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Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
Transcription of 92 candidate-allocated rows displayed in WinAg's official Sunshine independent-expenditure table, retrieved September 18, 2026. These are expenditures by WinAg, not receipts by the candidates. Vendor spellings and blank candidate entries are retained. This is not a report-by-report amendment audit.
Displayed rows total $53527.63. The 2026 dashboard total of $54,176.45 exceeds its displayed candidate-allocated rows ($53,527.63) by $648.82.…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
WinAg reports $20,000 from Simplot across 2024 and 2025. IACI's current board lists Ken Dey of J.R. Simplot, Christina Hardesty of Amalgamated Sugar and Dean Talley of Bayer US. Separately, WinAg reports $5,000 from Amalgamated Sugar Company PAC and $40,000 from Far West Agribusiness Association. FWAA's current board and membership include Bayer and Simplot.
A four-edge route supported by official pages is: WinAg receives Simplot money; IACI identifies Ke…
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Recorded status: Official portal entries transcribed; totals have stated reconciliation limits.
Captured September 18, 2026. These are entries attributed to Chenele Dixon's 2024 election cycle, including 2023 receipts. This is part 1 of the 276-entry contribution ledger. The full ledger sums to $86,330.19, versus $86,350.34 on the profile: a $20.15 difference remains unresolved. Loans and outside independent expenditures are separate. Contribution type (cash versus in-kind) is not independently classified here. Names retain the portal's wording. Thes…
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Recorded status: 2024 filing verified; current president confirmed; complete 2026 board not verified
As of this September 18, 2026 review, Sixteen Thirty Fund's website identifies Amy Kurtz as president. The newest complete Form 990 located is for calendar 2024, filed in November 2025. It is a historical governance snapshot, not a verified September 2026 roster.
At year-end 2024 the disclosed five voting directors were Dara Freed (treasurer and interim chair from July 15, 2024), Marissa Brown (director and secretary from May 2, 2024), Jeff Cherry (direct…
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Recorded status: Primary platform identity and creative index verified; exact production/agency/broadcast linkage unresolved
Google Ads Transparency Center identifies verified advertiser AR12070793104785932289, legal name Defend and Protect Idaho, EIN 88-1622628, United States. All-topics view showed 25 unique creative URLs; the political view listed 24 records: 19 with May 2026 flights and five with 2022 flights. Initial DOM duplicated the 25 links as 50 entries; deduplication by creative URL prevents double counting. Political Insights, Any time, displayed $45,100 across 24 ad…
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Recorded status: Primary creative identity and platform-reported delivery verified; production vendor, bank payer and KREM ad-ID linkage unproven
Ten Google political-ad records resolve through visible embedded players to Public Safety First videos on Defend and Protect Idaho's YouTube channel. This records platform titles, identifiers, flights, spending ranges and times shown, not independent validation of campaign claims or a production-cost ledger. Each row is one Google creative, irrespective of displayed format variations. Dates below are 2026.
Candidate/title suffix | Google creative | YouTub…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
The previously transcribed official WinAg independent-expenditure ledger contains twenty allocations naming Prescott Consulting as payee, all dated May 13, 2024, each $250, totaling $5,000. The purpose is Preparation & Production of Advertising. Sixteen entries support named candidates; three oppose named candidates and one opposition entry has no candidate name displayed. These are candidate allocations, not evidence of twenty invoices or twenty separate …
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Recorded status: Official dashboard observed; transaction dates, duplicate vendor entries and detailed expenditure totals require reconciliation.
The official Idaho Sunshine profile for Laurie Lickley, State Senate District 26, election year 2024, was inspected September 18, 2026 with Primary, General, Runoff and Recall checked. The combined financial summary displays election-cycle contributions of $88,700.58 and expenditures of $124,711.24. These are dashboard figures as inspected, not independently reconciled ledger totals.
The Top Contributors panel lists: Idaho Cattle PAC $2,000; Blaine County…
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Recorded status: Official company and historical lobbying records verified; vendor identity and current clients unresolved.
