Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Jennifer Ellis links Take Back Idaho, agriculture leadership, Open Primaries and Forward Party 2026 effort
Recorded status: Verified cross-cycle personnel roles from Take Back Idaho, contemporaneous reporting and Ellis's 2024 advocacy. No common-control inference.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
Jennifer Ellis is documented as chair/president of Take Back Idaho and a former president of the Idaho Cattle Association. In 2024 she publicly advocated for Proposition 1 and was identified as a supporter of Idahoans for Open Primaries. On August 20, 2026 Take Back Idaho announced that Ellis had signed on as the Idaho representative of the Forward Party Victory Fund, a newly formed federal super PAC supporting independent candidates, including Idaho U.S. Senate candidate Todd Achilles. This establishes durable cross-cycle personnel continuity from Idaho agricultural leadership to Take Back Idaho, the 2024 Open Primaries reform effort and a 2026 national independent-candidate PAC. Idaho Cattle Association is distinct from Idaho Dairymen's Association; no dairy/CCI organizational connection is inferred from Ellis's cattle-industry role.
Source references
- Take Back Idaho - Citizen committee forms to counter extremism — December 12, 2021 announcement
- Jennifer Ellis opinion supporting Proposition 1 — 2024 opinion
- Take Back Idaho - Idaho Needs Your Help — August 20, 2026 post