r/alaska • • Sep 10 '26

Questions! Weekly - 'Alaska, From the outside looking in Q/A'

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This is the Official Weekly post for asking your questions about Alaska.

Accepting a job here?

Trying to reinvent yourself or escape the inescapable?

Vacation planning?

General questions you have that you would like to be answered by an Alaskan?

Also, you should stop by r/AskAlaska


r/alaska • • 5h ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Kreiss-Tomkins pulls ahead in fundraising and endorsements in Alaska governor’s race

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…….Wilson is separately benefiting from an independent expenditure group called “Bernadette Will Build the Damn Roads,” which recently spent $98,000 on advertising to promote her. The group is funded primarily by a Florida-based private prison company called the GEO Group, which operates immigration detention facilities in the Lower 48….

But of course she is !


r/alaska • • 4h ago

Alaska is on pace to match 2024’s record-high early voting numbers

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I personally like voting on Election Day. The wife voted early because she'll be in recovery from a medical procedure on Election Day.

But, Early, Absentee, Election Day... It doesn't matter. What matters is that you vote.


r/alaska • • 3h ago

Isn’t it Dan Sullivan’s fault our PFD’s were capped at $1,000?

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I’m so fed up with all the republican spam I’m getting. So much of it is false or misrepresenting. Probably going to not vote republican just because I’m annoyed.


r/alaska • • 12h ago

Ice Fishing in northern alaska

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Fish on


r/alaska • • 13h ago

Turnagain Arm fog

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r/alaska • • 5h ago

Alaska legislators press natural resources commissioner on no-cost state land transfers

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The Senate Resources Committee subpoenaed John Crowther to get answers on the state’s plans for no-cost land transfers for private development under disputed ‘public and charitable use’ statute


r/alaska • • 23h ago

Sen. Murkowski endorses Democrat JKT in Alaska’s governor’s race

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r/alaska • • 18h ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Some rural Alaska absentee voting sites failed to open ahead of midterms

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We need to know why, and this situation needs to be fixed quickly!


r/alaska • • 19h ago

They’re sending us Fallout decor in the mail

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r/alaska • • 3h ago

Ferocious Animals🐇 ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FAIRBANKS MIDNIGHT HALLOWEEN

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Rocky Horror is the first and only true audience partici-(SAY IT!)-pation movie.

For those who have never experienced it this way: the audience yells back lines at the screen during the extended pauses between dialogue, dresses up in costume, acts out the film, and throws props at various points throughout the movie. It’s been part of the Rocky Horror experience for decades, and there’s really nothing quite like watching this movie with a theater full of people who know exactly when to yell, dance, laugh, and shout.

And at our show, you won’t just be watching the movie. Naked Stage Productions is bringing you a LIVE SHADOW CAST to perform alongside it.

Whether you're a longtime Rocky Horror devotee or this is your first time seeing it with an audience, Halloween is the perfect night to do the Time Warp.

Costumes encouraged. Audience participation expected.

HALLOWEEN NIGHT
October 31, 2026
8 Star Events Center
Doors 11 PM • Show 12 AM

And for the gore-sensitive: Rocky Horror is NOT a horror film. It’s a rock musical send-up of old science-fiction and horror films. So if you're worried about a traditional horror movie, don't be. If you're worried about what exactly you're getting yourself into… well, that's another story.

Tickets are on sale now at NakedStageProductions.com


r/alaska • • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Alaska fights back against Trump-ordered elections lawsuit, seeks its dismissal

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r/alaska • • 1d ago

Alaska Airlines announces flights to Tokyo, Japan

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This is so cool to see Alaska getting more international flights. We are so back.


r/alaska • • 1d ago

Three Democratic female candidates for Congress have been hit by cars over the past few days. Peltola, a woman running for Congress in TN, and a woman running for Congress in OH.

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Protect Mary. I wish the democrats sent people up here for her like the republicans did for Dan.


r/alaska • • 1d ago

General Nonsense We got issues

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So there are about 30 fliers, this is for two days of mail. Some double, my two adult children live with me. The cost for this type of election garbage hitting my mail box in a regular year can average around 100.00 per our family of 4 voters. In a heavy election year like this one it can go up to about 400.00 dollars. And please someone tell me my numbers are way to high. But any amount in my eyes is too much.

I don't look at them, not even a glance, never have NEVER WILL!

This is sad!!!

This is pathetic!!!

This is an absolute waste of money!!!

People are tired, cold, hungry. Every politician on every side is the same, "Elect me so I can pretend I have morals and values you share with me." When in the end it's lobbyists who get to stipulate their bidding. I'm tired of all of them, they all suck!

Can we please see past them this time for who and what they are.

I just want people to understand that this is the numbers for our household. Now multiply those by the Alaskan population. The amount each party spends could, I don't know, put heating oil in some tanks, pay some electricity bills, buy some food, shit help people learn to grow food indoors up here. Endless possibilities other than just getting burned in my fire pit or wood stove.

I... I just can't even with this shit anymore.

