ALASKA STATE HOUSE · DISTRICT 2 · 2026
Our Fish. Our Fund. Our Future.
Alston C. Evans is running for Alaska State House, District 2, on a simple promise: put Alaskans — not draggers from Outside, not Juneau insiders, not Outside tech money — back in charge of our fish, our fund, and our future.
These are the fights that matter most to District 2 — the ones Alston will not trade away in Juneau.
Plank 01
Bottom trawlers drag through state waters, dump tons of halibut, salmon, and crab as bycatch, and answer to shareholders thousands of miles away — while family fishermen absorb the closures. Alston will push a full ban on trawl fishing inside Alaska's waters and fight to get the state a real seat over what happens in the waters just beyond them.
Plank 02
The dividend formula in statute exists for a reason: it's Alaskans' cut of the resources that belong to all of us. Alston will vote for the full, statutory PFD, every year, and against every budget gimmick used to shortchange Alaskans out of what they're owed.
Plank 03
Year after year, Juneau has treated the dividend like a lever to pull whenever the budget gets uncomfortable — diverting money meant for Alaskan households into pet projects and special-interest spending, then calling it fiscal responsibility. Right now, the only audits of that spending come from the legislature's own Division of Legislative Audit — the legislature investigating itself, and predictably finding no wrongdoing. Alston will create an independent, outside auditing program with no ties to the legislature, and demand a public, line-by-line accounting of every dollar redirected from the PFD.
Plank 04
Data centers don't build communities. They bring in outside operators, industrialize Alaska's land, and leave a skeleton crew running the servers while everyone else lives with the fallout. Alston opposes bringing this industry into Alaska — no permits, no tax breaks, no exceptions.
Plank 05
Networks of automated cameras logging every vehicle that passes, without a warrant, without a crime, without a conversation with the people being watched — that's not public safety, it's a surveillance dragnet. Alston will introduce legislation banning Flock-style ALPR camera networks statewide and requiring a warrant before Alaskans' movements can be tracked.
Plank 06
In too many rural communities, there's no licensed childcare at all — parents drive hours, turn down work, or leave the workforce because there's nowhere to bring their kids. Alston will fight for significant state tax breaks for childcare workers and childcare facilities, especially in rural and remote communities, so that providing this service is actually worth doing here.
Plank 07
There are more people in Alaska right now than there are places for them to live — young families get priced out, workers can't find an apartment near their job, and whole communities stall because there's nowhere new to build. Alston will push to cut the permitting red tape that stalls housing projects for years, and back real state incentives for apartment and workforce-housing development that favor local builders over outside developers.
Plank 08
Too many small and village communities have no mental health provider anywhere nearby — when someone is in crisis, the closest help can be a plane ride away. Alston will push for state-funded mobile crisis response teams and expanded telehealth psychiatric care that actually reach village and small-community clinics, along with real pay and training for the local behavioral health aides who already know these communities best.
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