Nathaniel Moran

Republican · U.S. House, Texas District 1

In July 2026 Moran's newsletter described the State Department funding bill as providing strong support for Israel, Taiwan, Jordan and Egypt. In July 2024 he wrote that House Republicans strongly support Israel while Democrats had withheld military aid. His record backs U.S. military aid to the government of Israel.

Nathaniel Moran is a Republican who has represented Texas's 1st District, the East Texas seat running from Tyler and Longview up to Texarkana, since January 2023. He sat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his first term and now sits on Ways and Means and on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He faces Democrat Yolanda Prince and independent Sonia Canchola on November 3, 2026.

He has said much the same thing about American military support for the government of Israel since he arrived. In June 2023 he said the United States should keep encouraging strategic collaboration so that Israeli warfare capabilities are prepared and equipped, and he cosponsored two bills that would deepen it: H.R. 1777, which would set up a Defense Department fund for joint United States and Israel work on emerging defense technologies, and H.R. 3792, which would extend existing cooperation authorities and expand the Abraham Accords. In April 2024 he wrote that the House had passed several measures supporting Israel and that he did not anticipate that changing. Voting for the 2025 defense authorization that June, he named defending Israel among the challenges the bill addresses, and his newsletter that month said the Defense Department appropriations bill provides support for Israel and Taiwan. In July 2024 he wrote that House Republicans strongly support Israel and their right to defend themselves, in contrast with many Democrats who he said had withheld military aid.

In August 2025 he travelled to Israel with Speaker Mike Johnson and three other members of Congress. He reported meeting Prime Minister Netanyahu privately, along with the Israeli foreign and defense ministers and members of the Israel Defense Forces, and the delegation's dinner with the Netanyahus in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh was reported by the Times of Israel, which names him among those present. The trip also took in Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which he described as Israel's leading missile defense company; he wrote that its technology and expertise could be integrated with American plans for a Golden Dome and would be key to using American taxpayer dollars wisely. Three days after the July 2026 House vote on the State Department funding bill, his newsletter set out what that bill does, including strong support for Israel, Taiwan, Jordan and Egypt. He issued no statement of his own about the amendment voted on that day, and none was found on the 2024 supplemental bills; those votes are shown on this card as they were recorded.

On the war itself he puts the responsibility on Hamas. In July 2025 he told NewsNation that the cause of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is Hamas and that it could end the crisis overnight by laying down its arms, and in the newsletter he wrote after the August 2025 trip he said the crisis could be solved overnight if Hamas released the remaining hostages. On the first anniversary of the attack he said he remained committed to standing alongside Israel's fight for liberty over tyranny. In October 2025 he wrote that he had spent the second anniversary in Washington with released hostages and their families, and that the parties looked likely to agree to the president's plan to end the war. Nothing was found from him, in either direction, on United States funding for humanitarian aid to Palestinians or for rebuilding Gaza.

He has twice voted for legislation to sanction International Criminal Court officials who investigate the United States or its allies, saying after the June 2024 vote and again after the January 2025 vote that the court must not target democratic nations defending themselves. He called Prime Minister Netanyahu's July 2024 address to Congress moving and said he would continue to stand firm with Israel. His questioning of university presidents at the 2024 hearings on campus antisemitism, his remarks about the strikes on Iran, and everything else that was read are on the research page.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

Our research began on 2026-08-21 with a search for sources, and its results were treated as leads rather than as evidence. Every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise. His own newsroom index for 2024, 2025 and 2026 and his complete e-newsletter archive were read issue by issue. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07). Moran has represented TX-01 since January 2023, so his tracked votes appear as badges on this card and are not re-counted here.

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

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

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

The race

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Also in this race: Yolanda Prince (Democrat) · All Texas candidates.

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