#mary peltola

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I just tried it out and here's my feedback:

For President Biden, I might vote to reelect him because he took steps to repeal discriminatory policies like the Trans Ban (DADT 2.0). While I appreciate this progress, I hope to see a more critical approach to U.S. support and funding for Israel. Even still, Trump would be worse for Palestine. Vote Blue No Matter Who, until we get Ranked Choice Voting.

For Senator Murkowski, I approve of her reelection because I appreciate Senator Murkowski's dedication to child development and her progressive stance on LGBTQ+ rights. However, I wish she would support stronger gun regulation and prioritize green initiatives more consistently. I'm encouraged by her stance against Trump's policies.

For Senator Sullivan, I strongly oppose Senator Sullivan due to his positions against reproductive rights, transgender rights, and affordable healthcare. Additionally, his denial of climate change, support for gerrymandering, and alignment with extremist views surrounding the January 6 insurrection are deeply concerning. He is an un-American Trump Sucker and I need him out of my chair this instant.

For Rep. Peltola, I approve of her because I appreciate Senator Peltola's support for COVID-19 proposals and her progressive stance on marriage, children, LGBTQ+, and transgender rights. However, I believe there is room for improvement in her support for military service members, veterans, and moderate gun regulation.

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95 Democrats voted in favor of the true statement that anti-Zionism(belief that Israel should not exist) is anti-Semitism and that "from the river to the sea" is calling for Jewish genocide. Will the hysterically anti-Israel left vote against them for "endorsing genocide"? Of course they won't. In fact, they'll say we should vote blue no matter who in spite of this supposed genocide support, just like with Biden, because their supposed principles don't actually matter to them at all. Only winning and losing do.

[robynochs]

For the election of Democrat Mary Peltola to the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska, I give thanks.

Peltola, the 1st Alaska Native elected to Congress and -- by all accounts -- a coalition builder --, beat Sarah Palin 54.9% to 45.1%.

Peltola Wins Bid to Serve Full Term in the House for Alaska

[n00h]

My theory about Alaska's at-large district is that it is simply a sentient entity that kills its incumbents via airplane once it decides it's the opposing party's turn in the district.

Think about it: Mary Peltola becomes the first democrat to win here since 1972. She does it in a special election prompted by the death of incumbent Don Young. Not only was his death a heart attack in an airplane, but he himself flipped the seat in 1972 from democrats in a special election after the incumbent disappeared on an airplane.

Electoral victory in Alaska's At-large district isn't about winning the election, it's simply about retaining favor with that district (the sentient entity not the voters in it)

[justicetothestars]

CONGRATULATIONS REPRESENTATIVE MARY PELTOLA ON HER REELECTON AND BEING THE FIRST ALASKA NATIVE CONGRESS PERSON ELECTED TO A FULL TERM!!!!!!

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By Margaret Darby

Deseret News

Nov 16, 2022

With over 80% of votes counted, Alaska’s House race has yet to be called in favor of Democrat Mary Peltola— the incumbent candidate that is ahead by over 20 percentage points, per TheNew York Times.

Alaska’s former governor, Sarah Palin, trails behind at 26.8% and Republican Nick Begich follows in third place, with 24.1% of the vote, per TheNew York Times. So, with such an impressive lead, why hasn’t Alaska already given the House seat to Peltola?

Alaska does things differently. According to theAlaska Division of Elections, the state uses a ranked choice voting system. On Alaska ballots, residents vote by ranking the candidates in order of preference. The votes are then counted in rounds.

During the first round, only voters’ No. 1 preference on each ballot is counted. For a candidate to win during Round 1, they must win 50% of the votes. With 47.1% of the vote, Peltola is just short of the 50% required to win.

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Here are the Alaska House election updates

According toThe Hill, early votes submitted between the Friday before the election and Election Day must be given a full week to get counted after the election. Also, absentee votes start getting counted a week after the election, and are given 15 days to get counted. Alaska has until Nov. 23 to finish counting votes.

Read more.

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Explosive Ad Campaign Targets Alaska Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola's Votes Against Military Pay Raise

A groundbreaking ad campaign by the NRCC reveals Rep. Peltola's controversial stance on veterans' issues, drawing attention to her opposition to a military pay raise and funding for veterans' benefits.

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Remember Amy McGrath? She’s a retired Marine fighter pilot who lives in Kentucky.

