Day: October 19, 2026

Alaskans join nationwide No Kings rally focused on getting out the vote

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Post date October 19, 2026
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By: Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon

Demonstrators rally and urge early voting at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Alaskans across the state rallied on Saturday as part of a nationwide No Kings day of action to encourage early voting in the November elections and criticize the Trump administration.

Early in person voting begins in many locations in Alaska on Monday. Organizers at the No Kings event in Juneau urged Alaskans to vote early, to remind friends and family to vote and to support candidates and ballot measures ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Demonstrators rally at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

“We’ve been living for the last couple of years under a consolidating authoritarian regime. This is a very scary moment in the history of our country. We have the opportunity to turn the tides now,” said Anjuli Grantham, an organizer with Juneau for Democracy, referring to the Trump administration.

She was among dozens of Juneauites who braved the wind and rain, gathering at an intersection near the Juneau-Douglas bridge downtown. The crowd waved signs that encouraged voting and condemned the Trump administration, the U.S. war on Iran —which has driven fuel prices to record highs — and attacks on democratic rights.

Lareena Goertz of Fairbanks said she was in town visiting family and decided to join the Juneau protest to express her outrage with the Trump administration.

“I’m just sick and tired of the bullsh—, frankly. They just push and push and push and take and take and take from us, and refuse to respect our democracy and try to take our government apart,” she said. “And they’re making money hand over fist.”

Organizers in Juneau also urged continued public attention on the Alaska Division of Elections as ballots are counted and election results are certified. “Making sure that the will of the voters comes to fruition,” Grantham said.

Thousands of events took place nationwide on Saturday, and social media posts and an online map showed No Kings events planned in at least 15 communities across Alaska, from Nome to Palmer and Valdez to Ketchikan.

Linda Guthrie, an organizer with the Valdez chapter of Indivisible, a national pro-democracy group, said about two dozen people rallied in downtown Valdez for the No Kings event to promote early voting and show support for local and statewide candidates running against Republicans this election.

“So we came out to let people know how important it was to vote to save our democracy, and to vote for people here in Alaska that are going to support the Alaskan people,” she said.

Residents of Valdez, a town of roughly 3,600 people on Prince William Sound, is among several rural communities that has participated in No Kings events throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, and Guthrie said it’s felt important to get out and protest.

“People are concerned about what’s happening in our country, and they’re concerned enough to get out, hold a sign up, and rally and speak up, stand up to make change,” she said. “They don’t like what’s happening.”

Roughly 10 people rallied in Nome for the No Kings get-out-the-vote event on Oct. 17, 2026, according to organizers. (Photo courtesy of Hannah Anderson)

In the Northwest community of Nome, Hannah Anderson was one of the organizers of a small No Kings. “We just feel like we need to do our part,” she said. “This seems like a very pivotal point statewide and nationally for our country. So it, you know, kind of lights our fire and makes us interested in getting out there and urging people to make their voices heard.”

The No Kings events were peaceful, but there was at least one counterprotest. On Saturday in Fairbanks two counterprotesters were seen and one was waving a large Nazi flag.

Fairbanks Democratic Sen. Scott Kawasaki said in an interview he saw the two men. He said the event organizers had planned security and directed participants to discourage any escalation. Some No Kings attendees in frog costumes asked the men with the flag to leave.

“Two folks with skull masks on, completely visible, but just you couldn’t tell who they were, were walking through with a large Nazi flag on a large post, and basically wandering through the crowd,” he said. “I think, you know, most people were shocked. There was no altercation. I think eventually the frogs sort of chased them out. But you know, it was interesting.”

There was an event with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to support Republicans across town, and Kawasaki said organizers expected some Republican counterprotesters on Saturday. He said he only saw the two men counterprotesting, and could not confirm they were part of the Cruz event.

Kawasaki said despite the counter-protesters’ show of intimidation, it was a positive event with hundreds of people coming out in downtown Fairbanks to encourage voting and also fundraise for the local soup kitchen.

“That’s why when that sort of thing happens, we don’t want any sort of escalation,” Kawasaki said. “The No Kings protests and all of these rallies are peaceful rallies to talk about the important things, and the important things about voting and the important things about getting active and engaged and involved, and that’s exactly what they did.”

