Baker also serves as treasurer for the newly formed ballot group, Alaskans for Citizen Voting. He worked for former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, and was at the center of multiple allegations against Bronson’s office in 2023. Baker did not respond to an interview request.

A document submitted by the Alaska Division of Elections to the U.S. Department of Justice in response to a nationwide data request names 70 possible

If elected, Shower, a conservative who has focused some of his legislative effort on election security, would administer state election laws and appoint the head of the Division of Elections.

The first special session expired at the end of Sunday, with the question of whether to form a state Department of Agriculture unresolved.

Wasilla Republican Sen. Mike Shower will run for lieutenant governor alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson, the two announced Tuesday night in Big Lake. Wilson is the first of Alaska’s 10 governor candidates to announce her running mate.

As states across the country have been stuck between conforming to the president’s wishes to redistrict and adding more Republican seats to Congress, versus fighting back to give what Democrats feel could be a better shot for a majority,

Candidates running in the Oct. 7 Fairbanks municipal election have already racked up tens of thousands in donations and expenses, according to filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

The two candidates hoping to be the next mayor of Kenai, and two of the three candidates running for the two open seats on the Kenai City Council, met last week to discuss their visions for the future of the city as part of a candidate forum moderated by the Peninsula Clarion and KDLL 91.9 FM.

Alaska Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined fellow Senate Republicans Wednesday night in voting to set aside a budget amendment that would have compelled the U.S. Department of Justice to release files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.