The upcoming Anchorage Assembly and School Board races offer conservative voters a concrete opportunity to weaken the left’s growing political grip and move the city in a new direction.
To this end, the Alaska Family Action has released its 2026 Values Voter Guide for the April 7 election, in which six seats are up for grabs on the 12-member Anchorage Assembly, and two seats on the School Board.
Topics in the voter guide focus on a wide range of hot-button issues.
Questions to Assembly candidates deal with taxpayer-funded abortion, bathroom policies based on biological sex, religious liberty, protecting women’s shelters from biological men, library policies regarding sexually explicit children’s books and LGBTQ ideology, sanctuary city status for illegal immigrants and moving the city elections to align with state and federal elections in the fall.
School Board questions deal with bathroom policies based on biology, banning abortion providers from accessing students, parental rights related to student medical care, upholding parents’ rights to withdraw their child from objectionable classes, requiring parental permission before teaching kids about sexual topics, prohibiting lessons that promote gender or sexual identity in younger grades, requiring parental notification if the school uses different names or pronouns related to a student’s gender identity, and sex education content.
“Although we are a statewide, Christ-centered, public policy organization, we know that what transpires in the ‘largest Alaskan village’ impacts everyone in the state,” Alaska Family Action President Jim Minnery said in releasing the new voter guide. “Roughly 40% of Alaskans reside in Anchorage. We are convinced many, if not most, of the leaders who keep getting elected do not represent the values of the majority of these residents.”
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Minnery added that Anchorage politicians are some of the most left-leaning in the state.
“For too long, the Anchorage School Board, the Anchorage Assembly and the delegation of legislators from this community have been politically left of the State of Alaska and the people of Anchorage…by a long shot,” he said. “But it doesn’t have to stay this way. As someone once told me, we are not a blue city. We are a red city run by blue leaders because conservatives don’t vote. Think unions. Think pastors who rarely mention that there even is an election, much less talk about the implications for the Body of Christ.”
The voter guide clearly reveals the most conservative-leaning candidates in each of the eight contests.
“Our Guide will help you make an educated choice. But to really turn the city around, we need more citizens to spread the word, motivate their friends and family and engage on campaigns,” Minnery added. “There has to be a multiplier effect happening in the next few weeks. You need to get out of your comfort zone and send an email, make a call or tell someone face-to-face to vote. Ask your pastor to direct people to akvoter.com and review the guide.”
TAKING ACTION
— Click here to access the Anchorage election website for info on the city’s mail-in election. Ballots will be dropped in mailboxes the week of March 15.
