Redbird served every committee in Hometown’s redistribution network

The complete Idaho Sunshine expenditure search for payee text 'Redbird' returns 18 transactions totaling $627,302 across exactly four committees: Defend and Protect Idaho $587,852; Hometown Heroes $17,700; Idaho First $14,000; and Magic Valley Voter Action $7,750. Those are Hometown Heroes itself plus all three committees that received Hometown's May 2026 redistribution: Magic Valley Voter Action ($102,000 from Hometown), Idaho First ($45,000), and Defend and Protect Idaho ($65,000). Timing tightens the operational pattern: Hometown paid Redbird $17,700 on May 5; Hometown sent Magic Valley Voter Action $20,000 on May 5 and $82,000 on May 7, when MVVA paid Redbird $7,750; Hometown sent Idaho First $45,000 on May 8, when Idaho First paid Redbird $14,000; and Hometown sent Defend $45,000 May 13 and $20,000 May 15, dates on which Defend recorded $110,000 and $98,725 in Redbird broadcast spending respectively. Defend's full Redbird total also includes major payments May 1, 4, 8, April 24, and a $30,000 management payment July 8. This establishes Redbird as a common vendor spanning the entire Hometown redistribution network. It does not prove that Hometown earmarked transferred dollars, that the committees coordinated independent expenditures, or who owns Redbird.