The Propaganda Network
Honor Idaho, Idaho Dispatch, Stop Idaho RINOs, and adjacent sites, three main operators (Pruett, Hurst, Heida) running one coordinated message pipeline with documented cross-domain infrastructure ties.
Key People
The operators behind this organization
The Stack
The Propaganda Network is a coordinated set of websites, Substacks, and social accounts that amplify IFF / Freedom Caucus messaging, attack Republicans who deviate from the agenda, and manufacture the appearance of grassroots consensus.
Three operators run the core stack:
- Greg Pruett, operates honoridaho.com, idahodispatch.com, idahosaa.org, gregpruett.com, and a portfolio of related domains. Shared Cloudflare nameserver infrastructure, shared AdSense IDs, shared hosting, documented cross-property links.
- Dustin Hurst, operates within IFF comms + amplifies through the stack
- John Heida, operates Stop Idaho RINOs
Adjacent properties that amplify the same messaging: KeepIdahoFree, TrueIdahoNews, Gem State Chronicle, The Daily Dispatch, and the Pocatello-Chubbuck Observer.
Pocatello-Chubbuck Observer, operator confirmed: John Crowder, former Bannock County Commissioner
The Observer’s masthead reads “Observer News Group.” The footer email is jcrowder@pocatellochubbuckobserver. Its operator is John Crowder, a former Bannock County Commissioner (Jan 2023 to Jan 2025). Site infrastructure is independent of Pruett’s stack, WordPress.com VIP hosting, AdSense publisher ca-pub-5143006110883978 (Pruett uses a different publisher account on his properties). The coordination shows up instead in the content, the audience funnel, and the event circuit.
Documented bylined or republished pieces from the IFF / Pruett network on Crowder’s site (2024 to 2026): Greg Pruett’s I2AA membership-recruitment column (currently live on the Observer homepage with a mycampaignedge.com tracked CTA driving readers to idahosaa.org/memberships/), Idaho Freedom Foundation President Ron Nate, IFF staffer Rachel Hazelip, Gem State Chronicle publisher Brian Almon, and Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld of the Gang of 8. Crowder himself bylines roughly 50 of the 77 Worley-focused pieces the Observer published between September 2021 and February 2025; Observer political writer Karyn Simmons wrote most of the rest. Crowder also organizes the recurring Pocatello Liberty Dinner speaker series, which has featured Worley (multiple appearances 2022 and 2023) and Brian Almon (February 2025) on its programming.
The Observer is the southeast-Idaho local-news-styled surface that the network uses to manufacture the appearance of organic local interest in the same candidates and same legal narratives the statewide propaganda stack is pushing. Crowder owns the Observer, and he runs Pruett-bylined content on it with disclosed audience-funnel tracking, which puts two separate operators on one content and recruitment pipeline.
The Tell
When a narrative moves across these properties within hours with the same claim, the same framing, and the same target, that is a network at work rather than independent journalists reaching the same conclusion.
Our “Manufacturing a Martyr” long-form investigation (publishing this weekend) documents one such cycle in full: where the claim started, how it propagated, who amplified it, and the complete coordination fingerprint.
Documented infrastructure ties
Shared Cloudflare nameservers, shared AdSense publisher IDs, shared hosting on InMotion, shared PayPal donation buttons, cross-property quoting (Pruett quoting himself on his other sites without disclosure), and a documented graph of co-registrant emails.
All of this is visible in public WHOIS history, page-source inspection, and domain-registration archives. The network has made almost no effort to hide the connections.