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OPINION: Marginalized conservatives must use the ‘atom bomb of Alaska politics’
Should the majority Democrat caucus refuse to go along, Alaska's conservative Republicans should hold the budget hostage. With no budget passed, a special legislative session would be required, and the state government could be shut down. It would be glorious
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OPINION: The clock is ticking on Alaska’s Republican Party
Alaska GOP leadership has tacitly endorsed the Democrat-led caucuses in the Alaska legislature. The GOP leadership may not recognize it, but this is a crisis point for them. The voters are not going to tolerate a weak and impotent GOP for much
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Alaska’s Divison of Elections is a failure
The Alaska Division of Elections is an absolute unmitigated disaster on every front. On accountability, on transparency, on communication, and on record keeping. Watching the video where they point the camera at the computer screen as they push the magic
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Conservative Mat-Su challenger holds huge monetary lead in effort to oust State Sen. David Wilson
Alaska State Sen. David Wilson (R-Wasilla) was elected to the Alaska State Senate in 2016, but he is facing his most formidable challenge this year from solidly conservative Rob
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Group of Alaska Republicans help Dems kill pro-life amendments to contraception bill
Many Republicans in the Alaska State House, including some who claim to be “pro-life,” teamed up with pro-abortion Democrats to kill several pro-life amendments to a bill that would mandate insurance providers cover a whole range of contraceptives,
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Leftist political group honors Alaska State Sens. Wilson and Tobin
Influence Watch, however, notes that while the group claims to be nonpartisan, it “is funded by left-of-center nonprofit groups and promotes many left-of-center policy goals, especially liberal expansionist immigration policy, government job training
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Amid criticism from pro-lifers, Sullivan signs letter demanding end to military abortion funding
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan was among 27 GOP senators who signed a letter demanding that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin cease the practice of paying for military members to travel to pro-abortion states to kill their unborn
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5 Alaska House Republicans oppose amendment to stop state-funded abortions
Five GOP lawmakers in the Alaska State House, some of whom claim to be pro-life, joined Democrats to kill an amendment to the state budget that sought to prohibit Alaska from using state funds to underwrite abortions. Proposed on April 3 by Rep. David Eastman
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Rep. Peltola demonstrates undying fealty to anti-life Democratic overlords
Despite her charming smile and disarming demeanor, U.S. Congresswoman Mary Peltola is a radicalized pro-abortion zealot who doesn’t even support caring for babies born alive during failed abortion attempts. This week, Peltola joined nearly all her
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New Mat-Su legislator claims most Republicans are fine with gay ‘marriage’
Jesse Sumner, who recently won election as a Republican state representative for the Mat-Su, claims that he and the majority of Alaska Republicans are no longer interested in defending the state’s constitutional definition of marriage as “the union of one