Robert P. Henri

Deep Dive

Robert P. Henri is an independent candidate in Oklahoma's 5th District, which takes in most of Oklahoma City, all of Lincoln, Pottawatomie and Seminole counties, and parts of Logan and Canadian counties. He is 49 and lives in Edmond. Independents in Oklahoma do not run in primaries. He reached the November ballot by filing with the State Election Board during the April 1 to 3, 2026 filing period, which is the one route to the general election for a candidate with no party. He faces Representative Stephanie Bice, Jena Nelson and Austin Nieves on November 3, 2026. He has never held office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his.

He has published a great deal more than most candidates in his position, and none of it reaches this question. His campaign is Project Due Course, a platform of eighteen reforms grouped under accountability, integrity and constitutional change, each with an argument and a poll behind it. They are term limits for Congress, a ban on congressional stock trading, an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court, a searchable public database of members' financial records, independent enforcement of ethics law after the independent counsel statute lapsed in 1999, real lobbying disclosure, whistleblower protection, tougher sentences for corrupt officials, an end to secret money in elections, contracting bars for corporate fraud, open public meetings, independent redistricting commissions, no votes on bills members have not had time to read, and consequences for failed Pentagon audits. All of it is about how Washington works. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, Middle East, foreign aid and arms transfer appear nowhere on the site, in any of the eighteen. The one reform that touches the military is the audit one, and he argues it as an accounting question about taxpayer money and equipment rather than as a question about what the United States sends abroad.

He was also asked directly. He completed Ballotpedia's candidate survey in 2026 and answered every question on it at length, including the one inviting him to name the areas of public policy he is personally passionate about. His answer to that was accountability, transparency and enforcement in government, and he raised no foreign subject anywhere in the form. The form asks nothing about foreign policy, so it records both things at once: it never put the question to him, and when it gave him open ground he used it on something else. An empty record on this question carries no implication either way.

His campaign's accounts on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Bluesky and Threads, and his own LinkedIn page, were not read here. Their addresses are on his research page so that anyone who can open them may look.

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The record

• His campaign, Project Due Course, is built entirely on domestic institutional reform. The platform headings are congressional term limits, banning congressional stock trading, an enforceable Supreme Court ethics code, no votes on unread bills, independent redistricting commissions, and a clean Pentagon audit, under an umbrella of '18 Reforms Americans Want'. There is no foreign policy plank of any kind, and no mention of Israel, Gaza, the Middle East, foreign aid, U.S. weapons or arms transfers anywhere on the site. The one military-adjacent item, the Pentagon audit, is about domestic spending accountability. The pages carry no publication date and were read on this date; it is his live 2026 campaign site, so it is current-position in time.

The money

Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found

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: the home page, the issues page and all eighteen reforms behind it, the Oklahoma page and its four case studies, and his own biography page, along with his Ballotpedia page and its complete survey answers. 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 none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his, and no funding from the committees this site tracks is recorded on this record.

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

• Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about arms transfers, weapons shipments, Foreign Military Financing, security assistance or any bill or amendment on those subjects appears anywhere on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia survey answers, in the League of Women Voters guide's account of him, in the Oklahoma State Election Board's filing record, in The Oklahoma Constitution's survey of the congressional races, in KOSU's list of everyone who filed, in NonDoc's report of the filing period, on Politics1's Oklahoma page, or in any news report about this district that could be found.
• [Position, read 2026-09-22] The only military subject anywhere in his platform is the reform headed "Failed Pentagon Audits Must Have Consequences". It argues that the Department of Defense has received a disclaimer of opinion in every full audit since it began them in 2018, including an eighth straight failure in fiscal year 2025, that Congress now requires a clean audit by the end of 2028, and that the deadline needs automatic budget consequences behind it which would fall on management and overhead rather than troops or core missions. Its terms are accounting and enforcement: "The Pentagon's failure to fully account for taxpayer money and equipment should not be met with another blank check from Congress." It says nothing about any foreign government, any aid program or any weapons transfer, and it is recorded here rather than on the card for that reason.

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. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas and Middle East appear nowhere in the whole of his campaign site, including the text of all eighteen reforms, nor in his survey answers.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, about any other advocacy organization on this subject, or about money connected to any of them was found.
• [Position, read 2026-09-22] His platform does carry a general lobbying reform, "Stop Hidden Influence", whose stated aim is to make disclosure real by exposing "who's pressuring your representative, what they want, and whether the rules are actually enforced". It names no organization, no country and no subject matter, and it is a procedural transparency proposal rather than a position on any particular lobby.
• A pledge to "Refuse money from Corporate PACs and foreign interest groups like AIPAC" has circulated in connection with this race. It is not his. That sentence is a plank on the platform of Trey Martin, who lost the Democratic primary in this district on June 16, 2026. Nothing Henri has published contains it, and it carries nothing onto this card.

Safety and antisemitism

• Nothing located, at any date. Nothing in his published material addresses antisemitism or the safety of any religious community.

