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Hometown Heroes PAC

6 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-18

LIVING DOSSIER

About Hometown Heroes PAC

Hometown Heroes PAC: $100,000 on April 30, 2026, D-35622-B (PDF page 30).

From Original FEC rows date $550,000 from Way Back to three Idaho PACs (2026-09-18). Recorded status: Primary FEC records verified; prior interpretation corrected or upgraded; no finding of unlawful coordination. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

Recent sourced additions

Newer published records appear here as excerpts. Their recorded status and qualifications remain attached to the full source record.

Way Back PAC's FEC filing shows a $100,000 disbursement to Hometown Heroes PAC in the relevant filing period.
Hometown Heroes as intermediary PAC · 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.

1-June 3, 2026 reports $350,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho, $100,000 to Hometown Heroes PAC and $100,000 to Idaho First, plus a $75,000 payment back to Western Futures Fund.
Western Futures Fund is formally listed as Way Back PAC’s connected organization as Way Back routes money into Idaho PACs · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Connected-organization relationship and $125K 2025 WFF receipt are primary verified; current reporting puts cumulative WFF→Way Back at $1.125M, with the $1M raw receipt row still pending reproduction.

3, 2026 reporting shows Way Back paid $350,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho, $100,000 to Hometown Heroes PAC and $100,000 to Idaho First, alongside a $75,000 payment back to Western Futures Fund.
Way Back’s current funding scale shows about $1.2M in Western Futures receipts and $650K from Toolbox before major Idaho PAC disbursements · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current FEC summary and FEC-bulk aggregation verified; one $125K WFF row is primary reproduced and WFF connected-organization status is primary verified. Remaining large WFF/Toolbox receipt rows still require raw-row reproduction before transaction-level finality.

1-June 3, 2026 list $350,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho, $100,000 to Hometown Heroes PAC and $100,000 to Idaho First.
2026 Idaho PAC network extends Way Back funding into Defend/Protect, Hometown Heroes and Idaho First · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified reported/FEC-derived 2026 financial network. No direct Reclaim-to-2026-PAC connection established.

1-June 3 shows $100,000 each to Idaho committees Hometown Heroes PAC and Idaho First, in addition to $350,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho.
Way Back money enters multiple Idaho PAC layers before candidate-support/opposition spending · 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.

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Connections

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Other names appearing in the same research (17)

These are research overlaps for discovery, not documented relationships. Read the underlying records before drawing conclusions.

People

Bruce Newcomb · 1 shared record
Gary Raney · 1 shared record
Lynne Walz · 1 shared record

PACs

Hometown Heroes · 6 shared records
Idaho First · 6 shared records
Way Back PAC · 6 shared records
Defend and Protect Idaho · 5 shared records
Take Back Idaho · 2 shared records
Defend & Protect Idaho · 1 shared record
Right 2 Learn · 1 shared record
Take Back Idaho PAC · 1 shared record
Unite America PAC · 1 shared record

Organizations

Western Futures Fund · 2 shared records
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SOURCED RECORD

Research & sources

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Connection research · 2026-09-18Original FEC rows date $550,000 from Way Back to three Idaho PACs

Recorded status: Primary FEC records verified; prior interpretation corrected or upgraded; no finding of unlawful coordination.

Primary-source upgrade, September 18, 2026: Way Back PAC's original pre-primary FEC report 1982527, filed June 11 for April 1–June 3, reports five Schedule B line 29 transactions totaling $550,000 to three Idaho committees. Hometown Heroes PAC: $100,000 on April 30, 2026, D-35622-B (PDF page 30). Idaho First: $100,000 on May 4, D-36049-B (page 30). Defend and Protect Idaho: $100,000 on May 5, D-36052-B; $150,000 on May 7, D-36055-B; and $100,000 on May 15, D-36059-B (pages 26–27), totaling $350,000. All five describe a contribution to a non-federal committee from the non-contribution account. The original electronic records and corresponding PDF text were inspected, upgrading earlier payee aggregation with dates and transaction identifiers. These records establish Way Back's direct funding of all three committees. They do not identify instructions for particular Idaho candidates, messages, advertisements or shared approval. The report's separate $75,000 Western Futures in-kind research item explicitly names Lynne Walz in Nebraska; that earmark must not be applied to these Idaho transactions. Earlier secondary reporting of Gary Raney's contact with Way Back remains a separate source-supported claim; this filing alone does not establish what was discussed. Donor-receipt tracing for this report uses Schedule A line 17, while these payments use Schedule B line 29; an earlier reference to Schedule H should not guide this specific lookup. Next useful evidence: grant terms, instructions and recipient-side records explaining the purpose and decision authority behind these five transfers.

Sources

Way Back PAC pre-primary report FEC-1982527 — Schedule B line 29, pages 26–27 and 30; transactions D-35622-B, D-36049-B, D-36052-B, D-36055-B, D-36059-B
Original electronic filing 1982527 — Five SB29 transaction IDs identified above

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