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Dan Sullivan accuses same-name challenger of trying to ‘rig’ Alaska Senate race

Dan Sullivan accuses same-name challenger of trying to ‘rig’ Alaska Senate race

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is in a predicament.  The lawmaker, who is seeking a third term in the upper chamber, is staring down a tough challenge in former Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska. But first, he’s got to beat Dan J. Sullivan, a same-name rival running against him in the Republican primary.  The senator contended in an interview with Fox News Digital that the other Dan J. Sullivan, a political newcomer with few ties to the GOP, is a Democratic plant.  GOP FIGHTS TO STOP MULTIPLE DAN SULLIVANS FROM APPEARING ON ALASKA BALLOT, CALLS CANDIDACY A ‘SHAM’ “His primary purpose is not to win an election, it’s to confuse Alaskans and rig the vote for my opponent, the Democrat,” Sullivan said.
”He’s not in it to win it. He’s in it to rig it.” The name confusion could prove particularly consequential in Alaska given its ranked-choice voting system, where voters list candidates in order of preference. If Dan J. Sullivan is allowed to stay on the primary ballot, both he and incumbent Dan S. Sullivan could advance to the general election in which the top four vote-getters will appear. Sullivan, the senator, is not the only one looking into Dan J. Sullivan, the candidate.  The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, requested that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) investigate an alleged “coordinated scheme” between Dan J. Sullivan and Amber Lee, an Alaska Democratic consultant tied to the nascent campaign. ACTBLUE CHIEF HEADS TO CAPITOL HILL HOT SEAT AS DONOR FRAUD PROBE INTENSIFIES Earlier this week, Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, R-Alaska, sent a letter to Dan J. Sullivan citing “credible allegations” that he launched his candidacy to confuse voters at the ballot box and siphon off votes from the senator.  “Specifically, it was alleged that you filed for office with the intent to use your identical first and last name and newfound affiliation with the Republican Party to confuse or deceive voters who intend to vote for Senator Sullivan into mistakenly voting for you instead,” Dahlstrom wrote Monday. “If true, this would be an unprecedented situation.” Dahlstrom, who is tasked with overseeing Alaska’s elections, said Dan J. Sullivan must clarify several details about his political background and campaign announcement to determine whether he can appear on the August primary ballot. DAN SULLIVAN VS. DAN SULLIVAN: GOP BLASTS CLONE CANDIDATE AS LOOKALIKE ENTERS ALASKA SENATE RACE The election official asked Dan. J. Sullivan to submit a sworn affidavit by Wednesday clarifying whether he had affiliated with the Republican Party before his Senate bid. Dahlstrom is also scrutinizing Dan J. Sullivan’s ties to Lee, who has supported Peltola during her prior House races. Metadata from the campaign’s announcement showed Lee as its author, Fox News Digital previously reported. Sullivan, the senator, contended that his primary opponent was a “far-left liberal,” with a track record of donating to Democrats.  Dan J. Sullivan, a former schoolteacher and U.S. Forest Service employee, previously donated to former Rep. Mary Peltola, the top Democratic contender in the race, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. The lawmaker has asked his Democratic colleagues about the situation, and he said that they had no idea what’s going on. He’s turned his ire to the top, accusing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., the chair of Senate Democrats’ campaign committee, of colluding to defeat him. Alaska is among several battleground states that Democrats are aggressively targeting as part of their efforts to retake Senate control. Fox News Digital reached out to Schumer for comment. When asked about a coordinated effort to insert Dan J. Sullivan into the race, or if they were aware of his candidacy, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said, “No.” “Is Schumer or Gillibrand and their staffs or the DSCC or the staff at the DSCC — were they aware? Were they coordinating, orchestrating?
I mean, if that’s the case, that would be a huge scandal,” Sullivan said.  “Think about it. Schumer has talked about flipping the Alaska seat, he hand-recruited and handpicked Peltola as his top recruit for Alaska, and now he’s trying to rig the election in Alaska by deceiving the voters,” he continued. 

