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Robert Brooks

Independent · Governor, Oklahoma
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Brooks is an independent on the November ballot with seventeen published state plans, from farmland and water to criminal justice. Nothing located as of September 2026 has him taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians.

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Deep Dive

Robert E. Brooks is an independent candidate for governor of Oklahoma and one of five names on the ballot on November 3, 2026. He grew up on a farm in Lindsay and lives in Moore, and his campaign biography lists work as a welder and machinist, in a distribution center, as a police officer, county jailer and dispatcher, sheriff's deputy, detective, firefighter and emergency medical technician, and later in insurance. He calls himself the Farmer Servant, and the idea at the center of his campaign is the People's App: he proposes that registered voters decide major questions in an application and that the governor then sign, veto or grant clemency according to the majority. He reached the ballot the way an independent does in Oklahoma, by filing a declaration of candidacy during the filing period of April 1 to 3, 2026, and he is listed under Governor as an independent in the State Election Board's own candidate list.

On the question this site asks, the record is empty rather than thin, and it is empty against a great deal of published material. Every page of his campaign site was read, thirty of them and about 24,000 words, including seventeen policy plans covering farmland and water, energy and data centers, tax, tribal relations, immigration, cannabis, criminal justice, healthcare, education and government transparency. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas and foreign aid appear in none of it. Neither does foreign policy of any kind: no country other than the United States is named anywhere on the site. Ballotpedia's page for him records that he has not completed its candidate survey. The League of Women Voters of Oklahoma's guide to this race sets out his positions on education, the economy, healthcare, public safety and tribal relations and reaches no foreign subject either. An empty record carries no implication either way, and a governor casts no federal votes on any of this.

The largest body of his own words could not be read here. His Facebook page, where a local news site says he posts frequently, returns an error to every request, and his X, YouTube and TikTok accounts serve nothing; their addresses are on his research page, along with a two-hour podcast interview from February 2026 that is audio and was not listened to, and a warning about the several other public figures who share his name.

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The record

Notable actions

• His campaign site's platform and biography pages cover only Oklahoma subjects: government transparency, natural resources, education, healthcare, law enforcement and the state economy. They contain nothing on U.S. weapons, U.S. funding, foreign aid or foreign policy.

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.

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 2026-09-22 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full, all thirty pages of it. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. He has never held office, so there is no voting record on this card, and the committees this site tracks do not cover a state office, so there is no funding record either.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

  • Nothing located, at any date. No statement of his about arms transfers, weapons shipments, Foreign Military Financing, the memorandum of understanding, security assistance, a dollar figure, a condition on aid, or any bill or amendment on those subjects appears on his campaign site, on his Ballotpedia page, in the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma's guide to this race, or in any report of his campaign read for this card.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-22] A case-insensitive search of the whole of his campaign site, 24,055 words across thirty pages, for israel, gaza, palestin, hamas, antisemit, jewish, zionis, aipac, unrwa, netanyahu, jerusalem, iran, genocide, apartheid, two-state, foreign aid, foreign policy, military aid, middle east, arms sale, national defense and national security returns no match of any kind. The word weapon appears three times and every one is a figure of speech about domestic politics: immigration used "as a political weapon", constitutional rights reduced to "political weapons", and "The Constitution is not a political weapon." The word foreign appears twice, both on the land plan, about enforcing Oklahoma's existing limits on foreign ownership of land and closing the corporate loopholes around them. No country other than the United States is named anywhere on the site.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, at any date. Neither the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, nor humanitarian funding for Gaza, nor the aid pipeline appears anywhere in his published material.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located, at any date. He has not been found using the words genocide, apartheid, self-defense or terrorism about the war in Gaza, and nothing of his was found on Palestinian statehood, a two-state framework or territorial boundaries.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located, at any date. Nothing that could be read here has him naming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is the largest organization lobbying the United States government on this subject, or any other advocacy organization working on it, or money connected to any of them. He writes at length against lobbyists and against what he calls pay-to-play politics, in general terms, and names no organization of any kind when he does it.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

  • Nothing located, at any date. Nothing in his published material addresses antisemitism or the safety of any religious community. His rights plan argues that constitutional and civil rights should be protected equally for every Oklahoman and names no faith and no community.
  • A namesake warning for anyone re-checking this record. Robert Brooks is a common name, and Ballotpedia alone holds separate pages for eight people who carry it, including an Arizona judge, an Arizona school board candidate, and entries for Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin; the Wisconsin one is a sitting Republican member of that state's assembly and has his own endorsements page. A psychologist and author, a former Oklahoma state archaeologist and a man who died in a New York prison also share the name. None of their material is used here. The Oklahoma candidate is Robert E Brooks Sr of Moore, the independent on the November 2026 ballot for governor, and every source used on this card was checked against that chain: the State Election Board's candidate list, his Ballotpedia page, his own campaign site and the League of Women Voters guide all place him in Moore and in this race.
  • [Undated, and not used] One item reported to us has him saying, in an open campaign response first posted on February 11, 2026, that "Christians, Jews, atheists, and everybody else" hold identical constitutional rights. Nothing supporting it was found. The two addresses given for it are Facebook pages that return an error to every request, and two of the other pages cited beside it are plainly about other people: one is the Ballotpedia endorsements page of the Wisconsin assembly member of the same name, and the other is a messianic ministry in metropolitan Atlanta that does not mention him. The words appear nowhere on his campaign site. They are not treated as his and nothing on this card rests on them.

