I am running for office because I want to be an effective and representative advocate for Alaskans and Americans. My priorities in Congress are fish, family and freedom. Our food, culture, lifestyles and jobs are all interconnected with our environment, and we need to improve our efforts toward responsibly looking after our resources. I also want to be an advocate for our hardworking families, ensuring that each person gets equitable access to employment, education and health care. I believe in protecting the freedoms of American citizens, whether it is the right for women to make decisions about their bodies or the liberty needed by eligible citizens to own guns, a necessity for hunting and feeding Alaskan families. In my current tenure in Congress and in the future, I will work collaboratively with all representatives, just as I did with the Bush Caucus, together with all Alaska voters to get legislation passed needed to improve the lives of all Alaskans. I am going to represent the diverse set of opinions that Alaskans hold.

My 10 years in the Alaska state House taught me civility and decorum. It was my honor to rebuild the Bush Caucus, working across party lines to represent the needs of rural Alaskans. We found common ground. I intend to utilize this experience and deploy the same approach as Alaska’s representative in Washington.

I helped bring together over 118 tribes from Western Alaska with a unified voice working to bring back abundant salmon returns in our home rivers. As I testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 2018, the failure to acknowledge and fully integrate traditional knowledge of Alaska tribes in managing fisheries undermines efforts to protect our salmon stocks and preserve our traditional ways of life. We must also address conflicting federal and state management regimes and biases. Additionally, I fully support efforts to reduce the wasteful bycatch of Alaska’s seafood by foreign high seas fishing corporations.

(Listen to the Kodiak Fishery Debates on KMXT for a more in-depth exploration of fishery policy. You can read reporting on the debate from the Alaska Beacon here.)

I would support the codification of a woman’s right to complete health care including the right to abortion and contraception because I believe that every person has the right to quality affordable health care; women are no exception. They have the right to make decisions about their own health and bodies. In fact, 60% to 65% of Alaskans are pro-choice. I firmly believe that our country’s leadership should reflect the sentiments of their citizenry, so I will protect the privacy and freedom of Alaskans to make their own decision.

Guns are a large part of Alaska’s culture and I support the right of Alaskans to own guns. That said, my hometown in Bethel, Alaska, had our country’s first school shooting, so I recognize the need for our government to take action on gun control. Congress should pass commonsense restrictions on the sale of assault weapons. We need to enact legislation such as secure storage laws, reasonable waiting periods and universal background checks in order to protect our communities, while still protecting people’s Second Amendment rights.

(Editor’s note: The school shooting in Bethel was Alaska’s first school shooting, but not the country’s first.)

We are living with the effects of climate change in Alaska and the effects are devastating. In my home of Bethel, Alaska, the foundations of homes are cracking, as the tundra thaws and Western Alaska is facing severe damage after an unprecedented, dangerous storm. While we adapt to our changing environment and implement measures to address the impact, like the relocation of Newtok to Mertarvik, we need national leadership that prioritizes solutions as large as the problem we face. Alaska has bountiful resources, but we need responsible resource development to ensure that the risks of climate change are addressed.

I’m the only candidate running for Congress in Alaska who isn’t a multimillionaire. My opponents and outside special interest groups outraised me in the primary and special general elections — but with the help of my grassroots supporters — I prevailed and earned the opportunity to complete Rep. Don Young’s last term in Congress. What I’ve learned from all of this is that Alaska wants fair and honest elections that focus on the issues. We want to know who the special interest groups are and how they are spending political dollars. As much as we prioritize personal privacy — we want political transparency.

(Editor’s note: According to financial disclosure reports, not all of the congressional candidates are multimillionaires. You can read Chris Bye’s financial disclosure report here, Nick Begich’s here, Sarah Palin’s here and Mary Peltola’s here.)

Alaska is more expensive to live in than the Lower 48 and inflation has been devastating to individuals, families and especially to those living in rural Alaska where the cost of living is the highest. We are finally seeing a slight reduction as tourism increases and the supply chain recovers from the pandemic, and the Inflation Reduction Act will help reduce costs even more. I do believe there is additional action that can be taken to address inflation and the overall cost of living in Alaska by looking for efficiencies in supply chains, supporting local businesses and food production, improving transportation throughout the state, and further growing the economy in Alaska through responsible resource development.

Alaskans face abnormally high costs for health care and limited access due to a shortage of providers. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has employed a successful model to deliver health care to Alaska Natives. I believe there are lessons to be learned from that entity as well as work to be done to entice qualified health care professionals to practice in all parts of Alaska.

I helped bring together over 118 tribes from Western Alaska with a unified voice working to bring back abundant salmon returns in our home rivers. It was my honor to rebuild the Bush Caucus, working across party lines to represent the needs of rural Alaskans. I intend to utilize this experience and deploy the same approach.

I believe that the upcoming generation has many obstacles before them that previous generations have not had to contend with. Our young people are entering the workforce with crushing student loan debt, no access to affordable housing, rising interest rates, rising inflation and limited opportunities to find work that provides livable wages, health care or a retirement plan option. We need to govern with the next generation in mind and make investments to support the next generation of our communities — and maintain our Alaska way of life.

In Alaska, hunting is about keeping food on the table. And for me, Second Amendment rights are about food security. I support creating a bipartisan commission to investigate best practices for keeping our communities safe while also protecting our Second Amendment rights. I will always advocate for our communities that depend on guns for subsistence living.

YES. We must all take action to address climate change and reduce the impact on our lives.

YES. While I believe that the results of the 2020 presidential election represented the will of the majority of eligible voters, I also believe that our country should pave the way for a more open and transparent democratic process.

YES. I respect the will of Alaskans who chose the new electoral system of open primaries and ranked choice voting by supporting a ballot measure in 2020.

NO. Alaskans have never supported a constitutional convention in the past and we shouldn’t support one now. Especially with some state leaders calling for a constitutional convention in order to take away a woman’s right to choose in Alaska, which is currently protected under the state constitution.

This only covers contributions through September 30, 2022.

Peltola’s total contributions are $4.2 million. Over $4 million are from individual contributions. That’s more than twice the amount her campaign reported on September 5.

Understanding FEC filings: Contributions only need to be itemized if they are larger than $200 or if the combined contributions from one person for that election year are more than $200. Because more than half of Peltola’s individual contributions are not itemized, an analysis of where donors are from or how many she has wouldn’t be accurate. Most of her donations came through ActBlue, an online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive groups. 

Committee contributions come from groups, like PACs. Peltola’s largest group donation was $5,000 from the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education. That’s the donation limit from a PAC for each election. 

Independent Expenditures are things like ad buys or mailers sent out by organizations that are not associated with the campaigns and are forbidden by law from working with campaigns. The only one made on her behalf was from Alaskans for Bristol Bay Action for $1809.