Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.
For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.
TrackAIPAC career-total report shows $314,319 from AIPAC and pro-Israel-lobby PACs.
AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures targeting U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel. RESOLUTE Citizen treats documented AIPAC contributions as a failure on foreign_policy_restraint/q4 (the foreign-lobby question) AND applies a dollar-bracket adjustment to the total score.
Rapid City, SD · 605-348-7551 · 246 Founders Park Dr., Suite 102 57701
Sioux Falls, SD · 605-334-9596 · 2401 West Trevi Place, Suite 200 57108
Aberdeen, SD · 605-225-8823 · 205 6th Avenue SE, Suite 202 57401
Reach out directly. Your voice matters. Proverbs 29:2 — When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.
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November 3, 2026
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Official Profile
Religion: Evangelical Protestant (attended Biola University, evangelical Christian institution)
Education: Biola University (BA Business 1983), University of South Dakota (MBA)
Birthplace: Pierre, South Dakota
Background: Senate Majority Leader since 2025. Former U.S. House member and state railroad director. Former executive director of South Dakota Republican Party. In Senate since 2005.
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Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
TRUE (+2)
i 1 claim
Holds a 100% pro-life voting record and an A+ rating from SBA Pro-Life America. As Senate Majority Leader in January 2025, brought the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the Senate floor for a vote, and authored a January 2026 op-ed ('The Pro-Life Movement Marches Forward') celebrating the first pro-life federal law in decades — a provision in the reconciliation bill defunding Planned Parenthood via Medicaid.
Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
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Called illegal immigration one of the defining issues of the 2024 election; as Senate Majority Leader, scheduled the first Senate vote of the new Republican majority on border and immigration enforcement — demonstrating that wall-and-deportation-first border policy is his caucus's legislative top priority.
A long-standing gun-rights advocate who sponsored the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation to require all states to honor concealed-carry permits issued by other states — a constitutional-carry expansion principle — and voted against banning standard-capacity magazines.
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