Demonstrators rally and urge early voting at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Demonstrators rally at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Lareena Goertz of Fairbanks participated in a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Anjuli Grantham, an organizer with Juneau for Democracy, speaks to a crowd gathered for a nationwide No Kings day of action on Oct. 17, 2026 and urges Alaskans to vote early. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Demonstrators rally and urge early voting at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

A demonstrator shows support for Ukraine and Canada at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Demonstrators rally and urge early voting at a No Kings protest in Juneau on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)

Demonstrators rally for a No Kings get-out-the-vote event in Palmer on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Mat-Su United for Progress)

A sign set up on Northern Lights Boulevard in Midtown Anchorage on Oct. 19, 2026, carries a message about the importance of voting, a theme of the No Kings protest events. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

No Kings Day participants wave flags and signs along Northern Lights Boulevard in Midtown Anchorage on Oct. 19, 2026. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

A No Kings participant holds a sign and a box of donuts at a gathering site in Midtown Anchorage on Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

An Uncle Sam-costumed Marc Johnson, who led a No Kings bike parade in Midtown Anchorage on Oct. 19, 2026, stands by his bike. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Signs set up on Northern Lights Boulevard in Midtown Anchorage on Oct. 17, 2026, carry a message about the importance of voting, a theme of the No Kings protest events. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

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Alaska’s final U.S. Senate debate devolves into mudslinging between Peltola, Sullivan

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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon

Competing signs in the same Midtown Anchorage yard, seen Aug. 7, 2026, support the candidates for U.S. Senate in Alaska: incumbent Dan Sullivan, a Republican, and challenger Mary Peltola, a Democrat. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

The two leading candidates for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat met in an acrimonious televised debate Thursday night in Anchorage, where Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan accused each other of lying and repeatedly spoke over each other.

“OK, let’s have some decorum here — candidates, please stop. If I have to shut mics off, I will,” said moderator and Alaska Public Media News Director Lori Townsend about 15 minutes into the event.

Mary Peltola speaks at the U.S. Senate candidate forum held Aug. 27, 2026, at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association Conference in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, speaks at an Oct. 5, 2026, campaign rally in Fairbanks. THe headliner at the rallly was Vice President JD Vance, who traveled to Alaska with Sullivan on Air Force 2. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

The debate Thursday marked the third and likely final time that Peltola and Sullivan shared a stage ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

Four candidates are on the ballot — the other two candidates are Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg and Republican Gerald Heikes of Palmer — but Alaska Public Media, KTOO and KTUU-TV invited only Peltola and Sullivan, who each finished with more than 5% of the vote in the August primary.

Peltola led in the primary with 49.5% of the vote, ahead of Sullivan who had 41.4%.

The two had appeared previously at a fisheries-focused forum in Kodiak and a forum hosted by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association in Anchorage. But this week’s event was televised live, and because Peltola has declined other debate requests by Sullivan, it was a rare event.

Disputes over war and military pay vote

The debate was contentious from the start. In the first question, Sullivan was asked about his views on the Iran war, which he supports. He said he views it as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which he said is important because Iran is a sponsor of international terrorism, including against the United States.

Peltola said peace with Iran isn’t in sight, and the best thing to do to protect the United States and its military is to get out of the fight.

“There does not seem to be a peace deal on the horizon, and I think it’s so important that our military be removed and protected,” she said.

Separately, Peltola said, “I’ll take on the rigged system that allows D.C. to wage forever wars while lining their own pockets.”

Later, Sullivan noted that after being defeated in her 2024 re-election campaign for U.S. House, Peltola worked for a lobbying firm and accused her of failing to support U.S. troops.

“She’s voted against fundraising for pay raises for our troops. And finally, she talks a lot about the rigged system. She defines the rigged system,” he said.

Peltola responded quickly. The vote Sullivan referenced was for a 2023 military defense bill that included a 5.2% pay raise but also included measures that would have limited abortion access for members of the military.

Later negotiations resulted in a bill with the pay increase and without the abortion language. Peltola voted for that bill, as did Sullivan, when it reached the Senate.

“I voted two times in favor of the pay raise for our troops. I’m very proud of that vote. And Dan just keeps telling lies and Alaskans are sick of it,” Peltola said.

Sullivan returned to the issue in a subsequent question, saying, “My opponent did vote against our military, did vote against pay raise for our troops because she wanted more transgender surgeries for our troops.”

