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Example locator: Defend and Protect / Idaho Liberty sections
Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: SOURCE-RESTORED RECOVERY ITEM. URLs and source-specific support statements restored from corrected v2 snapshot. Evidentiary firewall preserved; dynamic aggregates and secondary reports still require ordinary publication-stage verification.
Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: SOURCE-RESTORED RECOVERY ITEM. URLs and source-specific support statements restored from corrected v2 snapshot. Evidentiary firewall preserved; dynamic aggregates and secondary reports still require ordinary publication-stage verification.
Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified common upstream funding and direct funder-recipient contact; expenditure coordination unproven
Research finding · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: IRS-DERIVED/PRIMARY TIMING CORRECTION: Article IV closed in 2025; $170K Article IV→DPI is primary-verified for FY2024. Any additional 2025 payment remains unverified; do not label Article IV as fresh 2026 funding without dated state rows.
Connection research · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: Official APOC verifies Nunnelly and Dupré each gave Unite America $125K in 2024; current reporting documents Carroll's large Unite America giving and Unite America's Idaho role. Idaho earmarking or donor control is not established.
Connection research · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: PRIMARY/OFFICIAL + CAMPAIGN-FINANCE REPORTING VERIFIED cross-cycle candidate-selection pattern. Directional motive (e.g. shifting GOP policy left/right) remains unproved and must be tested using candidate records and donor/recipient strategy evidence.
Connection research · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: RECONCILIATION UPGRADE: Primary FEC reproduces $175K Way Back→Hometown Heroes through 6/30/26, while previously captured Idaho Sunshine shows $205K. Preserve the unresolved $30K delta; do not silently choose one total. Officer identity still unresolved.
Research finding · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: SOURCED USE/EFFECT BASELINE: candidate-selection, ballot-reform, legislative-pressure and campaign-infrastructure channels are documented. Ideological direction varies by branch; no claim of centralized control or sole causation.
Connection research · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: VERIFIED CANDIDATE-SET OVERLAP: official 2023 Idaho GOP resolution plus 2026 DPI spending and IDI-PAC endorsement records. Reason for later support and any coordinated strategy remain unproved.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified recurrence of Way Back PAC, Article IV and Unite America PAC as Idaho funders in 2026. No Reclaim-to-Defend-and-Protect organizational connection established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified reported/FEC-derived 2026 financial network. No direct Reclaim-to-2026-PAC connection established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current Idaho governance and 2026 spending use verified; Way Back→DPI funding verified. Upstream WFF/1630 same-dollar attribution remains unproved.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC governance/media-buyer evidence plus Way Back/Hometown Heroes funding and candidate-specific spending verified. Do NOT merge with terminated 2018 Idaho First PAC absent legal continuity proof.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: CONTEMPORANEOUS IDAHO CAMPAIGN-FINANCE REPORTING VERIFIED candidate-level convergence. Coordination, common control and shared strategy are not established.
Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY local governance and current external-funding/use pattern verified from official site/FEC-linked reporting. Candidate support/opposition totals are contemporaneous reporting from Idaho filings; donor direction beyond documented outreach is NOT established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY/strongly verified Idaho steering and use: Way Back→Defend and Protect receipts, Idaho leadership, and candidate-specific independent expenditures documented. WFF/upstream donor selection of individual Idaho candidates is NOT established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: CURRENT/HISTORICAL CAMPAIGN-FINANCE VERIFIED: Victory→Liberty and Friends of Brad Little→Victory relationships plus 2026 Liberty/DPI candidate overlap established. Coordination/common control between the Little-associated and WFF/Way Back lanes is NOT established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified separate money paths. Critical limitation preserved: no evidence of funds flowing from Reclaim through IEA/PACE into the Republican-primary PAC network.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified current program partnership and personnel/PAC leadership bridge; no Idaho Solutions→Defend and Protect funding or coordination established.
Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: FEC-derived Way Back→Hometown Heroes/Idaho First payments and Idaho PAC-to-PAC transfers are verified/reported from campaign-finance records. Coordination and same-dollar retransfers are NOT established.