# America First Party Alaska State Committee On **1 November 2026**, two days before the midterm election, a new federal **party committee** registered with the Federal Election Commission under the name **America First Party, USA/ Alaska State AFP Committee** (commission ID **C00964411**). The registration gives an address in **Anchorage, Alaska**, a treasurer of record living in **Fort Bragg, California**, and a Wells Fargo account. It reports no money. What makes it worth recording is not the committee. It is the sentence the filer attached to the form. ## The filing cites its own authority, and two of the three citations are not law Federal registration forms have an optional free-text field. This one was used, and it reads, exactly: > Pursuant to US DOD Law of War Code 11. civil elections / EO 13848 / 1776 Restored Republic > Constitution Law /We, the people. Taking those in turn: - **"EO 13848"** is real. Executive Order 13848, *Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election*, was signed by President Trump on **12 September 2018**. It declares a national emergency over foreign election interference and authorises the Treasury to freeze the assets of **foreign** persons found to have interfered. It creates no authority over the conduct of American elections, no authority to establish or supervise a political party, and no powers that a private citizen can invoke. It has been a fixture of election-denial argument since 2020 precisely because its title sounds as though it does more than it does. - **"US DOD Law of War Code 11. civil elections"** does not correspond to any provision of American law. The Department of Defense publishes a *Law of War Manual*; it governs the conduct of armed conflict, not the administration of civilian elections, and it is not a code with numbered articles of this kind. - **"1776 Restored Republic Constitution Law"** is not a law at all. "Restored republic" is the language of a long-running online conspiracy narrative holding that the lawful United States was replaced by an illegitimate successor government and is on the verge of being restored. ## Why it's on the map This knowledge base tracks where the ideas of the organised right actually touch institutions. Most of the time that means money, votes or appointments. This is a smaller and stranger kind of contact: the claim that the current government is not the lawful one, written into a federal election filing as the stated legal basis for a party committee — and accepted into the public register, because the commission's electronic filing system records what filers type. The argument's structure — a legitimate original government displaced by an illegitimate one, which a citizen may therefore step outside of — is the characteristic argument of the **sovereign citizen** movement, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as an anti-government movement dating to 1970 whose adherents advance pseudo-legal claims and cite authorities that do not exist. That is a description of a family of argument, not a finding about this filer: nothing here establishes what the person who signed this form believes or belongs to. ## What is not established - **Whether this committee has any connection to the America First Party**, the minor party founded in 2002 by supporters of Pat Buchanan after the collapse of his Reform Party candidacy. The names resemble each other. No link has been established here, and the resemblance of a name is not evidence. - **Whether it is a party committee at all** in the commission's own classification. A registration form states what the filer claims; the commission's classification of a committee is a separate record that does not appear on the same day a form is filed. That question is left open here deliberately. - **Whether it will ever do anything.** It registered with no money, two days before an election, and most committees that do that never file again. ## Connections - [[Election Denialism]] · [[Sovereign Citizen Movement]] - [[2026 Midterms Hub]] · [[AK-Sen-2026]]