track AIPACA watchdog on AIPAC-linked money. It backs candidates who reject AIPAC support and call for an arms embargo and conditions on aid to the government of Israel.These endorsements come from groups that push to restrict or end U.S. weapons transfers to the government of Israel. Endorsements from these groups are shown for information; they do not decide the mark.
In their words
“Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it.”
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
[Position, read 2026-08-12] Her campaign issues page, opened and confirmed word for word: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it." A live platform page with no publication date, so it is read at the date of reading. This is the whole of the plank; it names no specific bill, transfer or dollar figure.
[Position, undated] The research turns up endorsements from groups campaigning for an arms embargo, including a "Stop arming Israel" voting group founded by former Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash. An endorsement is a third party's decision about her, not a statement by her, and nothing about her position is inferred from it. Not opened.
She has no federal voting record.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
No statement located in her own words. The platform plank is about ending U.S. funding for Israel's military operations and does not address U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
The research turns up she supports Palestinian statehood and recognition, but attributes it partly to a source that could not be read (below), so it is recorded here rather than on the card.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, read 2026-08-12] "Israel is committing genocide against Palestine" (confirmed verbatim on her own site, above). This is her characterization in the same sentence as her funding position, which is why the card carries both together rather than separating them.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, undated] Her ActBlue donation page carries a title stating that she rejects AIPAC. Recorded from the url rather than from a rendered page, which is why it is described rather than quoted. A campaign-funding position, kept separate from her position on what the United States sends.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
Nothing located.
⚠ A source that could not be read, and the standing rule that applies
Her localcandidates.org positions page was returned by the research. It could not be rendered: the URL serves a Vercel security checkpoint requiring JavaScript, not the page. Under our standing rule, a localcandidates.org citation is suspect until the page is rendered and the position confirmed under the subject's own heading, because that site shows other candidates' positions in a sidebar on a candidate's page. It is not rendered, so nothing is taken from it. Her own campaign site carries the position independently, which is what the card uses.
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