The news media was on the scene in downtown Anchorage, where a couple of dozen protesters identifying as socialists held signs denouncing Congressman Nick Begich’s vote on a budget resolution that unlocks the budget reconciliation process in the House.
The socialists, wearing expensive North Face jackets and led by leaders of the Party for Socialism and Liberation Anchorage, said that Begich took away their Medicaid.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a communist political party in the United States that formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party. PSL calls itself a revolutionary socialist party, and believes that only a revolution can end capitalism and establish socialism. According to InfluenceWatch.org, PSL has publicly supported Communist dictators such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong and has been active in anti-police protests since 2020.
KTUU reported the statements made by the Party for Socialism and Liberation during the Friday protest as factual, not acknowledging that they were wholly false.
In fact, the only suggested current change to Medicaid is a work requirement for those who are able to work, which is policy supported by 70% of Americans. The word Medicaid does not appear in the bill that passed.
“Begich serves Trump’s far-right billionaire agenda and not the working people of Alaska. Begich voted to take 100k Alaskans off of Medicaid and 70k Alaskans off of SNAP. Anchorage will continue to fight back against Trump and the billionaires!” the socialists wrote on social media.
The protest was dubbed an “EMERGENCY PROTEST” by the PSL. The protesters chanted and marched to Begich’s office in downtown Anchorage at around 6 p.m.
Meanwhile Anchorage businesses are begging for employees and asking for extension of the “J-1” and related visa programs to supply Alaska’s workforce, because Socialists refuse to show up to work, but do show up to march.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is not only the far left segment of the Alaska Democratic Party’s voting base, supporting politicians like Anchorage Assemblyman Felix Rivera, the PSL is embrace by the national Democrats’ political action committee, “House Majority PAC,” which posted the news story about protest on their own social media page on X.
The chairman of House Majority PAC is Mike Smith, former senior advisor to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The PAC has now officially aligned itself with socialists. He’s in charge of flipping seats to Democrats and the group has targeted Begich for one of its top seats to flip in 2026.
Watch the Anchorage media sympathize with the protesters in this clip posted by the House Majority PAC:
