Clinton Hostetler

Who he is

Clint Hostetler represents Idaho House District 24 in the Twin Falls area as a Republican. He is one of the Magic Valley Miracle Four — the four legislators (Christy Zito, Clint Hostetler, Josh Kohl, David Leavitt) who came in or back to the legislature in the 2024 cycle on the same out-of-state funding pipeline.

He votes with the Idaho Freedom Caucus bloc on contested floor calls. He is also a sitting Republican legislator who carries a current federal tax lien.

The $881 federal tax lien

A federal tax lien for $881.00 was filed against Hostetler in November 2025, while he was sitting in the Idaho House and voting the IFC fiscal-restraint script. The amount is small. The pattern is what matters: a sitting Republican legislator who runs on personal-responsibility messaging carries a current federal tax lien at the same time.

The IRS does not record liens on a whim. The recording means the obligation went unpaid through the normal collection cycle and reached the lien-recording stage. A 2025 lien on a sitting legislator’s name is a public-record fact a constituent has a right to know about when evaluating his fiscal-discipline rhetoric on the House floor.

DOCUMENTED — FEDERAL TAX LIEN

Federal tax lien for $881.00 filed against Clinton Hostetler in November 2025. Recorded with the appropriate Idaho county recorder's office while Hostetler was a sitting Idaho House member.

The Magic Valley Miracle Four

Four legislators. One pipeline. One operating model.

• Christy Zito, Senate D8. Returning to the Senate after a hiatus, with full Pruett-network amplification.
• Clint Hostetler, House D24. First-cycle freshman with the federal tax lien.
• Josh Kohl, Senate D25. First-cycle freshman.
• David Leavitt, House D25. First-cycle freshman, paired with Kohl.

All four attended the 2024 Young Americans for Liberty Conference together. All four were backed by Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC. All four vote with the Idaho Freedom Caucus bloc. The Pruett Honor Idaho rebrand announcement of February 11, 2026, dateline Rigby, Idaho, named the Magic Valley success as the network’s blueprint for statewide expansion.

Who funds him

Per the Idaho SOS Sunshine campaign-finance database, Hostetler’s $500-or-more donors for the 2024 D24 House primary:

Amount	Donor
$1,000	Self-fund (Clint Hostetler)
$1,000	Andrea Rogers
$1,000	James Rogers (paired-couple giving)
$1,000	Danielle Richardson
$1,000	Jason Richardson (paired-couple giving)
$1,000	Kathy Thomsen — also gave $1,000 to Magic Valley Miracle Four colleague Josh Kohl. Same donor, two of the four.
$1,000	Seyyed Hossein Razavi

The IFF leadership donor names — Beck, Smith, Regan — do not appear on Hostetler’s $500-or-more direct-donor list. Network funding came in through the Citizens Alliance / YAL / Make Liberty Win pipeline at the institutional level (documented below), and through shared-donor giving from individuals who also gave to other Magic Valley Miracle Four candidates (Kathy Thomsen).

Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC backed Hostetler in the 2024 cycle. Per Steve Taggart’s April 7, 2026 Political Potatoes investigation, CAI is 99.72% funded by the national Citizens Alliance PAC out of Fairfax, Virginia. The national PAC is over 72% funded by POM of Pennsylvania, LLC, a company that manufactures gaming machines marketed under a “skill” classification and is currently being sued by the Pennsylvania Attorney General for using that classification to circumvent state gambling laws.

Idaho banned similar machines in 2015.

Young Americans for Liberty, through its Make Liberty Win operation, also supported Hostetler in 2024. He attended the 2024 YAL Conference together with Christy Zito, Glenneda Zuiderveld, Joshua Kohl, and David Leavitt.

DOCUMENTED — 2024 CYCLE FUNDING

Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC and Young Americans for Liberty / Make Liberty Win backed Clint Hostetler in the 2024 Republican primary. CAI is 99.72% funded by national CAA PAC, which is over 72% funded by POM of Pennsylvania, LLC, currently being sued by the Pennsylvania AG.

The Magic Valley water vote

Hostetler voted against HB 445, the 2025 water stewardship legislation that would have codified Magic Valley water agreements and funded aquifer recharge. The Magic Valley economy depends substantially on irrigated agriculture. Aquifer recharge is a core district interest. Hostetler voted against it.

The Times-News editorial board, republished at Political Potatoes on April 19, 2025, listed him among the Magic Valley legislators who voted against the bill.

The vote against HB 445 is the cleanest local-interest test in the Magic Valley delegation. Hostetler failed it.

Where he sits in the network

Hostetler’s House counterpart in the Magic Valley voting bloc is Faye Thompson. The two coordinate contested-bill voting with the broader IFC delegation including Senate-side IFC members Christy Zito, Glenneda Zuiderveld, and IFC chair Scott Herndon.

The State Freedom Caucus Network under Maria Nate, wife of IFF President Ron Nate, supplies the operational whip that makes the bloc move as a unit. The Idaho Freedom Foundation publishes the Freedom Index that grades every legislator’s votes against the IFF position. The Pruett propaganda network publishes the bills’ framing. The Citizens Alliance pipeline funds the primaries. Hostetler is a node in the operation, not an independent actor inside it.

Connected pages

• Faye Thompson dossier, Magic Valley House counterpart on contested-bill voting
• Christy Zito dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four and Senate D8
• Josh Kohl dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four and Senate D25
• David Leavitt dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four and House D25
• Greg Pruett dossier, the propaganda-network operator who named the Magic Valley success as the model
• Idaho Freedom Caucus organization page
• Citizens Alliance organization page
• Cliff Maloney dossier
• Follow the Money investigation

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