Dear Friends: We at the Gem State Patriot are a not-for-profit service for the people of Idaho. We have been serving Idahoans for nine years and we seldom, if ever, ask for donations. Unfortunately, like so many other conservative organizations, we suffer from time to time from a lack of recognition of the services we […]
How will it affect us economically and socially? The intuition is simple: A historic border surge let millions of illegals in, so would deporting them recover the cost? The evidence is not simple. The costs and benefits fall on different governments and different timelines and the real decision was never a straight choice between removal […]
This episode delivers a fast-moving conservative read on the stories shaping Idaho right now, moving from local government accountability to statewide ballot fights before turning to a longer lesson in free-market economics. The through-line is a familiar one for the show: where Idaho’s money, rights, and values are most at stake — and where the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anthony Fauci became the public face of America’s COVID response, and for many citizens he also became the face of coercive government. He projected calm certainty, but that calm often masked a deeper problem: the transformation of public health into personal authority, political theater, and institutional self-protection rather than a disciplined application of science and […]
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 […]
The honest answer is that it’s an unsettled legal question right now, as the courts have not definitively decided it, and litigation is actively working its way through the system as of 2026. Here’s the underlying legal framework. Flock cameras are nothing more than automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Traditionally, most courts have held there […]
My federal lands management survey is now open, and I want to hear directly from Idahoans. Approximately 62 percent of the land within Idaho’s borders is owned and managed by the federal government, and from 2020 to 2025, nearly 2.7 million of those acres experienced some sort of closure to the public. This extensive federal […]
As we enter the final 100 days before the midterm elections, I find myself both astonished and concerned—not only by how progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists have shaped the political narrative, but by how effectively they have reshaped the very language through which Americans interpret that narrative. Control of language is control of thought, and […]
The topic of eliminating Property Tax has been brought up. More than one elected official that I respect has raised it. Personally, I like the idea. I like it from the Constitutional and Liberty point of view. The argument is simple and powerful: if our real property can be taxed, then we, the citizens, do […]
Dear Friends, Last August, an illegal immigrant named Harjinder Singh, licensed to drive by both Washington and California, attempted an illegal U-turn across the Florida Turnpike in an eighteen-wheeler. He could not read or understand the road signs warning him against it and it led to the death of three people. Idaho did not issue […]
This November, Idahoans have a choice to make: keep the Gem State a sanctuary for all life, including preborn babies, or adopt a radical abortion regime even darker than the days of Roe v. Wade. With less than two months until absentee ballots arrive in mailboxes, we have no time to lose when it comes […]