Brent Regan

Brent Regan chairs the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, sits as Board Chair of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, and chairs the Idaho Republican Party’s Rules Committee. The IFF scores every Idaho legislator on the Freedom Index. The KCRCC endorses the candidates who go after Republicans who score badly. The IDGOP Rules Committee writes the procedural rules that govern the contests. The same person sits at the head of all three.

Inside this dossier:

Triple chair node. KCRCC Chairman since 2016, IFF Board Chair, IDGOP Rules Committee Chair. The scoring body, the endorsing body, and the rules-writing body all answer to the same chairman.
The Dave Reilly chapter. KCRCC under Regan endorsed Reilly’s 2021 Post Falls School Board run after Reilly’s Charlottesville record was already public. KCRCC paid Idaho Dynamics LLC (a Reilly-connected ad firm, per CDA Press) $11,000 in spring 2022. Reilly was retained as an IFF communications contractor in 2023. Regan publicly defended Reilly across multiple outlets when the hire was reported.
November 15, 2024 SOS fine. KCRCC under Chairman Regan was fined $1,000 by the Idaho Secretary of State for two violations: improperly reporting an expenditure (Idaho Code 67-6610A) and exceeding the contribution limit to a candidate (Idaho Code 67-6607).
KCRCC v. Gookin lawsuit. First plaintiff lawsuit KCRCC filed during Regan’s chairmanship — against Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin, a public Regan critic. Case CV28-23-6601, Idaho First Judicial District Court.
2018 Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens shell. Per Idaho SOS scanned filings, the committee’s June 2018 termination report listed a single itemized donor: Doyle Beck, $6,129, on May 8, 2018 — three weeks before the May primary.
2026 KCRCC voter guide stamped under the Idaho Republican Party PAC. Per the IDGOP-PAC voter guide PDF, page 3 directs voters to kootenaifreedomcaucus.org — the website of the organized 70-candidate KCRCC slate Regan and his allies are running for May 2026 primary precinct-committee seats.

Who he is

Brent Regan moved from Davis, California to Coeur d’Alene with his wife Moura in 1999. Per the October 5, 2017 BuzzFeed News profile by Anne Helen Petersen, he holds an associate’s degree in electrical engineering from a community college, identifies as a Mensa member, and operates Regan Designs, an engineering-consulting firm at 6100 E. Borley Road in Coeur d’Alene. The 2012 North Idaho Business Journal profile and the IFF board biography credit him with eleven U.S. patents; the Regan Designs profiles.htm page lists six.

He served briefly on the Coeur d’Alene School Board, appointed mid-term in December 2012 and defeated in the May 2013 election by Christa Hazel, 63 percent to 37 percent. He has not run for elected office since. His political work runs through the party machinery, the IFF board, and the columns he writes weekly in the Coeur d’Alene Press under the standing rubric “Common Sense.”

The triple-chair power node

The triple chairmanship sits in one person:

Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Chairman since 2016. The KCRCC is composed of precinct committeemen from 74 Kootenai County neighborhoods. The chairman runs the rating and endorsement process that produces the slate of candidates the local party recommends.
Idaho Freedom Foundation · Board Chair. Per the IFF board page, Regan chairs the board of the foundation that publishes the Idaho Freedom Index — the legislative-scoring system that grades every Idaho Republican every session and produces the loyalty number used downstream by the primary challengers.
Idaho Republican Party · Rules Committee Chair. Per Political Potatoes’ coverage of the 2026 winter IDGOP meeting, Regan chairs the IDGOP Rules Committee — the body that writes the procedural rules governing how Idaho Republicans nominate candidates, censure members, and run their conventions.

The same chairman controls the body that grades legislators, the body that recruits and endorses primary challengers against legislators who score poorly, and the body that writes the rules of the contest those primaries run inside.

The Dave Reilly chapter

Dave Reilly is a former Pennsylvania radio host who attended the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. Per InvestigateWest reporting by Daniel Walters and Idaho Capital Sun, Reilly attended the rally wearing a pin with the logo of Identity Evropa — an organization that the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center classify as a white-supremacist group, and which Walters and Idaho Capital Sun characterize as neo-Nazi. Per the Daily Item of Sunbury, PA, Reilly was suspended from his Pennsylvania radio job after his post-rally drone-footage video and supporting tweets sparked advertiser flight; he then resigned.

