Getting custom post types to properly display alphabetically

as ChrisL said in the comments, you should add order and orderby to your arguments :

 $args = array(
       'post_type' => 'totem',
       'posts_per_page' => -1,
       'orderby' => 'title',
       'order' => 'ASC'
    );

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