Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
No position was found for Heikes. Peltola's campaign backs more VA staff and veterans' mental health care; Dan Sullivan's credits him with Alaska's largest military and Coast Guard build-up; Daniel Sullivan Jr.'s lists none on the pages checked. On the record, Peltola voted for a defense law with $157.1 million others requested for Alaska bases. Dan Sullivan voted for the 2025 law with $24.6 billion for the Coast Guard; who wrote that part is unclear.
Campaign positions
No position was found. The Division of Elections candidate list gives only his name, party registration, address and telephone number; he filed no statement for the official election pamphlet, the list names no website or email for him, and the Federal Election Commission shows no campaign committee for him this cycle. He did not answer the 2026 voter guides of four Alaska newsrooms or iVoterGuide.
Her campaign says she will restore the VA clinical workforce, expand mental health care for veterans, reverse cuts to food and housing programs veterans use, create a transition stipend of up to $2,000 a month for two years after separation, and keep supporting the Major Richard Star Act.
His campaign says he has delivered the largest military and Coast Guard build-up in Alaska's history and credits him with the Coast Guard funding in the 2025 reconciliation law. He sits on the Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs committees.
No position on the military, the Coast Guard or veterans was found in his campaign site as read on September 23, 2026 (home page, two press releases and six posts, including his answers to two voter-guide questionnaires) and his election pamphlet statement. On foreign aid, his questionnaire answers support increased and consistent aid to Ukraine and carefully appropriated aid to Israel.
Evidence timeline
official action
He voted for the 2025 law with $24.6 billion for the Coast Guard, including $300 million for an icebreaker homeport the Coast Guard puts in Juneau.
His campaign says he helped secure the historic $25 billion investment in the Coast Guard, including $300 million for the port infrastructure to homeport the icebreaker Storis in Juneau. Section 40001 of the 2025 reconciliation act, Public Law 119-21, which he voted for (roll call 372), provides $24,593,500,000 for the Coast Guard, of which $300,000,000 is “for homeporting of the existing polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025”. The law does not name the vessel or Juneau. The Coast Guard's spending plan, printed in a Senate hearing record of January 29, 2026, lists “CGC Storis Homeport ($300 million)” for waterfront work in Juneau. The section sits in the law's Commerce Committee title, and he chaired that committee's Coast Guard subcommittee in 2025. At the 2026 hearing, the Coast Guard's Commandant thanked him for his support for the $300 million. Limit: The dollar figures match the law, and he voted for it. His subcommittee role and the Commandant's thanks back “helped secure”, but the record does not show who wrote the section.
official action
She voted for the fiscal 2024 law authorizing $157.1 million for four base projects. Spending records name other requesters, rather than establishing that she delivered the money.
Her campaign says she delivered over $150 million for Alaska military bases: $107 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, $34 million for housing at Fort Wainwright, $9.5 million for housing at Eielson Air Force Base, and $6.1 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. All four figures are in the military construction table, section 4601, of the Fiscal Year 2024 defense authorization, Public Law 118-31, whose final version she voted for (roll call 723): $107,500,000 to extend a runway at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and $34,000,000 to complete enlisted unaccompanied housing at Fort Wainwright, both in the President's budget request; and $9,500,000 to plan and design a permanent-party dormitory at Eielson Air Force Base and $6,100,000 to plan and design a precision-guided-missile complex at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, both added by Congress. The four sum to $157,100,000. Neither added amount was in the bill the House passed in July 2023. The same two projects, at the same amounts, were funded in that year's military construction appropriations as Senate congressionally directed spending: the Senate Appropriations Committee's report names Senator Lisa Murkowski as the requester of both, and the final explanatory statement, printed in the Congressional Record on March 5, 2024, lists her in its Senate column with no House requester. On those appropriations she voted Nay on the House's own bill in July 2023 (roll call 380) and Yea on the final package in March 2024 (roll call 64). Limit: The amounts are real and she voted for the laws that carry them. The section 4601 figures are authorizations, which permit spending; the appropriations provide it. The published record names who asked for each amount, and it is not her: two were in the President's request, and the two Congress added were requested in the Senate by Senator Murkowski, with the House requester column blank. So the record shows the money arriving in bills she voted for, not that she delivered it. Whether “delivered” still earns this label is put to the owner.
campaign position
The fiscal 2024 law, passed in 2023, set no pay rate; the 5.2% raise came from an existing formula. She voted for the fiscal 2025 law, passed in 2024, which did set pay.
