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MP Mary Peltola Mary Peltola Mary Peltola represented Alaska in the U.S. House from 2022 to 2025 and lost her seat narrowly in 2024.

“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.”

The Bulwark · Policy · September 2026

“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.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark

Context

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.

Transcript

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Mary Peltola

That's great. I love it. I love it. Yes. Fish family freedom.

Tim Miller

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.

Mary Peltola

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

Tim Miller

why fish is first there. That was the thing I was always wondering. It isn't freedom, family, fish. It's inverse.

Mary Peltola

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…

Tim Miller

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…

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