What the campaign site and own pages say

• [Position, read 2026-09-22] His campaign site is built around what it calls "18 Reforms Americans Want", set out under four headings: Key Issues, Enforce Accountability, Demand Integrity and Constitutional Reform. The eighteen are public access to members' financial records in one searchable database with faster posting and real penalties; independent enforcement of ethics law, which he frames around the lapse of the independent counsel statute in 1999; lobbying disclosure; whistleblower protection; an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court; term limits for Congress; a ban on congressional stock trading; an age limit for Congress; an end to secret money in elections; tougher sentences for corrupt officials; a contracting bar for corporate fraud; independent redistricting commissions; open public meetings; a waiting period before votes on bills members have not had time to read, which he specifies as 72 business hours plus a further 48 for each 200 pages beyond the first 200, with a plain-language draft for the public; and consequences for failed Pentagon audits. Each is presented with a poll finding, cited to Pew Research Center, the Program for Public Consultation, the Marquette Law School Poll, Rasmussen Reports, Common Cause with Noble Predictive Insights, and Data for Progress. None of the eighteen concerns foreign policy, foreign aid or what the United States sends to any government.
• [Position, read 2026-09-22] His biography page is an account of why he is running: that he was named in part after Patrick Henry, that he first paid attention when the Patriot Act was passed quickly after 2001, that Congress weakened the searchable-database requirement of the STOCK Act in 2013, and that about 2 percent of members of Congress come from working-class backgrounds. It names no country other than the United States and reaches no foreign subject.
• [Position, read 2026-09-22] His Oklahoma page sets out four state cases: that the Legislature is not bound by the state's Open Meetings Act, that the ethics commission voters created in 1990 went underfunded for decades, that removing a financial oversight provision in 2019 preceded the loss of $12.4 million in taxpayer money by 2022, and that the district's lines were redrawn after 2018. All four are about Oklahoma government.
• [Position, 2026] His Ballotpedia candidate survey. Ballotpedia records that he completed it in 2026 and gives no date more precise than the year. He answered the biography question and all three campaign questions at length. His three key messages are that Congress refuses to vote on changes large majorities have asked for, that there is no accountability in the system, and that more working-class people should serve. Asked what areas of public policy he is personally passionate about, he answered: "My focus is accountability, transparency, and enforcement in government." Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, weapons, arms and foreign aid appear nowhere in the answers. Because the form gave him open questions and he used them at length, the silence there is a fact about his answers as well as about the form, which asks nothing on this subject.
• [Position, read 2026-09-22] The League of Women Voters of Oklahoma's 2026 voter guide summarizes him under his own heading, "Robert P. Henri (I)", in the DISTRICT 5 block: "Supports government accountability through anti-corruption reforms, an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court, congressional term limits, an age limit for Congress and banning congressional stock trading. Favors responsible use of taxpayer funds, Pentagon accountability and protecting tribal sovereignty." It gives his age as 49 and his home as Edmond and records "Not available at press time" for his education and occupation. The guide states its own method on its last page: "The candidate research is based on publicly available information including campaign websites, social media, public events, and media statements." These are therefore the League's words about him rather than his own, and they reach nothing in scope in any case. The same paragraph appears identically in the guide's printed edition on page 9.
• [Undated; read 2026-09-22] Politics1's Oklahoma page describes him as "Robert Henri (I) - Cannabis Businessman & Ex-Lab Technician". No other source carries that description. The Oklahoma Constitution says he "did not provide any information about education, experience, or employment", the League's guide records both as unavailable, and his own site gives no occupation. It is recorded here as one publication's description and is not used as a fact about him.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-22] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Oklahoma's 5th District: "Incumbent Stephanie Bice, Jena Nelson, Robert Henri, and Austin Nieves are running in the general election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 5 on November 3, 2026." His own Ballotpedia page carries the same sentence with party labels: "Incumbent Stephanie Bice (R), Jena Nelson (D), Robert Henri (Independent), and Austin Nieves (Independent) are running in the general election for U.S. House Oklahoma District 5 on November 3, 2026." The page records the filing deadline as April 3, 2026, the primary as June 16, 2026 and the primary runoff as August 25, 2026. Neither contest in this district reached the runoff: Jena Nelson defeated Trey Martin in the Democratic primary on June 16, 2026 with 56.7 percent, 26,886 votes to 20,491, a result recorded as certified, and the Republican primary was canceled, with Stephanie Bice advancing without appearing on a ballot.
• [Read 2026-09-22] The Oklahoma State Election Board's list of candidates for elective office, 2026, headed "Filed in the office of the State Election Board April 1-3, 2026" and compiled as of 5:00 p.m. on April 3, 2026, lists him under DISTRICT 05 as one of two entries under Independent, filing number 00485. That filing is how he reached the November ballot; Oklahoma's June primary and August runoff are party contests, and a candidate with no party does not appear in them.
• [Undated; read 2026-09-22] The Oklahoma Constitution's survey of the state's congressional races says of this district that two candidates filed as independents "and both will appear on the General Election ballot", and of him: "Robert P. Henri, 49, of Edmond is also running as an independent. He says he is running under the platform “Project Due Course,” aimed at forcing votes on major, popular reforms and ensuring congressional accountability. He did not provide any information about education, experience, or employment." The page carries no publication date. Its own text places it after the June 16 primary and before the August 25 runoff, because it says the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat "will not be decided until the runoff primary on August 25". Our research reported this page as published on July 24, 2026; that date is not on the page and is not used.
• [Position, 2026-04-04] NonDoc's report on the close of filing records only that "Independent candidates Robert P. Henri and Austin Nieves also filed for CD 5." The page's own metadata gives 2026-04-04 as the publication time; its address carries April 3.
• [Position, 2026-04-08, updated 2026-06-18] KOSU's list of everyone running for Congress in Oklahoma (https://www.kosu.org/oklahoma-congressional-races-2026 ) names him once, in its District 5 list: "Independent: Robert P. Henri, Austin Nieves". Its paragraph on the district describes the incumbent and the Democratic candidates and says nothing about him. Nothing in it reaches foreign policy for any candidate.
• [Read 2026-09-22] His Ballotpedia page records $6,361 in contributions and $2,176 in expenditures for 2026. No committee this site tracks appears on his record.