“I need to — that is absurd,” Peltola interjected.

Sullivan continued, “That is an outrage. That is an outrage for our military. We need to keep building it up.”

The 2023 bill included amendments that would have limited gender-affirming healthcare for transgender troops and another that would have eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion staff and programs in the military.

Peltola did not vote on those amendments individually but did vote against the bill that contained them and for another bill that did not contain them.

“I think that Alaskans have had it up to here with the lying and the dishonesty. Dan, you should be ashamed of yourself for propagating these lies. These were set up votes,” Peltola said.

Peltola attacks Sullivan on Social Security

Minutes later, in response to a question about Social Security, it was Peltola’s turn to attack Sullivan.

“I will always fight for our seniors’ hard-earned benefits, and in the Senate, I’ll fight to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits. Who do you want fighting for your Social Security? A working Alaskan like me, or someone like Dan Sullivan, who has repeatedly voted to jeopardize Alaska seniors’ hard-earned benefits, including voting to raise the retirement age,” Peltola said.

In 2014, Sullivan said that it may eventually be necessary to raise the age for Social Security, but he has not voted to do so.

“I never voted to raise the retirement age, so that’s another Mary Peltola lie, which is unfortunate and disappointing. But it’s been a hallmark of her campaign,” Sullivan said.

Last year, Sullivan voted in favor of an amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — the signature tax-and-spending-cut bill of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans — that would have stopped cuts to Social Security.

That amendment failed, and Sullivan went on to vote for the final bill, which reduces revenue for the Social Security trust fund.

Sullivan said Thursday night that he firmly believes people on Social Security must continue receiving benefits at present levels.

“I think with regard to Social Security, first and foremost, the people in Social Security, we need to make sure it’s a lockbox. They’re going to get what they continue to have. You can’t touch it,” he said.

Peltola reads from notes for most answers

For much of Thursday night’s debate, Peltola referred to detailed notes and frequently read directly from them when answering moderators’ questions, which prompted a response from Sullivan.

“Can I ask the moderator a question? We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?” Sullivan asked, 12 minutes into the hourlong event.

“Neither one of you got questions beforehand. Absolutely not,” Townsend replied.

“OK, I’m just watching my opponent read from questions that seem to be answered,” Sullivan answered back.

“I’m prepared,” Peltola interjected.

An extended fight over the Epstein files

Peltola and Sullivan each argued over files collected during the federal government’s investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the other has accepted contributions from people named in the federal investigation.

Ads by Peltola’s campaign and third-party groups have criticized Sullivan for voting against the public release of the files.

“One of the essential lies of the Peltola campaign was this idea that I supported not releasing the Epstein files. It’s ridiculous,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan voted several times against the files’ release but reversed course after President Donald Trump dropped his opposition to their release. The federal government has not yet fully followed through on that congressional mandate.

“I have spent my career defending survivors of domestic violence, of sexual assault, and in this case, I voted to release the Epstein files and protect the victims. She has been running this ad nonstop. It is a smear,” Sullivan said before adding that Peltola has taken money from associates of Epstein.

“That is a patent lie. That is a fabrication out of thin air,” Peltola said. “Dan Sullivan’s taken $10,000 that we know of.”

None of the people who are named in the Epstein investigation documents and are donors to either Sullivan or Peltola have been charged with any crimes.

Candidates agree on AI, but continue sparring

Throughout the night, Peltola and Sullivan used questions as an opportunity to poke at each other. The two said they agree on some limits to artificial intelligence development, but before saying as much, Sullivan said, “My opponent keeps talking about corporate greed. Again, she defines the rigged system in D.C.,” going on to point to Peltola’s work with a lobbying firm before she registered as a Senate candidate.

“When I lost in ’24, I went to work … on Alaskan issues, municipal issues. Dan’s been in D.C. for 12 years and gotten richer every single one of those years. That’s the corruption that Alaskans are really sick of, and that’s the corruption that I’ll fight against,” Peltola said. “Dan went to D.C. with $3 million. He now has $8 million. Dan’s doing just fine, watching out for himself.”

Alaska Public Media has reported that Sullivan’s investment increase is similar to the rise in American stock market indexes generally.

