Clinton Hostetler

Rep. Clint Hostetler arrived in the Idaho House on December 1, 2024 as part of the Magic Valley Miracle Four — the four legislators backed by Citizens Alliance of Idaho, on the YAL Conference roster, recruited through Magic Valley Liberty Alliance. His first bill as a freshman was a $250 million private-school voucher scheme. He voted to ask SCOTUS to overturn same-sex marriage. Two $881 tax liens were recorded against him in 2025 while he sat in office. Twin Falls voters got a chemtrails activist who votes against his district’s irrigated-agriculture interest.

Inside this dossier:

• HB1 — the $250 million voucher scheme as his first freshman bill. $9,500 per student refundable tax credit for private-school tuition; “any other expense reasonably related to K-12 academic instruction”; nonpublic schools forbidden from state oversight.
• HJM1 — voted yes to ask SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell. Idaho House passed the resolution 46-24 on January 27, 2025; Hostetler spoke in support on the floor.
• Two $881 tax liens recorded against him in 2025 — September 8 and November 10 — while sitting in office. Public-record filings against “HOSTETLER,CLINT” at his Twin Falls home address, returned in a TruthFinder public-records report pulled April 2026.
• Magic Valley Miracle Four placement. Came in alongside Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld, Sen. Josh Kohl, and Rep. David Leavitt. All four attended the 2024 YAL Conference together. All four were CAI-funded.
• Voted against HB 445 — the 2025 water-stewardship bill that would have funded Magic Valley aquifer recharge. Twin Falls runs on irrigated agriculture. The vote against the district interest is what out-of-state primary money buys.

Who he is

Clint Hostetler is the Republican representative for Idaho House District 24A in Twin Falls. He took office December 1, 2024, a first-cycle freshman elected alongside the rest of the Magic Valley Miracle Four: Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld, Sen. Josh Kohl, and Rep. David Leavitt. All four came in on the same out-of-state money. All four attended the 2024 Young Americans for Liberty Conference together. All four vote with the IFF bloc at the top of the Idaho Freedom Foundation Freedom Index.

Hostetler is a recent California-to-Idaho transplant. Same arrival pattern as multiple other operators in the Twin Falls and Eagle network.

HB1: the $250 million voucher scheme — his first bill as a freshman

In the first week of the 2025 session, Hostetler, a freshman with no chairmanship, personally introduced HB1: a universal refundable tax credit of $9,500 per student for private-school tuition and related expenses. The fiscal note capped the program at $250 million per year.

Per Magic Valley News (January 2025) and Idaho Education News bill-tracker coverage, the bill’s terms were generous to nonpublic schools at the public’s expense:

• Credits could be used for “any other expense reasonably related to K-12 academic instruction”, open-ended language well past conventional tuition support.
• The bill expressly forbade state oversight of nonpublic schools taking the credits.
• Nonpublic schools were not required to change creed, admissions, or curriculum to take tax-credit students.

The Idaho Education Association, Idaho Association of School Administrators, and Idaho School Boards Association held a January 2025 Capitol press conference opposing HB1 and the parallel voucher bills.

A freshman’s first bill was a $250 million private-school subsidy in a state where the legislature spent the prior decade arguing public-school funding was strained. The proposal speaks for itself.

HJM1: the vote to ask SCOTUS to overturn same-sex marriage

On January 27, 2025, the Idaho House passed House Joint Memorial 1 (HJM1) 46-24. HJM1 asks the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationally.

Per Boise State Public Radio, KTVB, KIVI, Idaho Press, and Coeur d’Alene Press, Hostetler voted yes and spoke in support of the memorial:

The full text of HJM1 is on file at the Idaho Legislature.

The “Christian Nationalist” self-label

Per Political Potatoes’ “Power and Fear: Christian Nationalism” piece (June 7, 2025), Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld and Rep. Clint Hostetler, both from District 24, “have embraced the ‘Christian Nationalist’ label.” Per PP’s coverage of HJM1 and the Mass Resistance memorial, Hostetler used Bible verses in House debate to justify the same-sex-marriage memorial. He read scripture, on the floor of the Idaho House, to argue for the removal of an existing constitutional right.

The chemtrails posture

Hostetler is a documented chemtrails-conspiracy adopter. He has used his official Idaho-legislator social-media account to repost videos of jet contrails as evidence of “chemtrails”, a conspiracy theory that says commercial-aircraft contrails are government-coordinated chemical-spraying programs. He authored a 2025 House Memorial opposing geoengineering, framed in chemtrails-adjacent language.

A sitting Idaho legislator used the legislature’s resolution power to advance a conspiracy theory. The vote-tracking sites and Idaho press did not engage the policy substance because there isn’t any.