What the campaign site and his own pages say

  • [Position, read 2026-09-22] His campaign site was read in full. Its own index returns thirty pages, running to 24,055 words. The platform and policy agenda page lists seventeen plans: protecting Oklahoma land, the People's Army, the People's Rights Plan, responsible economic development, the People's Oklahoma Energy Partnership, the People's App, the People's Table, the People's Tax Reform Plan, tribal relations, immigration, cannabis and holistic medicine, criminal justice reform, an audit of the criminal justice system, healthcare, education, the People's Promise to Oklahoma, and a transparency plan he calls Flock the Government. Every one of them is about Oklahoma. There is no foreign policy section and no national section of any kind.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-22] The idea at the center of the campaign is the People's App. He proposes that registered voters be given plain-language summaries of bills and decisions, vote on them in an application, and that the governor then sign, veto, pardon or grant clemency according to the majority, with public dashboards showing what was decided and what was done.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-22] His biography page says he grew up on a small farm in Lindsay, Oklahoma, and lists work as a welder and machinist, in a distribution center, as a police officer, county jailer and dispatcher, sheriff's deputy, detective, firefighter and emergency medical technician, and later in insurance helping families with healthcare coverage. It sets out four promises: let the people decide, let the people see, ask the people before major decisions, and protect the constitutional rights of every Oklahoman.
  • [Read 2026-09-22] Ballotpedia's page for him records that he has not completed its 2026 Candidate Connection survey. The page carries no statement of his on this subject and lists no issue positions. It gives his campaign site, Facebook, X, YouTube and TikTok addresses, which match the ones his own site links.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-22] The League of Women Voters of Oklahoma publishes a guide to this race that covers all five candidates. Its entry for him gives his age as 47 and his home as Moore, says his education and occupation were not available at press time, and sets out positions on teachers, parents and students, the People's App, Oklahoma's water resources and declining lake levels, legitimate medical uses of cannabis, safer communities through policies made by the people closest to the problem, criminal justice reform, an Office of Native American Affairs, respect for tribal sovereignty, and opposition to pay-to-play politics. The guide's headings include no foreign and no national subject, and the words Israel, Gaza and Palestinian appear nowhere in it.
  • [Read 2026-09-22] Which voter guides were checked, and how. Four were found for this race and every one was opened and read directly rather than through a summary. The League of Women Voters of Oklahoma guide is the only one that covers all five candidates; it is served as ordinary text and its headings are education, the economy, healthcare, public safety and a heading called other. Oklahoma Voice, the States Newsroom outlet in this state, has published two guides, one for the June 16 primary and one for the August 25 runoff; both cover only the party candidates, both are biographical rather than a questionnaire, and neither reaches any foreign subject. News 9's guide of June 10, 2026 covers what it calls the leading candidates on education, immigration and border security, inflation, economic development and public safety, and names none of the three independents. iVoterGuide, published by the conservative group AFA Action, is the one guide in this race whose questionnaire asks about the government of Israel: it puts the item "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" to candidates, and Mazzei's June primary profile records "Did not answer" against it, as it does against thirty-three other items on the same form. Its page for the November general election lists all five candidates with their campaign links but publishes no profile, no questionnaire and no answers for any of them, so the question has not been put to him there. No guide built as an application with its answers held in a data endpoint was found for this race, so there was no endpoint to read.

The race

  • [Read 2026-09-22] The general election for governor of Oklahoma is on November 3, 2026. Ballotpedia's page for the race gives the field: "Cyndi Munson , Mike Mazzei , Robert Brooks , Orlando Lynn Bush , and Jerry Griffin are running in the general election for Governor of Oklahoma on November 3, 2026." The same page records that there are no incumbents in this race and that Governor Kevin Stitt was term-limited. The record holds the same five as nominated, with Gentner Drummond eliminated, so there is no disagreement.
  • [Read 2026-09-22] The primary was June 16, 2026 and the runoff was August 25, 2026. Munson won the Democratic primary with 74.9 percent and 129,225 votes, ahead of Constance Johnson on 22.3 percent and 38,414 and Arya on 2.8 percent and 4,824, out of 172,463 cast. In the Republican primary the same day Drummond took 26.3 percent and 105,832 votes and Mazzei 26.0 percent and 104,691, out of 403,099 cast among nine candidates, and the two went to a runoff. Mazzei won the runoff with 50.3 percent and 186,678 votes to Drummond's 49.7 percent and 184,631, out of 371,309 cast. Those figures are Ballotpedia's; the record carries the outcomes and the dates but no shares.
  • [Read 2026-09-22] How the three independents reached the ballot. Oklahoma's filing period ran April 1 to 3, 2026, and Ballotpedia gives the filing deadline as April 3. Brooks, Bush and Griffin each filed a declaration of candidacy with the Secretary of the State Election Board in that period and each appears under Governor, in the Independent column, of the board's own list of candidates for elective office, which the board says will be used as the official proof for printing state ballots: Jerry Griffin of Tulsa, number 00425; Robert E Brooks Sr of Moore, number 00535; and Orlando Lynn Bush of Edmond, number 00578. No primary for independent candidates appears in the board's list or on Ballotpedia's page for the race; the three go straight into the November field. Ballotpedia records a fourth independent, Billy Wagner, as withdrawn or disqualified, and he is not in the board's list.
  • The other four candidates' records belong on their own cards and are not narrated here.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

