Alaska Open Letters

From a constituent in Cooper Landing, AK

I included you on my thank you note to Senators Murkowski and Sullivan for their vote to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies because I knew you too would soon have a chance to do what is best for the healthcare of Alaskans and Americans. You now have that opportunity by signing on to the disc

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

Put an end to high seas murder

Murdering people on the high seas is unacceptable and there you sit, apparently unable to demand that your party leader put a stop to it! Moreover, at the same time the Coast Guard has demonstrated their continuing ability to nit only interdict drug smuggling, but ti bring those smuggling to the cou

From a constituent in Cooper Landing, AK

Thank you Senators for voting for the Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies. Senator Murkowski is correct that you need to do better and cannot just say Happy Holidays and brace for the new year. Health care in our country is broken. The ACA is not a success. It is, however, better than having f

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

Investing in UAA is an investment in Anchorage and Alaska’s workforce

I am writing to you as a staff member at the University of Alaska Anchorage and as someone who sees firsthand how essential UAA is to Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska. I strongly urge your support for increased investment in the University of Alaska, particularly for competitive faculty and staff c

From a constituent in Cooper Landing, AK

Removing free entry to our National Parks on select days is a pretty weird move for a president at all. Selecting Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is even weirder for anyone not blowing racist dog whistles. Besides, I wouldn’t make a stink about it. It will surely get better if you just i

From a constituent in Cooper Landing, AK

The administration’s pretexts for its actions towards Venezuela are false. You know it. I know it. We all know it. Venezuelan drug traffickers are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They are North Vietnamese attacks on our naval ships. They are pretext. I am not a fan of Maduro but the war on

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

Alaska cannot address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in the dark. The Trump administration’s decision to remove the “Not One More” report from public view—despite it being required by law and focused on saving Native lives—does exactly that. This report, developed under

From a constituent in Anchorage, AK

A Fairer Alternative to Anchorage’s Proposed Sales Tax

I’m writing to oppose the proposed 3% municipal sales tax. While Anchorage needs stable revenue, a broad sales tax would place the heaviest burden on residents with the least ability to absorb higher costs. Sales taxes are regressive by design. Under this proposal, property owners—including large r

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

I am writing as a constituent who is deeply concerned about the recent online commentary attacking Senator Mark Kelly for his reminder to service members that their oath is to the Constitution. His statement was entirely lawful, appropriate, and fully aligned with long standing military ethics. It i

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

Killing kids

You voted to confirm RFK Jr and he just made his agency the laughingstock of the world and is despite his promises to you attacking vaccination programs based on nonsense. There is a lot of blood on your hands.

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

Tomahawks for Ukraine

The “US Plan” for resolution of Russian aggression and war crimes is a complete abandonment of democratic principles and an utter embarrassment of Trump as Putin’s lapdog. Your failure to immediately repudiate this fiasco renders you as culpable as Putin. Give Ukraine Tomahawks and let them offer

From a verified voter in Anchorage, AK

TRUMP THREATENS LEGISLATORS WITH DEATH

STOP PRETENDING TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR DOESN'T MATTER. The man is unhinged and the longer you glibly look on it as hyperbole, the more danger all of us are in. When one of your colleagues comes to harm, will you finally face a reckoning, or will you just note there's one fewer Democrat? How long can you