The Platform
Seventeen commitments. All grounded in one conviction: this seat belongs to Alaskans, and I am only borrowing it for six years.
Privacy & the Fourth Amendment
Federal agencies routinely buy location and phone data from brokers — information they would need a warrant to collect directly. Buying what you are forbidden to seize is not a clever workaround; it is a loophole around the Fourth Amendment. I will vote to close it. A right that can be purchased around is not a right.
No Federal Dollars for Mass Surveillance
Automated license-plate readers — Flock Safety and systems like it — record where ordinary people drive and keep it, whether or not anyone is suspected of anything. Much of that hardware is bought with federal grant money. I will work to bar federal grants from funding mass license-plate reader networks and to stop federal agencies from querying those databases without a warrant. Driving to work is not probable cause.
Against Endless War
I will vote against sending Alaska’s kids to endless foreign wars. Foreign policy is the part of this job I have studied on my own since I was fifteen, and what I have concluded is simple: Congress gave away its war power and should take it back. Declarations of war belong to the legislature, and the burden of proof belongs to whoever wants the war — not to the families who would pay for it.
Education Freedom & the Trades
I left the traditional track at fifteen, earned my GED, and went to Career Academy for a trade diploma. It worked. A student who is ready should be able to finish a recognized credential in 18 credits and go to work — not spend years and borrowed money on a degree that does not match the job. The federal barrier here is concrete: Pell Grant rules exclude short-term programs by minimum length. Extend Pell to short-term credentials, reauthorize Perkins CTE, fund apprenticeships. Then get out of the way.
Stop Taxing the Permanent Fund Dividend
The PFD is not income the government granted you. It is your share of resources you already own, and Washington taxes it as though it were a paycheck. I will push to exempt the dividend from federal income tax. I will also work with Alaskan leaders toward the full statutory dividend — but honestly: the size of the dividend is set in Juneau. A Senator has no vote on the state formula, and I will not pretend otherwise.
An Ironclad Helium Dividend
As helium development moves forward on the North Slope, Alaskans should get a share that is walled off from the beginning — a separate dividend, protected from legislative raids, built to pay for generations rather than plug one year’s budget hole. The fund structure would be created in Juneau. Federally, what I can do is make sure Alaska collects every dollar of royalty owed from extraction on federal land, and that permitting does not strangle the project before it starts.
Cut the Red Tape Choking Rural Schools
No school, no buses, no more. Rural and small districts get boxed out of buying perfectly serviceable used buses by federal equipment and emissions rules written for districts nothing like ours. The result is kids who cannot get to school — a regulation defeating the thing it was written to protect. I will push for rural waivers and common-sense exemptions so a district can put a reliable bus on the road without a federal permission slip.
The Federal Money Alaska’s Schools Are Owed
Washington already owes Alaska money it does not reliably deliver: Impact Aid for military-connected and federally-connected students, and BIA school funding. Both matter enormously here and both get shortchanged. The same is true of the federal streams that pay for summer programs, which are squeezed first every budget cycle — students who fall behind need a real chance to catch up and graduate on time. I am not asking for new programs. I am asking that the money already appropriated actually reaches Alaska classrooms.
The Real Affordability Agenda
Nobody in this race will tell you the truth about why things cost what they do in Alaska, so here it is: a large share of it is policy. Federal tax on money that was already yours. Shipping rules that inflate every item on the shelf. Regulations that stop a district from buying a bus. Credential requirements that keep a qualified kid out of a job for three extra years. Fixing that does not require a new program. It requires taking things away from Washington.
Ban Wasteful Trawling
Trawlers dump enormous quantities of halibut, crab, and salmon as bycatch while subsistence and small-boat fishermen are told to cut back. That is not a market outcome — it is a federal allocation, set under the Magnuson-Stevens Act by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. I will push for hard bycatch caps, full observer coverage, and council appointments that represent Alaskans rather than the factory fleet. The people who live off a resource should not come last in line for it.
Alaska’s Coastal Villages
There are Alaska villages losing ground to the sea every year, and the federal answer has been studies instead of shovels. Relocation and shoreline work run through the Army Corps, the Denali Commission, FEMA, and the BIA — all federal, all appropriated by Congress. I have spent years organizing salmon, firewood, and emergency supplies for communities the system skips. I know the difference between a program that exists and help that arrives.
Deep-Draft Ports
Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the country combined and not enough deep-draft capacity to serve it. Port construction runs through the Army Corps and federal appropriations — squarely a Senator’s job. Every year Alaska’s share goes to ports in the Lower 48 is a year our shipping costs stay high for reasons that have nothing to do with distance.
Veterans & the Federal Promise
Alaska has one of the highest per-capita veteran populations in the country and some of the longest distances to care. The VA is entirely federal, and a system designed for a city does not work in a place with no road to the clinic. I will work on access and wait times for rural and roadless veterans specifically — and one full year of my Senate salary goes to Alaska veterans directly.
Who Actually Puts Alaska First
Alaska First is not a slogan about the rest of the country. It is a question about who decides. Our fisheries are allocated by a council most Alaskans have never heard of. Our ports wait behind other states. Our villages get studied while the ground goes into the water. Putting Alaska first means moving those decisions closer to the people who live with them — and spending a Senate seat on that instead of on a career.
One Term Only
I will serve one six-year term and I will not file for a second. I will sign a public contract saying exactly that, before a single vote is cast. Power that does not have to be re-won is power that can be spent honestly — a Senator who is not running again can vote the way Alaska needs rather than the way the next primary demands.
Two Years of Senate Salary, Donated
I will donate two full years of my Senate salary — one to the Mat-Su School District and one to Alaska veterans. Not a symbolic percentage. Two years, in full. If this is service rather than a career, the first two years of it should cost Alaska nothing.
No Campaign Donations
There is no donate button on this website and there will not be one. I am living the same pressure as a lot of Alaska families, and I am not going to ask them to fund my race. Nobody who gave me money gets to call me later, because nobody gave me money. That is the whole point.
No Stock Trading in Office
Members of Congress vote on bills that move markets and then trade in those same markets. It is legal and it should not be. I will hold only diversified or blind instruments and file full financial disclosure. I will vote for a statutory ban on individual stock trading by members and their immediate families — and I will follow that rule whether or not it passes.
No Lobby Owns This Seat
I will refuse AIPAC money, and I will not take direction from any outside lobby — foreign or domestic — that puts someone else’s interests ahead of the people who live here. A Senate vote is not a commodity. Alaska’s belongs to Alaskans.
The Candidate Who Cannot Be Bought
Every politician says they cannot be bought. The difference is that most of them are asking you for money while they say it. No donations. No stock trades. One term. Two years of salary given away. These are not positions — they are constraints, and they are checkable. Hold me to every one.
What is not on this list, and why
I care about moving the capital closer to where Alaskans actually live. I care about the Legislature paying the full statutory dividend without cutting it, and about how a Helium dividend would be structured. None of those are a U.S. Senator’s decision. They belong to Juneau and to Alaska voters directly. I would rather tell you plainly what this office can and cannot do than put a plank on a website that sounds good and goes nowhere.
