A Wisconsin group has supplied most of the money behind Alaska's ranked-choice repeal campaign

Repeal Now's fundraising for the November ballot measure to repeal Alaska's top-four primary and ranked-choice general election has reached $908,543.38, according to state campaign finance filings. Roughly $861,000 of that came from one out-of-state donor.

The filing includes a $250,000 contribution made May 13 by Aurora Action Network, which state records list at an address in Hudson, Wisconsin, and which is listed with Thomas Datwyler as treasurer. Its four contributions this year total $650,000: $50,000 on Feb. 9, $250,000 on April 8, $100,000 on April 27 and the May payment. It gave a further $211,000 in 2025. The trail stops at Aurora Action Network, which files no report of its own with state regulators.

The filing identifies Advancing Alaska Action, also of Anchorage, as the true source behind $5,000 of that money, a disclosure required because the 2020 ballot measure Repeal Now seeks to overturn requires true-source reporting for contributions exceeding $2,000 a year.

An amended report filed Thursday corrected the payment type on a single $105 expenditure to AT Printing & Publishing from May 21; it did not disclose new money.

Gifts from Alaskans appear far down the list, including $51.50 from a Valdez accountant and $50 from an Eagle River optometrist.

The filing also lists $26,513.32 in expenditures, including $23,607.61 paid to Pioneer Law of Anchorage on May 18 for legal services, and $40,400 in unpaid debts, $40,000 of it owed to the same firm. The group lists 14 officers, with Judy Eledge as chair and Bethany Marcum as treasurer.

Alaska's 2024 repeal attempt failed by 49.9% to 50.1%, the narrowest ballot measure result in state history. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom verified 42,837 signatures for the new initiative on Dec. 31, 2025. Attorney Scott Kendall has called the measure a Trojan horse that would also repeal dark money rules. At the same July 27 hearing, Repeal Now deputy treasurer Carolyn Overstreet said, "Our organization, Repeal Now, is a grassroots organization."

Neither Aurora Action Network nor Advancing Alaska Action is quoted in the material reviewed for this article.

Alaskans vote Nov. 3.