Per the public KCRCC News compilation citing the Sines v. Kessler federal civil trial transcript, Charlottesville organizer Jason Kessler identified Discord user “Davey Crockett” as Dave Reilly under oath during the November 15, 2021 trial proceedings.

By 2020 Reilly had moved to North Idaho. The KCRCC under Regan’s chairmanship endorsed Reilly’s 2021 Post Falls School Board run. He lost. Per Take Back Idaho, the organization later published an archive of more than 5,000 of Reilly’s deleted tweets — including 2019 and 2020 posts using Holocaust-denial language and antisemitic framings.

The 2022 plan to install Reilly as Kootenai Democratic Party Chair

Per Idaho Capital Sun’s March 10, 2022 reporting by Audrey Dutton, then-KCRCC Youth Chair Dan Bell was recorded by a third party describing a plan in which Republicans would register as Democrats, become Democratic precinct chairs in 73 Kootenai County precincts, and vote Reilly in as Kootenai Democratic Party Chair. On the recording, Bell described the planned Democratic Chair as “a guy that they call racist, antisemitic, Holocaust denier.”

Per the same report, Bell stated on the recording that Regan was “totally on board” with the plan and that Regan came up with the specific idea to install Reilly as the Kootenai Democratic Party Chair. The recording is the source for the attribution; KCRCC has not publicly produced a contrary account from Regan beyond general denial.

On March 10, 2022, Reilly registered as a Democrat and filed for a Democratic precinct-captain position. On March 25, 2022, per CDA Press reporting, Reilly filed as a Democratic gubernatorial write-in candidate.

The KCRCC → Idaho Dynamics LLC payment chain

Per the Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine campaign-finance database, KCRCC paid Idaho Dynamics LLC three line items totaling $11,000 in spring 2022:

Date	Amount	Recipient	Purpose (per filing)
March 30, 2022	$5,000	Idaho Dynamics LLC	Operations
March 30, 2022	$1,000	Idaho Dynamics LLC	Operations
April 29, 2022	$5,000	Idaho Dynamics LLC	Ads — Prep / Production

Per InvestigateWest’s reporting by Daniel Walters and contemporaneous CDA Press coverage of the same money chain, Idaho Dynamics LLC has been described as a Wyoming-registered ad firm tied to Reilly’s operations and shares a mailing address with Reilly’s campaign and personal websites.

The 2023 IFF Director-of-Communications hire

In December 2023, InvestigateWest’s Daniel Walters and Idaho Capital Sun reported that the Idaho Freedom Foundation had retained Reilly as a contractor doing communications and messaging strategy work. Per Walters’s reporting, IFF Vice President Alli Megal described the engagement to InvestigateWest as “some work for us for comms” and “just a contractor”; asked whether the board knew, Megal told Walters “of course.”

In January 2024, an open letter signed by 30 faith leaders and elected officials called on IFF to disavow Reilly. Per Take Back Idaho’s reporting, IFF — whose board Regan chairs — declined.

Regan’s documented defenses

Regan’s responses to the IFF-Reilly story were reported across Spokane Public Radio, Idaho Capital Sun, Sandpoint Reader, CDA Press, and East Idaho News. Two of his statements were quoted directly:

The first statement is a refusal to engage the substance of Reilly’s documented record. The second is a deflection from the board chair’s role to the staff president’s identity. Across the contemporaneous coverage, none of Regan’s public statements addressed Reilly’s record on its merits.

The 2026 KCRCC antisemitism resolution

On the evening of January 28, 2026, the KCRCC voted on Resolution 2025-1010, “A Resolution Condemning Antisemitic Disinformation and Defending Truth and Civic Integrity,” sponsored by KCRCC member Daniel Fry. The resolution passed 37–31.