Idaho SOS business search identifies PRESCOTT CATTLE AND CONSULTING, LLC, entity 502552, initially filed April 29, 2016, currently Active-Existing, registered agent Wyatt Prescott. Its history lists administrative dissolution July 13, 2023 followed by a reinstatement application July 19, 2023 and annual reports in 2024, 2025 and April 8, 2026. The current status is active; the brief historical interruption is not evidence of misconduct. A registered-agent …
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Recorded status: Primary institutional descriptions verified; lease instrument, named advisory representatives, procurement records and payment records unresolved.
The University of Idaho's current Rinker Rock Creek Ranch page identifies joint management by its College of Natural Resources and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Its advisory committee includes the Idaho Governor's Office of Species Conservation, Idaho Cattle Association, Idaho Fish and Game, Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission, Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited and Wood River Land Trust. This…
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Recorded status: Named biography, interview and outreach report checked; undated roles and unverified social-profile claim bounded.
A USCRI staff biography identifies Zeze Rwasama as its director of refugee services and says he has served on the boards of Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho, Culture for Change and Valley House Homeless Shelter. The biography does not date the board terms. An ACLU of Idaho interview identifies Alejandra Hernandez as Unity executive director at publication and describes her earlier work with Twin Falls School District and College of Southern Idaho; being in…
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Recorded status: Verified official register entries; executed contracts and disbursements not reviewed.
The Idaho State Controller's Transparent Idaho State Agreements and Contracts register, searched for Prescott on September 18, 2026, returned two agreements naming Prescott Cattle and Consulting LLC.
1. Department of Fish and Game: Camas Prairie – Centennial Marsh Wildlife Management Area West Side Targeted Grazing Project. Execution date September 8, 2026. Agency identifier IDFG-FY27-200. The register lists Total Contract Cost of $41,507.37, Monetary Val…
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Recorded status: primary order/invoice reconciliation verified; NAB contents unverified due retrieval failure
KXLY's four posted contract PDFs were retrieved and visually inspected (eight pages). Contract24615 v1 May8 totals20spots/$3,880gross/$582commission/$3,298net,matching invoice24615-1. Contract24964 v1 May14 totals13spots/$2,260gross/$339commission/$1,921net,matching invoice24964-1. Contract24618 v1 May8 totals17spots/$3,120gross/$468commission/$2,652net; v2 May26 credits the May16 UFL Late spot, resulting16spots/$3,020gross/$453commission/$2,567net,matchin…
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Recorded status: Grant amounts secondary-reported; original donor returns and grant dates not yet verified. Officer and financial data IRS-derived.
Cause IQ reports Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as grantmaker of $15,000 for Community Improvement & Capacity Building and Nelson-Jameson Foundation as grantmaker of $500. Original grant schedules, grant years, restrictions and upstream source unresolved. Cause IQ database update February 3, 2026 is not a grant date. Do not substitute Rockefeller Foundation for RPA or infer a Rockefeller-family personal donation/control. Unity EIN 84-2810356. ProPublica…
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Recorded status: Primary self-description verified as published; election-year context inferred; campaign claims and producer attribution unverified
The PAC's own website links Facebook page IdahoansAgainstExtremism. The public page displayed a post dated May 21 headed as a message from chair Gary Raney. After expanding See more, the post described the PAC's campaign work: highlighting support for law enforcement and the rule of law, candidates' associations with Ammon Bundy, votes on Benji's Law, and Idaho State Police staffing/pay concerns. It claimed successes involving Reinke, Requa, Swensen, Vollm…
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Recorded status: Official portal entries transcribed; totals have stated reconciliation limits.
Captured September 18, 2026. These are entries attributed to Chenele Dixon's 2024 election cycle, including 2023 receipts. This is part 2 of the 276-entry contribution ledger. The full ledger sums to $86,330.19, versus $86,350.34 on the profile: a $20.15 difference remains unresolved. Loans and outside independent expenditures are separate. Contribution type (cash versus in-kind) is not independently classified here. Names retain the portal's wording. Thes…
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Recorded status: Primary FEC records verified; prior interpretation corrected or upgraded; no finding of unlawful coordination.
