Alaskan Independence Party

(Newser) - Alaska's best-known secessionist brand just voted itself out of existence, leaving 19,000 voters in limbo. Leaders of the Alaskan Independence Party, the state's third-largest political party, met on Dec. 7 and opted to shut it down, according to a statement by former Chair John Wayne Howe, reports...

(Newser) - Todd Palin likes the title "first dude," but some Alaskan critics of his wife have dubbed the apparently unassuming husband the state's "shadow governor," the Wall Street Journal reports. The oilfield worker and champion snowmobiler is copied on some official correspondence and is accused of playing...

(Newser) - The latest surprise from Sarah Palin's past is her membership in the fringe Alaskan Independence Party, ABC News reports. A party leader says the governor and her husband were members in the 1990s. Though not strictly secessionist, the AIP is a "states' right party" that wants a vote on...