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

Larry Marker

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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.

No statement by Marker on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel was located, and none on aid to Palestinians. His campaign site runs on energy, the border and agriculture. He holds no office, so none of the votes this card tracks are his.

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Deep Dive

Marker is a Roswell resident and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Mexico. He became the nominee an unusual way: no Republican filed the paperwork to appear on the primary ballot, so he ran a write-in campaign and cleared the threshold.

On the question this site asks, there is nothing. No statement, no vote, no platform line on U.S. military aid or arms sales to the government of Israel, on conditioning that aid, on Gaza, on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, or on boycotts. His campaign site sets out three issue areas, energy, border and public safety, and agriculture, and returns to none of this. He holds no federal or state office, so there is no voting record to read either.

One thing that looks like evidence is not. A voter guide covering an earlier state-level campaign of his puts the question directly, twice: is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why. His entry reads "Did not answer" both times. So does every other question on the form, sixty-eight of them. That is a fact about who filled the form in, not about what he thinks, and it is recorded on the research page as such rather than used against him.

If you want his position on what the United States sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Marker directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his 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 2026-07-13) 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.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

[Position, read 2026-08-17] Nothing located. His campaign site names three issue areas: energy independence, border and public safety, and agriculture. Nothing on this subject appears anywhere on it. This matches the negative search the record itself recorded on 2026-07-24, and a fresh search on 2026-08-18 found nothing further.
[Prior, read 2026-08-18] An iVoterGuide questionnaire from an earlier state-level campaign asks, twice, "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" His entry reads "Did not answer" to both. Read in full: the same words appear sixty-eight times on the form, across every subject it covers. Discounted deliberately, under the rule that a wall of non-answers is a fact about the guide's coverage rather than about the candidate.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Nothing located. No endorsement from any tracked advocacy group is recorded, and no funding from any tracked group appears on this record.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

Nothing located.

Race and status context

Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Mexico, per Ballotpedia's race page, read 2026-07-12, and Ballotpedia's primary page.
The write-in nomination is reported by the Roswell Daily Record: unofficial results from the New Mexico Secretary of State gave him 4,470 write-in votes against a 2,351-vote threshold, after no Republican filed for the ballot by the February deadline. His own campaign site advertises "30,000+ Write-In Votes", which does not match.
His campaign committee's website and contact address come from its FEC statement of organization.
He did not serve in Congress during any of the ten tracked votes.

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? Ben Ray Luján (Democrat)

All New Mexico candidates.