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

Alan Bradstock

Democrat · U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14
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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.

Bradstock has not spoken publicly on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. Only three sources were located for him, two of them the same page. Ask him, and send us the answer.

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Deep Dive

Bradstock is a Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's 14th District.

No statement of his was located on any part of this question: not on U.S. weapons or funding for the government of Israel, not on U.S. aid to Palestinians, not on the conflict itself, and not on pro-Israel advocacy organisations.

The search behind that is slight, and the card should say so. Three sources were returned for him, and two of them are the same Ballotpedia page. His own campaign material does not appear in the research at all.

So this is an absence, but it is a thin one. Most candidates at this level have simply never been asked, and in this case we also cannot be confident he was thoroughly looked for.

He has no federal voting record.

You are better placed to change that than we are. Ask Bradstock directly, or at a candidate forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in his own words, which is worth more than anything we could write about him.

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.
  • He has no federal voting record.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • No statement or documented position located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • No statement located.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Nothing located.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • Nothing located.

⚠ THIN: three sources, two of them duplicates

  • Ballotpedia, cited twice, and the district's Democratic primary page.
  • **His own campaign material does not appear in the research.** An absence claim is only as good as the search behind it, and this search found two distinct pages. The card says so rather than presenting a thin search as a settled finding.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Guy Reschenthaler (Republican)

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