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Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Primary FEC records verified; prior interpretation corrected or upgraded; no finding of unlawful coordination.
Correction and primary-source reconciliation, September 18, 2026: Way Back PAC's original electronic filings reproduce three Western Futures Fund receipts in the January 2025–June 2026 reporting period: $125,000 on April 29, 2025 (report 1907288, SA17 transaction 13026685); $1,000,000 on January 13, 2026 (report 1961839, SA17 R-1107416-A); and $75,000 on May 22, 2026 (report 1982527, SA17 R-1357756-A). They total $1,200,000, but the last item is expressly …
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Recorded status: PRIMARY FEC VERIFIED: matching in-kind receipt/expenditure and Nebraska beneficiary; prior reconstruction upgraded; cash-return inference unsupported.
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: Organization-published roster and membership pages checked September 18, 2026; independent current tenure, dates of service, control and funding are not established by these pages.
Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho describes its purpose as building understanding of immigrants' contributions to Southern Idaho's economy, workforce and communities. Its About page, checked September 18, 2026, publishes a board and adviser roster. This records what the organization lists on that page; the listing itself does not independently establish each person's current tenure or any control over other organizations.
The officer section names Twin Fal…
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Recorded status: Current website roster and membership tiers checked; tenure, payment amounts and legal-entity matches not independently established.
Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho's published About page lists Matthew Hicks as president, Daragh Maccabee as vice president, Ray Parrish as treasurer and Miranda Irby as executive director. It lists Chenele Dixon, Bob Naerebout and other board members, and Rick Naerebout, Con Paulos, Alex Castaneda and Craig Kingsbury as advisers. These are website-listed roles; the page alone does not prove independent current tenure or control of another organization. Th…
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Recorded status: primary forms visually verified; no violation or producer identity inferred
KHQ contract248930/estimate4265 has three posted versions with the same contract and alternate-order numbers. All six pages visually inspected: May8 original totals18spots/$18,325gross/$2,748.75commission/$15,576.25net; May8 Revised totals22spots/$20,325gross/$3,048.75commission/$17,276.25net; May13 Revised(2) totals16spots/$13,825gross/$2,073.75commission/$11,751.25net. Do not add those gross amounts or count them as three separate purchases.
The latest v…
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Recorded status: Foundation's project and leadership pages verified; no new contractor payment or award-selection evidence.
The Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation identifies Rinker Rock Creek Ranch Barn and Technology as a 2025 grant-awarded project. Its project description concerns restoration of the historic barn for education, classroom technology, research equipment and telecommunications. No grant amount is stated on that page. This documents support for the ranch facility; it does not identify Prescott Cattle and Consulting LLC as the grant recipient or establish that Wya…
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Recorded status: Primary campaign page verified; names are public contributor entries, individual amounts and fulfillment unverified.
December 2021 campaign reports $24,134 raised toward $20,000. It identifies Craig Kingsbury as president, Bob Naerebout as treasurer and Alejandra Hernandez as executive director. Public contributor entries include Sarah Cox, Priscilla Salant, Salome Mwangi, Tamara Harmon, Jerome School District, Susan Medlin, Haji Shearer, Dorothy Morris, Wendy Jaquet, Ali Noorani, Consilio Consultants, Alejandro L Castaneda, Con Paulos, Katelyn Heller, Kathleen Minogue, …
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Official live SOS registration/history verified; Dixon transactions from preserved primary-ledger transcription; donor identities and energy employer remain unresolved.
Idaho SOS business search identifies WINECUP L CATTLE, LLC, entity 623356, formed August 30, 2018, currently Active-Existing. Registered agent is LAURA M LICKLEY. The August 3, 2026 annual-report history, control 0006935540, lists William V Lickley and Laura M Lickley as members. Both appear in removal and addition fields with identical information: this is not evidence that either joined or departed in 2026. Ownership percentages are not disclosed. ICEN's…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
The current Idaho Sunshine profile identifies WinAg PAC as active, filing entity 482, with Wyatt Prescott serving as both chairman and treasurer. The profile displays registration on December 29, 2023 and amendment on January 6, 2025. That is not a reliable founding date: the legacy Sunshine record, campaign 2503, already contains a C-1C registration dated April 7, 2022, names Prescott in both roles, and records 2022 activity.
