Missi Hesketh
D · U.S. House, MO-7 · Tier 3/4
Tier 3/4, between “Pro-Israel, critical” and “Critical / conditions aid”
On her campaign TikTok she urged people in March 2026 to “Call your Reps and Senators out for supporting #torture and #genocide in #Israel,” and in July 2026 objected to her opponent’s “votes to merge US and Israeli military”; she took the Anti-AIPAC Candidate Pledge in May 2026 and calls herself the “#AIPAC-FREE, not bought out candidate.” A former mayor and alderwoman of Forsyth and teacher, the MO-7 Democratic nominee in 2024 and again in 2026, she runs on health-care costs, Social Security, reproductive rights and accountability.
A 3/4, on a thin record: captions and short videos on her campaign TikTok. In March 2026 she urged people to “Call your Reps and Senators out for supporting #torture and #genocide in #Israel,” asking in the video how the U.S. government can keep supporting Israel after a report that Israeli soldiers tortured a toddler. In July 2026 she objected to her opponent’s “votes to merge US and Israeli military” and said the U.S. should not be associating with a government she said had killed some 75,000 people. She names the genocide in her own voice, argues from Israel’s conduct and took the Anti-AIPAC Candidate Pledge in May 2026, but has never called to end or condition aid or weapons to Israel; her 2025 Ballotpedia survey and campaign site say nothing about Israel. Counter-case: a 4, reading her call to fault Congress for supporting the genocide as an end to that support; the USS Liberty video she posted in June 2026 ends with a speaker faulting Congress for supplying the bombs used in Gaza, but those are his words.
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