Cierra Clarke

Cierra Clarke moved from California to Twin Falls at the end of 2021 with no political record of any kind. The Twin Falls School District hired her as a substitute teacher in mid-2024 and fired her on October 6, 2025. Three days before the firing, the principal of Rock Creek Elementary and the district’s elementary programs director both asked police to trespass her from the building “due to her behavior and language inside the school,” and she was barred from the property for a year. That December she founded a Moms for Liberty chapter. Over the following months she filed 96 challenges against the district’s school library collections, after she and her husband had already pulled their own children out of the district. On June 15, 2026, eight months after the firing, she became chair and treasurer of Stop Idaho RINOs, the statewide PAC John Heida built.

Inside this dossier:

• The trespass order. Two school officials asked the Twin Falls Police Department to bar her from an elementary school over her conduct inside it. Idaho Education News obtained the police report and the body camera footage by records request.
• The anonymous complaint she made under a fake email address. She researched a district teacher by Googling him, then created an email address that was not hers to report him to his employer.
• 96 book challenges, each one attested as fully read. Idaho Education News put the page count at roughly 35,000 pages, about 583 hours of reading. Her answer was that she had read them “within my lifetime.”
• Her children were already gone. Per the Idaho Freedom Foundation, she and her husband withdrew their children from the district and homeschool them. She was challenging the libraries of schools her children no longer attended.
• Three party affiliations within days. She told a newspaper’s Facebook page she was a Democrat, told the reporter she was a registered independent, and the reporter checked her voter registration and found Republican. Four months later she took over a PAC whose stated purpose is exposing “Democrats running as Republicans.”
• The platform circuit that amplified her. Casey Whalen taught her public-records requests in December 2025. Between then and April 2026 she appeared on the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s video channel, a livestream with two sitting legislators, four podcasts, and Moms for Liberty’s national newsroom, and former IFF vice president Dustin Hurst listed her three-month-old county chapter alongside IFF itself.
• The PAC she inherited spends nothing. Stop Idaho RINOs spent $21,378.24 in 2024, roughly 54 percent of it to Heida’s own vendor company. Its 2026 filings show $0.00 through the June 2026 export, and the scorecard asset that gave it its reach now sits inside a private LLC selling sponsorships.

Who she is

Clarke was 34 as of February 2026, per Idaho Education News. She and her family moved to Twin Falls from California around the end of 2021. She said so herself on camera in a KMVT small-business feature on April 27, 2022, five months after arriving.

The business in that feature is Clarke Confections, a home bakery she started during the 2020 lockdowns in California and brought with her (KMVT). The Twin Falls School District hired her as a substitute teacher in mid-2024. She holds no degree. Stop Idaho RINOs’s own press release announcing her as chairperson describes her as “a dedicated mother, former aspiring teacher” who is “pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science” (Stop Idaho RINOs).

Nothing political precedes October 2025. Her own account of how she came to the movement puts the starting line there: “I didn’t even know what Moms for Liberty was” (Idaho Education News).

The October 2025 sequence

On October 1, 2025, Clarke created an email address that was not her own and used it to send the Twin Falls School District an anonymous complaint about a district teacher’s personal social media, which she had found by Googling him. She confirmed the fake address on the record to Idaho Education News. The district’s position, reported both by Idaho Education News and by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, was that the content predated the teacher’s employment and was protected speech.

The next day the district pulled her from all substitute shifts. On October 3 she met with Rock Creek Elementary principal Lisa Gebbie and the district’s elementary programs director, Nancy Murphy. After that meeting both women asked the Twin Falls Police Department to trespass her from the school. She was barred from the property for one year. Idaho Education News obtained the police report and the officers’ body camera footage by public-records request and reported the stated reason as her behavior and language inside the school. Her own version, given to IFF, is that she tried to show administrators a sexually explicit video in the school office and was told to get out.

The book challenges

Clarke filed her first learning-materials review form on December 9, 2025, nine weeks after she was fired. By the time Idaho Education News published on February 24, 2026, she had filed 96 challenges against Twin Falls School District library collections, plus 31 more the district returned to her for insufficient detail. Her method, by her own description, was to start from published lists of the most frequently banned books in the country and then check what Twin Falls libraries held, which is how Ready Player One, Wicked and A Game of Thrones ended up on the list.

