Nick Begich (AK-AL)

Research Report Updated September 2024

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Top Finding: Nick Begich Is Not For Alaska Or Alaskans

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Nick Begich, Who Supported A Federal Abortion Ban, Will Fight To Take Away Our Reproductive Freedoms

Nick Begich Claimed He Opposed Harmful Trawling Practices And Would Not Accept Funds From Trawling Fleets, But He Accepted At Least $5K From Pro-Trawling Entities And Individuals In 2022

Millionaire Nick Begich Would Fight To Dismantle The Programs That Ensure Alaskans’ Economic Security And Access To Affordable Health Care

Intergenerationally Wealthy Nick Begich Does Not Understand Or Care About Alaska’s Working Families

Nick Begich Advocated For Industrial Development Initiatives That Would Threaten Native And Rural Alaskans’ Ways Of Life

Nick Begich Would Work To Obstruct The Federal Government’s Ability To Conserve Alaska’s Unique Environment And Landscape By Releasing Protected Lands To State Control

Nick Begich Would Even Alienate Alaska’s Longtime Republican Vanguard By Prioritizing Himself Over Others

Highlights Summary

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Abortion, Reproductive Freedom, and Women’s and Gender Equality

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Abortion, Reproductive Freedom, and Women’s and Gender Equality Highlights

Nick Begich Supported A Federal Abortion Ban In 2024, Despite Claiming That He Supported Allowing States To Decide Their Own Abortion Policies In 2022

Nick Begich Opposed Allowing Medicaid To Cover “Infertility Services Like IVF”

Nick Begich Lauded The Supreme Court For The Dobbs Decision

Nick Begich Opposed Codifying Abortion Rights And Supported Stopping Medicaid From Paying For “Abortion Services In Cases Of Rape, Incest Or When A Woman’s Life Is Endangered By Her Pregnancy”

Nick Begich Opposed Keeping Mifepristone Available In Pharmacies, Even After The FDA Lifted “Medically Unnecessary Restrictions” Barring Public Access

Nick Begich Touted Endorsements From Anti-Abortion Extremists Jim Johnson, Scott Perry, And Byron Donalds, Who Cosponsored A Life At Conception Bill That Had No Exceptions For Rape Or Incest And Deliberately Excluded Protections For IVF And Birth Control

Nick Begich Touted The Support Of Anti-Reproductive Freedom Members Of Alaska’s State House

Alaska Native And Rural Community Issues

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Alaska Native And Rural Community Issues Highlights

Nick Begich Claimed He Opposed Trawling And Would Not Accept Funds From Trawling Fleets, But He Accepted At Least $5,000 From Pro-Trawling Entities And Individuals In 2022

Nick Begich Condemned The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), Which Protected Alaska Native Subsistence Lands

Nick Begich Wanted To Convert Federal Land In Alaska To State Control, Which Would Open Up Opportunities For Extractive Industrial Development

Nick Begich Supported The Supreme Court’s Decision To Overturn The Chevron Doctrine, Which “Made It Easier For The Federal Government To Regulate The Environment, Public Health, Workplace Safety And Consumer Protections”

Nick Begich Agreed “100%” That The Federal Government Was Wrong To Block Pebble Mine Development And Supported A Lawsuit Seeking “Billions Of Dollars” From The Federal Government In Response

Nick Begich Opposed 2018’s Salmon Habitat Initiative, Which Would Require Public Hearings Before Permitting Decisions For Major Industrial Projects, “Notably The Controversial Pebble Mine”

Nick Begich Supported Tightening Medicaid Work-Requirements Even Though Doing So Would Disproportionately Threaten Healthcare Coverage For Alaska Natives

Nick Begich Touted The Endorsement Of Alaska Representative Sarah Vance, Who Faced Backlash In 2024 For Criticizing A Presentation On The Disproportionate Rates Of Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women For Its Lack Of Inclusion Of White Women

Budget, Taxes, Jobs, and The Economy

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Budget, Taxes, Jobs, and The Economy Highlights

Nick Begich Consistently And Repeatedly Criticized Alaska’s Reliance On Federal Funding, Calling It “A Case Of Stockholm Syndrome” And “A Deal With The Devil”

Nick Begich Called Social Security A “Ponzi Scheme […] Used To Prop The System Up”