The next day, Reilly responded on his publicly distributed Backlash Podcast by attacking the resolution and its supporters. The episode is archived at truthrevealed.news under the title “Yet Another Anti-Antisemitism Resolution Passed By Local Zionist Republicans?” Reilly’s response included direct denials of the historical Holocaust death toll and personal attacks on the KCRCC members who voted for the resolution. We are not reproducing those statements here. The episode’s existence and content are part of the public record at the link above.

The point for this dossier is the chain of custody: Reilly is the figure whose Charlottesville record under oath, deleted-tweet archive, KCRCC-endorsed school-board run, IFF communications contract, and ongoing antisemitic broadcast catalog have been documented for years across InvestigateWest, Idaho Capital Sun, CDA Press, Spokane Public Radio, the Sines v. Kessler trial, the 30-faith-leaders letter, and now the public record of his own podcast. The KCRCC under Regan’s chairmanship endorsed him. The IFF board under Regan’s chairmanship retained him.

The Brittany Pettibone / Sellner resolution

Per Political Potatoes’ “The Martyrs of North Idaho” aggregating contemporaneous Spokesman-Review (May 1, 2019) and CDA Press (May 5, 2019) coverage, an April 25, 2019 KCRCC meeting passed a resolution petitioned by Brittany Pettibone urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to restore travel privileges for Martin Sellner, an Austrian Identitarian-movement figure and Pettibone’s then-fiancé. Per the Martin Sellner Wikipedia entry drawing on Austrian press reporting, Austrian authorities searched Sellner’s home in March 2019 in connection with a $1,500 donation he received from Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant in early 2018.

Regan was KCRCC Chairman at the time the resolution was tabled and passed. Per the same aggregated coverage, Regan’s contemporaneous public response emphasized that the committee “condemns all forms of racism and bigotry.”

The KCRCC v. Gookin lawsuit

In October 2023, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee filed suit as plaintiff against Dan Gookin, a Coeur d’Alene City Councilman and a documented Regan critic. The case is on file as CV28-23-6601, Idaho First Judicial District Court. Per local press coverage, this is the first civil lawsuit KCRCC filed as plaintiff during Regan’s chairmanship.

Per Political Potatoes summarizing court filings, the suit was funded through a separate KCRCC Legal Defense Fund account whose donations are not reported through the KCRCC PAC’s Idaho Sunshine filings. The court docket is the source for the case caption, parties, and the funding-account references in the pleadings.

Per the same docket, Regan sat for a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition as the KCRCC corporate representative on June 25, 2024. Per a third-party catalog of the case at riggedredcard.com — which itself sources the page citation to the deposition transcript — Regan testified that he took the rating and vetting ballots home the night of the count. The deposition transcript filed in the case docket, not summaries of it, is the primary source for those statements; readers pulling the docket can verify the testimony directly.

The November 2024 Idaho SOS fine

On November 15, 2024, the Idaho Secretary of State’s office issued a $1,000 fine to the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee under two statutes:

Idaho Code §67-6607 — exceeding the contribution limit to a candidate
Idaho Code §67-6610A — improperly reporting an expenditure

The fine is independently confirmed by two sources. First, the Idaho SOS Sunshine public records on KCRCC. Second, an Idaho Dispatch article by Greg Pruett published January 21, 2025, itself based on a public-records request to the Idaho SOS that returned the full 2024 fines list. The Dispatch piece reproduces the fine date, amount, and statute citations.

The same November 15, 2024 enforcement batch fined the Idaho Freedom Caucus PAC $750 for an Idaho Code §67-6610A reporting violation. Both PACs share treasurer continuity per the prior Sunshine filings. Two organizations in Regan’s network received Idaho SOS fines on the same day.

The 2018 Concerned Citizens / Beck single-donor receipt

A separately registered Idaho committee, the Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens (a name that mirrors the KCRCC acronym), filed a June 14, 2018 termination report with the Idaho Secretary of State. Per that filing:

The committee’s treasurer was David O. Jensen III, 720 N. Coles Loop, Post Falls.
Period contributions: $6,149, of which $20 was unitemized.
The single Schedule A itemized contributor on the termination filing was Doyle H. Beck, 2658 W. 4th Street, Idaho Falls — $6,129 on May 8, 2018.
The committee dissolved with $0 ending cash.

