But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Evan Hunt
Democrat · U.S. House, Texas District 3
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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.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: On his campaign site he says attacks by extremist settlers "must be met with real accountability" and he believes in a future where "both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace", which points both ways. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
Hunt’s platform calls for an independent Palestinian state "fully sovereign, autonomous, and free from occupation", and says attacks by extremist settlers must meet "real accountability". He also pledges to vote against "blank checks" to Israel, Ukraine or Taiwan.
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Hunt is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, combat aviator and former defence industry executive, and the Democratic nominee in Texas’s 3rd District; a local candidate profile sets out that background.
His campaign site, read, carries more on this than an initial search reported. On the conflict he writes that attacks including those "by extremist settlers" weaken the potential for peace and "must be met with real accountability and a clear commitment to de-escalation and the protection of civilian communities", and that he believes in "a future where both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace, with stability, security, and self-determination. This includes the realization of an independent Palestinian state that is fully sovereign, autonomous, and free from occupation".
On what America sends, an initial search reports that same platform pledges he will vote against "blank checks to Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, or any country that does not directly advance American interests". That is a blanket conditional position: Israel is named alongside two other countries and the test is American interests. The card gives it as that rather than as a position aimed at Israel. The passage itself was not located on the page, and a targeted search of the site for "blank check" returned nothing, so it rests on an initial search.
He also writes that because the administration has placed the United States "in the middle of an expanding conflict between Israel and Iran", "that’s why I won’t accept donations from AIPAC or any other foreign-interest aligned organization". A donation pledge is not a position on weapons or funding and it is on the research page.
He has held no federal office and has no recorded votes on any of this.
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
Undated [Current position; REPORTED BY AN INITIAL SEARCH, not located in the portion read]: An initial search reports his platform states he will vote against "blank checks to Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, or any country that does not directly advance American interests". Opened and read his campaign site on a second attempt; it returned 200 and 559KB and this passage was not located in the text searched, though other platform passages were. Recorded as an initial search’s and carried on the card as a blanket conditional pledge.
⚠ **BLANKET AND CONDITIONAL, NOT AIMED AT ISRAEL.** Israel is named alongside Ukraine and Taiwan and the test is whether a country "directly advance[s] American interests". Per the blanket-position rule the card gives it as a blanket pledge naming Israel among others, and does not render it as opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located as a funding position. His platform's Palestinian content is about statehood and about accountability for settler violence rather than about U.S. money.
Characterization of the conflict
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: From his campaign site: attacks "including attacks by extremist settlers" weaken the potential for peace and "these attacks must be met with real accountability and a clear commitment to de-escalation and the protection of civilian communities. I believe in a future where both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace, with stability, security, and self-determination. This includes the realization of an independent Palestinian state that is fully sovereign, autonomous, and free from occupation". Read on the page.
⚠ **AN INITIAL SEARCH MISSED THIS ENTIRE PLATFORM SECTION.** It reported one sentence from his site, on blank checks, and none of the above. This is another record where reading an initial search’s own source produced better material than an initial search reported.
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: He writes that the administration has placed the United States "in the middle of an expanding conflict between Israel and Iran", and that "October 7 marked the deadliest day for the Jewish peop[le]".
Rhetoric and lobbying
[A money-refusal pledge must never read as a weapons or funding position.]
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: "That's why I won't accept donations from AIPAC or any other foreign-interest aligned organization." On his campaign site, given as a consequence of his argument about getting America's own house in order.
Undated [Current position; VERIFIED]: He writes about hate rising "especially when Israel enters the discussion", that "an attack on one community is an attack on all of us", and that "The American way is to oppose hate in every form while still having honest conversations about policy."
Safety and antisemitism
[Context only, never the answer to what America sends.] The passages above about hate and about October 7 are the located material. No separate policy proposal on antisemitism was found.
Sources consulted and read
His campaign site, listed four times and carrying everything verified here.
⚠ Two sources found are Facebook posts belonging to **other members of Congress**: one from Rep. Brad Schneider about the October 7 attacks and one from Rep. Moulton. Both would not open and neither names him. Nothing on this card rests on them.
Two localcandidates.org pages would not open, as that host has elsewhere.
What came back empty or unusable
The one passage an initial search did report, on blank checks, was not located in the portion of his site read, while several passages it did not report were.
No position located on U.S. aid to Palestinians as a funding question.
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