The nation faces a coordinated assault on ordered liberty, and it begins with the ballot. Governor Mike Dunleavy's decision to direct the Alaska Department of Public Safety to investigate allegations that Democrat operatives recruited a second "Dan Sullivan" to confuse voters in the Senate race is not an overreaction; it is a necessary defense of self-government. When campaigns plant namesake candidates to dilute support for an incumbent, they do not compete—they cheat.
The allegations are serious. Reports tie operatives linked to Mary Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to the scheme, and both have denied involvement. Senator Dan S.
Sullivan has called the alleged plot a scandal of the highest order, and Senator Lisa Murkowski has condemned a "pattern of lies." If voters cannot trust that the name on the ballot belongs to the candidate they intend to elect, consent of the governed becomes a fiction. Dunleavy is right to demand criminal or civil accountability.
The same disregard for law appears in the leak of personal information belonging to more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security personnel, including ICE and CBP agents.
A group calling itself the "Department of Peace" published names, work addresses, and phone numbers under the label "Icepick," seeking to replace anonymity with what it calls accountability. This is intimidation, not transparency.
Federal officers enforcing immigration law should not have to fear for their safety because radicals weaponized an Okta single-sign-on breach to expose them.
Abroad, the lawlessness is even more stark. Russia has intensified drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian civilians, including an attack on a Dnipro railway platform that killed at least 14 people and wounded an 11-year-old boy, while attacks on rail facilities have climbed from 1,206 in 2025 to 1,700 this year.
Meanwhile, Xi Jinping has expelled 33 Communist Party members in a record purge, hollowed out military leadership, and disciplined 680,000 party members in nine months to secure a fourth term. Adversaries understand only strength and sovereignty; appeasement invites more aggression.
The common thread is clear: election scheming, agent endangerment, and foreign atrocities all flourish where the rule of law is weak. Liberty cannot survive if ballots are manipulated, law enforcement is targeted by hackers, and sovereign borders are treated as optional. Governor Dunleavy's probe should be the beginning, not the end, of a restoration of accountability.
The Department of Public Safety must follow the evidence wherever it leads. If laws were broken in Alaska, penalties must follow. If federal agents were endangered, the perpetrators must be prosecuted. Ordered liberty is not inherited; it is defended.
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