But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Emily Randall
Randall voted to cut $3.3 billion in 2026: “they don’t want to see more of their taxpayer dollars go towards subsidizing Netanyahu’s endless violence”. In 2024 she called October 7 “vicious, unprovoked, and unlawful” and fired a campaign manager over anti-Israel posts.
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Deep Dive
Randall has represented Washington’s 6th District since January 2025. Her two recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on the amendment to cut $500 million for Israeli missile-defense programs, Yes on the 2026 amendment to cut $3.3 billion from aid to Israel.
Her arc runs from a pro-Israel-framed 2024 campaign to a conditions-side voting record. In a June 2024 Jewish Insider interview she condemned October 7 as "vicious, unprovoked, and unlawful", said she "stands with Israel and the world" in wanting hostages returned "and Hamas eradicated with no further loss of innocent life", backed the administration’s withholding of certain heavy arms while supporting Israel’s overall defense, and supported federal antisemitism legislation. The same reporting covered her firing a campaign manager whose personal posts had backed Palestinian resistance, a decision that drew criticism from her left, per The Stranger.
In office: her July 2026 statement explains her cutting vote with the front quote, adding concern about the amendment’s breadth but concluding the risk of unaccountable offensive aid outweighed it. Her humanitarian-crisis statement declares: "I refuse to accept the false choice between supporting Israel’s security and opposing the starvation of children." At a September 2025 town hall she preferred the Silver Shield Act to the Block the Bombs Act because it "does not hinge on Israel’s cooperation", and said she had withdrawn from an AIPAC-organized freshman trip; in February 2026 she took the J Street Education Fund’s delegation to Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan instead, per her ethics filing.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 1 of 2 tracked votes
• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.
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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Voted to send weapons or funding in some, but no more than half, of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 1 of 2 tracked votes.)
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct support found in any cycle they have filed
In their words
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
- Her recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on the amendment to cut $500 million for Israeli missile-defense programs, Yes on the 2026 amendment to cut $3.3 billion from aid to Israel; she took office in January 2025.
- [Position, 2026-07-16] The cutting-vote statement, verified and quoted on the card.
- [Position, 2025-09-06] The Sequim town hall, verified via the county party’s detailed report: Silver Shield over Block the Bombs, with her mechanism reasoning.
- [Position, 2024-06-24] The Jewish Insider interview, verified: support for withholding heavy arms while backing overall defense.
- [Action, 2026] Her co-sponsorship of the Casten bill conditioning U.S. weapons use in Gaza and the West Bank, per wire reporting; reported, not confirmed directly.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position] The humanitarian-crisis statement’s end-the-war program (every hostage home, blockade ended, wounded treated, every child fed), verified on her site.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-06-24] The vicious-unprovoked condemnation and Hamas-eradication language, verified.
- [Position, 2026-07-16] The endless-violence characterization, verified.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Action, 2024-06] The campaign-manager firing over anti-Israel posts, verified via Jewish Insider; The Stranger’s coverage of left criticism carried as attributed.
- [Action, 2025-09-06] The withdrawn AIPAC-trip account, per the town-hall report; the J Street delegation verified via the House ethics disclosure.
- Her December 2025 Facebook explanation of arms-bill reluctance is a group-page source, not yet confirmed.
Safety and antisemitism
- [Position, 2024-06-24] Her support for federal antisemitism legislation including the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and her governments-must-act framing, verified in the JI interview.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. Her Republican challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Teresa Fox (Republican)
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