Hold Idaho Accountable was very active in helping to defeat Sonya Harris, the ONLY incumbent Idaho school board trustee who had been willing to be on Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s “Indoctrination Committee.” This Indoctrination Committee has been investigating Idaho teachers and school districts based on false allegations and wild conspiracy theories. Volunteers with Hold Idaho […]

An eastern Idaho man who created a new nonprofit organization to serve as a watchdog for political candidates and groups has filed a complaint against the Idaho Freedom Foundation with the IRS. Travis Oler, a Democratic legislative candidate from Shelley, created the Hold Idaho Accountable nonprofit organization earlier this year.  One of his first actions with the […]

In comments this month at the City Club of Boise, the leader of the Idaho Senate, Republican Senator Chuck Winder, called the Idaho Freedom Foundation a huge threat to democracy. Senator Winder said: “I think my greatest disappointment is how many legislators are willing to follow the directions of the Idaho Freedom Foundation. And to […]

Whenever the Idaho Freedom Foundation and its allied politicians are attacked for representing special interests, they have two basic defenses. First, the Idaho Freedom Foundation argues that conservatives are not a “special interest” and that the Idaho Freedom Foundation simply represents conservatives. Second, the Idaho Freedom Foundation appeals to authority by claiming that its Freedom […]

Parrish Miller has been listed on the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s website as one of its three “Idaho Freedom Index Analysts” who evaluate and score hundreds of Idaho legislative bills every year. During the 2020 Idaho regular legislative session, Parrish Miller scored more than 90 bills, including over half of the bills rated by the Idaho […]

Wayne Hoffman, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, has claimed that the Idaho Freedom Foundation does not do much lobbying. What a farce!  Judge for yourself whether the Idaho Freedom Foundation engages in lobbying by reading through part of a conversation that Hoffman had this year with Senator Steven Thayn, the chairman of the Idaho […]