UPDATE AND PRIMARY-SOURCE UPGRADE, September 18, 2026: The earlier high-confidence reconstruction is now directly verified, and the filing identifies a Nebraska beneficiary. Way Back PAC's current pre-primary FEC report 1982527, filed June 11, 2026 for April 1–June 3, records a $75,000 receipt from Western Futures Fund on May 22, transaction R-1357756-A, Schedule A line 17, PDF page 15. The receipt describes an in-kind item earmarked for Lynne Walz (Nebras…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
The current Sunshine portal displays 24 contribution entries for WinAg PAC, spanning April 29, 2024 through June 5, 2026. Their sum is $260,500: calendar 2024 $197,500; 2025 $10,000; 2026 $53,000. This is the complete displayed current-portal ledger, not a lifetime total: 2022 records exist in the legacy portal. All displayed contributions have Idaho addresses, but an Idaho address does not establish that all underlying association members or capital are I…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
WinAg's official records disclose Idaho Dairy Industry PAC contributions of $8,000 in 2022, $30,000 on April 29, 2024, and $20,000 on May 4, 2026: $58,000 across the reviewed legacy and current records. This is a direct financial connection.
The Idaho Dairymen's Association Summer 2026 newsletter goes further: its PAC discussion explicitly describes working with WinAg in Districts 24, 25 and 28. It places those races in the context of E-Verify legislation…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Official portal entries transcribed; totals have stated reconciliation limits.
Captured September 18, 2026. These are entries attributed to Chenele Dixon's 2024 election cycle, including 2023 receipts. This is part 3 of the 276-entry contribution ledger. The full ledger sums to $86,330.19, versus $86,350.34 on the profile: a $20.15 difference remains unresolved. Loans and outside independent expenditures are separate. Contribution type (cash versus in-kind) is not independently classified here. Names retain the portal's wording. Thes…
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Recorded status: arithmetic verified; budget-reallocation explanation is inference, not bank-transfer proof
Additional primary-document reconciliation after inspecting KHQ's original248931 (May8) and revised248931 (May13). Original248931 totals18spots/$16,775gross/$2,516.25commission/$14,258.75net; revised totals29spots/$23,275gross/$3,491.25commission/$19,783.75net. The gross increase is exactly$6,500. Over the same May8-revised to May13-revised comparison,248930 decreases exactly$6,500 ($20,325 to$13,825). Their combined gross remains$37,100 before and after. …
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Distinct creative IDs, linked videos and platform-reported delivery verified; campaign claims, production payee and broadcast equivalence unverified
Eight Google political-ad records resolve to distinct issue-based videos on the same Defend and Protect Idaho YouTube channel. Visible ad copy tells viewers to reject the named candidates. The following is a primary platform index, not endorsement or verification of the advertisements' claims; all flight dates are 2026.
Title | Google creative | YouTube video ID | Flight | Spend range USD | Times shown
Idaho Immigration: Zuiderveld & Hostetler | CR0051011…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
The official Idaho business registry's April 8, 2026 annual-report history for Prescott Cattle and Consulting LLC (entity 502552; report control 0006748644) lists Christie Jean Prescott as manager in both the removed and added party entries. This appears as a renewed manager entry, not evidence that she newly acquired the company on that date. Wyatt Prescott remains the registered agent. Ownership percentages and the complete operating agreement are not di…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Official portal entries transcribed; totals have stated reconciliation limits.
The Sunshine profile's reported-by-others independent expenditure ledger contains 79 entries attributed to Dixon's 2024 race. Displayed support entries sum to $38,321.72; opposition entries total $192.77. These are outside expenditures, not contributions to her campaign. Totals sum the displayed candidate-attributed entries and have not been independently reconciled against amended underlying reports; similar-looking entries are retained rather than silent…
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