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Idaho Extremism Files · A Public Record

An investigative public record · Idaho

Idaho’s extreme-politics network,
exposed.

How the network works. Who runs it. The donors, the operators, the legislators it elects, the propaganda apparatus that runs cover. The connections between them. The receipts.

Primary-source records. Court filings. Campaign-finance data. Federal and state tax liens. Coordinated-messaging receipts. Receipts for every claim. Built to outlast any single election cycle.

25,000+
Social-media posts analyzed
X · Substack · Facebook · operator and legislator timelines
4,500+
Articles indexed
Mainstream Idaho press · propaganda-network sites · op-eds · court filings
5,000+
Primary-source records
Campaign finance · IRS 990s · recorded liens · court dockets · public bios
6,000+
Legislative records analyzed
Bills · floor votes · committee actions · sponsorships
50+
Network actors traced
Operators · legislators · candidates · donors · amplifiers
38+
Years of public record
From the 1987 Caldwell recall to the current session

The dossiers and investigations published here are the visible tip of a much larger working file. The substrate behind the site contains tens of thousands of social-media captures, court records, campaign-finance filings, recorded liens, news-mention archives, infrastructure fingerprints, and coordinated-messaging timelines — surfacing to the public site as each subject is built out.

The network can no longer operate in the dark. We have the receipts.

Why this site exists

Extremist networks flourish in the dark.

A political faction operating openly can be answered at the ballot box. A political faction operating in the dark cannot, because the people doing the answering cannot see what they are answering.

The Idaho extremism network has invested deliberately in operating in the dark. Layered PAC structures that route out-of-state money through in-state names. A propaganda apparatus that publishes attacks across half a dozen sites and presents them as independent reporting. A whip operation that scripts contested-bill votes for legislators who never disclose where the script comes from. A small group of donors who rarely sign their own checks.

This site changes that. Every operator, every dollar trace, every vote, every coordinated message, every shared piece of infrastructure is on the public record here, with primary-source citations.

The numbers above are not marketing copy. They are the working file. Tens of thousands of social-media posts, thousands of articles, thousands of primary-source records, and decades of legislative history have been collected, indexed, and cross-referenced. The network has spent years building infrastructure designed to operate without a paper trail. We built the paper trail anyway.

They cannot hide anymore. The disinfectant is sunlight. We are the lights.

The Dossiers

Inside the network.

Focused exposures of the operators, legislators, and candidates inside Idaho’s extreme-politics network. Each dossier documents who they are, who pays them, what they have done, and how they fit into the apparatus — with receipts. Not every Republican in Idaho. The ones who run the network and the ones it runs.

Portrait of Kent Marmon
House D11A· Gang of 8
Kent Marmon

$17,200 federal tax lien from his 1993 taxes — recorded 16 years late. The cleanest case study of how the network places a candidate.

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Portrait of Lucas Cayler
House D11B· Gang of 8
Lucas Cayler

Marmon's D11 House counterpart. Votes near-identically on contested floor calls.

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Portrait of Christy Zito
Senate D8· Gang of 8
Christy Zito

Political Director and Board Member of Greg Pruett's flagship organization. Six Pruett surfaces promote her.

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Portrait of Josh Kohl
Senate D25· Gang of 8
Josh Kohl

Magic Valley Miracle Four. 2024 freshman placed by the Citizens Alliance / YAL pipeline.

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Portrait of David Leavitt
House D25· Gang of 8
David Leavitt

Magic Valley Miracle Four. Voted against HB 445 water stewardship in his irrigated-ag district.

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Portrait of Faye Thompson
House D8B· Gang of 8
Faye Thompson

D8 House counterpart to Sen. Christy Zito. Same district, same Idaho Freedom Caucus script.

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Portrait of Clinton Hostetler
House D24· Gang of 8
Clinton Hostetler

$881 federal tax lien filed November 2025 while sitting in office voting the IFC fiscal-restraint script.

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Portrait of Glenneda Zuiderveld
Senate · Jerome County· Gang of 8
Glenneda Zuiderveld

Six federal and state tax liens. $127,433 in unpaid taxes 2006-2013. Votes the Gang of 8 fiscal-restraint script anyway.

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Portrait of Scott Herndon
Senate D1· Freedom Caucus Leader
Scott Herndon

Chairs the Idaho Freedom Caucus, the in-chamber Senate bloc that delivers the IFF policy stack into floor votes.

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Portrait of Karey Hanks
House D31
Karey Hanks
Candidate

Founding member of the Idaho Freedom Caucus. The IFF playbook arc applied to East Idaho.

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Portrait of David Worley
Senate D28
David Worley
Candidate

Combat veteran challenging incumbent Sen. Jim Guthrie in D28. Endorsed by Idaho AG Raul Labrador.

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Portrait of Mark Fitzpatrick
Statewide
Mark Fitzpatrick
Governor Candidate

Eagle bar deportation promotion. Public cash bounty against the Boise mayor. Now running for Governor.

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