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Peltola, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska, explained her campaign slogan "fish, family, freedom" to Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026.
That's great. I love it. I love it. Yes. Fish family freedom.
Tell me about that fish family freedom. It has a nice ring to it, but I want to hear a little more. Give me the elevator pitch.
Well, in Alaska, I just really feel like all of the marquee issues for us fit into one or two of those categories. Take health care, families, childcare, families, food insecurity, fish, resource development, fish, our abundance issues, fish, corporate greed, fish, and many other things. And then freedom, of course. So that's
why fish is first there. That was the thing I was always wondering. It isn't freedom, family, fish. It's inverse.
Well, and it's funny because my husband used to argue with me about that. He really felt like family should come first. And my argument was you can't have a family without fish. They have nothing to eat. And it's really the glue that kind of holds us together. And he said, no, you can't go fishing…
Republicans have kind of taken freedom, right? Like they've tried to code it as a Republican term. And, you know, I'm just kind of wondering in what ways like you feel like, you know, maybe the Democrats have let them do that or that you think that's inaccurate as sort of a generic, whatever…