Every form carries an attestation that she had “examined the entire resource.” Idaho Education News totaled the 95 books it reviewed at roughly 35,000 pages, about 583 hours of reading, or 24 days without stopping. The reporter asked her when she had read them.

Asked why she had never challenged a single title before the district fired her, she said: “I didn’t know about them… I had no idea. I didn’t even know what Moms for Liberty was” (Idaho Education News).

The campaign produced two removals and one restriction. Tricks and Traffick, both by Ellen Hopkins, came off the shelves, and The Freedom Writers Diary stayed in the high school while moving to parent permission at the middle school.

Producing that outcome cost the district 81 staff and parents sitting on 65 volunteer reading committees, plus $2,500 to hire a retired librarian to run the committee meetings. District communications director Eva Craner told Idaho Education News, “It is taking up a substantial amount of my time.” Her records requests reached a volume at which the district began demanding prepayment.

And the schools whose libraries she was challenging were no longer her children’s schools. Per the Idaho Freedom Foundation, her own allied outlet, she and her husband had withdrawn their children from the Twin Falls School District and now homeschool them. That was already true when IFF published on January 1, 2026, before the bulk of the challenges landed.

Which party she belongs to

In the same February 2026 investigation, Idaho Education News ran into a problem with her account of her own politics.

That is three descriptions of her own party inside the same reporting window, two of them from her. Four months later she took the chair of a PAC whose stated purpose, in its own X biography, is spotlighting “Democrats running as Republicans” (@stopidahorinos).

How she was amplified

She did the reaching out, and within eight weeks of her firing the movement’s platforms had her booked through the spring.

The first statewide platform was the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s video channel on December 3, 2025, in an episode titled “Nowhere To Hyde: Keeping Idaho Educators On Task” (Idaho Freedom TV). Two days later she joined a livestream with sitting Rep. Heather Scott and Sen. Tammy Nichols (livestream). On December 12 she sat for a video interview with North Idaho activist Casey Whalen (The Whalen Report). On January 1, 2026, IFF policy director Rachel Hazelip published a full article built on her account (Idaho Freedom Foundation). IFF now maintains a tag page for her.

Whalen taught her how to file public-records requests, and she said so in a testimonial he published on his own site.

Whalen put a date on the lessons himself when he posted a clip of their February 4, 2026 Liberty Roundtable appearance together, writing that “Clarke recently discovered how to conduct public record requests only two months ago” (@casey_whalen, February 4, 2026). That puts the instruction at roughly December 2025, the same month she began filing book challenges and founded the chapter.

Whalen’s own site and Substack carry a good deal more than records-request tutorials. On April 25, 2026 he wrote that “Dave Reilly host of The Backlash, featured Gavin McInnes, Ken Silva of Headline USA, Richard Spencer and Casey Whalen to discuss the recent Southern Poverty Law Center suit” (Casey Whalen, April 25, 2026). He runs that segment as the “Featured Video” on the homepage of his own site, northidahoexposed.com. Richard Spencer is the white nationalist who organized the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. Reilly attended Charlottesville too and has his own dossier on this site, and the two of them shared a stage in Idaho, which Whalen wrote up himself: “At the North Idaho Pachyderm Club last Friday, independent journalists @casey_whalen and @realDaveReilly spoke about the history of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations” (Casey Whalen, October 20, 2024). His portfolio page at northidahoexposed.com lists his own June 2024 footage of Nick Fuentes under the titles “Nick Fuentes Speech Outside TPUSA Event, Detroit, MI” and “America First Protest Outside TPUSA’s ‘The People’s Convention,’” both of which he flags as “Notable.” The same site carries his first-person account of a role in the People’s Rights network: “I’ve served as an Idaho State Assistant for the People’s Rights network.” In 2020 the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights profiled him as a People’s Rights Area 8 assistant and published his own Facebook post reading, “The LGBTQ movement is a serious mental illness problem…”

Whalen has not been charged with anything, and nothing above is a claim about what he believes. All of it comes from his own posts and his own site, and what it documents is the company he keeps and publishes.

The introduction to Whalen came through Twin Falls podcast host Billy Painter, who goes by “Bad Billy.” On a January 6, 2026 episode of Patriot Confederation, Painter told her on air, “you reached out to me, and I introduced you to people like Casey Whalen” (Truckers Independent Broadcasting Network). He hosted her on his own show at least twice more, on February 9 and March 23, 2026.