Identified 2022 outside rece…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Official legislative biography, organization biography and dated board-authored column; energy-company identity and financial relationships unresolved.
Focus shifted to Laurie Lickley, interpreting the owner's reference to likely in the immediately preceding Lickley discussion.
Lickley's 2019 official legislative biography identifies Idaho Beef Council chair service in 2009–2011, Idaho Cattle Association presidency in 2016, National Cattlemen's leadership/board involvement, and contract community-relations work with an unnamed renewable-energy company. It lists service on Environment, Energy & Technology…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
WinAg reports a $40,000 contribution from Far West Agribusiness Association on April 29, 2024. FWAA describes itself as a membership trade association serving fertilizer and agricultural chemical businesses across Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Utah. Its current executive director is Doug Brock; its June 2024 newsletter names Craig Smith as executive director at that time.
Current FWAA board listings include president Jeff Pritchard (Westlink Co-op…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-18
Recorded status: Historical error/correction attributed to contemporary reporting; present Wyoming address and 2026 totals verified in official UI; intent unresolved
Newly retrieved historical reporting identifies a concrete geographic-disclosure correction. Sean Dolan's May 18, 2026 EdNews report says five timed contribution reports signed by Gary Raney since February 2024 placed Way Back PAC in Sheridan, Idaho rather than Wyoming. EdNews reports that the PAC acknowledged an error and that Secretary of State staff corrected Sunshine within about two hours of notification. The displayed in-state share reportedly change…
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Recorded status: Documented personnel and institutional links; Idaho strategic rationale is an explicitly labeled inference; grant-level direction remains unverified
Sixteen Thirty Fund should not be treated as the established ultimate source or controlling apex of the Idaho network. It describes itself as a progressive fiscal sponsor: sponsored projects operate under its legal status and receive administrative support, while donors supply project funding. Independently incorporated grant recipients are not automatically sponsored projects.
PERSONNEL. Amy Kurtz, identified as president by Sixteen Thirty and Columbia U…
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Recorded status: Primary official portal transcription; historical and current data distinguished.
The official WinAg Sunshine table displays 178 candidate allocations for 2024 totaling $195,434.22. These are independent expenditures, not candidate receipts. Includes $8,608.15 supporting Chenele Dixon. This transcription retains displayed vendor spellings and blank candidate labels; underlying amended reports have not all been reconciled.
| Date | Position | Candidate | Vendor | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---:|
| 12/16/2024 | Support | Parker, Julia | J…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified arithmetic from preserved official CSV; reported allocations are not audited bank payments or ad-content verification
Scope: only Defend and Protect Idaho's transactions to Redbird Strategies and Hulsen Media Services LLC in the official 2026 Expenditures CSV downloaded September 17. Source snapshot SHA256 b06d0cfbf358b6463309b015c35a65cdf106ff142a118591d438bf5b05fee9c1 was rechecked unchanged. Treat the repeated Transaction Amount on candidate rows as non-additive; vendor totals deduplicate by Transaction Id, while candidate totals sum populated Amount Applied rows. Redb…
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Recorded status: verified portal discrepancy; cause and legal significance unresolved
Idaho Sunshine currently displays a one-sided $23,000 inter-PAC transaction. Esto Perpetua's expenditure ledger reports a $23,000 contribution to Hometown Heroes on 2026-05-21, and links the recipient to Hometown Heroes GUID fa1d6e18-bc17-4805-be74-987ce8c71ed0. That same Hometown Heroes entity's contribution ledger displays the $35,000 Esto receipt of 2026-05-12 but does not display the $23,000 receipt of 2026-05-21; its profile likewise totals Esto Perpe…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED filing ID, formation date, address, and 53-day formation-to-first-payment interval. Organizer and beneficial owner remain unresolved pending the Wyoming filed-document PDFs.
