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I want to personally thank Senator Brian Lenney for making known the problems that Idahoans will face if indeed this Micron FAB is permitted to be built under the auspices of 18-year-old legislation never used for the purpose it was written. This will leave Idaho’s citizens to once again pick up the tab for Idaho […]
Idaho’s Proposition 1 is the through-line of this episode. The discussion frames the abortion ballot measure as a crossroads for the state and warns that complacency, not public opinion, is the real danger in a pro-life state. It points to targeted voter-registration mail — the episode’s account of an Idaho Democrat Party mailer sent to […]
Many Americans realize that citizens lost control over the government decades ago. It seems there is nothing left to rob from them, freedoms have been taken, rights are usurped, speech is targeted. What is left is just threads of what was once the greatest country on earth. Just three days before Thanksgiving in 2025, when […]
When President Trump recently announced that local ranchers could process their own beef, it sparked several important conversations. Local conversations in Idaho are generally positive, as most Idahoans see the existing beef industry as being overregulated. However, there are some who do not see it that way. I see this as a pattern to change […]
There was a time in American history when human beings were not considered to be fully human. Southern plantation owners saw African slaves as property, having the same value as an ox or horse. Southern politicians did their best to avoid talking about the actual horrors of chattel slavery, preferring instead to use euphemisms like […]
I am writing this first as a mom. I am a mother who has sent her children into Idaho’s public education system and trusted that system to teach them, support them and prepare them for their futures. I am also a mother whose child struggled deeply within that system. That experience eventually led me into […]
Dear Friends, This week, I was honored and humbled to present the Idaho Medal of Honor to nine recipients – law enforcement and firefighters – for acts of courage that went far beyond what their jobs required. Given what society already demands of these public servants on an average day, their actions speak volumes about their […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 31, 2026CONTACT: Christianne.Allen@mail.house.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (Idaho-01) released the following statement after co-sponsoring H.R. 9716, the Protecting Rights in Video and Equipment Acquired Discovery (PRIVACY) Act. “I’m proud to sign on to this legislation to protect the privacy rights of Idahoans from increasingly intrusive surveillance data collection and to […]
Former Senator Ben Sasse recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal about football’s historic role in shaping young men at the high-school and college levels. His observation is timely: playing the game and watching it are profoundly different experiences. Not all young men are equipped physically to play football, but America unfortunately, now has far […]
In this midterm-election year, Republicans and Democrats are running markedly different campaigns at every level of government. Republicans are generally campaigning on policy: public safety, border security, taxes, energy, economic growth, parental rights, and the cost of living. Democrats, by contrast, too often appear to be building a political narrative intended to evoke an immediate […]
I constantly hear on the news from both conservative and liberal media that Americans are complaining about unaffordability and how families are struggling to make ends meet under the Trump Administration. Well, it is high time that middle America woke up and discovered that it is not Trump’s fault that things are unaffordable. The left […]
In my class, I like to ask students a simple question: what’s the first word in the US Constitution after the Preamble? Most guess wrong. Look it up yourself — it’s “All.” The full sentence: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Not most. Not some, subject […]