On the same January 6 episode, Painter asked her how she became the chapter leader. Her answer is the whole publicly available account of her recruitment: “working with a couple representatives in the state, you know, we’re kind of talking about how we can keep this going,” and then “there was two organizations that was recommended to me,” Moms for Liberty and Moms for America. She got in touch with Moms for Liberty and went through its interview process. She does not name the representatives.

The bookings continued. She appeared on the Cognitive Drift livestream on January 21, 2026. Moms for Liberty’s national newsroom promoted her school board testimony on January 28, 2026, calling her “our Twin Falls County, Idaho Chapter Chair.” Liberty Roundtable promoted that same February 4 segment the next day with her line, “I’m a terrorist, apparently” (@LibertyRoundTbl).

The clearest receipt is Dustin Hurst. The former IFF vice president and Idaho Freedom PAC director, posting as @DustinvEveryone, promoted and defended her four times between January and April 2026, and the full Dustin Hurst dossier covers his role in the network.

On January 28, 2026, three weeks before the Idaho Education News story, he posted a screenshot and tagged the Idaho State Police: “This sure sounds like libs want violence against Cierra. @ISPHeadquarters”

On March 16, 2026, he listed her three-month-old county chapter as a peer institution of the movement’s largest organizations: “Lauren now hates and wants you to hate: Idaho Freedom Foundation Idaho Freedom Action Stop Idaho RINOs Idaho Freedom PAC Honor Idaho Idaho Second Amendment Alliance Moms for Liberty Twin Falls People United for Privacy Foundation Maybe these groups arent the problem 🤔” The post drew 13 likes and 1,138 views.

The next day he defended her in a thread following a post by Maria Nate: “This is a swipe at Cierra because she learned how dishonest lauren is. Weird, that.” (March 17, 2026)

And on April 25, 2026, he tagged her X account into a group he named outright: “Allow me to introduce the family. We will speed, text while driving, and drive without a license. And you can’t do a damn thing to stop us. @realgreggd @M4LTwinFalls @HeatherLauer” The words are Hurst’s own, and Clarke’s account appears in the post only as a tag. The post drew roughly 1,519 views, and @stopidahorinos was among the accounts replying.

Her account, @M4LTwinFalls, which is not publicly readable, was tagged as hers by Hurst, by Whalen, by the Cognitive Drift host, and by her critics through at least mid-June 2026.

The handoff

Stop Idaho RINOs published a press release on June 16, 2026 under the dateline “Boise/Twin Falls, Idaho, June 15, 2026,” announcing that “effective June 15, 2026, Cierra Clarke of Twin Falls will become the new chairperson of the organization.” The release credits her Moms for Liberty chapter with having “blew the whistle on the Twin Falls School District School Board for using taxpayer dollars to advocate for RINOs,” and quotes her on the mission: “Slowly the Republican Party is being transitioned into a moderate, left-leaning organization where anything to the right of that is labeled as extremism” (Stop Idaho RINOs).

Heida gave his own reason for handing it over.

His own subscribers rejected it in the comment thread. One posting as “Retired” wrote, “I do not accept the reason given for your stepping aside.” Another, Steve Allmer, asked when it was actually happening (Stop Idaho RINOs).

The Idaho Secretary of State’s Sunshine portal now lists Clarke as both chairperson and treasurer of filer entity 34, Stop Idaho RINOs, an active state political committee (Idaho SOS Sunshine). She holds both offices. Heida’s name appears nowhere on the current registration. The PAC’s own website tracked the change, reading “John Heida Treasurer” through the February 12, 2026 capture and “Cierra Clarke Treasurer” by July 19, 2026.

The registration transferred, but the money stayed where it was.

Silo Hill Media, the vendor that collected roughly 54 percent of the PAC’s 2024 spending, kept billing after the handoff, and its address of record on the filings matches Heida’s own in every year it billed the PAC. The scorecard did not move with the registration either. voteswithdems.com, the dashboard the PAC built, carried a footer reading “Paid for by Stop Idaho RINOs · John Heida Treasurer” when it was captured on April 26, 2026, documented in The 80% Lie. By the May 13, 2026 archived capture it carried the copyright line of Floor Vote Holdings, LLC instead, with no “paid for by” disclaimer at all and an invitation to sponsor a state’s scorecard. Stop Idaho RINOs still links to it from its own navigation and from a footer block it labels “Great Third-Party Tools.” The full money trail, the vendor addresses, the two terminated Heida PACs that swept their balances into this one on December 31, 2025, and the Verastly and Floor Vote address collision are documented in the John Heida dossier.