Wyoming Secretary of State’s official 2021 domestic-charter archive identifies Esto Perpetua Group LLC as filing ID 2021-001059065, formed December 9, 2021, with the address 30 N. Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801. Idaho Sunshine then records the company’s first presently reproduced Take Back Idaho transactions on January 31, 2022: $1,507.90 for postage and $790 for broadcast advertising. The LLC was therefore formed 53 days before the first repr…
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Recorded status: verified
A 13-page City of Nampa document says Right Insight LLC analyzed results and key themes from 2,414 responses to the city's 2023 citizen survey. Every substantive page is marked 'Confidential. All rights reserved by Right Impact LLC.' The report segmented responses by council district and demographics and recommended targeted follow-up for underrepresented groups. This is first-party evidence that the linked Right Insight/Right Impact entities performed loc…
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.
SCR 118's recorded 2026 roll calls show Kohl and Zuiderveld among three Senate no votes and Leavitt/Hostetler among House no votes. HB 445 provided ongoing water-project funding and passed in 2025; roll-call records document the relevant no votes. IDA's advocacy framing should be separated from legislators' stated fiscal/oversight rationales.
Evidence firewall: Vote alignment is factual; advocacy claims about motive or being 'against water infrastructure'…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified from supplied FCC PDFs; transaction-role interpretation unresolved
Verification: the user-provided KIVI Political File Disclosure Form is dated May 8, 2026 and identifies Commercial Space Experts, 2400 Laramie Trail, Austin, TX 78745, phone 512-297-7349, contact Kristin Black, as the agency. The sponsor is Defend and Protect Idaho, PO Box 162, Boise; Gary Raney is listed as chair and Judith Ellis as treasurer. The form does not name Redbird Strategies. This date matches the $110,000 Defend-and-Protect payment to Redbird r…
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Recorded status: Verified from federal post-trial filing and DOJ sentencing release; later pardon/vacatur does not change what evidence was presented, but current legal disposition must be stated separately.
A post-trial federal filing, expressly citing government exhibits admitted at trial and witness testimony, reconstructs the Tennessee scheme. Cade Cothren created Phoenix Solutions and operated through the fabricated identity “Matthew Phoenix,” including a fraudulent W-9. His girlfriend posed in email as another invented employee. Glen Casada and Robin Smith used their positions and access to recruit legislators and pressure legislative fiscal officials wh…
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.
Idaho Dairymen's Association's Spring 2026 publication ties its political concerns to workforce/E-Verify and water funding and criticizes specific Magic Valley legislators over water votes. Public reporting also identifies Brent Reinke as the dairy industry's preferred challenger and records his stated concerns about state-level E-Verify burdens.
Evidence firewall: Industry policy interest and candidate preference are documented; direction of other PACs i…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: verified from transaction-level state records
Idaho Sunshine's transaction-level expenditure ledger shows the Idaho Esto Perpetua political committee made 23 contributions totaling $37,000 on 2024-04-23. The batch consisted of $15,000 to North Idaho Republicans PAC plus $1,000 each to 22 candidates: Sean Coletti, Todd Lakey, Lance Clow, Jim Guthrie, Josh Wheeler, Mark Harris, Benjamin Adams, Marco Erickson, Gregory Lanting, Ilana Rubel, Janie Ward-Engelking, Chris Mathias, James Ruchti/Just (listed se…
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.
IMC publicly describes a vetting/endorsement process and says endorsed candidates may receive campaign strategy/planning, fundraising coordination, grassroots organization, media/communications support, and post-election governance guidance. Its candidate form says submissions are shared with an 'endorsement committee.' Membership applications require sponsorship by two current members and ask about elected office, campaign roles, and party affiliation. Th…
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