But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Travis Groo
Libertarian · U.S. House, North Carolina District 11
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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.
No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Nothing located as of September 2026 has Groo taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His Ballotpedia survey names three campaign messages: a balanced budget, ending the income tax and repealing certificate-of-need laws.
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Travis Groo is the Libertarian nominee in North Carolina's 11th District. He advanced when the Libertarian primary set for March 3, 2026 was cancelled, and on November 3 he faces Jamie Ager, the Democratic nominee, and Jennifer Balkcom, whom the district's Republicans chose in August to replace Representative Chuck Edwards on the ballot. He has run as a Libertarian before, for the state House in 2018 and 2024 and for the state Senate in 2020, and he has chaired the Libertarian Party of Wake County. He works in transportation.
This is an empty record on these questions rather than a thin one. His answers to Ballotpedia's 2026 questionnaire list three campaign messages, “Balance the budget.”, “Get rid of the income tax.” and “Abolish Certificate of Need (CON) laws.”, and name property rights as the policy area he cares about most. iVoterGuide's profile of him for this race carries no questionnaire answers. On the questionnaire he filled in for his 2024 state House race he answered some questions and passed on others, and the question “Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?” is marked as not answered. An empty record carries no implication either way.
He has no campaign website; the address Ballotpedia gives for one is his campaign's account on X. The videos on his YouTube channel are titled for his campaigns and his personal life, and none of the titles concerns foreign policy. The addresses of his X, Facebook and YouTube accounts are on his research page.
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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 2026-09-27) 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.
Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-24 unless the entry says otherwise. He has no campaign website: the link Ballotpedia labels as one goes to his campaign's account on X. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Groo has never held office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his, and no funding from the committees this site tracks is recorded on this record.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about arms transfers, weapons shipments, Foreign Military Financing, security assistance or any bill on those subjects appears in his Ballotpedia questionnaire, on iVoterGuide, on the Libertarian Party's candidate pages, or in any report of this race read for this card.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or any other advocacy organization on this subject was found.
Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)
Nothing located, at any date.
What his own pages and questionnaires say
[Position, 2026; read 2026-09-24] His Ballotpedia page carries his 2026 Candidate Connection survey. Asked who he is, he wrote: "My name is Travis Groo." His three key messages are "Balance the budget.", "Get rid of the income tax." and "Abolish Certificate of Need (CON) laws." Asked what areas of public policy he is personally passionate about, he wrote: "Property Rights." Those are all the answers on the form. Ballotpedia records the year of the survey and not the day, so it is recorded on the date it was read. The same page lists his profession as transportation and a bachelor's degree from the University of West Florida in 2000.
[Position, 2024; read 2026-09-24] His iVoterGuide questionnaire for the 2024 race for North Carolina House District 36. Under National Security, "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" is marked "Did not answer", and the question on the Chinese Communist Party is marked "Choose not to answer". Elsewhere on the form he gave short answers of his own: on the purpose of government, "To protect all of our freedoms."; on the minimum wage, "I don't believe there should be a minimum wage set by politicians."; on education, "The state should not fund education." The same profile lists him as chair of the Libertarian Party of Wake County.
[Earlier record, 2020-08-03] The Libertarian Party of North Carolina's profile of him from his 2020 state Senate race, by Brian Irving, says he was born and raised in Texas, earned a bachelor's degree in communication arts from the University of West Florida, is a father of two and worked as a pick-up and delivery driver for a trucking company. It carries no foreign policy positions.
[Read 2026-09-24] His YouTube channel carries seven videos, titled "Travis Groo for North Carolina", "Critic agrees with Travis Groo about keeping their weed", "Elmer says Travis Groo wants minimum government and maximum freedom", "Pirate Birthday Video", two of him riding a mechanical bull and one of him body boarding. The titles were read and the videos were not watched.
[Read 2026-09-26] His campaign's Facebook page, titled "Travis Groo For NC" with the intro "Defending the rights of the individual.", opens to a signed-out reader. The posts it shows are recent; the latest, dated August 17, reads "DeFlock NC!" and shares a post about Flock cameras. None of what it shows concerns foreign policy.
[Read 2026-09-26] His campaign's account on X, "Groo (@groofornc)", opens to a signed-out reader. Its bio reads "Working to bring more representative elections to NC by advocating for Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)." The posts it shows include a January 27 note that he completed Ballotpedia's candidate survey; none of them concerns foreign policy.
The race
[Read 2026-09-24] The North Carolina State Board of Elections' candidate list for the November 3, 2026 election, printed September 21, 2026, lists three names under "US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICT 11": Jennifer Capps Balkcom (Republican), Jamie Ager (Democrat) and "GROO, TRAVIS JASON", ballot name Travis Groo, Libertarian, filed 12/17/2025, with a Greensboro address.
[Read 2026-09-24] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in North Carolina's 11th District: "Jamie Ager, Jennifer Balkcom, and Travis Groo are running in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 11 on November 3, 2026." and "The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Travis Groo advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11." The page's opening sentence also names an independent, John Rogers, whom its results table lists as withdrawn or disqualified; the State Board's list does not include him.
[Read 2026-09-24] His Ballotpedia page records his earlier Libertarian candidacies: North Carolina House District 11 in 2018 (3.5 percent), State Senate District 17 in 2020 (3.8 percent), House District 41 in 2022 (listed as withdrawn or disqualified) and House District 36 in 2024.
[Position, 2026-09] The Center Square's report on the race names him once, as "Greensboro’s Travis Groo on the Libertarian ticket", and says nothing else about him.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
His personal account on X, https://x.com/travisgroo , whose posts need a signed-in reader.
His personal Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/grootravis . Only its title and description opened on 2026-09-24.
His LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisgroo/ , which needs a signed-in reader.
Not on the card, and why
His positions on the budget, taxes, certificate-of-need laws, property rights, the minimum wage, education funding, health care and guns: out of scope, listed above so the absence can be checked.
Jamie Ager's and Jennifer Balkcom's records. They belong on their own cards.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
https://www.youtube.com/@GROOOOOOOOOOO (opened; 2026-09-24; video titles only)
https://x.com/groofornc (could not be read on 2026-09-24; opened on 2026-09-26) and https://x.com/travisgroo (could not be read; 2026-09-24)
https://www.facebook.com/groofornc (title and description only on 2026-09-24; opened on 2026-09-26) and https://www.facebook.com/grootravis (title and description only; 2026-09-24)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisgroo/ (not opened; needs a signed-in reader)
This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-24, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.
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