Clarke is now chair and treasurer of a committee with a 22,000-subscriber Substack list, a 3,958-follower X account, and no reported money through the June 2026 export.

What she has done with it

Her output since June 15 comes to four Substack posts and a handful of X posts in three and a half months.

The first, on June 24, 2026, went after Sen. Ron Taylor, an actual Democrat in District 26. After that the PAC’s entire general-election program became opposition to Idaho’s 2026 Proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act on the November 3 ballot. The August 24 post shows the register the PAC used for it.

The September 8 post opens by conceding the ground: “Right now, Prop 1 is winning.” The account’s Prop 1 posts run from 2 to 17 likes.

The exception is local: on September 20 the PAC published a long research dump on Kevin Moxley, the independent candidate running against Rep. Clint Hostetler, casting him as a concealed Democrat on the strength of Twin Falls Democratic Central Committee contributions, convention attendance, and archival Facebook photographs. It closed with an explicit endorsement, “Vote @clintforidaho,” and it is the account’s best-performing post since the handoff at 41 likes, 15 reposts, and 1,184 views (@stopidahorinos). The longer Substack version names Indivisible Twin Falls and accuses the group of “staking out Magic Valley Airport on the off chance ICE shows up.”

Kevin Moxley co-founded Indivisible Twin Falls County, and he is also the local figure Idaho Education News quoted in its February 2026 story about her book challenges. Seven months later the PAC she chairs published a research file on him.

Three primary records sit in sequence around the Hostetler endorsement. An Idaho Sunshine contributor row for a “Cierra Clark” at her published business address shows $200 to MVLA PAC, the Magic Valley Liberty Alliance, on February 17, 2026, and no document on file ties the two spellings to one person. MVLA gave $1,000 to Clint Hostetler on April 12, 2026. In September the PAC she chairs told Magic Valley voters to elect him (Idaho SOS Sunshine). Clarke held no role at MVLA, and nothing in the filings shows her directing its spending. No other contributor row in any Idaho filing carries her name in either spelling.

No committee has ever paid her. Every Idaho expenditure filing from 2022 through 2026 shows zero payments to her from any committee (Idaho SOS Sunshine).

Which side of the split she is on

Idaho’s hard right fractured in 2024, and the fault line was Speaker Mike Moyle. Per InvestigateWest’s Daniel Walters on September 14, 2024, the Idaho Freedom Caucus and its majority backed Moyle, while State Freedom Caucus Network Idaho director Maria Nate treated him as a sellout. The national SFCN cut ties with the Idaho Freedom Caucus, telling Idaho Dispatch that co-chairs Heather Scott and Tammy Nichols “did not meet our standards to associate with the national brand.” Sens. Glenneda Zuiderveld and Cindy Carlson both resigned from the IFC. In September 2025 the Gang of Eight joined SFCN.

Her documented associations run to IFF, which interviewed her and built an article on her account, to Heida’s PAC, which she now chairs, and to MVLA PAC, whose money reached Gang of Eight members. The clearest evidence of where she landed is where her account turns up on the other camp’s enemy lists. Lauren Walker, the Idaho Freedom Caucus side’s primary female amplifier at roughly 43,000 followers, enumerated the opposing bloc twice in the spring of 2026 and put @M4LTwinFalls in it both times. The April 26, 2026 version ran 17 likes and 952 views. On May 6, 2026 she named the whole bloc out loud, for 12 likes, 5 reposts and 936 views: “The Conductor of the Wanker Wheel is MariaHatesVeterans @MariaOlsenNate Here’s the rest of it: @stopidahorinos Heida Dairy Association @gregapruett Art @HeatherLauer @DustinvEveryone @M4LTwinFalls @ZitoFor83207 @Zglennevere…” Both lists put Clarke’s account in the same enumerated group as Stop Idaho RINOs, Greg Pruett, Dustin Hurst, Maria Nate, Christy Zito and Glenneda Zuiderveld, two months before she was handed the PAC.

