Hi! The Alaska Memo is a political newsletter by me, Matt Acuña Buxton, focused on Alaska politics with a dash of Anchorage and a smattering of everywhere else. At the heart of it, my mission is to explain not just what happened but why it matters, bringing in the context and background that I’ve amassed in more than a decade of reporting in Alaska.
With no limits, deep-pocketed donors play an outsized role in shaping Alaska's elections
Just 2% of all contributions made to non-congressional candidates account for 52% of all the money they've raised.
What's the Alaska Division of Elections even doing anymore?
It's like it's being run by an election denier or something.
Alaska's U.S. Senate primary will have two Sullivans — but will it have two Dans?
At no point did it seem like the state's case was a winning one, but ruling doesn't quite close the book on the Division of Elections' efforts to minimize the perceived threat to GOP control of the U.S. Senate.
Dan J. Sullivan case may boil down to a technicality — even if the state's case is baloney
There's a bit of a wrinkle in the case that could make what looks pretty cut-and-dried a little more complicated
Dan J. Sullivan's disqualification would be illegal — even if he was a decoy, which he says he isn't
"We're a free country, it's America. Run for office for your own personal reasons."
Dan Sullivan disqualified for going by Dan, AKLNG bill clears the House
The state concedes no single thing is disqualifying about Petersburg Sullivan, just the narrative around him.
AKLNG advances without option for local governments to cut their own deals
With a little more than a week remaining in the special session, the gasline subsidy bill is nearing a vote in the House — without one of the big-ticket items advocated for by allies of the North Slope Borough.
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