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

Joshua Kolasinski

Democrat · U.S. House, Ohio District 4
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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.

Kolasinski has not spoken publicly on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. He was endorsed by a group campaigning for an arms embargo, but an endorsement is a decision about him, not a statement by him. Ask him.

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Deep Dive

Kolasinski is a Democratic candidate for Ohio's 4th District.

His Ballotpedia page was opened and read in full. It records two endorsements, one of them from a group called "Stop arming Israel," and states that he has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey. It contains no statement of his on Israel, Gaza or foreign policy.

The endorsement is worth stating carefully. A group campaigning for an arms embargo decided to back him; that is a fact about the group's decision, not evidence of what he has said or would do. He may well share their position. Nothing located establishes it.

His campaign website is reported to oppose foreign military intervention in general terms, arguing federal tax dollars should be spent locally rather than in more wars, and that the United States should oppose military action unless absolutely necessary. Neither sentence names Israel, and no link was given for either. There is only one page for him in all: his Ballotpedia entry.

He has no federal voting record.

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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 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

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

  • No statement or documented position located.
  • [Position, read 2026-08-12] His Ballotpedia page, opened and read in full, records that he "received the following endorsements": **"Stop arming Israel (Sway voting group by Tariq Habash)"** and "United SHE Stands." It also states that he "has not yet completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey," and it carries no statement of his on this subject. **An endorsement is a third party's decision about him and is not evidence of his position**, so nothing is inferred from it.
  • [Reported, no source] The research states his campaign website opposes foreign military intervention, that tax dollars should be spent locally rather than "in more wars," and that the United States should "oppose military action unless absolutely necessary." Neither phrase names Israel and **no URL was supplied for either**; the research returned one source in total for this candidate. Recorded, not quoted.
  • He has no federal voting record.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • No statement or documented position located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • No statement located. The research records "nothing found" for this dimension.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • The "Stop arming Israel" endorsement above is the only item, and it is the group's decision rather than his statement. The research records "nothing found" for this dimension otherwise.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

⚠ Note on the sources

  • **One source, total.** Ballotpedia. It is a very thin source set, and the campaign-website claims in the research have no source at all. That is a research gap rather than a finding about him, and the card is written so that a reader can see the difference.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Jim Jordan (Republican)
  2. – Tracey Tackett (Independent)

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