Murkowski Defended Scheming Opponent Until NYT Investigation Piled On Deception Allegations

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Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski dismissed the Trump administration’s attempt to block Alaska’s Senate election results over a candidate with the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan — but changed her tune Wednesday after a New York Times report detailed allegations of a coordinated effort to manipulate the race.

Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign and aides from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee tried to sabotage Republican Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan’s reelection chances by recruiting a candidate with the same name and getting him on the ranked-choice ballot, The New York Times (NYT) reported Wednesday. Before the report, however, Murkowski defended the scheming opponent, Dan J. Sullivan, and dismissed the Trump administration and Department of Justice’s legal challenge.

“Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot,” Murkowski said Oct. 23. “The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit.”

After the NYT report, Murkowski condemned the Peltola campaign’s alleged scheme and manipulation as “ballot-stacking” that “should have no place in our electoral process.”

“Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments,” Murkowski said Wednesday. “By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign—what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials.”

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Trump Says Peltola Should Be Prosecuted over Dem Scheme to Recruit 2nd Dan Sullivan into Alaska Senate Race

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President Donald Trump believes the reported Democrat scheme to recruit a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska to hurt Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in the general election is “a criminal act” and that Alaska’s Democrat Senate nominee, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK), who was reportedly aware of the scheme, should be prosecuted.

A day after the New York Times reported that Democrat operatives persuaded another Dan Sullivan to enter the race earlier this year to help Peltola and hurt the incumbent, Trump, at a campaign rally in South Carolina, said it appears to be a “conspiracy” and high-level “voter fraud.”

“It’s called splitting the vote. Totally wrong. Totally illegal. This is voter fraud at the highest level, and the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola—who treats her staff horribly, by the way, so badly that they think she’s abusive, actually—should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted, and so should the fake Dan Sullivan,” Trump said.

“This is a guy that never ran for office. He never had anything to do with politics. He just happened to have the name Dan Sullivan,” Trump added. (Read more from “Trump Says Peltola Should Be Prosecuted over Dem Scheme to Recruit 2nd Dan Sullivan into Alaska Senate Race” HERE)

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Trump DOJ Sues To Block Alaska Senate Results If Dan Sullivan Loses Because Of Another Dan Sullivan

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Friday to block Alaska’s Senate results if Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan lost because of a challenger with the same name.

A challenger with the same name entered the race in June, which raised speculation that he intentionally ran to confuse voters and help former Democratic Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola win. If Sullivan loses, the lawsuit stated that the state would “fail in its obligation to protect the integrity of its election” if they certify the votes.

“Daniel J. Sullivan decided to run for Senator in 2026 as a Republican with the intention of misleading supporters of Senator Sullivan into voting for him. The sole purpose of his candidacy is to benefit the Peltola campaign by reducing the number of votes for Senator Sullivan … Should Alaska certify any electoral results tainted by the inclusion on the ballot of Daniel J. Sullivan—whose candidacy, Defendant Beecher found, is ‘for the purpose of confusing or misleading voters and compromising the fairness of the ballot’—the State and its officers will fail in its obligation to protect the integrity of its election,” the lawsuit stated.

Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher informed Sullivan in an Aug. 26 letter that his declaration of candidacy “was not filed in order to declare an actual good-faith candidacy,” but rather to confuse voters into voting for the wrong Sullivan. After Sullivan appealed the ruling, Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews ruled he could remain on the ballot for the state’s primary.

The Alaska Supreme Court overturned that ruling in a June 30 decision and allowed the other Sullivan to be on the ballot. (Read more from “Trump DOJ Sues To Block Alaska Senate Results If Dan Sullivan Loses Because Of Another Dan Sullivan” HERE)

Alaska Campaign Decries ‘Dark Money’ While Using It To Preserve Ranked-Choice Voting

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The main group leading the charge to keep ranked-choice voting (RCV) in Alaska has made stopping outside “dark money” in elections a big part of its campaign message. So why is it accepting large swaths of it to ensure the disastrous system remains in place?

A newly released campaign finance report shows that the “No on 2” campaign has received millions of out-of-state funds from left-wing dark-money organizations to help defeat the Last Frontier State’s Measure 2 ballot initiative in the 2026 midterm elections. The initiative seeks to repeal the state’s ranked-choice voting system and eliminate “campaign finance provisions that require persons and entities that contribute more than $2,000 that were themselves derived from donations, contributions, dues, or gifts to disclose the true sources (as defined in law) of the political contributions,” states Ballotpedia.

Under RCV, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes.

RCV was narrowly adopted in Alaska in 2020, thanks in part to backing from liberal Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s allies in the state. The system allowed Murkowski to survive a primary challenge in 2022 and has now put the Last Frontier State’s 2026 Senate race and other contests in play for Democrats.

An initiative to repeal RCV made Alaska’s 2024 ballot, but was defeated by fewer than 700 votes after a wave of out-of-state dark money flooded in to defeat the measure. Those forces are now once again dumping money into the Last Frontier State to kill the 2026 repeal efforts. (Read more from “Alaska Campaign Decries ‘Dark Money’ While Using It To Preserve Ranked-Choice Voting” HERE)

Democrat Mary Peltola Accused of Abusive Behavior, Vulgar Outbursts in Blockbuster Story

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Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola was the subject of a devastating New York Times profile on Wednesday, September 23 which described a pattern of angry outbursts, physical abuse, and slurs for years while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Peltola is now running against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in November in a contest polling shows continues to be close.

According to the explosive story, former aides describe “angry and profane outbursts.” In one instance she is said to have shoved an aide according to a former staffer who was present and two others who were told about it at the time. Additionally, four former staff members said they directly heard her use the word “faggot” over the years, even about her own staff members, which her campaign has denied. She also used the word “retarded,” according to former aides and text messages viewed by the newspaper.