Candidates were given four opportunities to offer immediate rebuttals, and Sullivan used one of his chances after that remark.

“Look, my opponent has been telling lies throughout this entire campaign, and it’s revealed character challenges. But it’s not just the lies. Take a look at how she treats Alaskans when the cameras are off,” he said, referring to a New York Times article that alleged she was physically and verbally abusive to staff during her term in Congress.

The article also said Peltola used insulting language to refer to people who bothered her. The Alaska Beacon was able to verify some of the accounts described in the article.

Peltola interjected, denying the allegations, and tried to speak over Sullivan, but was stopped by Townsend.

Later in the debate, she said, “I do not think that this election is about me on my worst day, and I found so many of these allegations concerning and outright fabrications or mass exaggerations of the truth.”

Peltola said, “I think it’s a real sad statement that I’m such a threat as a candidate that they’re just willing to do and say anything about me to help Dan win.”

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Early voting for Alaska’s general election opens in Juneau, Nome and across the Railbelt

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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon

Voters line up on Aug. 17, 2026, at the early voting station set up in Anchorage’s Midtown Mall. Voters reported waiting about an hour to cast their primary election ballots. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

Most state offices may be closed on Monday for Alaska Day, but officials with the Alaska Division of Elections are planning to be at work for the first day of early in-person voting in the 2026 general election.

In Anchorage, early voting will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at Midtown Mall and Anchorage City Hall.

Other voting locations will be open in Eagle River, Fairbanks, Juneau, Kenai, Nome, Palmer and Wasilla.

A full list of locations and operating days and times has been posted online by the division. All votes must be cast before or on Election Day, Nov. 3.

Dozens of in-person absentee voting locations will also open starting Monday across the state, but there is a key difference between early voting and absentee voting, which has also been taking place by mail and fax for weeks.

In early voting, the voter’s identity is checked up front, before voting, so the ballot is guaranteed to count. With absentee voting, whether in person, by mail or fax, the voter’s ID isn’t checked until the ballot reaches the Division of Elections.

If the voter’s identity can’t be verified, or if there’s another procedural problem, the ballot may be rejected and not counted. Alaska doesn’t offer a way for absentee voters to fix procedural problems.

In addition, absentee ballots can be affected by delivery delays. In this year’s primary election, dozens of absentee ballots cast in person were rejected because they didn’t reach a hub location in time for review.

The division said it has changed its procedures for the general election in order to prevent that problem.

But mail delays may still keep some absentee ballots from being counted.

Under state law, a mailed ballot must arrive within 10 days after Election Day if mailed from within the United States,or 15 days afterward, if mailed from outside the country. Those ballots will be counted as long as they were postmarked on or before Election Day.

Any ballots that arrive after that deadline will not be counted.

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Jason Segel Marries Kayla Radomski in Intimate “Storybook Wedding”

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Meghan Markle: EXPLOITED with Bogus Rumor to Boost Interest in Guy Ritchie Series?

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Rumors of her The Gentlemen involvement have been greatly exaggerated.

Duchess Meghan Markle is an actress as well as a businesswoman.

As she looks to return to acting, some are using this to their advantage.

Did Netflix “leak” a fake rumor about her involvement in a show to boost interest? It sure looks that way.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex holds a bouquet of flowers as she and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrive on October 15, 2026. (Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Something about this only makes sense as a PR move

The Telegraph reports that Meghan is decidedly not in talks to join Guy Ritchie’s The Gentleman for Season 3.

Back in August, reports first came out suggesting that Meghan was neck deep in discussion to join the Netflix series.

This makes a lot of sense. Meghan is an actress, recently returned to the UK, and might bring a personal touch to a show about a duke who served on combat deployments in Afghanistan.

(Her husband, Prince Harry, is a duke who served on combat deployments in Afghanistan.)

However, there was never any confirmation of the talks. In fact, numerous reports have cast doubt upon whether any part of this was true.

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“Some people in her camp feel she was used to help promote season two,” an inside source told The Telegraph.

The insider explained that this is “because they knew it wasn’t as good as the first season and had already commissioned a third.”

According to the source: “It’s the oldest marketing trick in the book: get a big name to read a script, then leak that you’re ‘in conversation’ with them when, in reality, nothing is particularly far along.”

