David Leavitt

Rep. David Leavitt is the House D25B half of the Magic Valley Miracle Four — the four Twin Falls / Magic Valley freshmen the IFF / Citizens Alliance / YAL pipeline placed in the Idaho House and Senate in the 2024 cycle. He defeated Rep. Greg Lanting in the May 21, 2024 primary on out-of-state primary money, attended the 2024 YAL Conference with the rest of the cluster, attended the Old State Saloon opening alongside Tanner, Lenney, Nichols, and Keyser, and voted against HB 445, the water-stewardship bill that would have funded aquifer recharge in his irrigated-agriculture district.

Inside this dossier:

• Magic Valley Miracle Four placement. Came in alongside Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld, Sen. Josh Kohl (D25 Senate paired vote), and Rep. Clint Hostetler. All four attended the 2024 YAL Conference together. All four CAI-funded. The Pruett “Honor Idaho” rebrand named the Magic Valley success as the network’s blueprint.
• Defeated incumbent Rep. Greg Lanting in the May 21, 2024 primary. First-cycle freshman placed via Magic Valley Liberty Alliance candidate slate, Make Liberty Win field operation, and CAI funding.
• Old State Saloon opening attendee. Per Political Potatoes’ “Building a Bigger Tent” coverage, Leavitt was named among the legislators who publicly aligned with the venue’s messaging — alongside Sen. Josh Keyser, Sen. Tammy Nichols, Sen. Brian Lenney, and Rep. Josh Tanner.
• The HB 445 vote against the district. Magic Valley runs on irrigated agriculture. Aquifer recharge is the long-term district interest. Leavitt voted no with Hostetler, Kohl, and Zuiderveld.
• Paired with Sen. Josh Kohl in District 25. One of the cleanest paired-vote signatures in the chamber. Same network, same cycle, same out-of-state pipeline.

Who he is

David J. Leavitt is the Republican representative for Idaho House District 25 Seat B in Twin Falls. He took office December 1, 2024, after beating incumbent Rep. Gregory Lanting in the May 21, 2024 primary and winning the November 5, 2024 general. Per his Idaho State Legislature official biography, he is a retired U.S. Army combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, born and raised in the Magic Valley. Committee assignments: Agricultural Affairs, Commerce & Human Resources, and Health & Welfare.

He shares the District 25 paired-vote signature with Sen. Josh Kohl, the Senate D25 freshman who came in the same cycle on the same out-of-state money.

(Note: more than one public figure named David Leavitt exists in the United States. This page is about the Idaho state representative, not other figures by the same name.)

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
• Sen. Josh Kohl (Senate D25), first-cycle Senate freshman
• Rep. David Leavitt (House D25B), first-cycle freshman, paired with Kohl in the same district

All four were on the Magic Valley Liberty Alliance (MVLA) 2024 candidate slate. 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.

The Old State Saloon attendance

Per Political Potatoes’ “Building a Bigger Tent” coverage, Leavitt was named among the legislators who “publicly aligned with the Old State Saloon’s messaging and attended the opening event”, alongside Sen. Josh Keyser, Sen. Tammy Nichols, Sen. Brian Lenney, and Rep. Josh Tanner.

Old State Saloon is the Eagle, Idaho venue owned by 2026 gubernatorial candidate Mark Fitzpatrick. Per the Mark Fitzpatrick dossier, the venue’s speaker series has hosted Doug Wilson (Christ Church Moscow), Gabriel Ranch’s “Inevitability of Christian Nationalism” event, antisemitic-conspiracy speaker Ian Carroll, and the Pettinger / Whalen / Reilly Aryan Bros cluster. Fitzpatrick’s @oldstatemark X feed contains explicit anti-LDS posts (verified per Rigged Red Card archive). A sitting Idaho legislator attended the opening of that venue and publicly aligned with its messaging. He put himself inside that network orbit.

The HB 445 vote against the district

Leavitt 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.

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

When a legislator’s primary money comes from an out-of-state PAC and the legislator votes against the local economic interest, ask who he is actually representing. The HB 445 vote answers.

The HB 125 anti-funding-bill vote

Per Political Potatoes’ “Freedom Without Responsibility” piece, Leavitt was in the bloc that voted against House Bill 125, the IFF-Index-aligned vote against an Idaho funding measure. The HB 125 roll call is on file at LegiScan.

HB 445 and HB 125 are the IFF Freedom Index recruitment loop working as designed. The legislator votes the IFF position. The Index rewards the score. Citizens Alliance / Make Liberty Win rewards the score with cycle-after-cycle primary support.

Paired-vote signature with Kohl

The Senate-D25 / House-D25 pairing of Kohl and Leavitt is one of the cleanest paired-vote signatures in the Idaho legislature. They came in together on the same money and they vote together. The pairing repeats in House D11 (Marmon and Cayler). It is how IFF / Citizens Alliance / YAL / Pruett-network district-pair placements run.

Two new legislators in the same district, sharing the same out-of-state PACs, the same national conference, and the same votes against the local economic interest. That is the playbook.

Who funds him

Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC (CAI) backed Leavitt in 2024. Per Steve Taggart’s April 7, 2026 Political Potatoes piece and verifiable in the Idaho SOS 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 Leavitt in 2024 as part of the Magic Valley Miracle Four cluster. Per Faculty First Responders, YAL took $5,920,023 from Koch-network sources (Koch / DonorsTrust / Donors Capital Fund) between 2012 and 2019 alone. YAL’s policy stack, including the Hazlitt Coalition, runs strict libertarian positions including support for marijuana legalization. Leavitt’s Magic Valley campaign-trail rhetoric does not match that stack. The funding does.

The full out-of-state money map is in Follow the Money.

Where he sits in the network

Leavitt is one of two House members of the Magic Valley Miracle Four cluster. Hostetler in D24A is the other. He coordinates floor positions with Kohl (D25 Senate paired-vote partner), Zuiderveld and Zito (Senate-side), and the broader IFF bloc. 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 carry the framing for the bills the cluster sponsors and the votes they cast.

His personal contribution to the network agenda:

• A vote against the Magic Valley water-stewardship bill in his irrigated-agriculture district
• A vote in the IFF-Index-aligned bloc against HB 125
• Public alignment with the Old State Saloon’s culture-war programming and its documented Christian-nationalist / Aryan-Bros-adjacent speaker circuit
• Membership in the paired-vote D25 freshman delivery (Kohl + Leavitt) the network ran in 2024

Connected pages

• Josh Kohl dossier, D25 Senate paired-vote partner
• Christy Zito dossier, Magic Valley-aligned Senate D8
• Clinton Hostetler dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four · House D24A
• Glenneda Zuiderveld dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four · Senate D24, Hazlitt withdrawal signatory
• Mark Fitzpatrick dossier, Old State Saloon owner; Leavitt attended the venue’s opening event
• 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, CAA founder and CEO
• Scott Herndon dossier, chamber Idaho Freedom Caucus director
• Follow the Money investigation

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