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 […]
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 […]
This episode opens with Idaho’s flock camera fight, tracing the pushback to a grassroots watchdog group going city council by city council across the state. The core objection is framed as a Fourth Amendment problem — license-plate data sitting in a searchable government database without a warrant — and the episode notes Caldwell’s roughly half-million-dollar […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]