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Idaho Trades Civics Trivia for Substance Testing Ahead of Most States

I have often written about how our education system in Idaho is doing and how it is affecting our children. Recently there has been a lot of conversations about the new interest in DSA and socialism on the news and in what direction our country may be moving. While civics is a course taught in […]

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New Civics Test

Following the nightmare of Common Core, legislative efforts were made to ensure Idaho students learned about the history of their country and how the government was formed. Beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, high school students were required to take, and pass, a civics test in order to graduate. Idaho Code § 33-1602 defined exactly […]

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Op-Ed: Idaho Values Life

You’ve surely seen them by now—thousands of signs popping up throughout the state proclaiming a simple yet profound truth: Idaho values life. It seems so obvious, but this November Idahoans will be asked once and for all if we truly value all human life, including the unborn. I’ve been traveling the state these past few […]

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AG Labrador Backs Reform to Stop Activist Groups From Blocking Infrastructure Projects

For Immediate ReleaseAugust 13, 2026Media Contact: Damon Sidur BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a coalition of 21 other states, led by West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize new rules that stop activist groups from using a decades-old environmental law to block roads, water systems, and […]

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Labrador Letter: Banking Scam Stopped by Our Consumer Protection Investigators

Dear Friends, Someone here in Idaho received a call from a person claiming to be a Wells Fargo investigator, warning him that his bank account had been compromised. The caller convinced him to withdraw $14,000 in cash and mail it overnight to an address in Florida for “safekeeping.” He did it, and only realized afterward […]

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AI Agents

Driving the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), “a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another”, is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is the foundation of 4IR. In this WEF panel discussion video, Generative AI is discussed as The Steam Engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The discussion includes […]

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Labrador Letter: Idaho Urges Congress to Give States the Tools to Stop Medicaid Fraud

Dear Friends, In May, I told you about a trip to the White House, where I sat down with Vice President JD Vance, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, and other Administration officials to report on what my Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has found in Idaho and to ask for more tools to go after it. This […]

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Op-Ed: Standing With Twin Falls

Last Saturday, the unthinkable happened. A gunman opened fire on guests and employees of a Twin Falls In-N-Out Burger, as well as a nearby Tesla charging station. Now, three people are dead, many more are injured, and a community has been shaken to its core. Ashley Garibay was just 23 years old. In-N-Out was her […]

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Good Samaritan Firearms Use Bill

Dear Senators and Representatives The tragedy of this past Saturday’s Twin Falls mass shooting is not limited to just the lives lost and the wounded, but to the fact in Idaho with so many of Idaho’s citizens availing themselves of the right to constitutionally carry firearms that more who were there and who witnessed a […]

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The Earth Brokers 2

The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development is a book co-authored by Pratap Chatterjee and Matthias Finger, and written in 1994 just after the Rio Summit was held in 1992. It was the “first critical analysis of the Earth Summit and its mission document Agenda 21“. Unfortunately, most countries did not heed the warnings from […]

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Op-Ed: Either Manage Idaho’s Land, or Watch It Burn

This summer, Idaho has once again been reminded of the awesome power of wildfire. From the devastating Big Grass Fire in Owyhee County to the fires that have scarred central Idaho in recent years, we have watched homes destroyed, livestock lost, wildlife displaced, and entire communities threatened. Families who have worked the land for generations […]

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Labrador Letter: Touring Idaho’s New Firing Squad Chamber

Dear Friends, Last week I toured the newly completed execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) in Kuna. I want to thank IDOC Director Bree Derrick and Division of Prisons Chief Liz Neville for taking the time to walk my team and me through the new facility and answer our questions. What struck […]

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