But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Lynne Walz
Democrat · Governor, Nebraska
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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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Walz is the Democratic nominee for governor of Nebraska. She served two terms as a state senator for Fremont's district and was her party's nominee for lieutenant governor once before. She has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are hers. She is not the Minnesota governor with the same surname, and nothing about him belongs on this page.
We found nothing from her on any part of this question, and a second search in August 2026 found nothing either. Her platform, published in July 2026, covers the state budget, taxes, medical cannabis, veterans, school vouchers and government transparency, and has no foreign-policy content at all. Her biography page is about her family, her work and her legislative service. Nothing in her eight years in the legislature touches it either.
In her years in the legislature there was one Nebraska bill on this subject, a proposal to bar public contracts with companies that boycott Israel. It was indefinitely postponed without a recorded floor vote, so no state senator's position on it is on the record, including hers.
If you want her position on what the United States sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Walz directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in her own words.
Research log
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
Nothing located, in any band. Checks: her campaign site and its biography page, her Ballotpedia profile, and a fresh search of press coverage on 2026-08-18 covering her legislative service from 2017 to 2025 and her current campaign. All return nothing on this subject.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2026-07-22] Nebraska Examiner on her new platform: the Legal Marijuana NOW nominee, Rick Beard, "criticized her for ignoring topics he feels candidates should address, such as a moratorium on data centers, community surveillance, getting money out of politics, the Israel-Iran war, Islamophobia and Pillen's comments about Palestinians or Nebraska wildfires". Read and verified verbatim 2026-08-17. This is an opponent's characterization of her silence, not a statement of hers, and the card says so.
No endorsement from any tracked committee was located.
A positions-catalogue site carries a page for her at https://www.ontheissues.org/Lynne_Walz.htm . It refused every route we tried, and an entry there would in any case be that site's summary rather than her words. Not linked, and nothing rests on it.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
Nothing located. Her platform's language about safety is about Nebraskans building a life and feeling safe where they live, which is a general statement about community safety and is not treated as touching this subject.
State action: boycott legislation
[Position, 2024-04-18] The Nebraska bill that would have barred public contracts with companies that boycott Israel was indefinitely postponed with no recorded floor vote. She was a state senator at the time. Because there was no roll call, there is no position of hers to report on it, in either direction.
Race and status context
Democratic nominee for governor of Nebraska, running against the Republican incumbent Jim Pillen and the Legal Marijuana NOW nominee Rick Beard, per Ballotpedia's race page and her Ballotpedia profile. Former state senator for District 15, based in Fremont, and a former nominee for lieutenant governor.
Identity check: Lynne Walz of Fremont, Nebraska is a different person from Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, to whom she is a distant cousin by marriage. The record makes the distinction explicitly and so does this card, because the surname collision is the obvious way this page gets something false on it.
[Position, read 2026-08-17] Her campaign site: state matters throughout. Israel, Gaza and Palestine each appear zero times on it.
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