The report talked to a total of nine former staffers who were granted anonymity.

Her office amassed one of the highest turnover rates in Congress during her term, and she has missed hundreds of votes throughout her time in elected office. (Read more from “Democrat Mary Peltola Accused of Abusive Behavior, Vulgar Outbursts in Blockbuster Story” HERE)

Alaskan Boy, 15, Who Survived 62 Hours at Sea Makes Horrifying Revelation after Being Rescued

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A 15-year-old Alaskan boy rescued from a capsized boat after three days made a horrifying revelation when he was pulled to safety by a passing fishing vessel.

Derek Parker Aghnaanga had been fishing for halibut along with his cousin and brother when their small skiff overturned near St. Lawrence Island and drifted into the Bering Sea Sept. 4.

He was the only survivor, and watched his brother and cousin die.

“Through the teeth chattering, he had mentioned that his brother was still under the skiff and then he said that in the previous night before our rescue that his cousin had slipped away off the top of the skiff,” Adam White, captain of the Northwest Explorer, told Alaska’s News Source.

The Coast Guard spotted the teen clinging to his capsized skiff at around 10:30 a.m. Monday, after Alaska State Troopers notified them on Sunday night that the party hadn’t returned home, and asked the Northwest Explorer and its crew of 13 to pick him up.

“We saw the unusual object on the horizon. We blasted our horn a couple times,” White said. (Read more from “Alaskan Boy, 15, Who Survived 62 Hours at Sea Makes Horrifying Revelation after Being Rescued” HERE)

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The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like

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If you want to know what a “rigged” election looks like, look no further than the U.S. Senate primary race still underway in Alaska. As of this writing, the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola, a Democrat and former member of the House, by about 5 points.

Some 30,000 votes are still uncounted, but it won’t change the fundamentals going into the November general election thanks to Alaska’s insane and fraudulent ranked-choice voting regime. In Alaska, the primary purpose of ranked-choice voting (or RCV) is to prevent conservative Republicans from winning statewide office and to keep Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington.

Full disclosure: I grew up in Alaska and live there now, and while I’m immensely proud to be from this great state and great land in the majestic northern marches of America, our voting system here is an embarrassment. . .

In this election cycle it has produced not just embarrassment but straightforward rigging in the form of the “Decoy Dan” spectacle. Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher who has never before run for office and was not a registered Republican until two days before filing his candidate declaration, managed to get on the primary ballot and capture 2.4 percent of the vote, coming in third and guaranteeing him a place on the ballot in the general election.

Decoy Dan is a fraudster propped up by Democrat Party operatives and support. As The New York Times just reported, veteran Democrat consultant Amber Lee has been assisting the fake Sullivan in his bid to trick Alaskan voters into voting for the wrong candidate. Make no mistake, the entire purpose of this man’s candidacy is to siphon votes away from Sen. Sullivan by confusing voters. He even initially tried to register with the Alaska Division of Elections as “Dan S. Sullivan,” adopting the incumbent’s middle initial so that the two names would appear identical on the ballot. He then created a website that was markedly similar (in format, color scheme, etc.) to Sen. Sullivan’s reelection site. (Read more from “The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like” HERE)

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Eight Dead After Plane Crashes In Remote Part Of Alaska

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A charter plane crashed Thursday in a remote part of Alaska, killing all eight people who were on board, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.

The plane, a Cessna 441, crashed west of the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport around 12:15 p.m. local time, according to the FAA’s statement shared on X. The plane had departed from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and was en route to Cape Newenham.

Two pilots and six passengers were killed as a result of the crash, according to Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) Alaska region chief, NBC News reported.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, and Eleventh Air Force, reacted to the incident.

“This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” Davis said in a statement, according to NBC News. (Read more from “Eight Dead After Plane Crashes In Remote Part Of Alaska” HERE)

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‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Admits He Never Voted Trump, Backed Murkowski and Peltola

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Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan told the New York Times he has never voted for President Donald Trump, despite running as a Republican against the incumbent GOP senator who shares his name, according to a profile published Monday.

Sullivan, 69, is a retired schoolteacher from the fishing village of Petersburg. He and two-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan share a name, and both appear on Tuesday’s primary ballot. Republicans call the challenger a Democrat plant. The challenger told the Times he was running in good faith as a moderate Republican, not a secret Democrat.

He said he voted for the Democrat nominee in the last three presidential elections and did not vote for the senator in his previous two campaigns. He said he backed Democrat Mary Peltola in her 2022 and 2024 House bids and has donated to her and other Democrats. Asked whether he would prefer Peltola over the incumbent in November, he did not hesitate.

“If it was between those two, it’d probably be that,” Sullivan said.

The challenger said he attends local events protesting the Trump administration, including at least one “No Kings” protest, and told the Times he opposes the direction of his own party. (Read more from “‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Admits He Never Voted Trump, Backed Peltola” HERE)

Shocking Poll Reveals How Gen-Z Women Really Feel about Men — and it’s not Pretty

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Women are from Venus — and men can stay on Mars.

Female Gen-Zers have far more negative views of men than young men do of women, according to a bombshell recent survey.

More than a fifth, or 21%, of women under age 30 have a negative view of the opposite sex, reveals a poll by the UK’s New Statesman.

That’s almost four times the 7% of men under 30 who feel the same way, the study found.

Just half of women of the same age meanwhile had a positive view of men, compared to 72% of men who had a positive view of women, the study shows.

For women under 25, 27% have a negative view, and only 35% hold a positive one. (Read more from “Shocking Poll Reveals How Gen-Z Women Really Feel about Men — and it’s not Pretty” HERE)