The amount of financial waste for politicking.


r/alaska • • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Trump on Alaska ballot: ‘A lot of people don’t know what incumbent means’

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Is he that dumb or just desperate for an excuse to try to rig the election? Maybe both?


r/alaska • • 3h ago

Mary Peltola Conspiracy smear campaign?

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This is the New York times original story behind a pay wall. Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Midterm Ballot With Another Dan Sullivan - The New York Times

This is Fox paraphrasing it for free. IT IS THIER CURRENT TOP LEAD STORY.

I do not work for Fox, did not write this story. I am not MAGA and do not have a (R) at the end of my name. I am seriously distressed seeing this. So down vote all you like to make it go away on r/Alaska but this is what the rest of the country is talking about.

Peltola allies worked to recruit spoiler candidates in Alaska Senate race, report says

Operatives aligned with Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s crowded ballot, according to The New York Times.

The effort, internally dubbed the “ballot composition project,” included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state.

The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent.

The White House communications department weighed in with a firm rebuke of the reporting that has come out after nearly 60,000 early votes have been cast in that election thus far, according to The Associated Press.

A retired teacher from the small Panhandle community of Petersburg, Dan J. Sullivan, ultimately filed and is now on the November ballot alongside the senator, Peltola, and long-shot candidate Gerald Heikes.

Fox News Digital reached out to all groups allegedly involved for comment.

The Times, citing interviews with 12 people and dozens of text messages, reported that Peltola campaign aides and senior Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee officials participated in regular discussions about the project.

"The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race," the Peltola campaign said in a statement to the Times.

The DSCC issued a similar denial, saying it had "no involvement" in recruiting the other Sullivan or any other Republican candidate.

"The DSCC is not involved with Dan J. Sullivan," the statement read. "Republicans have a long history of recruiting and propping up candidates in an attempt to boost their own campaigns – including recruiting a prisoner with a New York address to run against Mary Peltola and spending nearly half a million dollars to secure a spot on the ballot in Alaska for an Arizona resident in the Senate race this cycle."

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez fired back in a statement on X.

"The Democrats that cry about threats to democracy spent months working to intentionally undermine it," she wrote. "Mary Peltola is a LIAR and a CHEAT who mooches off taxpayers and thinks Alaskans are stupid. Rank Dan S, Daniel, Gerry, DON'T RANK LYING MARY."

Former Peltola campaign manager Elisa Rios, who was fired in August, described the project in interviews with the Times and said Peltola was "definitely aware," though not directly involved.

"Peltola will be held accountable this election for her dishonesty and deception," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., chair of the NRSC, wrote in a statement. "Alaskans will leave Peltola unranked on the ballot because of her dirty tricks. Voters can trust the real Dan Sullivan, and I'm confident he'll be re-elected."

The Elias Law Group, led by well-known Democrat-linked attorney Marc Elias, is alleged to have ties to the scheme through Jacquelyn Lopez, an attorney there, Rios told the Times.

A campaign consultant asked Rios via text, the Times reported: "Do we need to follow up with Jackie about MAGA party stuff?"

Rios later sought to retract her statements as the story was being prepared for publication; the Times said it had never agreed the interviews were off the record and that her account was consistent with other reporting.

Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system makes it relatively easy to place additional candidates on the general-election ballot.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of results if votes for the other Dan Sullivan cost the incumbent the race.

"Biggest we told-you-so moment," a senior DOJ official told Fox News. "Quote me."

Fox News' Bill Melugin contributed to this report.

Posted by Eric Mack


r/alaska • • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Trump's attempt to declare Alaskan election results invalid because of word incumbent. No one will understand it.

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Trump just used that word in a Michigan rally urging people to vote for the incumbent R. So what is he saying? Michigan voters are smarter? I don't know. I've visited Alaska and the people I met were strong willed and minded, fiercely independent and love the paradise in which they live. No one is getting 5K if Republicans win, not going to happen. SO don't believe it. It won't happen. I'm old. Ive seen many presidents and none are perfect, not one. But we have never had one so exploitive, so vulgar and so unconstitutional. When politicians make promises, think about what will be the opposition in any legislative session, be it state or federal. All politicians lie, they just do. Alaska, I'll be thinking about you come 11/3


r/alaska • • 3h ago

Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot

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Never surprised at the tactics of political campaigns


r/alaska • • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Judge appears skeptical of DOJ's legal maneuvering in Alaska lawsuit

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r/alaska • • 1d ago

Kuroda leaked Phish plans for Alaska Spoiler

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r/alaska • • 5h ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Midterm Ballot With Another Dan Sullivan

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r/alaska • • 1d ago

Ferocious Animals🐇 Bear locks itself in Subaru, destroys interior before police free it

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r/alaska • • 1d ago

Dan J. Sullivan switches from Republican to ‘undeclared’ ahead of general election

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r/alaska • • 1d ago

Polite Political Discussion 🇺🇸 Who is paying these people to canvas around town? I used to think they were volunteers but I’m pretty sure this guy didn’t have a clue who is on the ballot.

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Over the last week I’ve had 3 people swing by our house and ask these exact questions, with each one progressively getting more unfamiliar with candidates they are talking about.