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Vendors included Arena Mail + Digital/Arena LLC, Redbird Strategies, ESP Print and Mail, Hulsen Media Services, Alliance Forge, Statara, Minute Mail Political, Scale To Win and others.

From Eight PAC lanes reported more than $107,000 supporting Brent Reinke in the 2026 primary (2026-09-17). Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED candidate-specific independent-expenditure ledger and arithmetic. Multi-PAC convergence established; coordination, earmarking, and common control not established. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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The largest reported payees are Campaign Associates LLC (~$546,967), Change Media Group ($100,000), ESP Print and Mail (~$48,919), Frame by Frame Productions (~$30,232), Scale to Win (~$17,128), plus Meta/Facebook, Google, USPS and other campaign/organizing vendors.
Melanie Folwell directs Idahoans United strategy while its 2026 committee spends heavily on campaign vendors · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY leadership/initiative role plus current campaign-finance spending verified. Western Futures $60K general-purpose grant is documented, but no specific WFF dollar is traced to a vendor or initiative expense.

The largest reported payees include Campaign Associates LLC at about $546,967, Change Media Group at $100,000, ESP Print and Mail at about $48,919, Frame by Frame Productions at about $30,232, Scale to Win at about $17,128, plus Meta/Facebook, Google, FundHero and other campaign/communications vendors.
Western Futures-funded Idahoans United is led by Melanie Folwell and has spent heavily on the 2026 statewide ballot campaign · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Leadership, direct WFF grant, initiative sponsorship and 2026 committee expenditures verified. WFF grant use for specific expenditures is not established.

Current campaign-finance aggregation of Idaho filings reports approximately $867,631 in expenditures, led by $546,967.25 to Campaign Associates LLC, $100,000 to Change Media Group, $48,918.91 to ESP Print and Mail, $30,231.50 to Frame by Frame Productions, $17,127.71 to Scale to Win, $10,296.54 to Fundhero, $9,502 to Meta/Facebook and smaller digital/travel/printing costs.
Melanie Folwell directly steers Idahoans United as campaign spending flows heavily to consultants, media and field infrastructure · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY leadership/role verified; campaign spending totals/payees are current secondary aggregation of Idaho filings. WFF/NVF grants are NOT traced to specific vendors.

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Melanie Folwell · 3 shared records
Brent Reinke · 1 shared record
Glenneda Zuiderveld · 1 shared record

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Defend and Protect Idaho · 1 shared record
Hometown Heroes · 1 shared record
Idaho Dairy Industry PAC · 1 shared record
Idaho Liberty PAC · 1 shared record
Idaho Majority Club · 1 shared record
Magic Valley Voter Action · 1 shared record
WinAg PAC · 1 shared record

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ESP Print and Mail · 4 shared records
Campaign Associates LLC · 3 shared records
Change Media Group · 3 shared records
Frame by Frame Productions

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Connection research · 2026-09-17Eight PAC lanes reported more than $107,000 supporting Brent Reinke in the 2026 primary

Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED candidate-specific independent-expenditure ledger and arithmetic. Multi-PAC convergence established; coordination, earmarking, and common control not established.

Idaho Sunshine’s candidate-specific independent-expenditure table for Brent Reinke lists 35 supportive transactions. Summed by filer, the major disclosed totals are Idaho Liberty PAC $66,077.24; Idaho Prosperity Fund $16,426.03; Defend and Protect Idaho $12,443.38; Magic Valley Voter Action $4,772.69; Hometown Heroes $3,052.68; Idaho Majority Club $2,398.28; Idaho Dairy Industry PAC $1,308.44; and WinAg PAC $559.51. Two small Concerned Citizens of the Magic Valley entries add $8.32. The table therefore reports $107,046.57 in supportive independent expenditures for Reinke across these filers, concentrated immediately before the May 19, 2026 primary. Vendors included Arena Mail + Digital/Arena LLC, Redbird Strategies, ESP Print and Mail, Hulsen Media Services, Alliance Forge, Statara, Minute Mail Political, Scale To Win and others. Supported conclusion: Reinke’s successful challenge to  was backed by a coordinated-looking but legally distinct multi-PAC spending convergence that included the Little/Idaho Victory-linked , ’s , dairy/agriculture PACs, ,  and the Hometown-funded  intermediary. Evidence firewall: parallel support and shared vendors do not prove legal coordination or a common controller. ’ direct candidate-specific amount was $3,052.68, not $100,000; the six-figure figure emerges only by aggregating multiple independent filers. Hometown’s separate transfers to  and  establish funding relationships but do not prove that particular transferred dollars were earmarked for the Reinke race.

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