Bob Neugebauer welcomes Ron Nate, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, to break down the newly released 2026 Idaho Freedom Index — the annual scorecard rating every legislator and the governor based on how they actually voted, not what they promised. With the legislature adjourned, the full session’s votes have been compiled against 430 rated […]
Every two years, the Idaho GOP grassroots come together in one of our state’s great cities to ratify a platform. That platform reflects the zeitgeist of the grassroots—a continuing commitment to defending faith, family, and freedom in a rapidly changing world. Idaho GOP rules require that I invite all federal, statewide, and legislative candidates in the […]
Most likely, few have wondered how Germany was able to build a war machine during the 1930’s, especially when reparation payments from WWI broke its economy and sent millions into unemployment. But the story is actually quite fascinating. Hitler, in cahoots with German’s central bank president, Hjalmar Schacht, built a parallel fake currency to fund […]
Dear Friends, Three private companies control roughly 95 percent of the global credit rating market. Their job is to assess how financially healthy a company is and assign it a rating. Investors, pension funds, businesses, and governments rely on those ratings to decide where to put their money, trusting that the analysis behind them is […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a 23-state coalition questioning the lawfulness of ESG policies at the country’s three largest credit ratings agencies. Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, and S&P Global Ratings pledged to United Nations-backed climate groups that they would incorporate ESG goals into their credit ratings, then downgraded American energy companies accordingly. Those downgrades increase […]
Over the past several days, I found myself unexpectedly drawn to the events surrounding King Charles III’s state visit to the United States. As someone never particularly sympathetic to monarchy, I approached his appearances with skepticism. Yet I was pleasantly surprised by the tone and substance of his two principal speeches—one at the White House […]
Last week, The Gem State Patriot ran an essay by Robert Neugebauer unpacking a word most Americans had never heard: “stochastic.” It may be one of the most important concepts for understanding why our politics now feels one step away from bloodshed. In statistics, a stochastic process is about probability, not certainty. You cannot say […]
The careless use of the term “Christian nationalism” has become a rhetorical shortcut—one that obscures more than it clarifies. In contemporary discourse, it is too often deployed as a catch-all epithet, flattening important distinctions in American constitutional thought and moral philosophy. There is, in fact, a meaningful difference between invoking one’s faith as the moral […]
After what appears to have been a third attempt to assassinate President Trump and potentially members of his cabinet it is time to ask the question, why are these acts of violence occurring. How much responsibility should be placed on the Liberal media for the political violence in our country? This is a deeply important […]
Bob Neugebauer welcomes Ron Nate, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, to examine the bullying tactics Big Dairy is using against conservative legislators and their families during Idaho’s primary election season. Nate reveals that Senator Glenita Zeiderweld’s husband Tom has lost approximately 85% of his fleet services business after dairies pulled their contracts — and […]
Dear Republican Candidates, Supporters, and Volunteers, On behalf of Chairwoman Dorothy Moon, the Idaho GOP invites you to join us for an Election Night Watch Party at the newly built Residence Inn in Eagle, Idaho (515 S. Palmetto Ave.), beginning at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (See map below.) It has […]
The Gem State Patriot is providing this information as a public service in the interest of nonpartisan voter education, and the opinions in this article are the opinions of the Kootenai County Republican Party. First, I would like to thank you for your support these last 10 years. It has been an honor to serve […]