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Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified in original Idaho campaign-finance filing; ownership/operator unresolved
Take Back Idaho PAC's original January 2022 C-2 (report 46280) lists two same-day payments to Esto Perpetua Group LLC on January 31, 2022: $790 under purpose code B (broadcast advertising) and $1,507.90 under purpose code P (postage), total $2,297.90. The recipient address is the Wyoming registered-agent address, 30 N Gould St., Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801. The report identifies Jennifer Ellis as committee chair and David High as treasurer; High signed it Fe…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified vendor overlap; evidentiary significance limited
A compiled Idaho campaign-finance payee index reports $39,935.12 from Idaho Liberty Defense and $12,124.43 from Defend and Protect Idaho to Autosort Commercial Mailing Services. This is a verified vendor overlap between the A.K. Lienhart-Minnick-controlled 2024 operation and one of the 2026 Republican-primary PACs. The overlap is low-probative by itself: Autosort is a general Boise commercial mailing/printing house, and the same payee index shows clients a…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified public executive/founder identification and company contact details; equity ownership and other members unresolved
Right Insight LLC’s public app-store developer disclosure identifies a direct company contact at daniel@rightinsight.org, telephone 479-220-8676, and 5762 N Rosa Springs Ave, Meridian, Idaho 83646. The same app states it was formerly known as Right Impact and provides voter-file data, canvassing, phone banking and CRM tools. Daniel Silver’s public professional profile identifies him as Right Insight’s CEO/founder, while Right Insight’s own site publishes c…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified common-vendor continuity and same-day timing; dollar-level earmarking and coordination unproven
A second national media vendor links Idahoans for Open Primaries to the Hometown Heroes redistribution network. Idaho Sunshine records show Idahoans for Open Primaries paid Targeted Platform Media, LLC $1,683,351.30 in October 2024 ($599,596.30 on Oct. 11; $648,755 on Oct. 18; $435,000 on Oct. 28) for broadcast advertising supporting Proposition 1. In May 2026, Magic Valley Voter Action paid the same vendor $80,919 on May 7 for a 23-candidate supportive sl…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified official federal payment timeline and broad temporal overlap; state-side transaction dates and scopes of work unresolved
The official OpenFEC Schedule B API returns 11 itemized payments from the Jim Risch for U.S. Senate Committee to Right Insight LLC totaling $38,173.22 from October 14, 2025 through June 4, 2026. Every transaction is categorized and described as advertising. The dates and amounts are: Oct. 14, 2025 $1,500; Dec. 19 $1,500; Jan. 14, 2026 two separate $1,500 payments; Mar. 11 $3,500; Apr. 3 $3,500 and $11,173.22; Apr. 10 $3,500; May 1 $3,500; May 26 $3,500; an…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified ledger pattern; ownership still unresolved
Defend and Protect Idaho's 2024 expenditure ledger shows Esto Perpetua Group paid $50,000 and $15,427 on May 20 for management services, while distinct vendors handled production, media buying, digital ads, and printing. Peppershock Media received $3,736.97 for ad preparation/production on May 20; Hulsen Media Services LLC received $68,900 on May 3 and $10,250 on May 6 for broadcast advertising; separate payments went to Meta, Google, ESP Print and Mail, a…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: verified with role/time limitations
Idaho Secretary of State business record 4665889 shows Right Insight LLC active since March 21, 2022. Its expanded filing history identifies Daniel Silver as the original governor, later manager, and current member. The March 4, 2024 annual-report history also identifies S. Max Brown of Eagle as a manager. The February 3, 2025 report changed Silver from manager to member, and the February 3, 2026 report again lists Silver as member; Brown is not shown in t…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified multi-stage funding chain; dollar-level tracing, earmarking, and coordination unproven
Western Futures Fund’s IRS-derived FY2024 record identifies $5.5 million in grants from five organizations, led by Sixteen Thirty Fund ($2.8 million) and New Venture Fund ($1.8 million), followed by Guardian of Rights Fund ($500,000), Civic Truth Coalition ($450,000), and Sheriff Accountability Action ($30,000). The same return identifies Western Futures’ officers as Michael Hennesy (president), Jeremy Krones (treasurer), and Christopher Hirsch (secretary)…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED transaction series and vendor address from Idaho Sunshine; Idaho registry exact-name negative check completed. Beneficial ownership and legal relationship to Esto Perpetua PAC remain unresolved.