She ran for US Senate against Mitch McConnell in 2020. Because Democrats everywhere loathe Moscow Mitch, they donated a whopping $94 million to her campaign – even though her chances of defeating McConnell were slim. The word “fundraging” comes to mind.

The Losing Democrats Who Gobbled Up Money  

In the closing days before the November 2020 election, Amy McGrath, a retired Marine fighter pilot challenging the powerful Republican incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, sent a series of email blasts to her followers. The race was “tightening,” one said, and she needed more money “to hit Mitch harder than ever before.” Another urgent-sounding appeal hinted that a cash crunch might be at hand: “After tonight, we’ll have to make some big choices about the budget.” Yet another warned, “[W]e simply can’t afford to scale back any of our programs in the final days of this election.”

There was little evidence the contest was tightening. McGrath’s internal polls late in the summer gave her campaign team at least a little hope, but by October that was no longer the case. As for money, she already had enough. In fact, she had raised more than enough—tens of millions of dollars more—than what was needed to run a robust campaign in the state of Kentucky. By Election Day, McGrath had brought in a record-obliterating $94 million—$63 million more than had ever been raised for a campaign in Kentucky. McConnell dramatically stepped up his fundraising this time around, but she still outpaced him by $27 million.

That money didn’t help much. McConnell still won convincingly.

Modern political campaigns like McGrath’s are multimillion-dollar pop-ups. The operatives involved in them raise the money, spend it, shut it all down after Election Day, and move on.

When flashy new political personalities burst upon the scene or if candidates are running against incumbents who, outside their states/districts, have high negatives, there is a tendency to treat such people as messiahs.

The problem with that is these long shot phenoms suck money away from candidates in other parts of the country who may be less flashy but who have a far better chance of winning.

There are Trump Republicans in the US House like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert who are repulsive. But they are certain to get re-elected no matter how much money people throw at their opponents. If verifiable photos emerged of them having an orgy with Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several recent mass shooters, it would barely move the needle from Solid Republican to Likely Republican in their districts.

The people running against them and against similar Trumpsters in deep red districts are very nice, but donating to them won’t change things.

In a legislative body, power is in the hands of the majority. Awful people like Boebert and Gaetz are legislatively harmless as long as they remain in a minority.

On the other hand, there are Democrats in tight races where you can make an enormous difference. Keeping the number of House Democrats at 218 or above is the key to power. It’s not necessary for them to be charismatic or sexy.

Here are the 20 tightest US House races according to FiveThirtyEight’s Top 50 list as of early Wednesday.

Giving $5 to each of the Democrats above is a far better investment than dumping $100 on a single race in a way deep red district.

BTW, because of Alaska’s ranked choice system, no names are given in the listing above. But the incumbent Democrat is Mary Peltola, a native Alaskan who won an upset victory in a special election to fill a vacancy last summer.

If I have a personal favorite on that list, it’s Elaine Luria in VA-02. After redistricting in Virginia, Rep. Luria found herself in a district which is a Toss Up rather than Lean Democratic. If you’ve been watching the House January 6th Committee hearings then you’ve seen her at work. Rep. Luria is the committee member whose presentation exposed Sen. Josh Hawley running in fear from the terrorists he helped incite. 😅 Elaine Luria deserves a few bucks just for that. Though she’s an outstanding representative overall.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

After three decades of increasingly steep losses in rural America, Democrats are finally beginning to grapple with an inconvenient truth: An enduring Democratic majority requires winning back some portion of persuadable rural working-class voters.

Both Republicans’ and Democrats’ neoliberal economic policies have been harmful—in some instances ruinous—to rural communities. The GOP, on the whole, has caused more economic pain—but it has also been the party that has acknowledged rural struggles and put the people who’ve been harmed at the center of their rhetoric. None more so than Donald Trump, who said, in 2016, “Every time you see a closed factory or a wiped out community in Ohio, it was essentially caused by the Clintons.”

Too many Democrats, meanwhile, have sounded either dismissive of or exasperated by rural people. In 2016, Chuck Schumer’s catastrophically cavalier strategy willfully sacrificed blue-collar rural voters in exchange (or so he’d hoped) for high-income suburbanites. As far as the Democratic establishment was concerned, non-college-educated rural voters should quit complaining and simply get a degree—ideally in coding—and join the knowledge economy. Such contempt for a large swath of America has resulted in the ongoing erosion of Democratic support among working-class white and non-white voters.

