"Yeah, I paid a big price for this." Hemphill spent two months in the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, for taking part in the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. The 71 year-old said she was able to lower her sentence because she agreed to a plea deal.

She was a J-sixer, a core believer that Joe Biden stole the 2020 Presidential Election. So, on Jan. 6, she stormed the capitol. According to prosecutors, she "repeatedly turned to police for help while simultaneously undermining their efforts."

An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering

While Idaho voters rejected Proposition 1, there is evidence that they favor an open primary. Boise State University last year surveyed Idahoans and found that nearly 58% backed the concept of an open primary but only 34% supported ranked choice voting.

Dorothy Moon, the current chair of the extremist faction of the Idaho Republican Party, proclaimed on election night that: “We’re not ever going to let Reclaim Idaho bring another initiative.”

Unions for teachers, school boards and administrators are calling on state lawmakers to invest in public schools rather than proposals to help fund private schooling. The Idaho Education Association,

JONES: Idaho Republican leaders propose new restrictions on voter initiatives after failed education measure, including higher signature requirements and vote thresholds.

Idaho law requires any entity spending more than $100 on electioneering communications to file a report to the secretary of state. Independent expenditures are required to be reported by seven days prior to the election and within 30 days after the election, according to state code.

The bill was meant to address the fact that federal PACs that were spending in Idaho were only required to report to the Federal Elections Commission. The intention was to require reporting from ...

BOISE — An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering messaging.

Across the country, millions of people rallied to protest Trump’s rhetoric and policies. Now, the big protest around his inauguration on Monday is expected to draw 50,000 people, according to Politico.

Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the bill Tuesday, which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give preference to a firing squad. Skaug sponsored a bill that became law in 2023 that added back the firing squad as a backup method of execution in the state, but only when lethal injection is not possible because of a lack of execution drugs.