Across the country, millions of people rallied to protest Trump’s rhetoric and policies. Now, the big protest around his inauguration on Monday is expected to draw 50,000 people, according to Politico.

An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Pro Tem, Mr. President, honored legislators, my fellow constitutional officers, Mr. Chief Justice and members of the judiciary, my wife and your First Lady, Teresa, my family, friends,

Idaho law requires any entity spending more than $100 on electioneering communications to file a report to the secretary of state. Independent expenditures are required to be reported by seven days prior to the election and within 30 days after the election, according to state code.

Rep. Wendy Horman (R-Idaho Falls) started the 2025 Legislative Session the same way she closed out the preceding year - pleading fellow lawmakers to breathe life into

Several proposed election reforms on the 2024 ballot offered promising solutions: Reduce the power of partisan primaries, ensure more robust competition in general elections, and increase the likelihood that winning campaigns represent the median voter rather than a lesser-of-two-evils result.

BOISE — An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering messaging.

Other recent ballot initiatives have targeted greater public school funding — a 2022 proposal that was withdrawn after lawmakers increased education funding on their own — and to legalize medical marijuana. Last year, an effort to enact open political primaries and ranked-choice voting made it on the ballot, but failed with 30% of votes.

A civil complaint claiming that more than $2.3 million in fines could be levied against elected officials in Teton County, Idaho, and 19 volunteer committee members for alleged open meeting

JONES: Idaho Republican leaders propose new restrictions on voter initiatives after failed education measure, including higher signature requirements and vote thresholds.

There is a split in the Idaho Republican Party, Magic Valley Liberty Alliance board Chair Lyle Johnstone says. The split is real and it’s bigger now than ever before. Conservatives who supported Proposition 1 — the failed November ballot measure to create open primaries and ranked-choice voting — outed themselves,

Dorothy Moon, the current chair of the extremist faction of the Idaho Republican Party, proclaimed on election night that: “We’re not ever going to let Reclaim Idaho bring another initiative.” Moon was honked off that the citizen initiative group had just run a third initiative drive seeking reform of Idaho laws.