Joe Biden, more than any president in decades, has prioritized rural people with a remarkable set of pro-worker policies and major investments in rural economies and infrastructure. We believe that this record offers a foundation for Democrats at all levels to begin to win back working-class rural voters—while holding on to the party’s multiracial urban and suburban base.

In 2022, the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative (which we cofounded) interviewed 50 Democratic candidates, from 25 states, who ran in rural districts between 2016 and 2020. Though they didn’t all win office, they all significantly overperformed the partisan lean of their district or state.

Our questions to them boiled down to, “What was your secret sauce?” From their answers, we identified several key ingredients: First and foremost, successful candidates were highly attuned to the concerns of their would-be constituents. Instead of running on a cookie-cutter national Democratic platform, they focused on the things voters in their district cared about most—kitchen-table matters like jobs and the economy, alongside ultra-local problems such as lousy roads, underfunded hospitals, and spotty Internet access.

Overperforming candidates also eschewed Beltway political consultants in favor of campaign staffers rooted in the community. This made for authentic campaigns with local flavor. Former Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin, for example, deployed homemade yard signs that were a folksy departure from the typically soulless campaign placards that litter the landscape.

Rural overperformers did something else that’s unpopular within the progressive left but widely appreciated by rural swing voters: They didn’t demonize Trump, no matter how richly he deserved it. And they didn’t try to scare or pressure persuadable voters into seeing the GOP or MAGA as an existential threat to democracy. Such rhetoric is music to the base’s ears but falls flat with key constituencies, most worryingly youth and Latinos.

Guillermo Lopez, a board member of the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had this to say about Democrats’ hyping the MAGA threat to democracy: “I actually think that harms the vote.… [The average person who] just puts their nose to the grindstone and goes to work, I don’t think that motivates them. I think it scares them and freezes them.”

We’re with Lopez. Time spent enumerating and labeling Trump’s voluminous misconduct is time that could have been spent connecting with voters on what they care about most. We reserve judgment as to whether sounding the alarm about MAGA fascism appeals to disaffected or undecided urban and suburban voters, but we’re reasonably confident that this message does little to help rural candidates.

The superiority of depolarizing rhetoric is corroborated by a wide body of academic and poll-tested research documented in our full report. At the end of the day, the rural Democrats able to chip away at Republican strongholds were the ones who knew how to meet voters where they already were—not where they wished they were at. This sounds like Politics 101, but it’s a principle all too often cast aside by candidates and campaign consultants who spend too much time tuned in to MSNBC pundits and not enough listening to their own voters.

Democrats running in this cycle should study the 2022 campaigns of Representatives Mary Peltola, who won in solidly red Alaska, and Marie Glusenkamp Perez, who won Washington State’s Third Congressional District, which had been in Republican hands for six terms. Peltola ran on “Fish, Family, Freedom” and in her current reelection campaign calls on Alaskans to say “to hell with politics” and “work together to protect our Alaska way of life.”

Glusenkamp Perez won her 2022 race in large part because of her credibility as co-owner of an auto repair shop and her laser-sharp focus on issues her constituents prioritized, like the “right to repair” farming and other equipment. While some on the left are angry that she doesn’t toe the Democratic party line on every issue, her record shows her to be the kind of left-leaning populist who can win in rural districts. The Democratic Party would be wise to embrace socially moderate, economically and stylistically populist candidates like Glusenkamp Perez and Peltola as part of its coalition.

In the spirit of cross-racial populist solidarity, top-performing rural candidates put work and workers at the center of their policy and rhetoric, proposing a “hand up” rather than a “handout.” For the great majority of rural people, self-reliance—the wherewithal to solve our own problems and meet our own needs—is central to our identity. We don’t know a single farmer, conservative or liberal, who doesn’t feel this way. As Colby College rural political scholars Nick Jacobs and Dan Shea put it, “What rural residents want to hear is this: ‘Make it possible for us to improve our communities ourselves.’”

Rural residents might be disproportionately dependent on some form of government transfer payment, but they don’t like it. Farah Stockman, author of American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears, wrote, “Too often, those who champion the working class speak only of social safety nets, not the jobs that anchor a working person’s identity.” The key is in the delivery, ensuring that local communities can adapt and drive these investments rather than trying to implement ill-suited, top-down mandates.

The Biden administration’s aggressive anti-trust actions combined with rule changes favoring workers and organized labor are critical steps in giving non-college-educated working people agency. Its investments in rural infrastructure and manufacturing are essential as well.