In a campaign ad she says she pushed through the largest pay increase for soldiers in decades; her campaign elsewhere puts it at 5.2 per cent. The defense authorization for Fiscal Year 2024, Public Law 118-31, sets no rate of basic pay: its basic-pay subtitle has three sections, on parental leave for reservists, reserve training pay, and pay during an absence. When a year's law sets no figure, the raise follows the standing formula in 37 U.S.C. 1009, tied to the Employment Cost Index. On the Act itself she voted Nay on the House's version on July 14, 2023 (roll call 328) and Yea on the final conference report on December 14, 2023 (roll call 723). The next year's act, for Fiscal Year 2025, Public Law 118-159, did set basic pay by statute: its section 601 put new monthly basic pay tables into effect on April 1, 2025, and its funding table carries $1.6 billion for a junior enlisted pay increase. She voted Aye on the House's version on June 14, 2024 (roll call 279) and Yea on the final bill on December 11, 2024 (roll call 500). Limit: The Fiscal Year 2024 law has no pay provision for her, or anyone, to have pushed through: that year's raise, the 5.2 per cent her campaign cites, came from a formula already in statute. The Fiscal Year 2025 law did set pay rates by statute and she voted for it at both stages, so the ad's words could be read to cover that raise, though her campaign's own gloss does not mention it. Her campaign's fact-check page quotes her July 2023 explanation of the Nay, a vote against Republican amendments added to the House bill: “We shouldn’t be pitting pay raises that they [military members] deserve against the reproductive freedoms that they also deserve.” A vote shows support for a bill; whether any member “pushed through” a raise is not something a vote can settle.
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Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Division's list of certified candidates for the November 3, 2026 general election, read September 23, 2026. It lists four candidates for U.S. Senator, alphabetically: Heikes, Gerald L. (Registered Republican); Peltola, Mary (Registered Democrat); Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican, incumbent); Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr. (Registered Republican). For Gerald L. Heikes it gives an address and telephone number only: no website, email or pamphlet statement.
official election record
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The FEC's candidate record for him, read September 23, 2026: no principal campaign committee and no financial report for the 2026 cycle.
fec filing
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
KTOO, Alaska Beacon, Alaska Public Media and Anchorage Daily News · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
The four newsrooms' joint guide for the August 18, 2026 primary. On the U.S. Senate tab, each of his answers reads “We made several attempts to contact the candidate, but the candidate did not respond,” except his hometown, which the guide took from the Division. Read September 24, 2026 through the data the page loads from app.electup.com. The Alaska Beacon's own copy returned 403 and was not tried further.
original reporting
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
iVoterGuide · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
A voter-guide site's profile of him for the 2026 Senate race. Every questionnaire item is marked “Did not answer” and every biography field “Candidate did not provide”. Read September 24, 2026.
original reporting
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
Alaskans for Mary · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Issue page. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: campaign position
Alaskans for Dan Sullivan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign biography page, dated May 5, 2026 in the site's own feed. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. The committee's filed website is WWW.DANSULLIVANFORALASKA.COM; the www host fails a secure connection, so the site was read at the bare domain, confirmed by its line "Paid for by Alaskans for Dan Sullivan". The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: nine pages and 33 posts, and no issues page.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position
Alaskans for Dan Sullivan · Published Aug 7, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign release of August 7, 2026 listing what it credits to him in Juneau. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. The committee's filed website is WWW.DANSULLIVANFORALASKA.COM; the www host fails a secure connection, so the site was read at the bare domain, confirmed by its line "Paid for by Alaskans for Dan Sullivan". The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: nine pages and 33 posts, and no issues page.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position; Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
Candidate-written and candidate-paid statement published by the Division, which says the views are the candidate's and not endorsed by it. A PDF, saved and hashed in the research folder; the seafood sentence the desk quotes is checked against the Division's copy.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position
Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate · Published Jul 13, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
His answers to Alaska Public Media's questionnaire, posted July 13, 2026. Campaign-controlled source; positions are attributed, not independently verified. Confirmed as his by the footer “Paid for by Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate P.O. Box 1656, Petersburg, Alaska 99833”. The research agent's network could not reach the site (a failed secure connection, and a network security filter on the plain address), and the filter was not bypassed; the site was read in full on September 23, 2026 in the owner's own browser: home, press (two releases), links, and six posts found through its sitemap. The owner's browser saved the pages' text on September 23, 2026, and the desk's quotations are checked against that saved copy.
candidate statement
For: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: campaign position
Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source; positions are attributed, not independently verified. Confirmed as his by the footer “Paid for by Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate P.O. Box 1656, Petersburg, Alaska 99833”. The research agent's network could not reach the site (a failed secure connection, and a network security filter on the plain address), and the filter was not bypassed; the site was read in full on September 23, 2026 in the owner's own browser: home, press (two releases), links, and six posts found through its sitemap. The owner's browser saved the pages' text on September 23, 2026, and the desk's quotations are checked against that saved copy.
candidate statement
For: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: campaign position
Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Candidate-written and candidate-paid statement published by the Division: retired elementary school teacher, Petersburg since May 1980, work for the U.S. Forest Service and in logging and construction, and a pledge to stand for fair elections and equal access to the ballot. A PDF, saved and hashed in the research folder; not quoted directly.
candidate statement
For: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: campaign position
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Enacted text, approved July 4, 2025. Used for section 40001 (Coast Guard), sections 50104 and 50105 (Arctic refuge Coastal Plain and Petroleum Reserve leasing), section 70101 (individual rates) and sections 70201 and 70202 (tips and overtime deductions).