Nick Begich Opposed The Inflation Reduction Act, Which Addressed Inflation, Held Big Corporations Accountable For Paying Their Fair Share In Taxes, And Created Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs

Nick Begich Served As A Fellow For Club For Growth, Which Supported Repealing The Affordable Care Act And Turning Medicare Into A Voucher Program

Nick Begich Served As The President Of The Board Of Directors For The Alaska Policy Forum, Which Opposed Medicaid Expansion

Nick Begich Supported Tightening Medicaid Work-Requirements Even Though Doing So Would Disproportionately Threaten Health Care Coverage For Alaska Natives

Nick Begich Opposed The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act, Which Brought $3 Billion To Alaska In A Year

Nick Begich Criticized The Anchorage Local Government For Taking Out Bonds To Pay For School Busses Because It Raised Property Taxes

Nick Begich Opposed The Inflation Reduction Act And Said The U.S. Could Get Through High Inflation By Embracing Sound Money And Restricting The Ability To Print Money

Nick Begich Agreed “100%” That The Federal Government Was Wrong To Block Pebble Mine Development And Supported A Lawsuit Seeking “Billions Of Dollars” From The Federal Government In Response

Nick Begich Supported The Overturning Of The Chevron Deference, Which Would Likely Make It More Difficult To Regulate Workplace Safety

Nick Begich Lauded “What Javier Milei Has Done In Argentina” To “Radically Cut Government” — A Move That Left More Than Half Of Argentinians Living In Poverty

2024: Nick Begich Laid Off Workers At His Software Company To Facilitate His Run For Congress

Nick Begich Was “Thrilled” To Be Endorsed By Ramaswamy, Who Said Nick Begich Signed His American Truth Pledge To Cut Nearly 20,000 Alaska Jobs

Nick Begich Suggested The Jones Act Be Repealed, Which The Hudson Institute Warned Could Create “Security Risks” That Alaska Would Bear The Brunt Of

Nick Begich’s Employees At FarShore Partners Were Overwhelmingly Located In India While He Was The Only One Based Out Of Alaska

Nick Begich Called For An “All-Of-The-Above Development Strategy” For Alaskan Natural Resources And Claimed “The Left Attempted To Deny Alaska’s First People Their Rightful Inheritance”

Education

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Education Highlights

As Alaska Schools Struggle For Funding, Nick Begich Called For Alaskans To Say “No” To Federal Support, A Move That Could Endanger At Least $425 Million

Nick Begich Supported A “National School Choice Tax Credit”

Nick Begich Opposed Measures That Funded School Busses In Anchorage, And Claimed Schools Should “Tighten Their Belts” On Infrastructure Expenditures

Nick Begich Had The Endorsement Of Rep. Jamie Allard, Who “Garnered Attention” In 2023 For Being “The Biggest Roadblock To A Permanent Increase In Education Funding”

Nick Begich Supported “Restricting Public Funding For Colleges And Universities That Require DEI” Training

Elections and Voting

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Elections and Voting Highlights

Nick Begich Blamed His 2015 Vote For Democratic Mayoral Candidate Berkowitz On Media Coverage, Claiming He “Was Just A Bystander”

Nick Begich Opposed Ranked Choice Voting, And Claimed It “Worked For The Left” Because It Deprived “Voters Of Additional Choices”

Nick Begich Alleged “More Than $200,000 A Day From Outside Alaska” Was Being Spent To Keep Him “Off The Ballot”

Nick Begich Refused To Make An Endorsement In The Hotly Contested 2022 Alaska Senate Race, Suggesting He Would Not Support Senator Lisa Murkowski

Nick Begich Planned On Running Against 48-Year Incumbent Congressman Don Young Before His Passing, Despite Working As A Chairman On Young’s 2020 Campaign, Leading To Accusations Of Being Disloyal And Dishonest

2016: Nick Begich Received Thousands In Donations From Prominent Democrats And Progressives

Nick Begich Alleged “More Than $200,000 A Day From Outside Alaska” Was Being Spent To Keep Him “Off The Ballot”

Environment

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Environment Highlights

Nick Begich Claimed He Opposed Trawling And Would Not Accept Funds From Trawling Fleets, But He Accepted At Least $5,000 From Pro-Trawling Entities And Individuals In 2022

Nick Begich Condemned The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), Which Protected Alaska Native Subsistence Lands

