But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Rebecca Bextel
Other · Governor, Wyoming
–No Position Found
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.
Rebecca Bextel is a small-business owner from Jackson and the Constitution Party's candidate for governor of Wyoming. She has lived in Wyoming for more than 20 years, runs small businesses with her husband, and served the Republican Party as a precinct committeewoman, a state committeewoman and an alternate delegate to its 2020 and 2024 national conventions. After an unsuccessful run for state Republican chair in 2025, she announced in May that she would seek the Constitution Party's nomination, saying it would give conservatives "two lanes for the same race, just like the Democrats". The seat is open, and on November 3 she faces Eric Barlow, the Republican, and Ken Casner, the Democrat.
Her campaign is about the size of state government, taxes, energy and immigration enforcement. Her plan for her first 100 days calls for a review of every executive agency, board and commission, a freeze on discretionary grant programs, a permanent property-tax reform package, an executive order making Wyoming energy production a state priority, "Wyoming Grown" labeling for farm products, an order barring sanctuary policies in state agencies with protocols for cooperating with federal immigration authorities, E-Verify for state contractors, and a goal of putting Wyoming's schools in the nation's top five. Her issues page adds gun rights and a pledge to withdraw Wyoming from the federal refugee resettlement program.
On the question this site asks, the record is empty rather than thin. Nothing located, at any date, has her taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians, or saying anything about the war in Gaza. The words Israel, Gaza and Palestinian appear nowhere on her campaign site, in her launch statement or in the coverage of her campaign. A governor casts no federal votes on any of this. An empty record carries no implication either way.
Her campaign's accounts on Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube, and her own Facebook page, could not be read here. The addresses are on her research page.
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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 2026-10-05 unless the entry says otherwise. Her campaign site has five pages (home, Meet Rebecca, Issues, First 100 Days, Events); all five were read in full. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Bextel has not held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is hers; the federal funding badges do not apply to a state office.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
Nothing located, at any date.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located, at any date.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located, at any date.
What the campaign site and own pages say
[Position, read 2026-10-05] Her issues page has five sections: "Defend Our God-Given Rights" (gun rights, protecting innocent life, free speech, religious liberty, property and parental rights); "Defend Wyoming's Sovereignty", under which she would "withdraw Wyoming from the federal refugee resettlement program initiated under Governor Matt Mead" and end driver's licenses for people in the country illegally; "Unleash Wyoming Energy" (coal, oil, natural gas, uranium and critical minerals, and freeing America from dependence on foreign countries for energy); the right to keep and bear arms; and property-tax reform. Nothing on this subject. The page carries no date and is recorded on the date we read it.
[Position, read 2026-10-05] Her First 100 Days plan has ten parts: a smaller and more accountable executive branch; property-tax relief; an end to discretionary grants and subsidies for favored companies; an energy executive order and a strategy against federal actions on energy; electricity affordability; severance-tax reform through the Legislature; "Made in Wyoming" and "Wyoming Grown" labeling; a fuel-tax review; an executive order barring sanctuary policies, with protocols for cooperating with ICE and E-Verify for state contractors; and the "Wyoming Top Five Education Initiative". The only references to other countries are about energy independence and country-of-origin labeling. Nothing on this subject.
[Position, read 2026-10-05] Her Meet Rebecca page says she has lived in Wyoming for more than 20 years, operates small businesses with her husband, Jonathan, and has served as a Republican precinct committeewoman, state committeewoman and alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2020 and 2024. Nothing on this subject.
[Position, 2026-05-13] Oil City News' report of her launch quotes her statement: her run as the Constitution Party candidate "aims to allow conservatives two lanes for the same race, just like the Democrats". It lists her priorities as energy production, Second Amendment rights, school choice, less regulation and election integrity, including voter identification. Nothing on this subject.
The race
[Read 2026-10-05] Her Ballotpedia page records that Ken Casner (D), Eric Barlow (R) and Rebecca Bextel (Constitution Party) are running in the general election for Governor of Wyoming on November 3, 2026, with no incumbent; Joseph Kibler (Independent) is listed as withdrawn or disqualified. She has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 survey.
[Position, 2026-05-13] Oil City News reports that she unsuccessfully sought the chair of the Wyoming Republican Party in 2025 and said her move to the Constitution Party came from what she saw of political insiders in Cheyenne. It also reports that in February 2026 the Wyoming House voted unanimously to form a special committee to look into her handing out campaign donation checks, which she said came from a Teton County donor, to several lawmakers on the House floor; she said there was no wrongdoing. WyoFile's report of February 12, 2026 covers the same events in detail and notes that she founded a media outlet, The Open Range Record. A state legislative matter, not about this question.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
Her campaign's accounts, linked from her site: https://facebook.com/RebeccaforWyoming , https://x.com/RebeccaforWY , https://instagram.com/RebeccaforWyoming and https://youtube.com/@RebeccaBextelforGovernor ; and her own Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/rebeccawarren.bextel/ , which Ballotpedia lists. Not read.
The Open Range Record, the media outlet WyoFile says she founded, was not searched.
Not on the card, and why
Her state platform in detail: out of scope, summarized above so the absence can be checked.
Her refugee-resettlement pledge: about a federal refugee program in Wyoming; it names no country and is not about U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or U.S. aid to Palestinians.
The February 2026 dispute over campaign checks: a state legislative matter, not about this question.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
https://www.rebeccaforwyoming.com/, https://www.rebeccaforwyoming.com/meet-rebecca, https://www.rebeccaforwyoming.com/issues, https://www.rebeccaforwyoming.com/first-100-days and https://www.rebeccaforwyoming.com/events (opened; 2026-10-05)
https://oilcity.news/general/2026/05/13/jackson-resident-rebecca-bextel-announces-campaign-for-wyoming-governor/ (opened; 2026-10-05; published 2026-05-13)
https://wyofile.com/conservative-activist-hands-checks-to-lawmakers-on-wyoming-house-floor-controversy-erupts/ (opened; 2026-10-05; published 2026-02-12)
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