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 […]
Today’s shift in young people’s views is real and large. A 2025 Cato/YouGov poll found 62% of 18–29-year-olds hold a favorable view of “socialism,” while favorability toward capitalism among young adults has fallen to around 39% in recent Harvard and Gallup polling down roughly 20 points over a decade. The question I have to ask […]
Idaho Prop 1 lands on the ballot the first Tuesday of November, and this episode opens its issue roundup there. The episode’s case is that the initiative would roll Idaho’s abortion law back further than it stood before the Dobbs decision — later into pregnancy, without parental notification or consent for minors, and performed by […]
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 […]
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 […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and 15 other state attorneys general in a letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Finance urging swift passage of H.R. 5364 and S. 4176, both known as the “STOP FRAUD in Medicaid Act.” “Every year, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]