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Press, sources, and republication.

IdahoExtremism.org is a primary-source archive on the operators, donors, legislators, and propaganda outlets driving extreme politics in Idaho. The site is built and maintained by Gregory Graf, an Idaho-based political research and strategic communications consultant with nearly a decade documenting the network. Research, dossiers, recordings, and primary-source documents are available to journalists who cover Idaho politics, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, dark money, white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest, MAGA extremism, and the broader Republican Party infighting playing out in Idaho's primaries.

This page exists to make the work easy to use. Quote requests, source-of-record citations, background interviews, document handoffs, RSS, and republication permission live here. If you are filing a story and need a quote, document, or a tip, the contact line is at the bottom of this page.

What we cover.

IdahoExtremism.org is organized around the structural problem in Idaho Republican politics: a small network of donors and operators has accumulated disproportionate influence over state policy through coordinated primary challenges, Freedom Index scoring, propaganda amplification, and out-of-state PAC pipelines. The site documents the network in three formats:

• Dossiers — the people: legislators in the Gang of 8 voting bloc, IFF board members, propaganda operators, county-committee chairmen, and the network's strategists and amplifiers.
• Investigations — the operations: long-form tactical reports tracing the IFF / Citizens Alliance / Make Liberty Win money pipeline, coordinated primary attacks, narrative-laundering through the propaganda network, and case studies like the Magic Valley Miracle Four placement template.
• Organizations — the institutions: the Idaho Freedom Foundation, Citizens Alliance, the Idaho Freedom Caucus, the State Freedom Caucus Network, and the propaganda amplifier network feeding the bloc.

Topic areas where the site is the primary-source archive of record:

• Idaho Freedom Foundation network — board, funders, legislative scorecards, model bills, communications operations, and contractor relationships.
• Idaho campaign finance and dark money — out-of-state PAC pipelines, multi-state donor architectures, and the SOS Sunshine database trace through Idaho primary spending.
• Republican Party infighting in Idaho — the structural conflict between traditional Idaho Republicans and the IFF-aligned far-right faction, including the Bonneville County and Kootenai County central-committee battles.
• White-nationalist-adjacent figures in Idaho politics — documented Charlottesville participants, Identity Evropa-affiliated figures, Patriot Front activity in North Idaho, and the political operators who have publicly defended them.
• MAGA legislative organizing in Idaho — the State Freedom Caucus Network's Idaho operations, the Gang of 8 voting bloc, and the freshman-class placement template that produced the Magic Valley Miracle Four.
• Christian Nationalism in Idaho politics — the funding, organizing, and policy footprint of Christian-nationalist-aligned operators within the Idaho Republican Party.
• Idaho Republican primary politics — the contests, the money, the slates, the playbook, and the documented coordination between operators across counties.
• Propaganda networks and content laundering — Idaho Dispatch, Honor Idaho, Stop Idaho RINOs, Pocatello-Chubbuck Observer, Gem State Chronicle, and the cross-domain amplifier infrastructure.

Sourcing standard.

Every claim on the site is anchored to verifiable evidence: court filings, campaign-finance records, sworn deposition testimony, contemporaneous news reporting, leaked communications verified through chain-of-custody, public-records requests, and direct primary-source interviews. The full editorial standard is at /methodology/. For any claim a journalist plans to attribute or republish, the underlying primary source is linked at the point of use on the dossier or investigation page.

Quote requests, interviews, and source contact.

Gregory Graf is available to reporters covering Idaho politics, the IFF network, dark money, white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest, and Republican Party infighting. Reach out via email or DM @gsgraf on X for time-sensitive deadlines. General tips also accepted via the contact page.

What Graf can do for your story:

• On-the-record quotes on Idaho campaign finance, the IFF network, the Gang of 8, KCRCC, BCRCC, the Magic Valley Miracle Four, the Citizens Alliance / Make Liberty Win pipeline, and Idaho Republican primary politics.
• Background interviews on the network's structure, operating model, funding sources, and historical context. Background or deep-background protocols honored.
• Source-of-record citations — IdahoExtremism.org dossiers and investigations are public, primary-source-anchored, and citable as standalone reporting.
• Document and recording handoffs — SRS holds research files, public-records returns, contemporaneous reporting, and verified third-party material relevant to ongoing stories.
• Tips and lead-development — if you are working a story and need to know whether the network has documented connections to a person, organization, or event, ask. Most of the time the answer is on the site; if not, the substrate often answers it.

