Why I built this.

Here’s the problem. A pretty small group of donors, operators, and legislators has ended up with a huge amount of control over Idaho policy. They run their operation behind a wall of websites, PACs, and dark-money pipelines that most Idahoans have no way to trace. That’s the thing I’m trying to fix.

IdahoExtremism.org is the public record of how the whole thing works. Who’s doing what. Who’s paying for it. How the money moves. How the narrative side manufactures the fake consensus.

Here’s what I mean by “extremism.”

Believing something hard isn’t extremism. Plenty of Idahoans hold strong views on religion, guns, abortion, the Constitution, or who belongs in a community, and don’t hurt anybody over it. Disagreement isn’t the problem. A community can hold a wide range of views and still function fine.

Extremism is what happens when somebody’s so locked in on a belief that they start using abusive tactics to shut down anyone who disagrees. Doxxing. Stalking. Posting a political opponent’s Social Security number on official channels. Targeting an opponent’s children. Steering homeless families to a rival’s event as political theater. Recording private conversations without consent and weaponizing the audio. Threatening journalists, family members, and elected officials with mob action at their homes. This site is about the conduct — the abusive enforcement of a belief, not the belief itself.

The framing comes straight out of my Definitive Guide to Idaho Extremism on Political Potatoes: holding a belief isn’t extremism, using abusive tactics to force that belief on people who disagree with you is. Every dossier and investigation on this site is built around that distinction.

Who built this.

I’m Gregory Graf, founder of Snake River Strategies , an Idaho-based political research and strategic communications firm. I’ve spent close to a decade on the network profiled on this site.

I also publish Political Potatoes and run IdahoVoters.com.

Contact.

Tips, corrections, and inquiries: contact page.