The insider dished: “The whole thing left a bit of a sour taste in the Sussex camp’s mouth.” One would imagine so!

“Needless to say, Netflix got what it wanted: huge viewing figures for season two and a lot of publicity,” the source pointed out. (And, sure enough, Netflix renewed The Gentlemen for Season 3.)

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‘The prospect of seeing her return to acting will drive big audiences’

By all accounts, Meghan is looking to pick up on acting.

Her kids are still young, but neither Archie nor Lilibet are newborns.

However, The Telegraph reports that Meghan is currently “very cautious” about reading scripts, not sharing them even with friends.

The fear is that news of her potential involvement in a show or film could leak.

Certain tabloids that cater to people who hate her — British tabloids, primarily — would have a field day, and could disrupt a project or sabotage her potential casting.

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“Everyone knows that whatever Meghan’s first film or show turns out to be, it’s going to attract huge interest,” the insider cautioned.

“The prospect of seeing her return to acting will drive big audiences,” the source predicted. “And ultimately, someone — whether it’s Netflix, Amazon, or another studio — is going to make a lot of money from it.”

However, that won’t be the case if things leak and the project gets derailed before things come together.

Meghan has years of history of working with Netflix, but those business ties have waned recently.

Perhaps it’s time for her to star on another platform. It will be exciting to see where she makes her comeback.

Meghan Markle: EXPLOITED with Bogus Rumor to Boost Interest in Guy Ritchie Series? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Donnie Wahlberg’s Plane Skids Off Vegas Runway in “Intense” Incident

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Eminem Offers to Pay For Kim Mathers’ Rehab Following DUI Arrests: Report

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Over the summer, Kim Mathers was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence.

Now, her famous ex-husband, Eminem, might be offering to help her get sober.

According to a new report from Radar Online, Em has offered to cover the cost of Kim’s rehabilitation treatment for as long as she needs it.

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The reported offer comes as Kim faces ongoing legal troubles that could land her behind bars.

According to the outlet, a source close to the situation claimed Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, would like Kim to spend an entire year in treatment to give herself the best possible chance at maintaining her sobriety.

“He has zero judgment [about her legal problems], all he cares about is her getting better,” the insider claimed.

“He has told her that she can stay in treatment for as long as it takes and he will cover it.”

The source added that Eminem remains hopeful about Kim’s future, saying, “He is so hopeful. He says if she can do this, she can have the most wonderful life.”

Of course, the reported offer comes amid a particularly difficult stretch for Kim, 51, who is facing multiple criminal cases in Michigan.

Earlier this month, a judge revoked her bond after determining that she had left a court-ordered inpatient rehabilitation facility without authorization.

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Her attorney had argued that a magistrate had modified the terms of her release, but Judge William Hackel III rejected that position. On October 14, the judge reiterated that Kim could leave jail if she returned to inpatient treatment.

While Kim’s legal troubles are ongoing, the reported offer from Eminem suggests that their complicated history has not erased his concern for her well-being.

The former couple, who share daughter Hailie Jade Scott, 30, married twice before divorcing for the second time in 2006. Eminem also legally adopted Kim’s son Stevie, 24, as well as her sister’s daughter, Alaina, 33.

Their relationship has hardly been a fairy tale, but the rapper reportedly still hopes Kim can overcome her struggles and that they might eventually rebuild their connection.

“He thinks the world of Kim, it’s just her addiction that messes her up and makes her someone he can’t have in his life,” the insider said.

“But if she does succeed at rehab and stays clean and sober he will want her in his life. He cares about her very deeply.”

For now, the reported offer is just that: an offer described by an unnamed source, not a publicly confirmed announcement from Eminem or Kim.

Still, if the account is accurate, the rapper appears willing to provide substantial support in the hope that his ex-wife can get the help she needs and work toward a healthier future.

Eminem Offers to Pay For Kim Mathers’ Rehab Following DUI Arrests: Report was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Bobby Flay And Martha Stewart Agree: Pork Chops Are So Much Juicier When You Buy This Cut

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Donncha: Travel Steps is a travel journal

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I made a WordPress plugin for my holidays. It’s called Travel Steps, and it turns a trip into a page with a map down one side and the story of each day down the other.

