Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker)
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Jeanne Devon is an award-winning political blogger and founding editor of The Mudflats.

She is co-author with Ken Morris and Frank Bailey of the New York Times best-selling book "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin" (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster).

She has also contributed to the book "Going Rouge," compiled by editors of The Nation, and published by OR Books, and has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show, the Mike Molloy Show and is featured weekly on the Shannyn Moore Show in Alaska. The Mudflats is a repeat winner of the Blogger's Choice Award, and a recipient of the"Best Blog Commentary" award from the Alaska Press Club.

A transplant from the NYC area, with a background as a promotional writer in the magazine industry, Devon has lived in the Last Frontier for 20 years. A sometimes lonely progressive in a very red state, she is heartened by the burgeoning progressive community in Alaska, both online and out there in the real world.

Visit at themudflats.net to come tiptoeing through the muck of Alaskan politics. Bring your boots.

Blog Entries by Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker)

Help, Help! There's an Elephant in My Uterus. Permission Slips from Men for Abortion?

32 Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 8:44 AM

Alaska has become the latest state to fall victim to the Republican War on Women. One legislator even wants women to get a permission slip signed by the man who impregnated her before she can have an abortion.

It's...

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Senator Lisa Murkowski Was for Contraception Coverage Before She Was Against It

114 Comments | Posted March 3, 2012 | 9:40 AM

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was one of three women in the Senate, along with Susan Collins (R - ME) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) to vote this week for the Blunt Amendment, which would preclude insurance coverage for contraceptives and other medical procedures for which an employer had a moral...

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Palin Aide Fined for Divulging Emails the State of Alaska Doesn't Want You to See

0 Comments | Posted February 23, 2012 | 9:09 AM

Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey, whose story was published in the tell-all book Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin (Frank Bailey, Ken Morris, Jeanne Devon - Simon & Schuster) has agreed to pay $11,900 in civil penalties to the state of Alaska for publishing revelatory emails he retained from...

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Palin Returns to Anti-GOP Roots

2 Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | 5:27 PM

As the immediate past vice presidential nominee, it's hardly surprising that most people outside Alaska view Sarah Palin as a card-carrying member of the GOP establishment. Despite her husband Todd's seven year dalliance with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and his quiet conversion to the GOP when his wife decided...

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Palin Urges Votes For A Man She Called A "Narrow-minded, Egotistical Machine Goon"

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 11:39 AM

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Unvetted Palin Insists Candidates Should "Vet One Another"

0 Comments | Posted January 13, 2012 | 4:20 PM

Sarah Palin, perhaps politics' most high-profile vetting escapee, seems to have a strong opinion on the matter of vetting when it comes to people who are not Sarah Palin. Despite documentation that proves Palin was never vetted (as John McCain and others claim), she is waving the red flag, encouraging...

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Why the 'Tragedy' of Sarah Palin Isn't Really a Tragedy

0 Comments | Posted May 17, 2011 | 4:59 PM

From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue--to which soon was added "thin-skinned" and "vindictive." But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska--the only record she has--shows a very different politician: one who worked...
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Still No Clear Winner in the Alaska Senate Race, But Murkowski Widens Lead

0 Comments | Posted November 3, 2010 | 1:39 PM

Any hopes of having a clear winner on election night in the U.S. Senate race in Alaska were dashed by the presence of write-in candidate, incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, who may turn out to...

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New Alaska Poll -- Democrat Scott McAdams Surges Past Embattled Joe Miller

0 Comments | Posted October 28, 2010 | 6:19 AM


A new poll conducted by Hays Research confirms what we already intuitively know. Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's candidacy is in big trouble.

The percentage of Alaskans who feel either "somewhat negative" or "very negative" about...

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Lisa Murkowski Wants Women to Vote with Their Ovaries, Not Their Brain

0 Comments | Posted October 26, 2010 | 7:21 AM

When John McCain nominated Sarah Palin to be his running mate, the country was shocked. But we also knew part of the reason he did it. She was a woman, and she had exactly the same double-X chromosomal...
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Internal Emails Show Joe Miller Campaign Distancing Itself From Tea Party

0 Comments | Posted October 13, 2010 | 5:22 PM

Sorry, Tea Party Sugar Daddy. Looks like your sweetie really isn't that into you. Now, don't get me wrong, he doesn't mind spending your money like a drunken sailor trying to stumble his way into the halls of the nation's capitol, but to be seen with you in public? Well,...

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Joe the Debtor? Miller Owes Tens of Thousands in Credit Card Debt

0 Comments | Posted October 8, 2010 | 1:13 PM

Joe Miller - Fiscal conservative, budget balancer, not liverer beyond his means.... and... (wait for it)... buried under mounds of credit card debt, and running a campaign more than $100,000 beyond his means?

Apparently so. Miller, who was supposed to have filed his financial disclosure paperwork for his run for...

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Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President

0 Comments | Posted October 5, 2010 | 3:07 PM

~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10

It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012....

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Chuitna and the Curse of Coal

0 Comments | Posted September 25, 2010 | 3:45 AM

The Carrs grocery store in Anchorage is always bustling at 7am on a Saturday in August. SUVs and pickups with boats in tow crowd the parking lot, and bleary-eyed men and women stand on line at the coffee...
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Sarah Palin in Wasilla for 9/11 Rally

0 Comments | Posted September 12, 2010 | 8:24 AM

Sarah Palin addressed a 9/11 rally put together by the Conservative Patriots Group, at the Sports Center in Wasilla, Alaska. The crowd of about 350-400 was there to see among others, Tea Party candidate for Senate Joe Miller,...
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Show Dems the Money -- the Alaska Senate Race

0 Comments | Posted September 10, 2010 | 4:37 PM

So, in Alaska politics, is it all about the money?

Would Joe Miller have beaten Lisa Murkowski if they ran against each other in a general election? Most people say no. The ability of this particular primary to call out the Tea Party faithful, by way of a $600,000 media...

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Murkowski v. Miller v. McAdams?

0 Comments | Posted September 8, 2010 | 12:58 AM

After Republican/Tea Party candidate Joe Miller's stunning defeat of Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate primary, things have been all a-kilter.


Everyone on the political spectrum from far left to moderate right has been in a...

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Tea Party Candidate Joe Miller Compares Lisa Murkowski to a Whore, Then Backpedals

0 Comments | Posted August 27, 2010 | 4:59 PM

There's a hotly contested senate primary still underway in Alaska. The absentee ballots are still coming in, but it looks like Tea Party Express candidate Joe Miller may pull out a squeaker and topple Lisa Murkowski from the...

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Palin-Backed Joe Miller Poised to Overthrow Murkowski Dynasty -- What's Going on from an Alaskan Perspective

0 Comments | Posted August 25, 2010 | 4:57 PM


~Senator Lisa Murkowski Campaigning for Senator Ted Stevens in 2008

In 2006, a relatively unknown small town mayor in Alaska toppled the incumbent Republican governor in the primary. Garnering more than 50% of the vote in a three-way race,...

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'I Promise Not to Quit,' Pledges Alaska Republican Gubernatorial Candidate

0 Comments | Posted August 20, 2010 | 5:59 PM

Ralph Samuels is a conservative Republican candidate for governor of Alaska. The primary is next Tuesday, and Samuels' new signs are dotting roadsides in Anchorage.

Yes, it's come to this.

Promising not to quit is now a...

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