The Magic Valley water vote

Hostetler voted against HB 445, the 2025 Idaho water-stewardship bill that would have codified Magic Valley water agreements and funded aquifer recharge. The Magic Valley economy runs on irrigated agriculture. Aquifer recharge is the long-term district interest. Hostetler voted against it. HB 445 is the cleanest local-interest test in the Magic Valley delegation.

Per Political Potatoes’ “This Is a Desert After All” piece, Hostetler was named with Leavitt, Kohl, and Zuiderveld among Magic Valley legislators who voted no. The HB 445 roll call is on file at LegiScan.

The two $881 tax liens

A TruthFinder public-records report pulled April 2026 returns two separate tax liens recorded against Clint Hostetler in 2025 while he was a sitting Idaho House member. Both liens are for $881.00, both filed under the debtor name “HOSTETLER,CLINT,” and both list his Twin Falls home address at 701 Midnight Sun Loop:

• Recorded September 8, 2025 — $881.00
• Recorded November 10, 2025 — $881.00

The TruthFinder filing data is sourced from county-level public records. The amounts are small, but the pattern is the point: a sitting Republican legislator votes the IFF fiscal-restraint script and against state spending for aquifer recharge in his own water-dependent district while carrying recorded tax liens against his name and giving personal-responsibility floor speeches.

The Magic Valley Miracle Four

Four legislators came in on one pipeline running one operating model.

• Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld (Senate D24), second-cycle incumbent in 2024
• Rep. Clint Hostetler (House D24A), first-cycle freshman, this dossier
• Sen. Josh Kohl (Senate D25), first-cycle freshman
• Rep. David Leavitt (House D25), first-cycle freshman, paired with Kohl

All four were on the Magic Valley Liberty Alliance (MVLA) 2024 candidate slate. The Twin Falls-area Christian-nationalist MVLA endorsed all four together. All four attended the 2024 Young Americans for Liberty Conference together. All four were backed by Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC. The Pruett “Honor Idaho” rebrand announcement of February 11, 2026 (dateline Rigby, Idaho) named the Magic Valley success as the network’s blueprint for going statewide.

Who funds him

Per the Idaho SOS Sunshine campaign-finance database, Hostetler’s $500-or-more donors for the 2024 D24A House primary include:

Amount	Donor
$1,000	Self-fund (Clint Hostetler)
$1,000	Andrea Rogers
$1,000	James Rogers
$1,000	Danielle Richardson
$1,000	Jason Richardson
$1,000	Kathy Thomsen — also gave $1,000 to Magic Valley Miracle Four colleague Josh Kohl
$1,000	Seyyed Hossein Razavi

Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC (CAI) backed Hostetler in 2024. Per Steve Taggart’s April 7, 2026 Political Potatoes piece and verifiable in the Sunshine database, CAI is the Idaho state PAC affiliate of Citizens Alliance of America (CAA). The CAI donor profile and out-of-state money trail are documented on the Citizens Alliance organization page and in the Follow the Money investigation.

Young Americans for Liberty’s Make Liberty Win PAC also backed Hostetler in 2024 as part of the Magic Valley Miracle Four cluster. The full out-of-state money map is in Follow the Money.

Where he sits in the network

Hostetler’s House counterpart on contested-bill voting is Rep. Faye Thompson. He coordinates floor positions with the broader IFF-aligned delegation, including Senate-side colleagues Christy Zito and Glenneda Zuiderveld. The Idaho Freedom Foundation publishes the Freedom Index that scores his votes against the IFF position. Citizens Alliance funded his 2024 primary. Pruett’s amplifier sites (Honor Idaho, Idaho Dispatch, Keep Idaho Free) carry the framing for his bills.

He is a node inside the operation. His personal contribution to the network agenda:

• The largest private-school-voucher tax-credit proposal of the 2025 session ($250M HB1)
• A vote and floor speech for the memorial asking SCOTUS to overturn same-sex marriage (HJM1)
• A geoengineering Memorial grounded in chemtrails-conspiracy framing
• A vote against the water-stewardship bill the Magic Valley dairy and irrigation economy depends on
• The “Christian Nationalist” self-label, per published documentation

Connected pages

• Faye Thompson dossier, Magic Valley House counterpart on contested-bill voting
• Christy Zito dossier, Magic Valley-aligned Senate D8
• Josh Kohl dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four · Senate D25
• David Leavitt dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four · House D25
• Glenneda Zuiderveld dossier, District 24 Senate counterpart, Hazlitt withdrawal signatory, fellow “Christian Nationalist” self-labeler per PP
• Greg Pruett dossier, propaganda-network operator who named the Magic Valley success as the model
• Citizens Alliance organization page, funding pipeline behind his 2024 primary
• Cliff Maloney dossier
• Follow the Money investigation

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