Idaho Sunshine’s vendor-specific record shows Take Back Idaho PAC made six payments to “Esto Perpetua Group LLC” in 2022: $1,507.90 for postage and $790 for broadcast advertising on January 31; $5,500 on February 28; $5,500 on April 28; and $18,500 plus $3,041 on June 1. The six payments total $34,838.90. The vendor profile classifies the payee as a company and gives only a mailing address at 30 N. Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, Wyoming. An exact-name searc…
Read note and sources →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.
Archived Idaho records show Esto Perpetua PAC active since at least 2011 with Jeremy Pisca and Maggie Mallea in formal roles. Jeremy Pisca is a longtime Idaho lobbyist; current and historical sources show representation of clients including DaVita, Idaho REALTORS, Micron, PhRMA, Idaho Ground Water Appropriators and others. Corporate disclosures and PAC records show some represented companies also contributed to Esto Perpetua.
Evidence firewall: Representa…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified as two transactions; underlying invoices and media placements unresolved
The official Idaho Sunshine 2026 Expenditures CSV resolves the apparent date discrepancy. These are two separate Defend and Protect Idaho transactions, not alternate dates for one payment. Transaction 397047: $110,000 to Redbird Strategies, transaction date 05/08/2026, public distribution 05/12–05/19, Independent Expenditure Report dated 05/12, May Monthly Report filed 06/10. Transaction 397860: $110,000 to Redbird Strategies, transaction date 05/13/2026, …
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified in downloaded FCC contract and invoice; underlying payer and bank transfer not established
Official KSNQ FCC folder contains contract 6601147/revision 1 (uploaded May 1, 2026) and invoice 6601147-1 (uploaded May 29). Contract pages 1–2 specify Defend and Protect Idaho PAC as advertiser and Commercial Space Experts as agency, with alternate order 38528531 and estimate 4238. Gross $4,610.00 less agency commission $691.50 equals $3,918.50 net; calculated commission is 15%. Invoice dated May 24 reproduces the same totals. Invoice pages 1–2 list 75 o…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: verified primary-source connection; ownership and degree of coordination remain unresolved
Idaho Sunshine transaction-detail records show synchronized payments by otherwise separate PACs to Esto Perpetua Group at the same Boise PO box. On May 20, 2024, Right 2 Learn paid the vendor $15,000 for management services while Defend and Protect Idaho recorded two management-services payments of $50,000 and $15,427. On August 2, 2024, Hometown Heroes paid $22,396.57 for preparation and production of advertising while Defend and Protect Idaho paid $25,00…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 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.
The Washington Post reported Reinke saying E-Verify is a 'good program' but could burden Magic Valley employers, and that mandated local immigration enforcement could strain jails and taxpayers, while he also supported federal border policies.
Evidence firewall: This is a documented issue position; it does not establish why any PAC supported him.
