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Alaska Democrats Try to Beat Dan Sullivan by Finding Another Dan Sullivan

DOJ subpoenas fly as Mary Peltola's campaign accused of ballot-stacking with a doppelgänger candidate. Now Biden's suing to stop the election count because this shit is too stupid to risk.

A woman wearing glasses and a green and white floral shirt speaks into a microphone. A nameplate in front of her reads "Ms. Mary Sattler Peltola". Another woman is visible in the background.
Senator Lisa Murkowski / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

The facts

The US Department of Justice has reportedly issued subpoenas following reports that the Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign collaborated with party operatives to get a challenger with the same name as Republican senator Dan Sullivan on the midterm ballot. Ballot stacking is a political tactic used to draw votes away from an opponent by placing other candidates on the ballot. While ballot stacking is not illegal, the US president and the Department of Justice have filed a lawsuit to preemptively block the certification of the Senate election results if the incumbent senator loses. The Guardian US News reported this on October 30, 2026.

Our take

Holy fuck, the Alaska Democrats have finally cracked the code. After years of rigorous intellectual debate, Mary Peltola’s campaign brain trust landed on the ultimate political masterstroke: find another guy named Dan Sullivan. Not a better platform, not a sharper vision for America - just another schmoe with the same name. It’s the electoral equivalent of trying to win a fistfight by shouting ‘Look over there!’ and hoping your opponent gets hit by a bus. The sheer, unadulterated laziness of this grift is fucking stunning. These clowns looked at the Herculean task of defeating an incumbent senator and said, ‘Nah, let’s just check the phonebook.’ They’re not politicians; they’re the world’s worst casting directors, staging the most transparent, low-rent identity fraud since a toddler puts on a fake mustache and claims to be his own dad. And the best part? It’s not even illegal. Ballot-stacking is the political system’s way of saying, ‘Sure, go ahead, act like a complete asshole.’ It’s the loophole designed for cowards who think ‘confusion’ is a platform. Now the President and the Justice Department have to waste everyone’s time with a pre-emptive lawsuit because these pricks couldn’t keep their pathetic little scheme in their pants. Think about that: the full weight of the federal government is being mobilized to stop an election result that might be swung by the presence of some random fucker named Dan Sullivan. Not foreign interference, not dark money - just name-game bullshit. It’s like calling in the National Guard because someone put a whoopee cushion on the throne. The vanity is the real kicker. These operatives actually think they’re clever. They’re sitting in some Anchorage strip-mall office high-fiving over their ‘brilliant’ gambit, a move so transparently dickhead that it’s provoked a constitutional crisis over its own sheer stupidity. They wanted to be Machiavelli but ended up as the cunts who tried to rig a coin toss by using two-headed pennies. Enjoy the subpoenas, you absolute fucking muppets. The only votes you’ve successfully drawn away are from anyone with a functioning brain cell. Congratulations on making Alaska the national laughingstock of democracy, you petty, small-dick grifters.

Sources

01Guardian US News: First Thing: Alaska Senate race descends into legal acrimony over second Dan Sullivan02Wikimedia Commons: Mary Peltola Testifying at Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing v2.png
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