Dossiers
Inside the network.
Primary-source dossiers on the operators who run Idaho's extreme-politics network and the legislators and candidates aligned with it. Each dossier is a focused exposure: who they are, who pays them, what they have done, how they fit into the apparatus — with receipts. New dossiers publish on a continuous cadence as the substrate clears review.
Caldwell Republican who used a state senator's microphone to threaten litigation against a volunteer school board, lost 2024 to Camille Blaylock by 129 votes, and is back for a 2026 rematch.
Charlottesville. Identity Evropa. Sines v. Kessler. The Idaho Freedom Foundation hired him anyway. He hosts a podcast that minimizes the Holocaust on his own platform.
California transplant. Idaho voters declined to elevate him three times. Called ICE on a Republican legislator's farm. Helped elect a Democrat over the GOP nominee. Now Ada County GOP Vice Chair.
Triple chair: Kootenai County GOP, IFF board, IDGOP Rules Committee. The body that scores legislators, the body that endorses challengers, and the body that writes the rules — one chairman.
Three failed primaries. Idaho Supreme Court ordered him to pay $127K for suing a woman over a $460 ER bill. Then he authored the petition that forced his RNC predecessor to resign — and took the seat.
98.6% IFF Freedom Index lifetime. Oath Keepers member per AP. Sued a Republican strategist for defamation; case collapsed at summary judgment. Full court-record archive: chadchristensen.org.
I2AA Political Director and Board Member in Pruett's network. Five Pruett surfaces promote her. 2024 YAL Conference attendee. Worked at I2AA during her 2022-2024 hiatus.
CAA paid him $195K in 2024. VA delegate Nick Freitas drew $161K. CAA PAC 2026 donor profile: over 72% from a Pennsylvania gaming-machine maker. Fired from YAL Jan 2021.
First bill: $250M private-school voucher scheme. Voted to ask SCOTUS to overturn same-sex marriage. Chemtrails activist. Two $881 tax liens recorded against him in 2025 while sitting in office.
Magic Valley Miracle Four. 2024 freshman who defeated incumbent Greg Lanting. Voted against HB 445 water stewardship in his irrigated-ag district. Attended Old State Saloon opening.
Relieved of command by the Idaho National Guard for 'counterproductive leadership.' Sued claiming Christian persecution. Federal court dismissed the suit. Then announced for Senate.
IFF board member. Citizens Alliance personal donor. $1M Idaho Supreme Court judgment. 2016 AG misdemeanor settlement on an undisclosed PAC contribution. Covertly recorded Idaho's GOP chair.
An Idaho judge granted a three-year civil stalking injunction against him in late 2023 after a hearing. He still moves the money for Idaho Freedom PAC.
First-term Republican who defeated sitting House Majority Leader Megan Blanksma by 221 votes in the May 2024 primary. Scores 94.7% on IFF's 2026 loyalty index. Christy Zito's D8 House counterpart.
Six federal and state tax liens. $127,000 in unpaid taxes between 2006 and 2013. And a current voting record built on the rhetoric of fiscal restraint and lower taxes for everyone else.
Operates six Idaho-focused content surfaces under one identity. Admitted under oath to publishing an article under his own name that someone else wrote. Admitted under oath to lying in proceedings.
His PAC fabricated a Playboy cover with the face of a sitting Republican legislator who chaired the House Education Committee. Distributed it at primary scale. She lost.
Magic Valley Miracle Four. Twin Falls engineer who beat three-term legislator Linda Wright Hartgen in 2024. Voted against HB 445 water funding. MVLA slate. Paired with Rep. David Leavitt.
Founding member of the Idaho Freedom Caucus. Former House Republican running a District 31 rematch against the incumbent budget-writer. Backed by Citizens Alliance of Idaho.
Lost 4 elections (2010, 2012, 2014, 2022). Won in 2024 vs incumbent Yamamoto, 3x more money raised. Now scores 94.8% on IFF's 2026 loyalty index. Playbook in action.
Caldwell Republican scoring 97.5% on IFF's 2026 loyalty index. Won the 2024 primary by 39 votes as Marmon's paired partner on the same out-of-state pipeline.
Per InvestigateWest's reporting on a leaked tape, Nate transmitted YAL's $1.1M Idaho funding threat to a sitting senator. 16 Idaho legislators walked away the next day. She kept her job.
Eagle saloon owner. Hosted a festival where featured speakers called Idaho's Jewish population 'far too high' and Boise 'clean — no black people.' Rewarded a GOP officer for weaponizing ICE.
Twice unseated by his own party — by 159 votes in 2018, 36 votes in 2022. Now IFF's face. Authored the byline that pre-installed the anti-Guthrie attack 22 months before Worley filed.
Lost his 2024 primary by 613 votes. Called a teenage incest-rape victim's required pregnancy 'an opportunity.' His Republican-led committee rejected the bill 1-8. Returning chair candidate 2026.