Every photo I take ends up in Immich, on my own server. My phone sends where I’ve been to Dawarich, on the same server. So after a trip I have all the photos and the whole route, sitting in two apps on my private server. The travel apps that make nice trip pages want your photos and your location on their servers. I’d rather keep them on mine.

How it works

You make a trip, give it a first and last day, and press Sync. Travel Steps asks Dawarich for your location over those days, and Immich for the photos you took. You can pick one Immich album instead. If you don’t use Immich at all, upload the photos to the trip. It will detect the start and end dates from the uploaded photos, or an Immich album too.

Sync makes a draft post for every day that has favourite photos. Each one is a “step”. It splits the day into places too. A new place starts when a favourite is more than 2 km from the last one and in a different town. Each place gets a heading and a block of photos, so all that’s left is the writing.

Each day is a post you write in the block editor. The photos under each heading come straight from Immich.

Place names come from GeoNames data that ships with the plugin, so naming a town doesn’t send your location anywhere. Immich only names a place from a photo’s own GPS. A photo from a camera without GPS gets placed from your Dawarich history instead, and named the same way.

Publish the days you want people to see. Drafts stay private, and so do their photos.

The map follows you as you scroll. Get to day 3 and day 3’s markers light up.

The distance at the top follows the whole route, flights included. GPS glitches that put you in the Atlantic for a second are dropped. Anything you’d have needed to travel faster than 1,080 km/h to reach counts as a glitch. Sorry, Concorde.

Your photos stay at home

Visitors never talk to Immich. WordPress fetches each photo, caches it and serves it itself, so Immich and the original files stay private. It caches a trip’s photos in the background after a sync. The trip keeps working when Immich is down. A daily sweep deletes cached photos older than a number of days you choose, whether a trip still uses them or not, and they’re fetched again the next time someone looks.

Photos you upload to a trip keep their GPS in the original, but it’s stripped from every copy WordPress makes, and only those copies are ever sent. A trip can have a password, and you can let some logged-in people skip it.

Pin, hide, cover

Hover over a photo to pin it (always show it), hide it, or make it the trip’s cover. The rest of the day’s photos sit behind a “Show more photos” link.

On phones, those buttons show up after you press Edit photos as illustrated by the images below.

Tap a photo and it opens full screen. On a phone you swipe from one photo to the next, edge to edge. On a desktop there are arrows, and the arrow keys work too.

Try it

Here’s a demo in WordPress Playground. It’s a week in the west of Ireland, running in your browser that installs nothing. Stand-in Immich and Dawarich servers feed the real sync code with photos from Unsplash. You’re logged in as an admin, so press Sync, pin and hide photos, and edit the days in the block editor. It all disappears when you close the tab.

The code is on GitHub. To install it, download travel-steps.zip from the latest release and upload it under Plugins → Add New. It needs WordPress 6.7 and PHP 8.0. Immich and Dawarich are both optional. It has been submitted to WordPress.org but if you read this blog, you’ll know how to install a plugin from a zip file!

WpApp

Travel Steps is built on WpApp, Alex Kirk’s framework for building apps on top of WordPress.

A plugin usually adds screens to wp-admin, or puts its pages inside your theme and hopes the CSS gets along. A WpApp app gets its own URLs instead (/travel-steps/ here), and its pages are plain HTML with no theme in the way. WordPress still does the boring work: users and logins, roles, the block editor, the REST API, cron and the database. WpApp adds the bits in between:

URL routing, using WordPress rewrite rules,
pages that don’t load your theme,
the admin bar on every page, with the app’s own icon (the green map at the top of my screenshots),
access control using WordPress capabilities.

You can start one with composer create-project akirk/create-wp-app my-app. Alex has a showcase of apps built with it, including a cookbook and a family wiki.

Built with Claude Code

I wrote Travel Steps with Claude Code. The first commit was on 11 October, and there are many more now. Most of the work went round the same loop. I file an issue, Claude fixes it test-first on a branch and opens a pull request, and other agents review it. I deploy it to my own server and try it. The tests run in WordPress Playground too, the same as the demo.

If you run Immich, give it a whirl. Bug reports welcome on GitHub

Demo photos from Unsplash: Cliffs of Moher by Jarek Skowron, Temple Bar by Sarah, Galway by Daniel Zbroja and Anna Hunko, Kilronan by Jonathan Borba. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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