Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Idaho Solutions now partners with Idaho Leaders United, whose leadership includes Defend and Protect Idaho chair Gary Raney
Recorded status: Verified current program partnership and personnel/PAC leadership bridge; no Idaho Solutions→Defend and Protect funding or coordination established.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
A Sept. 15–16, 2026 public immigration-history program in the Wood River Valley is presented in partnership with Idaho Solutions, Idaho Leaders United, MWEG, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Wood River Jewish Community, LDS members in the Wood River Valley, and The Senior Connection. Idaho Leaders United’s own leadership page lists retired Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney among its leadership. Independent contemporaneous reporting identifies Raney as founder/chair of Defend and Protect Idaho, the Idaho PAC that spent more than $752,800 in the 2026 Republican legislative primaries and received major funding from Way Back PAC and other donors. Dixon also appeared among the legislators/candidates who signed an Idaho Leaders United statement in January 2024. This establishes a current organizational-program route from Idaho Solutions to Idaho Leaders United and a direct personnel route from Idaho Leaders United leadership to Defend and Protect Idaho. It is a materially closer crossline between the Idaho Solutions orbit and the 2026 PAC network than a mere shared national funder. It does NOT establish that Idaho Solutions funded, directed, coordinated with, or participated in Defend and Protect Idaho’s electoral spending, nor that Raney acted for the PAC in Idaho Leaders United programming.