• “In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state’s Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state’s unusual, four-person ballot.The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
• “The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola’s team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrat to victory…Ms. Peltola was not directly involved in the project… but she was “definitely aware.”
• “[T]he Peltola campaign’s lawyers… participated in regular conversations about the effort and even considered forming a new political party to draw conservatives onto the ballot.”
• “Alaska’s voting system makes it especially easy to add spoilers to the ballot. The state holds nonpartisan primaries, so candidates can claim any party affiliation on the ballot without being vetted by parties themselves. That allowed Mr. Sullivan of Petersburg, a longtime supporter of Ms. Peltola and other Democrats, to land a spot on next week’s ballot….”

The long article waits an unusually long time to add the obligatory “but Republicans do this sometimes!” attempted mitigation. It also, however, details some of the Democratic Party’s efforts to cover up and deflect the story: a key source for the article, Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager and longtime aide who was fired in August and agreed to a series of interviews exposing the polt, suddenly told the Times as the story was going to press that she wanted to disavow her previous statements. “As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,” Rios wrote. “I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity.”

I guess she woke up to a horse’s head in her bed.

That’s your party, Democrats. That’s your party.