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Connection research · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified corporate political contribution; no verified downstream Idaho use
Right Insight LLC contributed $7,500 to the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) on January 25, 2026, according to RSLC’s IRS Form 8872 first-quarter report. The filing uses Right Insight’s PO Box 421, Boise address—the same ZIP/address used in federal campaign-vendor records. RSLC describes itself as the national Republican organization focused on electing state legislators and other down-ballot state officials. This establishes that Right Insight…
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Recorded status: FCC folder names, upload timestamp and document URLs verified; internal document contents not yet retrieved. Same-day Redbird relationship is a lead, not attribution proof.
KIVI-TV’s 2026 FCC political file contains a Defend and Protect Idaho folder under Non-Candidate Issue Ads. The station uploaded two documents at 2:42 p.m. on May 8, 2026: “KIVI Defend-and-Protect-Idaho-Political-PFD-05-08-2026” and “NAB DEFEND PROTECT IDAHO.” May 8 is also the date Defend and Protect Idaho reported a $110,000 payment to Redbird Strategies for category B broadcast advertising. This establishes a specific broadcast purchase artifact on the …
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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.
Transparency USA's 2024-cycle IMC page lists a $5,000 IMC payment to Idaho Victory Fund. Current-cycle data list a $50,000 Idaho Victory Fund payment to IMC. IMC's current endorsement list also includes candidates such as Tammy Nichols whom Victory-funded Idaho Liberty PAC had opposed in an earlier cycle, so the money relationship does not by itself establish slate control.
Evidence firewall: Financial relationship is documented; centralized candidate con…
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Recorded status: verified recurring transactions; direction and earmarking unproven
The legacy Idaho Sunshine ledger shows recurring direct support from Risch Pisca to Esto Perpetua: $1,000 on 2021-12-07, $1,000 on 2022-04-20, and $1,000 from Risch Pisca PLLC on 2023-08-14. The same historical record shows Esto Perpetua contributed $5,000 to Idaho Prosperity Fund on 2021-12-22. Separately, Idaho Education News reported in 2018 that Esto Perpetua had sent much of that year's contributions to Risch Pisca PLLC and Idaho Prosperity Fund. This…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY IDAHO SUNSHINE VERIFIED common management vendor and payments; reporting corroborates McLean-aligned slate. Way Back-to-Scrap-Shop contract and unlawful coordination remain unproved.
Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine records identify The Scrap Shop LLC as a substantial Idaho political-management node. The vendor profile reports 18 candidates and four PACs paid the firm $227,204. In 2023, Colin Nash paid The Scrap Shop $3,000 per month in multiple months; Lauren McLean paid much larger recurring management/payroll and operations amounts; Jordan Morales, Meredith Stead and James Hallyburton also paid the same firm. The historic client li…
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Recorded status: verified transaction pattern; earmarking and coordination unproven
Transaction-level Idaho Sunshine records show direct financial support for Esto Perpetua PAC from the Risch Pisca operation: Risch Pisca PLLC contributed $1,000 on 2023-08-14, and Jeremy Pisca contributed $2,000 on 2026-04-08. The ledger also shows an exact same-day funding match on 2026-05-21: Esto Perpetua received $10,000 from Jackson's, $10,000 from Tamarack Food and Beverage LLC, and $3,000 from DaVita—$23,000 total—and on that same date contributed e…
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Recorded status: corrected and verified with evidentiary caveat
CORRECTION: Hometown Heroes' profile lists “Esto Perpetua” among its contributors, but transaction-level Idaho Sunshine records show the underlying transfers occurred in 2026, not 2024: $35,000 on 2026-05-12 and $23,000 on 2026-05-21, both categorized as contributions to candidates/PACs and reported on Esto Perpetua's 2026 May Monthly Report. Separately, Hometown Heroes paid “Esto Perpetua Group” $22,396.57 on 2024-08-02 for production, using PO Box 2535, …
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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.
