In August, Mary Peltola told Alaskans, "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!" Her campaign might have wanted to check its own text messages before she said it.

According to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday, top Peltola aides in the summer of 2025 told a staffer to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible. Dan S. Sullivan is Alaska's Republican senator, and a second Dan Sullivan on the state's four-candidate general election ballot could confuse enough voters to cost him the seat. This spring, a retired teacher from Petersburg named Dan J. Sullivan filed for the Senate as a Republican. He has long supported Peltola and other Democrats.

In an Alaska Superior Court order in his ballot case, he asked to appear on the ballot as "Sullivan, Dan," exactly as the senator had already qualified. When the Division of Elections asked both men how their names should appear to avoid confusing voters, he first asked to be listed as "Dan S. Sullivan," using the senator's middle initial, before settling on "Dan J. Sullivan."

The Peltola campaign has........

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