Google exposes 19 May 2026 political ad records and verified PAC identity; 18 videos identified, producer still unnamed

Google Ads Transparency Center identifies verified advertiser AR12070793104785932289, legal name Defend and Protect Idaho, EIN 88-1622628, United States. All-topics view showed 25 unique creative URLs; the political view listed 24 records: 19 with May 2026 flights and five with 2022 flights. Initial DOM duplicated the 25 links as 50 entries; deduplication by creative URL prevents double counting. Political Insights, Any time, displayed $45,100 across 24 ads. This is Google's platform-reported lifetime scope, not 2026 spending, a production budget, a bank audit, or a Redbird payment. Attempted custom-date selection did not persist; do not claim a date-filtered Insights total. Eighteen of the 19 May 2026 political records were linked through their displayed variations to identifiable YouTube videos on channel UCnXMyUMBcCZ3kqteP_OXxgA / @defendandprotectidaho2157. Ten use Public Safety First titles; eight use Idaho Immigration or Idaho Vouchers titles. The remaining May record CR04444762638454358017 exposed no readable video title/link in either inspected variation. Two format variations within one creative record are not two separately billed purchases. One additional all-topics creative, CR12749021913167167489, was absent from the political list; date/content/classification unexamined. No inspected advertiser or creative detail identified Redbird, CSE, Hulsen, Cothren, a production invoice, an approving sender, or CPMDAPI26005H. These are platform identity and delivery records; advertiser verification does not identify the agency operator or certify the ad's claims. No match between any Google record and the KREM broadcast ID is established.