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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.

“I think everyone across Alaska is feeling the weight of the corruption in Washington, D.C. and the corporate greed that has been allowed to happen really unfettered. If you look at every single thing we're paying for, we are getting crushed by these runaway prices, whether it's diesel or gas, transportation costs, freight costs, health care costs, grocery costs.”

The Bulwark · Policy · September 2026

“I think everyone across Alaska is feeling the weight of the corruption in Washington, D.C. and the corporate greed that has been allowed to happen really unfettered. If you look at every single thing we're paying for, we are getting crushed by these runaway prices, whether it's diesel or gas, transportation costs, freight costs, health care costs, grocery costs.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark

Context

Peltola described the core of her case to Alaska voters in her interview with Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026.

Transcript

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Mary Peltola

…coming in and making dramatic changes. And then in two years, another majority comes in and flips it again. I think the level of uncertainty that we are all living in currently is only exacerbated when we have a Congress that's just, you know, got these political footballs going back and forth.

Tim Miller

…with people that broke the law, broke rules, et cetera. And I'm just kind of wondering how you think about that. Like, obviously, there'll be a policy agenda for the Democrats, but shouldn't there not also be a corruption and accountability agenda, given what we've seen the last couple of years?

Mary Peltola

I think everyone across Alaska is feeling the weight of the corruption in Washington, D.C. and the corporate greed that has been allowed to happen really unfettered. If you look at every single thing we're paying for, we are getting crushed by these runaway prices, whether it's diesel or gas, transportation costs, freight costs, health care costs, grocery costs, even the issue with factory trawlers, you know, dragging the bottom of the Bering Sea. That's a corporate greed issue. And our government was designed, first of all, to have three different branches and a balance of power. And it was also designed to be reflective of the electorate. And right now we have a House and a Senate that's half millionaires and billionaires. This is not a mirror of America. And I think that their agenda is very different than the average household agenda. And we all know financially, we are going backwards every month. And there is a direct tie with corporate greed and these millionaire and billionaire agendas that really are. We're on board for oversight

Tim Miller

of whatever kind of greed, whatever scandals we've seen people doing deals with this administration that are not legal or fair. They're

Mary Peltola

baked into our democracy. And we've been ignoring that. And we have a Congress that acts like they don't have the power of the purse. We have a Supreme Court that really kowtows. And it just is feeling more and more like we just have one branch of government. All, you know, all of the attacks on…

Tim Miller

I've got an Alaska rapid fire from you. I've heard two things about you that have little birdies who said in my ear. One is that you're like friends with Sarah Palin. I guess Alaska is so small and you ran against each other. But I don't know. I had a friend of a friend of Palin who said that Palin…

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