Sen Tom Cotton urges DOJ to probe Chinese bid to ‘kneecap’ American AI

Sen Tom Cotton urges DOJ to probe Chinese bid to ‘kneecap’ American AI

Sen. Tom Cotton urged the Justice Department to investigate a covert campaign linked to China designed to “kneecap” America’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. In the letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Arkansas Republican calls for federal investigators to examine whether foreign actors are attempting to shape U.S. public opinion and policy against data centers and AI development as Washington and Beijing compete for dominance in artificial intelligence. “Recent reports show that Communist China is attempting to influence our policy and public opinion on data centers. The reason is obvious: they want to kneecap our processing power to win the AI race,” Cotton told Fox News Digital. “Americans should decide their own future free of communist propaganda. I’m encouraging the Department of Justice to investigate,” Cotton said. REPORT: CHINESE PROPAGANDA, SINGHAM NETWORK, FOREIGN DARK MONEY LINKED TO CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DATA CENTERS Cotton’s request follows the release of a report last week from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., alleging that Chinese state media, foreign-funded advocacy groups and a network of organizations funded by American tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham have spent years building opposition to U.S. data center construction and AI infrastructure projects. Singham, an avowed Marxist and the founder of a Chicago-based company, Thoughtworks, that he sold in 2017, now lives in Shanghai, and has become a growing focus of congressional scrutiny and federal investigations. In March, as members of the Singham network were journeying to Havana to support the Communist Party of Cuba, Earlier this year, Fox News Digital published a five-part series documenting how Singham has funneled $278 million into a series of nonprofits, including groups at the heart of the protests against AI, data centers and technology firms in the U.S. As Fox News Digital has reported, 501(c)(3) nonprofits from the Singham network, including CodePink, the People’s Forum, Tricontinental and BreakThrough News, have participated and led campaigns opposing AI development, semiconductor export controls and large-scale data center projects. Singham, a self-avowed communist, started pumping the money into the groups after his 2017 marriage to Jodie Evans, the co-founder of CodePink. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A ‘REVOLUTIONARY BASE’ AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAM For years, groups funded by Singham have worked closely with two self-described communist groups in the U.S. — the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation — that have organized foot soldiers to protest major U.S. technology, defense and logistics companies, such as Palantir Technologies, Lockheed-Martin and Google, to try to name-and-shame the firms for doing business with the U.S. government on issues from immigration to global geopolitics where China has major interests, including in Israel, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, South Korea and even Greenland. Pro-China protestors have seized on high electrical costs associated with operating a data center. One of the key themes of new protests is the rising electricity bills that consumers have been seeing in recent months. Earlier this year, Cotton introduced a bill, called the “DATA Act of 2026,” that would lift regulatory controls to allow manufacturers, data centers and other energy-intensive industries to build new electricity systems separate from the consumer electrical grid. More widely, Senate and House lawmakers have launched inquiries into the nonprofits in the Singham network, while questioning whether the groups should be required to register as “foreign agents” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, called FARA, which demands that entities or individuals working for the interests of foreign interests register with the U.S. Justice Department as foreign lobbyists. “Alarming reports indicate that a network of foreign actors, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is attempting to manipulate U.S. policy and public opinion on data centers,” Cotton wrote in the letter. AGITATORS UNITED BY CHINESE MONEY, HATE FOR AMERICA TARGET DATA CENTERS, EXPERTS WARN Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters and other activist movements with very different agendas have become strange bedfellows united by a shared disdain for America and funding from China, according to experts who warn the trend is weakening the United States amid a rapidly accelerating AI race. They are seen as part of a “red-green-green alliance,” an ideological overlap between three elements: communist movements, characterized by the color red; Islamist activism, described as green; and environmental protest groups, symbolized as green. Cotton argued that America’s position in artificial intelligence will have sweeping implications for the country’s economic strength, military capabilities, diplomatic influence and national security. He warned that foreign adversaries shouldn’t be allowed to exploit public concerns over energy use, utility costs and water consumption to slow U.S. technological development. The Bitcoin Policy Institute report, “Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI,” alleges that three separate streams of influence — Chinese state media, the Singham network and foreign-funded advocacy organizations — have increasingly aligned around efforts to block or delay new AI-related infrastructure in the United States. LAWMAKERS RAISE ALARM OVER NEVILLE ROY SINGHAM’S $278M NETWORK SPREADING CCP PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S. After their wedding in early 2017, Singham and Evans have transformed far-left protests in the United States, creating a machine that sounds the alarm for new protests from clear command-and-control centers within the Singham network, churns out pre-printed protest signs, shares common messaging and galvanizes around common themes that support China and condemn “AmeriKKKa,” as an “imperiaist nation,” borrowing on Russian and Chinese propaganda. According to the report by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the Singham network “has spent nearly five years producing parallel domestic content opposing U.S. AI infrastructure, AI labs, and AI export controls.” The report argues that the campaign against American AI infrastructure creates a strategic advantage for Beijing at a time when China is aggressively investing in its own AI capabilities. “While Beijing’s state media warns American audiences that data centers are environmentally and economically dangerous, the Chinese state subsidizes up to half of the energy costs of its own AI data center operators,” the report states. KEVIN O’LEARY WARNS CHINA ‘KICKING OUR

