Connection research · Research date 2026-09-17
Corrected dates: Hometown Heroes received Esto PAC money in 2026, paid Esto Group in 2024
Recorded status: corrected and verified with evidentiary caveat
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CORRECTION: Hometown Heroes' profile lists “Esto Perpetua” among its contributors, but transaction-level Idaho Sunshine records show the underlying transfers occurred in 2026, not 2024: $35,000 on 2026-05-12 and $23,000 on 2026-05-21, both categorized as contributions to candidates/PACs and reported on Esto Perpetua's 2026 May Monthly Report. Separately, Hometown Heroes paid “Esto Perpetua Group” $22,396.57 on 2024-08-02 for production, using PO Box 2535, Boise, ID 83701. The two-year separation means these records do NOT establish a contemporaneous inflow/outflow, pass-through, earmarking, common ownership, or legal identity between the Idaho PAC and the Wyoming LLC/payee. They establish only that Hometown Heroes has separately transacted with two similarly named entities in different years. Filing metadata shows Defend and Protect Idaho filed its August 2024 report on 2024-09-03 and Hometown Heroes filed its August report on 2024-09-05.
Source references
- Idaho Sunshine — Esto Perpetua expenditure transactions — Filtered expenditure ledger reached through Esto Perpetua committee profile, Expenditures > View All
- Idaho Sunshine — Esto Perpetua Group expenditure ledger — Vendor-filtered legacy activity ledger
- Idaho Sunshine — Hometown Heroes committee profile — Hometown Heroes committee profile, Filings
- Idaho Sunshine — Defend and Protect Idaho committee profile — Defend and Protect Idaho committee profile, Filings