Defend and Protect reported six separate Redbird transactions totaling $274,000 on May 8

The official 2026 expenditure ledger shows six distinct Defend and Protect Idaho transactions to Redbird Strategies on 05/08/2026: $60,000 broadcast advertising (ID 391411); $18,000 production (391413); $12,000 production (391414); $5,000 production (391415); $69,000 production (391424); and $110,000 broadcast advertising (397047). Total: $274,000, or about 46.6% of Defend and Protect's $587,852 in unique Redbird payments and 43.7% of all $627,302 paid to Redbird by Idaho committees in the ledger. These were filed as separate transaction IDs and marked Amended=N. The first five list distribution beginning 05/08; the $110,000 transaction lists distribution beginning 05/12. The KIVI political-file disclosure is dated 05/08 and names Commercial Space Experts at Hulsen's Austin address as the agency, but has no order amount or run schedule. Interpretation: May 8 is the central invoice-and-placement date to reconstruct. The temporal match alone cannot assign the KIVI buy to any one of the six Redbird transactions or prove pass-through billing.