Format for press inquiries:

• Subject line: Press inquiry: [outlet name]
• Outlet, byline, and deadline
• Topic and the specific question or quote you need
• On-record / on-background / on-deep-background
• Whether you need a callable phone number or whether email is sufficient

Response time is typically same business day. Idaho time zone is Mountain. For breaking-news deadlines, mark the email URGENT in the subject line.

Republication, attribution, and link-back policy.

Journalists, researchers, and outlets are welcome to use the work. The site is built to be useful to the press, not gated against it. Two simple rules:

1. Direct quotation and excerpt republication. Permitted with attribution. Use a credit line such as "per IdahoExtremism.org" or "per reporting at IdahoExtremism.org" and include a link back to the specific dossier, investigation, or page being cited. The link is the credit.
2. Substantial republication. If you are republishing more than roughly 200 words of original analysis, embedding a primary-source artifact we surfaced (such as a campaign-finance trace or a court-record citation chain), or rebroadcasting an investigation in a longer-form story, please email Gregory first via the press email link. We are generally yes; we just want to know.

What we ask in return: when you find the work useful, link back. IdahoExtremism.org is a small, self-bootstrapped operation, and the link-back is what keeps the underlying primary-source archive discoverable for the next reporter working the same beat. If your outlet's CMS strips outbound links, a credit line in the body or a "source: IdahoExtremism.org" tagline at the end is fine. The principle is simple: if you use the research, give credit so other journalists can find the source.

What we do not permit: republication that strips attribution, rewrites the analysis to obscure the source, or rebrands the underlying primary-source traces as the republishing outlet's original reporting. That is not fair use, and we will ask for a correction.

Resources for reporters.

• RSS feed: /rss.xml — new dossiers and investigations land automatically.
• Sitemap: /sitemap.xml — full site index for crawlers and reference.
• News sitemap: /sitemap-news.xml — articles inside the 2-day Google News window.
• Dossier index: /dossiers/ — every published subject dossier.
• Investigation index: /investigations/ — every long-form tactical report.
• Organization index: /organizations/ — every organization profile.
• Methodology: /methodology/ — full sourcing standard and editorial process.
• Sources: /sources/ — primary-source-platform reference list.
• Open Graph cards: available at /images/og-cards/<slug>.jpg for every dossier and investigation. Free to use for social-share previews when citing the site.

Frequently asked questions.

About Gregory Graf.

Gregory Graf has spent close to a decade documenting Idaho's political-accountability beat across four publishing platforms. Each one operates as a distinct primary-source archive on a different slice of Idaho politics, and together they form the underlying research footprint that IdahoExtremism.org draws on.

• IdahoExtremism.org — The flagship investigative archive. Long-form dossiers on the Idaho Freedom Foundation network, the Gang of 8 voting bloc, county-committee operators, propaganda-network principals, and the campaign-finance pipelines that feed Idaho Republican primaries. Every claim is anchored to primary-source evidence: court filings, campaign-finance records, sworn deposition testimony, contemporaneous news reporting.
• Political Potatoes — Gregory's running commentary and accountability journalism Substack. Frequent reporting on Republican Party infighting, Christian Nationalism in Idaho, MAGA legislative organizing, dark-money flows, the IFF network, and Idaho's primary-cycle dynamics. Many of the contemporaneous reports cited inside IdahoExtremism.org investigations originate at Political Potatoes.
• IdahoVoters.com — The voter-facing accountability platform. Profiles, voting-record summaries, and primary-source documentation for Idaho legislative and statewide officials. Long-running reference archive Idaho journalists have cited across multiple cycles.
• ChadChristensen.org — Single-subject accountability site documenting former Idaho Rep. Chad Christensen's public record. Stand-alone artifact of the long-form, single-subject accountability methodology that informs the IdahoExtremism.org dossier format.

Gregory is the founder of Snake River Strategies, a for-profit Idaho political research and strategic communications firm. He is based in Star, Idaho. Outlets that have cited prior Gregory Graf reporting include the Idaho Capital Sun, the Spokesman-Review, the Idaho Statesman, InvestigateWest, the Coeur d'Alene Press, and the Pacific Northwest's regional press corps. Gregory is comfortable on-camera, on-microphone, and in long-form text interviews, and is available nationally for stories on Idaho politics, the IFF network, dark money, Christian Nationalism, white-nationalist-adjacent figures in Pacific Northwest Republican politics, MAGA legislative organizing, and Republican Party infighting.

Contact.

Press inquiries, source confirmation, document handoffs, and quote requests:
email Gregory directly · DM @gsgraf on X

General tips and submissions:
/contact/

Snake River Strategies:
snakeriverstrategies.com