Three 2026 Republican primary contests under review are Brent Reinke vs. Glenneda Zuiderveld, Casey Swensen vs. Josh Kohl, and Cherie Vollmer vs. David Leavitt. Idaho GOP's own Integrity in Affiliation page records Reinke/Swensen/Vollmer as 'Yes, with exceptions' and Zuiderveld/Kohl/Leavitt as 'Yes.' Idaho Education News lists Defend & Protect independent spending of $36,532 against Zuiderveld, $31,990 against Kohl, and $16,138 against Leavitt.
Evidence f…
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Recorded status: Verified state-ledger payments; contractual and bank flow unresolved
Deduplicating the official Idaho Sunshine CSV by Transaction Id yields 18 Redbird transactions totaling $627,302 and three Hulsen Media Services transactions totaling $95,414. Defend and Protect Idaho paid Hulsen $77,194 on 04/30 for broadcast advertising, $16,420 on 05/05 for broadcast advertising, and $1,800 on 05/05 for ad preparation/production. It then paid Redbird heavily during the same primary window: $42,549 on 04/24; $12,500 total on 05/01; $20,0…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY IDAHO SUNSHINE VERIFIED for 2022 donors, payments and listed chair/treasurer; 2024 common-chair reporting corroborated but amendment chronology needs direct filing verification.
Official Idaho Sunshine records show the terminated Stronger Idaho PAC raised $91,000 from only six donors in 2022: Idaho Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee ($25,000), Political Action Committee for Education / Idaho Education Association PAC ($25,000), Accountable Idaho ($12,000), Not Another Penny–Labor First ($10,000), Conservation Voters for Idaho Action Fund ($10,000), and Keep Ada Home ($9,000). Stronger Idaho then reported at least $59,803.75…
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Recorded status: Verified shared filing and brand lineage; formal ownership, merger and continuing legal status unresolved
Federal trademark records show two distinct limited-liability-company applicants—Right Insight LLC and Right Impact LLC—filed related marks on the same day, November 2, 2022, through the same attorney, Alexandra Hodson, and each claimed first commercial use on May 1, 2022. Right Insight’s marks cover business messaging, advertising, market research and data analysis; Right Impact’s mark covers political strategy, voter analysis, campaign planning/staffing,…
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Recorded status: Verified non-exhaustive vendor-client footprint; reporting-cycle reconciliation and scopes of work still needed
Right Insight/Right Impact’s Idaho client footprint is broader than Defend and Protect Idaho and Jim Risch’s campaign. Public campaign-finance profiles and indexed Idaho Sunshine records identify payments from Idaho Majority Club ($14,826.57 shown on the current profile), Bedke for Idaho ($15,000), the Senate Republican PAC of Idaho ($2,500 to the earlier Right Impact name), the House Republican Caucus ($2,000), Todd Lakey’s 2022 state-senate campaign ($1,…
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Recorded status: Verified common funding/vendor pattern; exact-address identity bridge disproved; source-of-funds and control remain unresolved.
Defend and Protect Idaho’s profile lists Way Back PAC as its largest contributor at $400,000 and Redbird Strategies as a major broadcast-advertising vendor. Contemporary reporting says Way Back PAC also sent large sums to Hometown Heroes and Idaho First—two other committees that paid Redbird. This creates a common upstream-funder/common-vendor pattern worth tracing. However, the precise Wyoming addresses do not match: Way Back PAC’s official FEC address is…
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Recorded status: OFFICIAL FEC + IDAHO SUNSHINE / ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE VERIFIED. Durable funding/personnel relationship established; direction, earmarking, and unlawful coordination not established.
A newly resolved personnel-to-money edge tightens the Western Futures/Way Back/Votes Idaho topology. Official Idaho Sunshine search results report that Way Back PAC gave $1,000 to Colin Nash's Boise City Council campaign on September 15, 2023. Way Back's federal filing independently reports another $1,000 to COLIN NASH FOR BOISE on September 30, 2025, identified in the memo as “ID - COLIN NASH (BOISE CITY COUNCIL).” Votes Idaho Company's current site and I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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