A.K. Lienhart-Minnick

2 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-17

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About A.K. Lienhart-Minnick

This is a verified vendor overlap between the A.K. Lienhart-Minnick-controlled 2024 operation and one of the 2026 Republican-primary PACs.

From Autosort processed mail for both Idaho Liberty Defense and Defend and Protect Idaho, but is a broad commercial vendor (2026-09-17). Recorded status: Verified vendor overlap; evidentiary significance limited New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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Other names appearing in the same research (15)

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People

Annette Tipton · 1 shared record
Codi Galloway · 1 shared record
Dan Foreman · 1 shared record
Walt Minnick · 1 shared record

PACs

Accountable Idaho · 2 shared records
Idaho Liberty Defense · 2 shared records
Stronger Idaho · 2 shared records
Defend and Protect Idaho · 1 shared record
Esto Perpetua · 1 shared record

Organizations

ESP Print and Mail · 1 shared record
Esto Perpetua Group · 1 shared record
Hulsen Media Services · 1 shared record
Idaho Democratic Party · 1 shared record
Planned Parenthood · 1 shared record
Redbird Strategies · 1 shared record

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Connection research · 2026-09-17Former Idaho Democratic chair A.K. Lienhart-Minnick controlled three interfunded Idaho PACs

Recorded status: MULTIPLE REPORTING SOURCES BASED ON IDAHO FILINGS VERIFIED: common chair, internal $56.5K transfer, PP Idaho contribution and 2024 candidate-direction spending. Direct amended C-1 and transaction PDFs remain a worthwhile primary-record follow-up.

Arlethea “A.K.” Lienhart-Minnick is not merely a compliance name. Contemporary and historical reporting identifies her as a former chair of the Idaho Democratic Party, a longtime campaign operative, and the wife of former Democratic U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick. Idaho Education News reported that she chaired Stronger Idaho, Accountable Idaho and Idaho Liberty Defense in the 2024 election. The three groups collectively spent more than $55,500 supporting Democrats and opposing Republicans in swing districts, including $10,110 opposing Republican Annette Tipton, $8,888 opposing Republican Codi Galloway and $8,530 opposing Republican Sen. Dan Foreman. Separate reporting based on state campaign-finance records says Accountable Idaho transferred $56,500 to Idaho Liberty Defense, which also received $12,000 from Planned Parenthood’s Idaho PAC. This confirms common human governance plus a large internal PAC-to-PAC transfer; it is stronger than parallel ideology or a shared vendor. It also situates the previously documented Stronger Idaho → Scrap Shop operation inside a PAC cluster controlled by a former state Democratic Party chair. The names “Idaho Liberty Defense” and “” do not disclose that partisan operating history. This does not by itself establish illegality, donor earmarking, coordination with candidates, or any relationship to the unrelated  PLLC criminal-defense law firm.

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