Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola announced that her campaign raised $8.9 million in the first quarter of the year, a record for any U.S. Senate campaign in Alaska.

If you follow Mary Peltola on social media, maybe you’ve noticed that the former Alaska congresswoman is talking about more than fish, family and freedom as she runs for U.S. Senate.

Matthew “Bronco” Williams, an Anchorage-based private school teacher, has announced that he is running as an independent for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The bill is a bipartisan compromise many years in the making and would make a variety of changes to the way Alaskans vote.

President Trump said this week that his top priority for Congress is to pass a bill called the SAVE America Act. It would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.

One ballot initiative is a roughly $80 million bond. The other is a one-time $11.8 million tax hike that school district leaders plan on using to hire 80 teachers.

"Our people need to be heard in their voice," said Aucha Kameroff, the group's leader. "One of the voices that we have as people in rural Alaska, or any place, is by voting."

A repeal measure will appear on the ballot this year. What it says, exactly, is in dispute.

U.S. Rep. Nick Begich co-sponsored the SAVE Act, though it makes proving citizenship a little harder than he thought.

Sen. Dan Sullivan raised $7.5 million last year. Is it enough to withstand challenger Mary Peltola’s “money bomb”?

Two seats on the Anchorage School Board are also up for election. Anchorage’s municipal election is set for April 7.

ASD superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said his intention is to use all of the funding to fill more than 80 teaching positions, with the goal of reducing class sizes across the district.