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New Republican Legislators Lead Return to Conservative Principles

In July of 2022, the Republican Party gathered in Twin Falls for our summer convention to elect new leadership of the party. The grassroots came together and overwhelmingly voted for change from the top down, setting a mandate that the party return to conservative principles.  When I took the gavel, I made a commitment to […]

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Do Not Let Violence Become the Norm: Make HB71 Idaho Law

Violent activists entered the capitol building — vandalizing public facilities, threatening legislators, assaulting law enforcement, and interrupting official proceedings. Some readers might be thinking of January 6, 2021. But the sentence above actually describes events that took place this week, at the statehouse in Nashville, Tennessee.  Radical leftists, some wearing satanic garb, stormed the Tennessee […]

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Idaho is Building a Culture of Life

National news outlets have recently taken an interest in Idaho’s prohibition on elective abortions. It’s not surprising, but it is further proof that the radicalization of our state is being coordinated by far-away organizations and out-of-state money. Idaho’s prohibition on elective abortions went into effect after the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in […]

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Stop Lava Ridge! Don’t Let the Feds Make Idaho a Vassal of California

It’s an easy sport for politicians to complain about Washington D.C. After all, D.C. is where so many ill-advised ideas are dreamt up and put into federal law, regulation, or judicial opinion. It’s much more difficult to find examples of federal overreach that everyone can agree on. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, however, is one […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Spent Millions During the 2020 Election, Now He’s Getting Special Tax Breaks in Idaho

Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars during the 2020 election giving grants to County Clerks for PPE, education, and other unassuming items in every State of the Union. Over $500,000 came to Idaho, most to Ada County. Twenty Counties in total took the “free” money at that time of “need” during the COVID […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Rep. Dorothy Moon Running for Idaho Secretary of State

America’s system of free and fair elections is under attack, and that threatens the continued existence of our Republic. At the same time, our state’s entire economy is weighed down by federal land mismanagement.  For these reasons, I have decided to ask voters for their support as I run for the Republican nomination for Idaho […]

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Idahoans won’t be ignored about Common Core

Common Core is exactly what we thought it was. Try telling that to the Idaho State Board of Education, though. The board’s members won’t hear you. Idaho adopted Common Core standards earlier this decade in hopes that the latest federal education package would solve what ails Idaho schools. It hasn’t. Achievement, as measured through test […]

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Rep. Dorothy Moon: House Bill 190 Critique

Dear Patriots, A critique of House Bill 190 by Rep. Dorothy Moon. Please take a moment to read and then contact your legislators with your concerns. More taxpayer money for post-high school education, this time for those who dropped out of college previously. Maybe college should be for the best and brightest. It is difficult […]

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Three Issues for Idaho’s Rural District 8

There are three main issues that affect most of us in rural District 8. District 8 includes Gem, Valley, Boise, Custer and Lemhi Counties. It is because of these issues that I find myself running for Legislative District 8B Representative. There is no place like home but our homes, livelihoods and ways of life are […]

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