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Matt Acuña Buxton is a long-time political reporter who has written for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and The Midnight Sun political blog. He also authors the daily politics newsletter, The Alaska Memo, and can frequently be found live-tweeting public meetings on Bluesky.
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Key backer of RCV repeal caught in Medicaid fraud crackdown

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Repeal Now is the latest campaign supporting an initiative to repeal Alaska’s open primary system.
News

Once-certain AKLNG tax cut deal unravels as legislators grapple with S-corp taxes, secret agreements and slights

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Legislators are midway through the second special session of the year.
Politics

Christian Nationalist lawmaker gets a slap on the wrist for threatening paper over Charlie Kirk coverage. She says she’s being silenced.

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Homer Rep. Sarah Vance likely violated state ethics laws when she used her legislative office to threaten the Homer News over its coverage of a memorial she helped organize for Charlie Kirk.
Elections

Alaska will almost assuredly have two Sullivans on the ballot, but will it have two Dans?

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After today’s oral arguments in front of the Alaska Supreme Court, it’s all but certain that Alaska’s primary election ballot will have two Sullivans.
Commentary

Alaska brought on a right-wing attorney to defend the decision to remove Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot

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The lawyer hails from a conservative Lower 48 law firm and helped shield the Republican National Committee from being investigated over its ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection. 
Elections

‘You don’t need any special legal training to smell a rat.’ Legislators question Dan J. Sullivan’s removal from the ballot

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At Monday's joint hearing of the House State Affairs and Judiciary committees on the Division of Elections' decision to block a Petersburg man named Dan J. Sullivan from running against U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, it was pretty clear that many Republicans had already accepted the narrative as true and the response warranted. 
Elections

Lawsuit argues Alaska election officials can’t disqualify Dan J. Sullivan — even if he was running as decoy

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Even if Petersburg Dan J. Sullivan were running against Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan with the intent to confuse voters a new lawsuit says it wouldn’t give the Alaska Division of Elections the power to disqualify him.
Elections

Group behind latest effort to repeal ranked-choice voting is intentionally misleading voters, complaint alleges

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The 2024 effort to repeal ranked-choice voting was dogged by constant, serious allegations of campaign finance violations, and it appears this election cycle's effort isn’t much different.
Economy

AKLNG bill advances out of the House, highlighting state’s geographic divide

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The AKLNG subsidy bill advanced out of the House on Friday on a 35 to 4 vote.
Elections

Dan Sullivan going by ‘Dan’ is just the proof the Division of Elections needed to disqualify him

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The Alaska Division of Elections has officially disqualified a Petersburg man named Dan Sullivan from running for office against Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Politics

Alaska Division of Elections plans to disqualify the Other Dan Sullivan without proof of alleged fraud

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The Alaska Division of Elections still hasn’t shown what evidence it has to block a Petersburg Republican named Dan Sullivan from running for U.S. Senate.
Economy

AKLNG bill advances without the option for local governments to cut their own deals

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With a little more than a week remaining in Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy's special session, the gasline subsidy bill is nearing a vote in the House.
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