Places that were not read, so nothing is claimed from them

• His campaign's accounts, all linked from his own site and most of them listed as his by Ballotpedia: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084628425939 and https://facebook.com/projectduecourse , https://x.com/produecourse , https://www.instagram.com/projectduecourse , https://www.youtube.com/@projectduecourse , https://www.tiktok.com/@projectduecourse , https://bsky.app/profile/projectduecourse.bsky.social and https://www.threads.com/@projectduecourse . Ballotpedia and iVoterGuide both give the numbered Facebook address as his campaign's, while his own site links the named one; both are printed here so that either can be checked. None was read.
• His personal page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-henri-99387096/ , listed as his by Ballotpedia. Not read.
• https://www.civoren.com/candidate/robert-p-henri , an aggregator profile our research offered and recorded as refusing to open. It opens now and carries no positions from him.

Not on the card, and why

• The pledge to "Refuse money from Corporate PACs and foreign interest groups like AIPAC". It is a plank on another candidate's platform in this district, not his, and nothing he has published contains it. Its origin is set out above so that a reader who has seen it attached to his name can see where it comes from.
• His Pentagon audit reform. It is about whether the Department of Defense can account for the money and equipment it already has, not about what the United States sends to any government, and the card does not treat a domestic spending-accountability proposal as a position on foreign military aid. It is set out in full on this page.
• His lobbying disclosure reform. It names no organization and no subject, and a general transparency proposal is not a position on any particular lobby.
• The other sixteen reforms, his Oklahoma case studies and his biography: real positions, but none of them is about U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or about U.S. aid to Palestinians. They are listed above so the absence is checkable.
• Politics1's description of his occupation. One publication's account, uncorroborated anywhere else, and not a position in any event.
• Stephanie Bice's, Jena Nelson's and Austin Nieves's records: they belong on their own cards.

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

• https://projectduecourse.org/ , https://projectduecourse.org/issues , https://projectduecourse.org/oklahoma and https://projectduecourse.org/robert-for-congress (opened; 2026-09-22; the whole site, including the thirteen reforms that a plain reader is not shown until the page's own tabs are opened)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Henri (opened; 2026-09-22; his survey is recorded as completed in 2026, with no date given)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (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; compiled 2026-04-03)
• https://filings.okelections.gov/ViewCandidates/2026040120260403/99/all (opened; 2026-09-22; the State Election Board's filing portal, which gives the filing date range 4/1/2026 to 4/3/2026 and 611 filings but returns its candidate table only to a reader who can run its scripts)
• https://www.okvoterguide.com/us-house-candidates/ and https://www.okvoterguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VG26_Guide_English-2.pdf (opened; 2026-09-22)
• https://oklahomaconstitution.com/ns.php?nid=1501 (opened; 2026-09-22; the page carries no date)
• https://nondoc.com/2026/04/03/statewide-federal-races-15-file-for-governor-oklahoma-auditor-wins-by-default/ (opened; 2026-09-22; published 2026-04-04 by the page's own metadata)
• https://www.kosu.org/oklahoma-congressional-races-2026 (opened; 2026-09-22; published 2026-04-08, updated 2026-06-18)
• https://politics1.com/ok.htm (opened; 2026-09-22)
• https://www.treyforoklahoma.com/platform (opened; 2026-09-22; another candidate's platform, read only to establish where the pledge above comes from)
• https://ivoterguide.com/voter-guide/state/ok (opened; 2026-09-22; it lists him with his party and one link and carries no answers from him)
• https://www.civoren.com/candidate/robert-p-henri (opened; 2026-09-22)
• https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084628425939 , https://facebook.com/projectduecourse , https://x.com/produecourse , https://www.instagram.com/projectduecourse , https://www.youtube.com/@projectduecourse , https://www.tiktok.com/@projectduecourse , https://bsky.app/profile/projectduecourse.bsky.social , https://www.threads.com/@projectduecourse and https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-henri-99387096/ (not read; 2026-09-22)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-22, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.