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Since 2016, a bipartisan coalition in either Alaska’s House or Senate has advanced policies that improve the lives of Alaskans, like expanding Medicaid, ensuring quality public education, and protecting the air we breathe and the water we drink, while creating a firewall against policies that harm the interests of Alaskans, preventing the usual litany of what you see in rightwing trifecta states from becoming law.”
Former Alaska State Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins

Overview

Current Chamber Breakdown
STATE HOUSE
Democrats: 16
Republicans: 23
STATE SENATE
Democrats: 17
Republicans: 3

When Republican and Democratic state lawmakers broke a rightwing trifecta to reinstate the Alaska House bipartisan governing coalition, it was to protect Alaskans from the worst of Governor Dunleavy’s radical policies. In 2020, after several Republican coalition lawmakers lost their primaries to rightwing candidates, The States Project worked to elect lawmakers that could preserve it.

In 2024, thanks in part to our investment, enough lawmakers committed to forming a bipartisan governing coalition were elected to create a majority in both chambers. In the Senate, 21 lawmakers joined the bipartisan coalition, while 19 did not. In the House, 14 lawmakers joined the bipartisan coalition, while 6 did not. This is the first time in decades that there will be a bipartisan coalition in both chambers at the same time.

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Our Past Work In Alaska

2024

In 2024, The States Project worked to rebuild governing power for state lawmakers in Alaska who are committed to protecting personal freedoms, defending democracy, and policies that will improve people’s daily lives. For the first time in decades, there was a bipartisan coalition in both the House and the Senate in Juneau. 

2022

In Alaska, it was critical to help voters understand the new ranked-choice system of voting, which removed some ability by the radical right to primary candidates who showed interest in joining the bipartisan coalition that stands against the rightwing governor.

In the Alaska State Senate, all nine Democrats and eight of 11 Republicans have formed a bipartisan coalition, leaving three rightwing state senators in the minority.

2020

Candidates our efforts supported won four seats, including two flips, accounting for a critical 20 percent of the coalition’s seats. This allowed the bipartisan coalition in the House to be rebuilt in 2021.

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