John Brendan Williams For Congress 2026

The Alaska Built Plan

Alaska's challenges are connected, and our solutions must be connected too.

My plan focuses on three priorities:

✔ Lower costs for Alaska families

✔ Prepare Alaskans for tomorrow's jobs

✔ Build an economy that creates opportunity at home

By responsibly developing our resources, strengthening workforce education, supporting small businesses, and expanding value-added manufacturing, we can create a stronger future for Alaska.

Build It Here. Keep It Here.

Lower Costs for Alaskas Families

My priorities are:

Lower the cost of energy, food, and fuel

Alaskans pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation. We need reliable energy development, modern infrastructure, and local energy solutions that reduce utility bills and lower the cost of living for families and businesses.

Make housing more affordable for Alaska families

Housing costs affect every part of family life. We need policies that encourage homebuilding, reduce barriers to development, improve infrastructure, and expand workforce housing so young families can afford to stay and build their future in Alaska.

Build an economy that keeps opportunity in Alaska

Too much of what Alaskans buy is imported from somewhere else. By supporting local food production, value-added manufacturing, small businesses, and resource processing, we can reduce dependence on fragile supply chains and keep more Alaska dollars circulating in Alaska communities.

Develop Alaska resources responsibly

My priorities are:

Process more resources in Alaska

For too long, Alaska has exported raw materials and imported finished products. We need to capture more of the value chain by processing and refining resources closer to where they are produced.

Create Alaska manufacturing jobs

I want to connect resource development to manufacturing, workforce training, and long-term careers. Alaska should be a place where people build their future—not just a place where people come to work and leave.

Protect communities and Indigenous partnerships

Economic growth and responsible stewardship can go hand in hand. Development should strengthen local communities, respect Indigenous voices, and ensure Alaska's resources benefit future generations.

Support Small Businesses

My priorities are:

Support Alaska-owned businesses

Small businesses are the backbone of Alaska's fishing, mining, tourism, transportation, and resource industries. We must support the workers, contractors, and local businesses that keep these sectors strong and create opportunities in communities across the state.

Keep more Alaska wealth in Alaska

Alaska should not export opportunity. By supporting local processing, manufacturing, food production, and resource development, we can help small businesses create higher-paying jobs and keep more wealth circulating in Alaska.

Help local entrepreneurs grow

From agribusiness and food hubs to remote technology, energy solutions, logistics, and tourism, Alaska entrepreneurs are solving Alaska problems. We should remove barriers to growth and support the innovation that helps communities become more self-sufficient and resilient.

Expand workforce development

My priorities are:

Train Alaskans for Alaska's Future Industries

The industries that will drive Alaska's future—from resource development and manufacturing to energy, transportation, and technology—need a skilled workforce. Education should help prepare students for those opportunities.

Expand Career and Technical Education

Not every successful career requires a four-year degree. Apprenticeships, skilled trades, technical training, and industry certifications should be treated as valuable pathways to success.

Connect Classrooms to Careers

Students should be able to see a clear path from education to employment. Strong partnerships between schools, businesses, unions, and industry can help ensure that Alaskans are prepared to build careers, raise families, and remain in Alaska.

Encourage manufacturing and value-added production

Encourage Manufacturing & Value-Added Production

My priorities are:

Process and Manufacture More in Alaska

For too long, Alaska has exported raw materials and imported finished products. We should expand opportunities to process, refine, and manufacture products closer to where our resources are produced.

Create Long-Term Careers and Skilled Jobs

Every step added to the value chain creates opportunities for Alaskans. By connecting manufacturing, workforce training, and resource development, we can create careers that allow families to build their futures here at home.

Build a Stronger, More Resilient Economy

A diverse economy is a stronger economy. Supporting value-added industries in seafood, timber, energy, critical minerals, and emerging technologies helps keep more wealth, investment, and opportunity circulating in Alaska communities.

Reliable Energy for Every Alaskan

My priorities are:

Make Energy More Affordable

Affordable energy reduces the cost of housing, transportation, food, and nearly every other necessity for Alaska families.

Power Alaska's Future Economy

Manufacturing, resource development, and economic growth depend on reliable energy. Alaska's future industries require the infrastructure necessary to support long-term investment and job creation.

Build Long-Term Energy Security

A balanced energy strategy should focus on reliability, affordability, and resilience while supporting the infrastructure needed to strengthen Alaska's communities and economy.

When energy is reliable, communities grow. When communities grow, families stay. When families stay, Alaska prospers.

Education That Prepares Students for Life

Alaska sits on some of the world's most important deposits of critical minerals. Yet too often we educate students for jobs somewhere else, while importing workers for jobs right here at home.

If Alaska is going to play a leading role in America's future in energy, defense, advanced manufacturing, and resource development, then our schools, apprenticeships, community colleges, and universities must become part of that strategy.

My priorities are:

Prepare students for Alaska's future

Parents, educators, communities, and local leaders understand the needs of their students better than distant bureaucracies. Education should empower local communities to prepare students for success.

Create pathways from classrooms to careers

Students need multiple pathways to success. Skilled trades, technical education, certifications, and career training should be valued alongside traditional academic pathways.

Keep the opportunity in Alaska

Education should connect directly to opportunity. Strong partnerships between schools, businesses, unions, industry, and higher education can help students move from the classroom into meaningful careers.

Constitutional Government

Government should serve the people, not the other way around.

The Constitution does not grant our rights—it recognizes and protects them. I believe government works best when it remains accountable to the people, respects constitutional limits, and focuses on creating opportunity rather than creating barriers.

My priorities are:

Protect Constitutional Rights

The freedoms protected by the Constitution belong to the people. The government's responsibility is to safeguard those rights and ensure equal protection under the law.

Promote Transparency and Accountability

Citizens deserve a government that is open, responsive, and accountable. Public trust is strengthened when decisions are transparent and elected officials remain answerable to the people they serve.

Practice Fiscal Responsibility

Taxpayer dollars should be spent wisely and strategically. The government should focus on measurable results, responsible investments, and long-term sustainability rather than unnecessary spending and bureaucracy.

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The Alaska Built Plan

The Alaska Built Plan

Lower Costs for Alaskas Families

Develop Alaska resources responsibly

Support Small Businesses

Expand workforce development

Encourage manufacturing and value-added production

Encourage Manufacturing & Value-Added Production

Reliable Energy for Every Alaskan

Education That Prepares Students for Life

Constitutional Government