Greg Pruett

Who he is

Greg Pruett operates the Idaho propaganda-network publishing apparatus. Six Idaho-focused content surfaces, all run by him, all presented to readers as if they were independent voices. Based in Rigby, Idaho.

The six surfaces:

• Honor Idaho (honoridaho.com), the 501(c)(4) umbrella. Rebranded February 11, 2026 from the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance to expand from gun-rights single-issue framing to full culture-war scope. Rebrand dateline: Rigby, Idaho.
• Idaho Second Amendment Alliance / I2AA (idahosaa.org), the legacy gun-rights brand. Sen. Christy Zito serves as Political Director and Board Member.
• Idaho Dispatch (idahodispatch.com). Pruett re-acquired it August 1, 2024.
• Keep Idaho Free (keepidahofree.org), advocacy and astroturf-petition operation.
• GregPruett.com, the “personal” blog firewall. Carefully positioned outside the 501(c)(4) so it can make direct endorsements the tax-exempt entities legally cannot. Maintains a dedicated “Christy Zito Archives” tag with nine-plus posts.
• ThankChristyZito.com, a standalone domain registered to thank one Idaho legislator. No other Idaho legislator has anything like it. The domain currently returns connection-refused. Stood up, used, abandoned.

He also launched The D.C. Beat in May 2024, an Idaho-based national-news site, expanding the propaganda-portfolio model from state to federal scope.

A casual reader who encountered all six surfaces would conclude they were six independent voices converging on the same conclusions. They are one operator with one editorial position, distributed across six brand-names.

What he admitted under oath

In February 2021, then-sitting Idaho Rep. Chad Christensen filed a defamation lawsuit. The defendant counterclaimed against Christensen, Pruett, and Dustin Hurst. The case is active. Per case records archived at chadchristensen.org, Pruett admitted two things under sworn testimony:

1. He lied in the proceedings. His testimony was not truthful.
2. He published an article written by someone else under his own name. Byline fraud. The byline read “Greg Pruett.” The author was someone else.

The byline-fraud admission structurally poisons every other thing he has published under his name. Readers trusting “Greg Pruett” content can no longer know whether they are actually reading Greg Pruett. Every Idaho Dispatch story, every I2AA action alert, every “Pro-Gun Champion” celebration of Christy Zito under his byline now carries an asterisk: was this Pruett, or was this someone Pruett was willing to launder a byline for?

In a regular news organization, the byline-fraud admission would end a career. In the Pruett operation, it caused him to take “a step back from day-to-day operations” of I2AA. Sen. Christy Zito stepped in as I2AA Political Director precisely when Pruett was legally exposed. The transition is on the record.

The 2020 Sunshine Act complaint that required state enforcement to surface

In April 2020, the Pruett operation purchased $4,430 in election ads in the Boise television market without proper Sunshine Act disclosure. Attorney Steve Taggart filed a complaint. Idaho Secretary of State Lawrence Denney referred the complaint to the Idaho Attorney General for investigation, stating: “My thinking is that if you are expending money to influence the outcome of an election, it should be reported.”

Pruett belatedly filed on April 27, 2020. The disclosure documented:

• $15,869 raised total.
• $1,600 from Idaho Falls attorney Bryan Smith (IFF Vice Chair) as the single largest identified donor, with the remainder in small unitemized donations under $50.
• $2,005 spent on a CBS2 Boise pro-Christy Zito TV ad that aired April 21, 2020. I2AA has publicly celebrated that ad as its “first-ever TV ad.”

The flagship I2AA TV buy of 2020 cost $2,005, the operation that produced it took $1,600 from the IFF’s Vice Chair, the operation only filed Sunshine Act disclosure after a complaint by an attorney triggered the Secretary of State to refer the matter to the Attorney General. That is what state-enforcement-required transparency looks like for a Pruett operation.

The self-quoting structural tell

On Honor Idaho, which Pruett operates, readers can find references to “I2AA President Greg Pruett” cited as an external authority on Honor Idaho content. Pruett the Honor Idaho operator cites Pruett the I2AA president to vouch for Pruett the Honor Idaho operator’s own material.

The move is identical to writing a press release for your own company and quoting yourself in it under a different job title.

