About
Why this site exists.
Idaho politics has a documentation problem. A small network of donors, operators, and legislators has accumulated disproportionate influence over state policy while operating behind a wall of propaganda-network amplifiers, coordinated narratives, and dark-money pipelines that most voters cannot trace.
IdahoExtremism.org is the public-facing record. We document who is doing what, who pays for it, how the money moves, and how the narrative machine manufactures consensus. Every claim on this site is anchored to primary-source evidence. Court records, campaign-finance filings, legislative votes, infrastructure records, and contemporaneous news reporting.
What we mean by “extremism.”
Extremism is not defined by ideology. People are entitled to hold rigid beliefs — about religion, about guns, about abortion, about the Constitution, about who belongs in a community. Disagreement is not the problem. A community can hold a wide range of views and still function.
Extremism is what happens when someone is so committed to a rigid belief that they reject any other viewpoint and use abusive, harmful, or coercive tactics to silence anyone in their way. 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. The receipts we publish here are about that — the abusive enforcement of a rigid ideology, not the ideology itself.
The framing comes directly from the editorial standard set out in Gregory Graf’s Definitive Guide to Idaho Extremism: holding a belief is not extremism; using abusive tactics to enforce that belief on people who disagree with you is extremism. Every dossier and investigation on this site is built around that distinction. We document the conduct. The reader judges the ideology.
What this site is.
- A primary-source archive. Every assertion is linked to a verifiable record. If we cannot prove it, we hold it.
- A growing record. Dossiers and investigations get updated as new evidence lands. We version everything and show dates.
- A connection map. The power in Idaho’s extreme-politics network sits in the connections, not just the individuals. We document both.
- A tool for voters, journalists, and researchers. The goal is to help people make informed judgments about the public record.
Who built this.
Site created by Gregory Graf, founder of Snake River Strategies . SRS is an Idaho-based political research and strategic communications firm with nearly a decade of direct experience documenting the network profiled here. Research, development, and data processing run on the SRS in-house intelligence platform.
Graf also publishes Political Potatoes and operates IdahoVoters.com, the long-running Idaho political-accountability platforms that supply much of the primary-source reporting cited throughout this site.
This site is the public-facing visualization of that work. The internal research and editorial process stays internal. What appears here is the output, with primary sources cited at the point of use.
Financial disclosure.
This site is paid for by Take Back Idaho PAC. David High, Treasurer. All content is produced in accordance with Idaho campaign-finance disclosure law.
Contact.
Tips, corrections, and inquiries: contact page. We read every message. Corrections are published with date-stamped revision notes on the relevant page.