Nick Begich Agreed “100%” That The Federal Government Was Wrong To Block Pebble Mine Development And Supported A Lawsuit Seeking “Billions Of Dollars” From The Federal Government In Response

Nick Begich Supported Eliminating The Environmental Protection Agency

Nick Begich Wanted To Convert Federal Land In Alaska To State Control, Which Would Open Up Opportunities For Extractive Industrial Development

Nick Begich Supported The Supreme Court’s Decision To Overturn The Chevron Doctrine, Which “Made It Easier For The Federal Government To Regulate The Environment, Public Health, Workplace Safety And Consumer Protections”

Nick Begich Opposed 2018’s Salmon Habitat Initiative, Which Would Require Public Hearings Before Permitting Decisions For Major Industrial Projects, “Notably The Controversial Pebble Mine”

Nick Begich Opposed The Inflation Reduction Act, Which Allocated Billions In Funding To Address The Climate Crisis

Nick Begich Said The House Natural Resources Committee Was “Full Of Folks Like Chairman Westerman, Who Would Be Fantastic Mentors”

Ethics and Transparency

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Ethics and Transparency Highlights

Nick Begich Claimed He Opposed Trawling And Would Not Accept Funds From Trawling Fleets, But Accepted At Least $5,000 From Pro-Trawling Entities And Individuals In 2022

ZeroGPT Identified Nick Begich’s Responses To The Alaska Beacon’s Candidate Survey As Possibly Having Been 100% AI-Generated

Nick Begich Opposed Ranked Choice Voting, Which Was The Reason Why A Republican Was Not Elected From Alaska In 2022, But Only Because Their Party Failed To Adapt To The System

Nick Begich Blamed His Vote For Democratic Mayoral Candidate Berkowitz In 2015 On Media Coverage, And That He “Was Just A Bystander” In That Election

Healthcare, Mental Health, Drugs, and Addiction

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Healthcare, Mental Health, Drugs, and Addiction Highlights

Nick Begich Called Social Security A “Ponzi Scheme […] Used To Prop The System Up”

Nick Begich Served As A Fellow For Club For Growth, Which Supported Repealing The Affordable Care Act And Turning Medicare Into A Voucher Program

Nick Begich Served As The President Of The Board Of Directors For The Alaska Policy Forum, Which Opposed Medicaid Expansion

Nick Begich Supported Tightening Medicaid Work Requirements Even Though They Disproportionately Threaten Healthcare Coverage For Alaska Natives

Nick Begich Opposed Allowing Medicaid To Cover “Infertility Services Like IVF”

Nick Begich Opposed The Inflation Reduction Act, Which Lowered Healthcare Costs By Capping Prescription Costs, Including A $35 Cap On Insulin Costs

2022: Nick Begich Blamed Americans For High Health Care Costs, Which He Argued Were Driven By “Poor Diet” And A “Lack Of Exercise”

Nick Begich Opposed “Vaccine Mandates And Similar Government Restrictions”

Nick Begich Opposed The Legalization Of Marijuana In Alaska, Claiming He Voted No On The Referendum And Expressing Concern Over “Signage”

Housing and Homelessness

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Housing and Homelessness Highlights

Nick Begich Criticized Biden’s Requirement Of New Homes Meeting 2021 International Energy Conservation Code Requirements

Human and Civil Rights

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Human and Civil Rights Highlights

Nick Begich Claimed Twitter Had Become A “Fantastic Platform” Since Elon Musk, Who Allowed Hate Speech To Surge On The Social Media Site, Purchased The Company

Nick Begich Supported “Restricting Public Funding For Colleges And Universities That Require DEI” Training

Immigration

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Immigration Highlights

Nick Begich Said That Democrats, “Brought In The Equivalent Of 13 New House Representatives With Illegal Migrants” In Order To “Achieve Permanent Power”

Nick Begich: “What We’re Dealing With Is Not Immigration, It’s Not Even Migration, Really, It’s An Invasion”

Project 2025, Partisanship, and Far-Right Affiliations

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Project 2025, Partisanship, and Far-Right Affiliations Highlights

Nick Begich Called The Idea Of Him Not Joining The Freedom Caucus “Nonsense” And Said “I Love Those Guys”