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified vendor relationship and service profile; specific Senate client unresolved
Defend and Protect Idaho's official Idaho Sunshine profile lists Right Insight LLC among its top vendors at $17,562.36. Right Insight is not a generic fulfillment vendor: its own site describes an all-in-one political platform covering voter data, targeting, communications, fundraising, polling, canvassing/phone banking, digital advertising, campaign finance, and AI-assisted audience and messaging work. Its public client carousel names the Republican Natio…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Purchaser-form and order linkage verified; Redbird production attribution unproven
KREM's two NAB issue-ad forms identify agency Commercial Space Experts (CSE), contact K. Black, advertiser Defend and Protect Idaho, sponsor contact Gary Raney, and governing officers Gary Raney (Chair) and Judith Ellis (Treasurer). The May 8 station-signed form explicitly covers contracts 3277030 and 3277092, estimates 4265 and 4267, and checks Yes for ad submitted, with date received May 8, 2026. The May 14 station-signed form covers contract 3279153, es…
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Recorded status: Source located; PDF contents pending retrieval
The FCC KIVI-TV political-file index for 2026 lists two public PDFs under Defend and Protect Idaho: a station political-file disclosure and an NAB form. The direct URLs were resolved using the folder ID plus each file_manager_id. These documents are the strongest current lead for a named ad buyer, agency, contact, phone number, or signer. Their contents have not yet been verified because the FCC download host returned Access Denied to the research browser;…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: verified transactions; duplicate-entry versus separate-placement question unresolved
Idaho Sunshine's expenditure ledger shows two separate Defend and Protect Idaho payments to Redbird Strategies for broadcast advertising: $110,000 on May 8, 2026 and another $110,000 on May 13, 2026. Expanding each transaction produces the same seven-candidate opposition allocation: Daniel Foreman $26,671; Christy Zito $19,483.75; Josh Keyser $19,483.75; Barbara Ehardt $14,255; Julianne Young $14,255; Glenneda Zuiderveld $7,925.75; and Joshua Kohl $7,925.7…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Unresolved identity lead — name/business-line match only; no legal-entity bridge
Idaho campaign-finance records identify a payee named Redbird Strategies receiving $208,725 from Defend and Protect Idaho on May 13 and May 15, 2026; TransparencyUSA's aggregate Idaho payee index reports $597,302 statewide. A federal court filing in United States v. Casada/Cothren separately states that Cade Cothren controlled a business entity named Redbird Strategies and used it, among other entities, to conceal his identity in political business. A curr…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified funding concentration; additional $10,000 MVVA transaction date unresolved; control and coordination unproven
Idaho Sunshine committee profiles show unusually concentrated funding for two Hometown-linked downstream PACs. Idaho First reported $181,000 in contributions, supplied entirely by four PAC/network sources: Way Back PAC $100,000 (55.2%), Hometown Heroes $45,000 (24.9%), Right 2 Learn $30,000 (16.6%), and Take Back Idaho PAC $6,000 (3.3%). Magic Valley Voter Action reported $126,700 in contributions, of which Hometown Heroes supplied $112,000 (88.4%); the ba…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED: PAC officers and Risch Pisca bridge. DaVita independently discloses a 2026 PAC contribution. Vendor LLC owner and legal relationship to the PAC remain unresolved.
Primary records require separating three similarly named identities. (1) Esto Perpetua PAC is an Idaho political committee filed June 22, 2011; Idaho’s 2018 committee list names Jeremy Pisca as chairman and Maggie Mallea as treasurer, both at P.O. Box 1304, Boise, and the listed phone matches Risch Pisca’s current office number. Pisca’s firm biography identifies him as a partner, attorney, and lobbyist focused on government affairs. DaVita’s January 2026 p…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified live-versus-export mismatch; software cause inferred, not established
A controlled crosscheck found the same live roster problem with two different payees. In Redbird's $9,000 May 1 entry (383994), public detail lists 16 roster rows: 15 named candidates plus a blank-name/blank-office Support row. The preserved CSV lists 16 names including Lori Ann McCann at $529.41, with McCann's office blank. In Hulsen's $77,194 April 30 entry (383322), public detail lists nine rows: eight named candidates plus a blank-name/blank-office Sup…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: verified same-date network and targeting pattern; dollar-level allocation unproven
Hometown Heroes transferred $65,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho in two contributions: $45,000 on 2026-05-13 and $20,000 on 2026-05-15. Defend's independent-expenditure ledger reports $110,000 in Redbird Strategies broadcast expenditures on May 13 and $98,725 on May 15—$208,725 across the exact two transfer dates. May 13 opposition spending targeted Daniel Foreman ($26,671), Josh Keyser ($19,483.75), Christy Zito ($19,483.75), Julianne Young ($14,255), Barb…
Read note and sources →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.
Six Ada County Republican Central Committee officers resigned in October 2023: Victor Miller, Megan Reichle, Travis Clyde, Barrett Tetlow, Dave Litster, and Kim Wickstrum. The resignation statement described a dispute with state-party direction and candidate-support constraints. Several of those names later appear in IMC leadership/donor records.
Evidence firewall: Supports a documented internal-party governance dispute, not an inference of deceptive inte…
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