The May 8, 2018 contribution date is three weeks before the May 22, 2018 Idaho primary. The committee terminated the same cycle. Per Petersen’s 2017 BuzzFeed profile, an earlier Concerned-Citizens-style entity was funded with Regan-network money in 2012; the 2018 termination filing is the documentary paper record of an East Idaho → North Idaho money pipe inside the IFF network. The committee’s treasurer was a Post Falls resident, not Regan; Regan does not appear as filer or treasurer on the termination report.

State and federal campaign finance

Per Idaho SOS Sunshine, Brent Regan personally contributed $95,816 across 96 line items to Idaho state campaigns and PACs between January 2020 and December 2023. The largest recipients are KCRCC itself and a group of IFF-aligned candidates and committees:

Date	Recipient	Amount
2022-07-28	KCRCC	$10,500
2023-11-07	KCRCC	$10,000
2021-12-01	KCRCC	$10,000
2021-07-05	Priscilla Giddings — Lt. Governor	$5,000
2021-06-24	Mary Souza — Secretary of State	$5,000
2021-02-09	Arthur Macomber — Attorney General	$5,000
2023-01-27	Canyon County RCC	$4,803
2021-06-30	Janice McGeachin — Governor	$4,000
2022-05-03	Idaho Freedom PAC	$3,000

Per the Federal Election Commission database, Regan personally contributed $99,432 across 81 federal records between 2009 and 2025, concentrated in the Idaho Republican Party (multiple cycles), Trump-aligned committees in 2020, Bryan Smith for Congress (2022 cycle), and incumbent-protection committees for Russ Fulcher and Jim Risch.

After the November 2024 KCRCC fine, Regan’s documented Idaho state-level personal contributions go quiet. Idaho SOS Sunshine returns no Brent Regan state-level contributions for calendar year 2024, calendar year 2025, or 2026 cycle-to-date through the database’s most recent update.

The KCRCC vendor record

KCRCC’s PAC outflows during Regan’s chairmanship include two notable vendor relationships:

McShane LLC — a Las Vegas-based political-consulting firm operated by Rory McShane and rebranded as Revolutionizing Microtargeted Campaigns (RMC) in late 2024. Per Take Back Idaho’s investigative report and Idaho SOS Sunshine, McShane LLC’s profile shows roughly $313,737 across all Idaho clients and 116 line items. KCRCC paid McShane LLC a net $45,876 directly. KCRCC-endorsed candidates’ own committees added more than $100,000 in additional payments to the same firm.

Idaho Dynamics LLC — the $11,000 chain documented above in the Reilly section.

KCRCC’s local vendor stack also includes substantial venue spending at the Coeur d’Alene Resort: $52,570 (2023), $48,842 (2022), $38,964 (2021), per Idaho SOS Sunshine.

The institutional damage tally

Three local institutions in Kootenai County have been reshaped by KCRCC-endorsed candidate slates during Regan’s chairmanship.

North Idaho College. The KCRCC-endorsed trustee majority drove the firing of the college president without cause, settling for approximately $500,000 per local press coverage. NIC’s accreditor, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, placed the college on a show-cause sanction. Per CDA Press reporting, NIC retained attorney D. Colton Boyles at $275/hour and attorney Art Macomber at $325/hour after Macomber donated to the campaigns of three KCRCC-endorsed trustees. The college had three presidents in five years.

Lakeland Joint School District. Per local press, the KCRCC-endorsed slate that took the Lakeland board produced four superintendents in six years, a board-clerk resignation, and a taxpayer-paid superintendent buyout reported above $200,000.

Community Library Network. Per CDA Press, the KCRCC-endorsed CLN board majority dissolved the 40-year regional library consortium covering Kootenai and Shoshone counties.

The slate was endorsed by KCRCC under Regan’s chairmanship, and the institutional outcomes are on the public record. The reader can draw the inference.