Walker belongs to the rival faction and attacks everyone in Clarke’s camp. Across five dated posts between April and June 2026, her line on Clarke specifically is that Clarke is beneath notice. On April 2, 2026, in a post seen 40 times, she wrote: “Cierra hasn’t done shit. She tattled on some [anti-gay slur in the original] teacher who made public videos she didn’t like and got herself fired. She’s an actual nobody.” Earlier that same day she had aimed five words at Clarke herself and picked up 84 views.

A month later Walker questioned whether the chapter had approval from its own national organization at all: “LMAOOOOO $10 says Sierra didn’t even get @Moms4Liberty approval here.” (May 6, 2026) At 14 likes and 1,832 views that is her most-seen post on Clarke, and she misspells the name in it. She misspelled it again on May 19, 2026, in a post seen 25 times: “I hope he isn’t talking to that lunatic Sierra the fired sub who’s now moms for liberty? That chick belongs in a psych ward.” The day after the handoff she posted, “Everyone: ‘John super fucked up SIR the last 2 years’ Cierra: ‘hold my beer’” (June 16, 2026, 12 likes, 1 repost, 1 quote, 3 replies, 770 views).

Walker’s following runs more than ten times the PAC’s, and her verdict is that Clarke is a nobody. The people on record vouching for Clarke are the ones this site documents at length: Dustin Hurst, who listed her chapter beside the Idaho Freedom Foundation and tagged her into what he called “the family,” and Casey Whalen, whose publications are described above.

Doubt came from her own side as well. Subscribers pushed back in the comment thread under the PAC’s own announcement post, documented above, one of them writing, “I do not accept the reason given for your stepping aside.” Nine days after the handoff, an unaffiliated critic on the right read the succession the same way Walker’s camp did.

The aggression in this record is aimed at Clarke rather than coming from her. Her own account is not publicly readable, so there is nothing to read on her side of it, and she has not answered any of it.

What makes her unusual is that she carries receipts on both sides of a split that almost nobody crosses. She sat for Casey Whalen and appeared on a livestream with Heather Scott and Tammy Nichols, all of them on the Freedom Caucus side, while taking the IFF interview and then chairing Heida’s PAC on the other.

The same crossing shows up inside her own camp. In February 2026 she testified in support of Rep. Judy Boyle’s H 745. Stop Idaho RINOs, the PAC she now chairs, had published a post attacking Boyle the previous September under the headline “Judy Boyle: D Ratings, F Votes, and Broken Trust” (Stop Idaho RINOs).

What she testified for

Her legislative work in the 2026 session had nothing to do with libraries.

On February 25, 2026, “Cierra Clarke, Moms for Liberty-Twin Falls County” testified in support of H 745, Boyle’s bill barring public employers from letting taxpayer funds promote government unions. She testified alongside the Idaho Family Policy Center, Americans for Prosperity, the Freedom Foundation, Mountain States Policy Center, National Right to Work, and the Idaho Republican Party. The Idaho Education Association, the Idaho State AFL-CIO, IBEW Local 77, the Vallivue Education Association and Bonneville Joint School District 93 opposed it. House Commerce and Human Resources sent it out on a do-pass vote of 8 to 6 (committee minutes).

On March 4 she testified for H 794, which would have counted political-protest absences as unexcused. It died in House Education on a 7 to 7 vote (committee minutes).

Three months after founding a school-focused parents’ chapter, she was in a commerce committee working an anti-union bill with the state party and three national free-market organizations.

Connected pages

• John Heida dossier, who built Stop Idaho RINOs, fabricated the Playboy cover of a sitting Republican legislator, handed Clarke the registration on June 15, 2026, and kept the vendor company and the scorecard
• Dustin Hurst dossier, the former IFF vice president who promoted and defended her four times and listed her county chapter alongside IFF itself
• Greg Pruett dossier, who authored the July 2025 denunciation that maps the split Clarke landed inside
• Maria Nate dossier, State Freedom Caucus Network’s Idaho director and a recurring monthly donor to Stop Idaho RINOs through 2025
• The 80% Lie investigation, the methodology behind the scorecard that left the PAC before she took it over
• Idaho Freedom Foundation organization page
• The Propaganda Network organization page

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