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

Ronnie Hopkins

Independent · U.S. House, Oklahoma District 2
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Nothing located has Hopkins taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His campaign site says he supports cutting foreign aid, naming no country or program; the rest of the site is his Social Security plan.

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Deep Dive

Hopkins is running as an independent in Oklahoma's 2nd District, his second run for the seat after 2024.

This is a thin record rather than an empty one, and none of it reaches this question. His campaign site's About page lists what he supports in single lines, and one of them is "I support cutting foreign aid." It names no country and no program and does not say whether military assistance is meant, so it is not a position on what the United States sends the government of Israel; the Tahlequah Daily Press printed the same list when he filed in May 2024. The rest of the site is his plan to turn Social Security into a personal trust fund. In 2024 iVoterGuide, a conservative Christian voter guide, sent him its questionnaire; his profile records "Did not answer" against every question, the one on the U.S. relationship with Israel among them, which says he did not complete the form and nothing about his views on it. His 2026 profile there carries no questionnaire.

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The record

Notable actions

• His campaign About page contains a single sentence on foreign aid. It names no country and no programme, does not distinguish military from economic aid, and does not mention Israel, weapons or arms transfers. The page carries no publication date and was read on this date; it is on his live 2026 campaign site, so it is current-position in time.

• The rest of his 2026 campaign site is about one subject. Its navigation is About, '5 Things Choice Plan does for you', Videos, a Social Security Q&A, the Trust & Choice Plan and Events; the substance is a proposal to convert Social Security into an inheritable personal trust. There is no foreign policy section and no mention of Israel, Gaza or U.S. military assistance anywhere on it.

• He was sent iVoterGuide's candidate survey as a candidate in the 5 November 2024 general election for this same seat. Its four foreign-policy and military questions include one asking directly whether the United States' relationship with Israel is important and why. His profile records 'Did not answer' against every one of them. This is a documented refusal to answer a direct question about Israel, not merely an absence of coverage.

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.

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.

Two searches were read as one lead list for this card, one run 2026-08-21 and one run 2026-09-04, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-04 unless marked otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. He has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card; no tracked committee has reported spending for or against him.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

  • Nothing located has Hopkins stating a position on U.S. weapons, arms sales or military funding for the government of Israel at any date.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] His campaign site's About page (321 words of text) lists: "I support the Constitution of the United States. I support turning Social Security into a real trust fund. I support truth over compromise. I support principle over parties. I support cutting foreign aid. I support the American people over lobbyists and special interests. I support veterans and the right to bear arms." The foreign-aid line names no country and no program and does not distinguish military from economic aid. Verified verbatim; the page carries no date and is on his live 2026 site, so it is recorded on the date read.
  • [Position, 2024-05-15] Tahlequah Daily Press, "Hopkins seeks to represent Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District" (datePublished 2024-05-15): "Hopkins said he supports biblical principles, the Constitution of the United States, truth over compromise, principle over parties, cutting foreign aid, the American people over lobbyists and special interests, veterans and the right to bear arms, and turning Social Security into a real trust fund". Reported speech reproducing the site's list; nothing on Israel.
  • [Position, 2024-11-05 is the election the guide was published for; the profile itself carries no completion date] His iVoterGuide profile for the 2024 general election: every one of the questionnaire's 36 items, including "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" and the four-way question on America's foreign policy, is marked "Did not answer"; education, work and affiliations read "Candidate did not provide". He answered no question on the form, so the blank against the Israel question is a fact about the form, not about his view.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] His 2026 iVoterGuide profile for the November 3, 2026 election carries a biography heading and no questionnaire section as read.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] The rest of his site: the home page, 5 Things Choice Plan does for you, the Trust & Choice Plan, the Social Security Q&A, the Videos page and the Events page. All of it is the Social Security proposal; none mentions Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid or the Middle East.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] The About page's "I support the American people over lobbyists and special interests" names no organization and is not read as a statement about any group. The Tahlequah Daily Press (2024-05-15) reports the same line.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-04] His Ballotpedia page records his 2024 campaign-site text and no completed candidate survey for 2024 or 2026; nothing on this topic.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located for this candidate. Two March 2024 articles the search returned, a JNS report and an Algemeiner report, concern Dr. Ronnie Hopkins, president of Voorhees University in South Carolina, speaking about a Black-Jewish partnership against antisemitism. A different person; nothing from them is attributed to the candidate.

Not on the card, and why

  • "I support cutting foreign aid" as a position on this question: it names no country or program, and a general pledge is never converted into a position on the government of Israel or on Palestinians. It is on the card only as what the site says, with that caveat.
  • The 2024 questionnaire blank as a refusal on Israel: he left every question on the form unanswered, so it says nothing about this question in particular. The earlier profile's line that this was "a documented refusal to answer a direct question about Israel" is superseded.
  • The Voorhees University president's statements: a namesake, excluded.
  • Candidate listings read for this card (KOSU's candidate list, Newstalk KZRG, Vote Smart, the FEC's candidate page, Wikipedia's Oklahoma 2026 House page): filing-level facts only, nothing on this topic.

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

  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/about-5 (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/5-points-plan (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/trust-choice-plan (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/social-security-q-a (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/videos (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://hopkinsforcongress.wixsite.com/ronnie-hopkins-for-c/events (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.tahlequahnews.com/single-post/hopkins-seeks-to-represent-oklahoma-s-2nd-congressional-district (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/82326/race/4292/election/1231 (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/82326/race/35074/election/1506 (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Ronnie_Hopkins (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.kosu.org/oklahoma-congressional-races-2026 (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.newstalkkzrg.com/elections/candidate/ronnie-hopkins/ (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/216498/ronnie-hopkins (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4OK02204/ (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Oklahoma (opened; 2026-09-04)
  • https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/new-program-aims-for-black-jewish-cooperation-in-battling-antisemitism (opened; 2026-09-04; a different Ronnie Hopkins)
  • https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/03/15/new-partnership-aims-revive-black-jewish-alliance/ (not opened; the same namesake story, per the search summary)
  • https://www.cairoklahoma.com/candidates/ronnie-hopkins/ (could not open, 404; 2026-09-04)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-04, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Josh Brecheen (Republican)
  2. ✓ Brandon Wade (Democrat)

All Oklahoma candidates.

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