Nick Begich Voter Guide - candidate for United States Representative in Alaska

Nick Begich is running for United States Representative in Alaska. He has been our representative from Alaska since 2025, so we can judge how he has affected our lives during his 1 year tenure.

Incumbent

As a United States Representative, Nick Begich is a member of the United States Congress. Congress enacts laws that influence the daily lives of all Americans and is intended to serve as the voice of the people. Its responsibilities include funding government functions and programs, holding hearings to inform the legislative process, and oversight of the executive branch.

Performance Review

Did Nick Begich make our lives better or worse ?

Increasing the Cost of Living
Reducing Access to Healthcare
Cutting Taxes for the Rich
Rolling Back Environmental Protections
Cutting Access to Food Programs for the Poor
Destroying Jobs
Stretching the Truth
Working for Billionaires, Big Business and Outsiders, Not for Us
Letting Elon Musk and DOGE Cut Funds from Alaska
Abdicating His Responsibility
Opposing Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws
Giving the Government Control of Our Bodies
Taking Away Our Voting Power
Supporting America's Secret Police Force, ICE
Missing in Action
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Increasing the Cost of Living

Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.

Nick Begich has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:

Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
47% struggling to afford their utility bills
47% struggling to afford healthcare
48% struggling to afford housing
1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
23% skipping a prescription dose

We all are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Nick Begich doing about it? Making things worse. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Reducing Access to Healthcare

We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.

Nick Begich disagrees:

He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
Thanks to Nick Begich and his fellow members of Congress from Alaska, roughly 7,000 Alaskans will lose health insurance, and around 24,000 will see costs increase. Health insurance costs in Alaska will increase 125% – an average of $1,836.

We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Nick Begich doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Cutting Taxes for the Rich

We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.

But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.

The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
The 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 — a “true” tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.

Nick Begich is on the side of the billionaires and big business. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that he supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Rolling Back Environmental Protections

We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.

Nick Begich has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.

We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Cutting Access to Food Programs for the Poor

I think we can all agree that nobody in America, the richest country in the world, should go hungry.

Here in Alaska, 1 in 6 kids faces hunger every day. And instead of doing anything to fix that, Nick Begich supported the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that dramatically cuts funding for SNAP, and the people that need food assistance most.

About 39% of SNAP participants are children, and 20% are elderly
41.7 million Americans receive SNAP benefits every month
In Alaska, 68,300 citizens receive SNAP benefits every month

Nick Begich doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Destroying Jobs

A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.

Nick Begich supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.

There were 17.4 million layoffs in the U.S. between January and October 2025
There were 48,000 layoffs in Alaska between January and August 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
In the 7 months since Trump's tariffs took effect, the U.S. economy has averaged just 17,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 168,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced “Liberation Day” tariffs, to September 2025.

We can't live the American Dream without well-paying jobs. Nick Begich doesn't care. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Stretching the Truth

When did it become okay for our leaders to lie to us? Do they think we're too stupid to check facts? Or do they just think that we're suckers that are easily manipulated and will fall for their con?

Nick Begich has a habit of stretching the truth. If we can't trust him to tell us the truth, how can we trust him with our lives and futures?

We deserve leaders who aren't constantly gaslighting us.

starvoters pov: Truth matters.

Working for Billionaires, Big Business and Outsiders, Not for Us

Our elected officials should work for us, the people.

Nick Begich is rich. He has reported assets worth at least $10.8 million and as much as $46 million. He loaned his own campaign $650,000. Do you think he works for the working people of Alaska? Or for the millionaires, billionaires and big businesses that he hangs out with?

No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.

Some of Alaska’s US House candidates are millionaires. Another is paying off student loans.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Letting Elon Musk and DOGE Cut Funds from Alaska

We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.

That's not what we got.

Nick Begich cheered on while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Alaska suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.

Elon Musk and DOGE:

Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
And the list goes on...

We'd like to thank you, Nick Begich, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions, cut an estimated $285 million dollars worth of grants from Alaska, and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: This was nothing but a giant con pulled on the American people.

Abdicating His Responsibility

As a member of Congress, part of Nick Begich's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Alaska (Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan) have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything the current administration wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not doing his job, and the whole country is suffering as a result.

Opposing Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws

We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.

In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Nick Begich has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws and is actually trying to expand gun rights.

A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
Alaska has the highest violent crime rate in the country, and is near the top for murder rate and firearm deaths.

Nick Begich is OK with our kids dying, as long as he has his guns. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Giving the Government Control of Our Bodies

America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.

Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Nick Begich thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.

Nick Begich:

Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career

Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don’t have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That’s what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans and more than 60% of Alaskans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Nick Begich thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Taking Away Our Voting Power

In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.

Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Nick Begich's billionaire and big business friends can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on the starvoters home page, then come back here.

YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Nick Begich and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is not fighting for us. He is actively working against us.

Supporting America's Secret Police Force, ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Nick Begich, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us. Worse than that he supports it. Which probably shouldn't be that much of a surprise from someone who really wants to use the military against the American people.

ProPublica: They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica: Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they’re showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can’t access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there’s a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times: Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed “enemies” of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents’ first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Nick Begich have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.

If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Nick Begich going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich is doing nothing while we all suffer.

Missing in Action

Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies.

Nick Begich doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only holds telephone town halls with pre-vetted questions. Because he knows we're not happy with his performance.

Nick Begich is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.

starvoters pov: Nick Begich doesn't want to hear from us, the people he works for.

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Nick Begich is actively working against us on every issue that could make our lives better. Our cost of living is up, our access to healthcare is down, the rich are getting tax cuts that are being paid for with our Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and Social Security, our environment is being plundered, food programs for our poor are being cut, and our jobs have been destroyed. He works for his big business buddies, opposes common-sense gun safety laws that will protect our kids, wants the government to control what we can do with our own bodies, wants to take away our voting power, is doing nothing while ICE becomes a threat to all Americans, and doesn't want to talk to us.

Do we really want another 2 years of this?

There are candidates who want to make our lives better. For your sake, for your kids sake, for your family, friends, neighbors and fellow Alaskans sake, please vote for one of them. Don't let billionaire-manufactured culture wars and other BS distract you from what really matters. Because we all deserve a better life.

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