Likewise, the Biden campaign’s decision to hire a rural coordinator bodes well. But that coordinator’s efficacy will be orders of magnitude greater if they hire a small army of locally rooted staff who know how to make a national campaign relevant and resonant for rural voters.

While Democrats will not “win” rural America in 2024, they can and must run up the margins with rural voters—a third of whom are considered persuadable—if they are to keep the presidency and control Congress and statehouses. Because it turns out the secret sauce isn’t that complicated: Find out what’s most important to persuadable rural people, and focus on that. That’s the only recipe worth cooking.

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Heartbreaking new details emerge as Rep Mary Peltola’s husband Eugene dies in Alaska plane crash minutes after takeoff | In Trend Today

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Heartbreaking new details emerge as Rep Mary Peltola’s husband Eugene dies in Alaska plane crash minutes after takeoff | In Trend Today

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House Election 2024

In the House Republican have a majority of just 4 seats, flip 4 seats and Democrats get a majority and can pass things like national abortion rights, voting rights, bills on student loan debt and medical debt and much more. So here's a list of the key races for control of the House, so look up your district and find a way to get involved.

Find your House District

Alabama

Shomari Figures (AL-02) Flip

Alaska

Mary Peltola (AK-AL) Hold

Arizona

Amish Shah (AZ-01) Flip

Kirsten Engel (AZ-06) Flip

California

Jessica Morse (CA-03) Flip

Josh Harder (CA-09) Hold

Adam Gray (CA-13) Flip

Rudy Salas (CA-22) Flip

George Whitesides (CA-27) Flip

Joe Kerr (CA-40) Flip

Will Rollins (CA-41) Flip

Derek Tran (CA-45) Flip

Dave Min (CA-47) Hold

Mike Levin (CA-49) Hold

Colorado

Adam Frisch (CO-03) Flip

Yadira Caraveo (CO-08) Hold

Connecticut

Jahana Hayes (CT-05) Hold

Florida

Darren Soto (FL-09) Hold

Whitney Fox (FL-13) Flip

Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Hold

Illinois

Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) Hold

Eric Sorensen (IL-17) Hold

Indiana

Frank Mrvan (IN-01) Hold

Iowa

Christina Bohannan (IA-01) Flip

Lanon Baccam (IA-03) Flip

Kansas

Sharice Davids (KS-03) Hold

Maine

Jared Golden (ME-02) Hold

Maryland

April McClain-Delaney (MD-06) Hold

Michigan

Hillary Scholten (MI-03) Hold

Curtis Hertel (MI-07) Hold

Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) Hold

Carl Marlinga (MI-10) Flip

Minnesota

Angie Craig (MN-02) Hold

Montana

Monica Tranel (MT-01) Flip

Nebraska

Tony Vargas (NE-02) Flip

Nevada

Dina Titus (NV-01) Hold

Susie Lee (NV-03) Hold

Steven Horsford (NV-04) Hold

New Hampshire

Chris Pappas (NH-01) Hold

New Jersey

Sue Altman (NJ-07) Flip

New Mexico

Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Hold

New York

John Avlon (NY-01) Flip

Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Hold

Laura Gillen (NY-04) Flip

Mondaire Jones (NY-17) Flip

Pat Ryan (NY-18) Hold

Josh Riley (NY-19) Flip

John Mannion (NY-22) Flip

North Carolina

Don Davis (NC-01) Hold

Ohio

Greg Landsman (OH-01) Hold

Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Hold

Emilia Sykes (OH-13) Hold

Oregon

Val Hoyle (OR-04) Hold

Janelle Bynum (OR-05) Flip

Andrea Salinas (OR-06) Hold

Pennsylvania

Ashley Ehasz (PA-01) Flip

Susan Wild (PA-07) Hold

Matt Cartwright (PA-08) Hold

Janelle Stelson (PA-10) Flip

Chris Deluzio (PA-17) Hold

Texas

Michelle Vallejo (TX-15) Flip

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Hold

Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Hold

Virginia

Missy Cotter Smasal (VA-02) Flip

Eugene Vindman (VA-07) Hold

Washington

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Hold

Kim Schrier (WA-08) Hold

Wisconsin

Peter Barca (WI-01) Flip

Rebecca Cooke (WI-03) Flip

If you live in any of these congressional districts (or close to them) you absolutely must sign up to volunteer and help! you! yes you! get to decide what America looks like in 2025, is it gonna be Project 2025 and Trump? or Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and the Democrats protecting your right to control your own body, taking action on the climate and making life more affordable? its up to each of us to do all we can to get to the country we want.