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AOC fundraising for pro-oil, pro-gun Dem Mary Peltola — while neglecting to mention NRA endorsement (only 5.05 years left)
NY Post ^ | 1/17/26 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 01/17/2026 8:07:32 AM PST by Libloather

Lefty “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is using her powerful fundraising muscle to back a moderate, pro-gun, drill-baby-drill Democrat.

“I’m reaching out to ask if you can split a $5 donation between Mary Peltola’s campaign for US Senate and our movement for progress?” the Democratic Socialist from Queens blasted out Tuesday in an email appeal.

“Mary is running on a platform of systemic change — she’ll fight in the Senate to lower grocery costs and build new housing Alaskans can afford.”

What the socialist rep didn’t mention to her progressive supporters is that Peltola lists her campaign priorities as “fish, family, freedom” and was the only Democrat to be endorsed by the National Rifle Association in 2024.

Peltola, 52, won Alaska’s lone House of Representatives seat in a special election in 2022, beating out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, before losing her re-election bid to Republican Nick Begich in 2024.

While in office, she lobbied the Biden administration for Arctic drilling and boasted about getting ConocoPhillips’ controversial $8 billion Willow Project approved.

Peltola’s 2024 run was boosted by oil money — Chevron and ConocoPhillips Super PACs spent at least $310,000 on her campaign and television ads — even though AOC claimed in her donation link: “Alexandria and Mary take $0 from corporations, and each of their campaigns depend on all of you.”

Still, the endorsement from the “Bronx girl” is a break from the candidates Ocasio-Cortez has lent a fundraising hand to in the past — who have included fellow “Squad” members Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, and Attorney General Letitia James.

The move could signify a strategy indicative of a potential Senate run in 2028, political observers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: aoc; banglist; endorsement; marypeltola; newyork; nra; peltola; thesquad

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Plenty of fish pics @ the link.
1 posted on 01/17/2026 8:07:32 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

What’s the catch ?

Something has to be fishy for AOC to back this Candidate.


2 posted on 01/17/2026 8:14:10 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

What’s AOC’s cut of the money ? LOL


3 posted on 01/17/2026 8:15:08 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Redcitizen

They’re politicians, and there’s money involved. You’d think Mary Peltola might be wary of money and support from the Green New Deal lady, and I’m pretty sure she’s also anti 2nd Amendment.


4 posted on 01/17/2026 8:23:47 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Libloather

I do not for one microsecond believe that any Democrat is “pro-gun” except in the most politically convenient use of the term.

I’m not interested in seeing them voted into office to prove me wrong, either.

It’s a ruse.


5 posted on 01/17/2026 8:41:50 AM PST by OKSooner (Susie is Rasputin.)
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To: OKSooner

They aren’t anti-gun, they just don’t want you to have guns.


6 posted on 01/17/2026 8:42:23 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Libloather

Democrats probably have to be pro-gun and pro-oil in Alaska.


7 posted on 01/17/2026 8:46:03 AM PST by xxqqzz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

8 posted on 01/17/2026 9:26:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Redcitizen

Collecting favors a la Vito Corleone for her 2028 presidential run.


9 posted on 01/17/2026 10:09:43 AM PST by DPMD (u)
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To: DPMD

“Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.”


10 posted on 01/17/2026 10:15:12 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: butlerweave

5 percent. She hasn’t reached Big Guy status yet.


11 posted on 01/17/2026 10:17:32 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

pro-oil, pro-gun, to get elected in Alaska.

Then once elected, go full demoncrat.

Maybe not ‘full’, but every time it counts.


12 posted on 01/17/2026 12:17:27 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Redcitizen; Libloather; Red Badger

Demonic (er, democrat party-liner) hack under the running-for-office claims. Just another slave to the Muslim-Socialist Party.

Speaking of which, GA has a racist “retired general” running as a democrat on the “I’m black, I’m former military ticket.”


13 posted on 01/17/2026 12:48:37 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Libloather

Thanks for the ad


14 posted on 01/17/2026 3:07:22 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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