Bill Gates faces House investigators over Jeffrey Epstein ties

Bill Gates faces House investigators over Jeffrey Epstein ties

House lawmakers are turning their focus to billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates as congressional investigators press ahead with their probe into Jeffrey Epstein and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.  Gates will participate in a voluntary interview with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Members on the panel are expected to pepper him with questions about his relationship with Epstein, which occurred years after Epstein’s 2008 prison term for soliciting a minor for prostitution.  The interview will take place behind closed doors, though a transcript is expected to be made available at a later date. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., invited Gates to testify before the committee after he appeared multiple times across millions of documents released by the federal government as part of its criminal probe against Epstein. EPSTEIN FALLOUT GROWS AS DOJ WATCHDOG DIGS DEEPER INTO HANDLING OF THE CASE Gates and Epstein were shown corresponding, including discussions about the tech billionaire’s philanthropy work and socializing between 2011 and 2014. Epstein later killed himself in 2019 after being indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.  According to the files, Epstein appeared to discover Gates’ extramarital affairs with two Russian women during his marriage to Melinda French Gates, which the tech billionaire has said did not involve Epstein’s victims. Gates has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has denied knowledge about Epstein’s sex crimes against minors. “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates said, according to a town hall recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, adding it was a “huge mistake” to spend time with Epstein. BILL GATES: ‘FOOLISH’ TO SPEND TIME WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN A spokesperson for Gates previously told Fox News Digital that he welcomed the opportunity to testify before the committee. “While he never witnessed or participated in any of Epstein’s illegal conduct, he is looking forward to answering all the committee’s questions to support their important work,” the spokesperson said. The Microsoft founder is the latest influential figure to testify before the oversight panel in connection to the Epstein probe. Billionaire businessman Les Wexner, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have also participated in interviews with the committee. Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel to former President Barack Obama, and Leon Black, co-founder of investment firm Apollo Global Management, are expected to sit for interviews in the coming weeks. Lawmakers have pointed to Gates’ association with Epstein after his conviction as a key focus of their inquiry. “We’ve said we don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or who you are, the fact that Mr. Gates still had a relationship with Mr. Epstein, even after knowing about the conviction, knowing actually what he had done, I think is very concerning,” House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday. “So we want to know what did Mr. Gates know, who else was around that orbit and why Mr. Gates continued to have a relationship with Mr. Epstein. I think those are important questions.” Fox News’ Dan Scully contributed to this report.