How a Christy Zito bill moves through the network — six channels, one operator

In 2025, Sen. Christy Zito sponsored SB 1298, the Stand Your Ground Shield Act. The pipeline that ran on it:

1. I2AA published an action alert urging readers to “Tell Your Legislator to Co-Sponsor Zito’s Self-Defense Bill.”
2. Idaho Dispatch covered the bill as news, framing it as common-sense reform opposed only by enemies of freedom.
3. Keep Idaho Free fundraised on it with “the left is coming for your guns” appeals.
4. GregPruett.com endorsed Zito personally for sponsoring it. The “personal” blog firewall lets Pruett say things his 501(c)(4) cannot.
5. ThankChristyZito.com (then still live) updated to include the bill in the gallery of Zito wins.
6. Honor Idaho ran “Stand Your Ground Bill Adds Real Immunity, Real Protection” on February 18, 2026 under Pruett’s byline.

Six channels. One bill. One operator. A casual reader could read all six and believe they are seeing grassroots enthusiasm from independent voices converging on the same conclusion. They are reading one hand.

The April 2026 personal-byline Guthrie attack

April 3, 2026 — six weeks before the May 19 Republican primary in which David Worley challenges Sen. Jim Guthrie — Pruett personally bylined “One Man Continues to Block the Best Gun Bills for Idaho” on the I2AA / Honor Idaho platform. Specific language: “Without fail, Idaho State Senate Chairman Jim Guthrie (R - Inkom) has blocked more critical pro-gun legislation” and “Guthrie shoved it in the chairman’s drawer and refused to give it a public hearing.” The article enumerates SB 1430, HB 621, and SB 1298 (sponsored by Pruett’s I2AA Political Director Christy Zito) as Guthrie’s blocking record. The implicit call to action: “send some better fighters to the Capitol.”

The structural picture: the friendly-coverage outlet for the candidate (Idaho Dispatch) and the attack outlet on the candidate’s primary opponent (I2AA / Honor Idaho) have the same operator. Disclosure of that overlap appears nowhere on either platform.

The Worley campaign does not need to buy any of this media. It arrives for free because the operator of the friendly-coverage and opponent-attack platforms has been promoting Worley editorially for the full five-year arc of his political career. Same template as the Zito relationship, applied to a second candidate.

The Mickelsen smear

The Republican Idaho legislator Stephanie Mickelsen has been a standing target of the Pruett network. Honor Idaho’s March 19, 2026 article “Mickelsen Misleads Voters While the Left Pushes California-Style Abortion” used an anonymous Facebook commenter’s lower-bound viability estimate (22 weeks) to impeach Mickelsen’s medically-defensible range (25-27 weeks), and labeled her “one of the biggest RINOs in the capitol.”

The pattern repeats across dossiers on Pruett-network targets. Pruett’s outlets do not produce independent reporting that occasionally aligns with the IFF position. They produce framing infrastructure that the IFF uses to drive primary challenges against Republican incumbents flagged on the IFF Index.

The Pruett-Hurst podcast partnership

In April 2023, Keep Idaho Free announced “Pruett, Hurst Partner to Present Freedom Bros Podcast” — a co-hosted partnership between Greg Pruett and Dustin Hurst, the IFF communications operative.

Calling the IFF and the Idaho propaganda network “separate independent voices” is not a defensible position once their two operators are publishing a co-hosted podcast under the brand name “Freedom Bros.”

The shared-infrastructure fingerprint

Pruett’s domain portfolio carries documented shared technical infrastructure: Cloudflare nameservers, Google AdSense publisher IDs, common hosting (InMotion), and PayPal donation endpoints. The infrastructure-fingerprint pattern ties the amplifier sites together as one operation rather than several.

The “independent third-party reporting” framing the network uses to launder each other’s content is structurally inconsistent with shared backend infrastructure. The fingerprint is a cross-domain operational tell.

Connected pages

• Christy Zito dossier, I2AA Political Director and Board Member, the deepest legislator-side relationship in the Pruett network
• Dustin Hurst dossier, Freedom Bros podcast co-host, civil stalking injunction respondent
• John Heida dossier, Stop Idaho RINOs operator, the propaganda-network counterpart
• Bryan Smith dossier, $1,600 single-largest-donor to the disclosed I2AA cycle
• Doyle Beck dossier, East Idaho IFF anchor
• The Propaganda Network organization page
• Idaho Freedom Foundation organization page
• Anatomy of a Lie investigation

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