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Trump's Justice Department Sued to Stop Alaska From Certifying Its Senate Election — but Only if Republican Dan Sullivan Loses

Trump's Justice Department Sued to Stop Alaska From Certifying Its Senate Election — but Only if Republican Dan Sullivan Loses

Days before Election Day, the Justice Department asked a federal court to block Alaska from certifying its U.S. Senate result if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses by fewer votes than a second, unrelated candidate named Dan Sullivan received. 'I'm the one that said do it,' Trump told reporters. A Notre Dame election-law professor called it 'one of the worst' legal arguments he's ever seen.

Voting RightsElection Denial Alaska
A Russian-Born Ballroom Donor Got a Fast Pass Around Russia Sanctions and a $201 Million Federal Fund. His Money Also Went to Ten Republicans on This Site.

A Russian-Born Ballroom Donor Got a Fast Pass Around Russia Sanctions and a $201 Million Federal Fund. His Money Also Went to Ten Republicans on This Site.

Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.

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Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.

States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.

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The VA Calls Veterans Guardian a 'Claims Shark.' Its Founders Wrote $88,600 in Checks to Dan Sullivan's Fundraising Committee.

The VA Calls Veterans Guardian a 'Claims Shark.' Its Founders Wrote $88,600 in Checks to Dan Sullivan's Fundraising Committee.

Veterans Guardian charges disabled veterans for help the VA gives free, and a federal judge has ruled it broke federal law. In March its two founders gave $88,600 to Dan Sullivan's joint fundraising committee, which passed the money to the Senate Republicans' campaign arm. One founder has also given Sullivan's own campaign $6,000.

Corruption & EthicsMilitary Alaska
Trump's EPA Is Scrapping the Limits on Carbon Pollution From Power Plants. 17 Republicans on Our Report Cards Pushed for It.

Trump's EPA Is Scrapping the Limits on Carbon Pollution From Power Plants. 17 Republicans on Our Report Cards Pushed for It.

Biden's EPA estimated the power plant carbon rules would prevent up to 1,200 early deaths and 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms in 2035 alone. On September 14, Lee Zeldin announced they're gone. Fifteen Republicans we track cheered the repeal in the EPA's own press release; four signed a letter asking the EPA to hurry up.

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Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.

America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.

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Dan Sullivan Used Official Senate Letterhead to Tell 19 Alaska Communities What He's Delivered for Them. Senate Rules Bar That Letterhead From Campaign Correspondence.

Dan Sullivan Used Official Senate Letterhead to Tell 19 Alaska Communities What He's Delivered for Them. Senate Rules Bar That Letterhead From Campaign Correspondence.

Sullivan emailed thousands of Alaskans a town-by-town list of what he has secured for them, on Senate letterhead paid for by taxpayers, days before the 60-day pre-election blackout. The Senate Ethics Committee says letterhead may not be used for any campaign or campaign-related correspondence.

Corruption & EthicsTown Halls Alaska
Dan Sullivan Sold Up to $100,000 of His Family's Stock After Closed-Door COVID Briefings. Two Weeks Later It Fell by a Third.

Dan Sullivan Sold Up to $100,000 of His Family's Stock After Closed-Door COVID Briefings. Two Weeks Later It Fell by a Third.

A review of Sullivan's Senate disclosures finds four well-timed sales of RPM International — the chemical company his brother runs — including one on February 27, 2020, and two more just ahead of bad earnings reports. He is the busiest stock trader in Alaska's delegation. Murkowski, Peltola and Don Young reported no trades at all.

Corruption & EthicsBillionaires & Big Business Alaska
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.

The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.

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