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Congressional Record, on the question “Shall the bill, as amended, pass?”: 50 yeas, 50 nays, with the Vice President voting in the affirmative. The sitting ran into July 1, 2025 and the Record prints it under the legislative day of June 30. Read with tools/senate-votes/collector.py.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Enacted text, approved December 18, 2025. Section 831 applies the Berry Amendment to seafood from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The text of this law and ten others he voted on or sponsored, and the enrolled H.R. 5334, were searched for a seafood import ban; none has one.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 29, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Hearing chaired by Dan S. Sullivan with the Coast Guard's Commandant, Admiral Kevin Lunday. In his answers to Senator Cantwell's written questions, the Coast Guard lists “CGC Storis Homeport ($300 million)” for land and waterfront work in Juneau, as initial allocations that may change. In testimony, Admiral Lunday thanks the chairman for his support for the $300 million to home port the Storis.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jun 12, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Its printed roster lists Dan Sullivan of Alaska as chairman of the Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries in June 2025, weeks before the reconciliation act passed.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Alaskans for Mary · Published Aug 16, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign release of August 16, 2026 listing what it calls her policy wins; the source of most of her record claims on this desk. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Enacted text, approved December 22, 2023. Section 4601 is the military construction table (request and authorized amounts, in thousands). Title VI, subtitle A (basic pay) has three sections, none setting a rate of basic pay; the text contains no “5.2 percent”.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction; Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
December 14, 2023, on suspending the rules and agreeing to the conference report on the Fiscal Year 2024 defense authorization: 310 to 118. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction; Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The House-passed text of July 14, 2023. Under Alaska, its Air Force military construction table carries one line, the $107,500,000 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson runway; the Eielson dormitory and the precision-guided missile complex are not in it.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The committee's report of 2023. Its table of congressionally directed spending lists, for Alaska, Eielson Air Force Base “Permanent Party Dorm: Planning and Design” at $9,500,000 and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson “Precision Guided Munitions Complex: Planning and Design” at $6,100,000, each with Murkowski as the requesting senator.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Mar 5, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The explanatory statement for the final Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations (enacted as Public Law 118-42), headed “Disclosure of Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending Items”, with columns Requestor(s) House, Senate and Origination. The table is printed only as page images (T9060A.001 onward), so it cannot be searched as text. Pages S1236 and S1237 were read on September 23, 2026 by optical character recognition and by eye: every Alaska row names Murkowski in the Senate column, marks origination S and leaves the House column blank, including the Eielson permanent party dorm ($9,500,000) and the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson precision guided munitions complex ($6,100,000). No Alaska row names Mary Peltola.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
U.S. House of Representatives (docs.house.gov) · Published Mar 4, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The same explanatory statement as printed in the Congressional Record of March 5, 2024, posted for the House vote as a 111-page scanned PDF with a searchable text layer (sha256 b32221f5…). In its earmark disclosure table every Alaska row gives the amount, then Murkowski in the Senate requester column, with no House requester, and origination S; this includes “Permanent Party Dorm: Planning and Design” at Eielson Air Force Base ($9,500,000) and “Precision Guided Munitions Complex, Planning and Design” at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ($6,100,000).
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
July 27, 2023, on passage of the House's Fiscal Year 2024 military construction and veterans affairs appropriations bill: 219 to 211. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
March 6, 2024, on agreeing to the resolution concurring in the Senate amendment to H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024: 339 to 85. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
Alaskans for Mary · Published Jun 23, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign release of June 23, 2026 with the transcript of an ad in which she speaks. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Alaskans for Mary · Published Jul 10, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign release of July 10, 2026, used for the campaign's own statement that she delivered a 5.2% pay increase, and for her July 2023 statement on the House defense bill as the page quotes it inside a reproduced FactCheck.org article; that statement dates from July 2023 (rule 17), and FactCheck.org's own conclusions are not relied on. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The standing formula that sets the annual military basic pay increase from the Employment Cost Index unless another law sets a different figure.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
July 14, 2023, on passage of the House's Fiscal Year 2024 defense authorization: 219 to 210. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Enacted text, from H.R. 5009. Section 601, “Reform of basic pay rates”, sets the monthly basic pay tables by statute effective April 1, 2025. The section 4401 funding table carries a “Junior enlisted pay increase” of $1,600,000 thousand.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Became Public Law 118-159.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
June 14, 2024, on House passage of its Fiscal Year 2025 defense authorization: 217 to 199. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
December 11, 2024, on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5009 with an amendment, the final Fiscal Year 2025 defense authorization: 281 to 140. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: Not comparable yet