The February 2025 town hall and the missing security footage

Per Political Potatoes’ multi-part coverage, KCRCC held a public-invited town hall in February 2025 at a Coeur d’Alene public-school auditorium. Per the same coverage, Regan announced at the event that “this is actually a private event.” A confrontation between attendees and a private security crew operating under the LEAR trade name resulted in physical force used against attendee Teresa Borrenpohl. Coeur d’Alene Police opened an investigation.

Per the Political Potatoes coverage, Regan told CdA Police investigators that the town-hall security footage was “corrupted, incomplete, or didn’t exist.” Per subsequent coverage of the search-warrant return, fourteen raw video files from the event were recovered when police executed a search warrant on the relevant device or storage system. Per the same series, charges were ultimately filed against the LEAR security operators.

The Political Potatoes coverage relies in turn on local police-records filings and CDA Press reporting; readers should treat the Political Potatoes pieces as the gathering and citation method, not as the underlying source.

The 2026 KCRCC voter guide and the IDGOP-PAC mailing

Per the Idaho Republican Party PAC voter guide PDF and the KCRCC voter guide page, the 2026 KCRCC voter guide was distributed under the Idaho Republican Party PAC mailing imprint in spring 2026. Page 3 of the voter guide directs voters to kootenaifreedomcaucus.org, a website hosting an organized 70-candidate KCRCC slate running in the May 2026 primary for precinct-committee seats.

The Idaho Republican Party’s chair, Dorothy Moon, was nominated for that office by Regan from the floor of the 2022 Idaho GOP convention per Idaho Reports / Idaho Public Television reporting. The state party’s chair signed off on a state-party-PAC-funded mailing that, on page 3, points voters to the website of the chairman’s organized internal-slate primary operation.

That is on the record in two PDFs and a website. The reader can compare the imprint on page 1 to the URL on page 3.

Where he sits in the network

Regan is the structural pivot of the IFF network in northern Idaho. He chairs the foundation that produces the legislator scorecards. He chairs the county committee that endorses the candidates who challenge legislators who score badly. He chairs the state party’s rules committee that governs the contests. He has been the chair of the KCRCC for ten years; he has chaired the IFF board across the same period; the IDGOP rules-chair role is the most recent addition.

His personal contribution to the network’s operating model is documented:

A documented refusal to disavow Dave Reilly across multiple outlets at the time of the 2023 IFF hiring story.
A documented KCRCC vendor payment chain to Idaho Dynamics LLC in 2022.
A documented November 15, 2024 SOS fine on KCRCC for two campaign-finance statute violations under his chairmanship.
A documented chairmanship role in the April 2019 KCRCC resolution backing the visa-restoration petition for Martin Sellner.
A documented chairmanship role in the October 2023 KCRCC v. Gookin civil filing.
A documented chairmanship role in the 2026 IDGOP-PAC-imprint voter guide directing voters to the Kootenai Freedom Caucus internal-slate URL.

The KCRCC’s Lincoln Day 2026 keynote selection — Matt Gaetz, after the House Ethics Committee’s findings on him — is the most recent receipt for the operating model. Per Spokesman-Review reporting from February 27, 2026 and contemporaneous CDA Press coverage, Regan publicly stated he had not read the House Ethics Committee report; asked why, he is quoted as saying he didn’t have a good reason to read it. The full-committee KCRCC vote on the keynote selection was bypassed, and reconsideration motions were blocked without discussion.

Connected pages

Idaho Freedom Foundation organization page, the board he chairs
Doyle Beck dossier, East Idaho IFF-board ally and the single itemized donor on the 2018 Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens termination filing
Bryan Smith dossier, IFF Vice Chair and the funding-partner pair with Beck on multiple PACs
Ron Nate dossier, IFF President under the board Regan chairs
Greg Pruett dossier, Idaho Dispatch operator whose January 2025 records-request piece independently confirmed the November 2024 KCRCC SOS fine
Dustin Hurst dossier, longtime IFF strategist now at Idaho Family Policy Center
Propaganda Network organization page, the amplifier infrastructure
Follow the Money investigation, the funding-pipeline trace

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