In 2022 And 2024, Trump Initially Endorsed Nick Begich’s Opponents Over Him

In 2024, Nick Begich Claimed To Have Supported Trump “Since 2016,” Despite Criticizing Trump’s Personality And Repeatedly Lauding Former Trump Opponent Vivek Ramaswamy

Nick Begich Refused To Make An Endorsement In The Hotly Contested 2022 Alaska Senate Race, Suggesting He Would Not Support Senator Lisa Murkowski

Nick Begich Planned On Running Against 48-Year Incumbent Congressman Don Young Before His Passing, Despite Working As A Chairman On Young’s 2020 Campaign, Leading To Accusations Of Being Disloyal And Dishonest

Nick Begich Had Affiliations To Multiple Major National Conservative Organizations, Including The Kochs’ State Policy Network

Nick Begich Said There Were “Valid Questions” About How The Assassination Attempt On Trump Was Possible, Like “Was This Allowed To Happen?”

Infrastructure

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Infrastructure Highlights

Nick Begich Opposed The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act, Which Brought $3 Billion To Alaska In A Year

Nick Begich Commended The Creation Of AlCan ONE, A Fiber Optic Cable Connecting Lower Alaska, Western Canada, And Parts Of The United States With Fiber Optic Internet Cables

Nick Begich Wanted To Introduce Legislation That Would “Allow Greater Access To Rural Areas Of Alaska”

Nick Begich Commended 45 Million Acres Being Returned To Alaska’s Native People, But Claimed “Much Remains To Be Done”

Military, National Security, and Veterans’ Affairs

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Military, National Security, and Veterans’ Affairs Highlights.

Nick Begich Supported Repealing The Jones Act, Which The Hudson Institute Warned Could Create “Security Risks” That Alaska Would Bear The Brunt Of

Nick Begich Opposed “The Use Of Military Funds To Transport Soldiers To Obtain An Abortion”

Nick Begich: “I Would Rate The Federal Government’s Interactions With Alaska Native Tribes As Very Poor,” Including Native Veterans

Unions and Organized Labor

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Unions and Organized Labor Highlights

Nick Begich Opposed The Protecting The Right To Organize (PRO) Act Even Though It Received Bipartisan Support And Alaska Was The Fourth Most Unionized State In The Country

Anti-Union Group Americans For Prosperity Endorsed Nick Begich For Congress

2016 Campaign For Anchorage Assembly

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2016 Campaign For Anchorage Assembly Highlights

2016: Nick Begich Ran For Seat A Representing District 2 On The Anchorage Assembly But Lost By 1226 Votes

2016 Assembly Campaign: Nick Begich Raised And Spent More Than $34,200

Nick Begich Criticized The Anchorage Municipal Government For Taking Out Bonds To Pay For School Infrastructure, Claiming He Wanted To Implement Zero-Based Budgeting

FarShore Partners

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FarShore Partners Highlights

Nick Begich’s Employees At FarShore Partners Were Overwhelmingly Located In India While He Was The Only One Based Out Of Alaska

2016: Nick Begich Held A Number Of Loans And Debts, Including To His Own FarShore Ventures

FarShore Partners Held A PPP Loan For $83,923, Which Was Forgiven For $85,033

Farshore Capital Management LLC Was Implicated In The Paradise Papers Leak, Where Companies Registered Their Businesses Overseas For Tax Breaks

FarShore Partners LLC Alaska Is A Branch Of FarShore Partners LLC Registered In Nevada

FarShore Partners Listed Fox News As A Partner

Dashfire

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Dashfire Highlights

November 2009-Present As Of September 2024: Nick Begich Served As Co-Founder of Dashfire

Iterations Of Dashfire Were Registered In Various States, Including Illinois, Delaware, And Nevada

Dashfire’s Website’s Security Certificate Expired, And Attempting To Access The Site Results In A “NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID” Error

Campaign Finance

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Campaign Finance Highlights

Financial Summary As Of July 31, 2024

2021-2024: Including Direct Contributions, In-Kind Contributions, And Loans, Nick Begich Supported His Own Congressional Campaigns To The Tune Of $674,500

Questionable Donors

Disbursements Summary

Contributions Made by Candidate

Personal Finance

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Personal Finance Highlights

Nick Begich Filed Personal Financial Disclosures For The 2022 And 2024 Elections, With Two Extensions For Both Elections

2016: Nick Begich Filed A Personal Financial Form For His Anchorage Assembly Campaign