Dan Osborn didn’t just recruit Graham Platner in Maine. Osborn and his wife, Megan, also had a hand in recruiting a fraudulent Senate candidate under investigation in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. The fraudulent candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent is running to confuse voters and rig the state’s ranked choice system in favor of Democrat Mary Peltola. You’d be right to say this sounds like the electoral tricks Osborn and the Democrats are using with Cindy Burbank.
“It’s no surprise Democrat Dan Osborn and Megan Osborn’s fingerprints are all over another liberal and fraudulent candidate whose only purpose is confusing voters and deceptively boosting Democrats,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Read more from National Review here or below, and scroll down to get caught up on Osborn’s candidate in Alaska, Fraud Dan Sullivan.
How Democratic Operatives Got a Copycat Candidate on the Alaska Senate Ballot to Confuse Voters
Kamden Muler
National Review
July 10, 2026
The political operatives who appear to be behind the copycat Sullivan campaign haven’t limited themselves to Alaska.
Kreiss-Tomkins, who’s running for governor of Alaska as a Democrat, also runs a political consulting firm whose clients, according to Kreiss-Tomkins’s LinkedIn page, include Dan Osborn, who is running for Senate in Nebraska as an independent despite his extensive Democratic ties and progressive commitments.
Kreiss-Tomkins has also done work for Independent Campaigns LLC, which is owned in part by Megan Osborn, the Nebraska candidate’s wife. She is also connected to another political consulting firm called Dark Forest LLC. Earlier this spring, a complaint with the FEC was filed against the Osborns, alleging the candidate illegally funneled campaign funds to his wife via these firms.
The Osborns did not immediately respond when asked about their connection to Kreiss-Tomkins and potential involvement in the Alaska Senate race
Dan and Megan Osborn helped recruit Fraud Dan Sullivan (Dan J. Sullivan) in Alaska to deceive voters and boost Democrat Mary Peltola.
- Fraud Sullivan claimed he filed as a Republican because his dad was a “life-long Republican,” but he lied. Fraud Sullivan’s dad was never a registered Republican and voted in Democrat primaries in 2024 and 2006.
- Fraud Sullivan attempted to file as Daniel S. Sullivan which is Senator Sullivan’s name, not his.
- Fraud Sullivan has never been affiliated with the Republican Party.
- Fraud Sullivan’s website, logo, and branding are nearly identical to Dan S. Sullivan’s to further confuse voters.
- Fraud Sullivan donated to Peltola and other radical Democrats.
- Recent pictures of Democrat protesters in support of Fraud Sullivan’s sham candidacy were revealed to be Peltola donors.
- Fraud Sullivan refused to provide a sworn affidavit in response to the Alaska LG’s investigation.
- Amber Lee—a Peltola “supporter” and Democrat strategist who said this year she wants Peltola to “win”—was caught authoring Fraud Sullivan’s press release announcing his sham candidacy.
- In 2024, Alaska Before Party PAC tried to “game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November.”
- Lee’s Democrat consulting firm received thousands of dollars for “PAC Strategy Consulting” from Vote Alaska Before Party PAC, “a single-candidate super PAC in support of Mary Peltola” that has spent at least $10.4 million for Peltola.