  • His own accounts, which are the largest body of his own words. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581745371863 returns an error to every request; The Lost Ogle, an Oklahoma City news and commentary site, reported on June 3, 2026 that he posts frequently on Facebook, so that page is likely to hold most of his own writing. https://x.com/Brooks4OK opens only as a sign-in prompt, which shows the account joined in March 2026 and has nine posts and eleven followers; none of the nine is served. https://www.youtube.com/@RobertBrooks_FarmerServant opens as a channel called Robert Brooks, Farmer Servant for Governor, but no video title or description is served to a plain request. https://www.tiktok.com/@robertebrooksforgovernor serves nothing at all. Every one of these addresses is printed here so that anyone who can open them may look.
  • The podcast interview. Controlled Burn published a one hour fifty-six minute episode with him on February 27, 2026. It is audio and it was not listened to. Its published description covers the People's App, cannabis, transparency, criminal justice, education and why he chose to run as an independent, and names no foreign subject, but a description is not an episode and nothing is claimed about what was said in it.

Not on the card, and why

  • Everything in his seventeen plans: farmland, water and rural communities, emergency response, civil liberties and due process, economic development, energy and data centers, the People's App, tax, tribal relations, immigration, cannabis, criminal justice, healthcare, education and government transparency. Out of scope, and listed above so the absence can be checked.
  • The statement dated February 11, 2026 described above. Nothing supporting it was found and two of the pages cited for it are about other people.
  • An encounter between him and a member of the public at a property in eastern Oklahoma while he was looking into data centers, reported by The Lost Ogle on June 3, 2026. Out of scope, and that publication's characterizations of him are its own and are not facts about this question.
  • The records of Cyndi Munson, Mike Mazzei, Orlando Lynn Bush and Jerry Griffin. Another candidate's positions belong on that candidate's own card.

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

  • https://votewethepeople.com/ and all thirty pages listed in its own index, 24,055 words (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://votewethepeople.com/platform-and-policy-agenda/ (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://votewethepeople.com/about-robert-brooks/ (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Brooks_%28Oklahoma%29 (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma_gubernatorial_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://www.okvoterguide.com/gubernatorial-candidates/ (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/elections/candidate-filing-archives/2026-candidate-filing-archives/2026-candidate-list-book.pdf (opened; 2026-09-22; 66 pages)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/race/35078/election/1506 (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/89412/race/27984/election/1425 (opened; 2026-09-22; read to establish what that questionnaire asks)
  • https://oklahomavoice.com/voter-guides/2026-oklahoma-primary-election/ and its governor pages (opened; 2026-09-22)
  • https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-governors-race-2026/who-should-i-vote-for-leading-oklahoma-governor-candidates-at-a-glance (opened; 2026-09-22; published 2026-06-10)
  • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-robert-brooks-the-farmer-servant-running-for-governor/id1815764912?i=1000751989189 (opened; 2026-09-22; episode published 2026-02-27; the audio was not listened to)
  • https://thelostogle.com/2026/06/03/congressman-brecheens-mom-accosts-fringe-gubernatorial-candidate (opened; 2026-09-22; published 2026-06-03)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Robert_Brooks (opened; 2026-09-22; a different person, the Wisconsin assembly member)
  • https://www.yeshuahamashiach.org/whoweare.htm (opened; 2026-09-22; a ministry in metropolitan Atlanta, unrelated to him)
  • https://x.com/Brooks4OK (opened in part; 2026-09-22)
  • https://www.youtube.com/@RobertBrooks_FarmerServant (opened in part; 2026-09-22)
  • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581745371863 and https://www.facebook.com/61581745371863/photos/122125904967058179/ (could not open; 2026-09-22)
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@robertebrooksforgovernor (could not open; 2026-09-22)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-22, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ? Mike Mazzei (Republican)
  2. – Cyndi Munson (Democrat)
  3. – Jerry Griffin (Independent)
  4. – Orlando Lynn Bush (Independent)

All Oklahoma candidates.

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