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2024 in Review

What is a Nation?

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 12/28/24

How to Testify

Session Goals

The Christmas Truce

The Long View

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 12/21/24

What Do Voters Want?

Check Out the Giving Machine

Sound and Fury

The Electoral College

Five Flaws in the Initiative Process

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 12/14/24

Paying for Groceries

How To Say No

Conservative Unity

Less Regulation, But More Spending?

The 2024 Statesman and Stateswoman of the Year

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 12/7/24

Introducing the Gem State Report

The New Legislature

Leadership Matters

How to Stop the Spending

Episode 26: Who Are We?

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 11/30/24

Who Are We?

Thanksgiving 2024

Your 2025 Legislative Priorities

No More DEI

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Know the Difference

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 11/23/24

Finally, a book the Statesman finds inappropriate

What Do You Want to Know About Judges?

What are your top issues for 2025?

A Reckoning for the News Media

Money Doesn't (Always) Buy Votes

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 11/16/24

True North

The Last Word on Legislator Pay?

Thinking Outside the Box

Who Will Lead the US Senate?

Open Letter to Idaho Democrats

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 11/9/24

Prop 1 Post Mortem

Winners and Losers in the 2024 Election

Partying with Republicans

Live from the Idaho GOP Watch Party

A Time for Choosing

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Trust God

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 11/2/24

Government is Growing

Media Driven Harassment

No Enemies On the Right

Close Races to Watch in Idaho

Follow Up On Legislator Pay

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 10/26/24

They're Stealing the Signs

The Balance of Power

The Trade

No More Democrat Tricks

Ghosts of Republicans Past

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 10/19/24

No Prevent Defense!

Join me Saturday to learn about Prop 1

Progressive Dystopia

Why the Library?

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 10/12/24

The Fiscal Dilemma

Nothing Ever Happens?

Unalienable Responsibilities

What's Up With Blaine County?

Defending the Indefensible

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 10/5/24

Episode 25: Tilting at Windmills

Modern Populism

The Question of Federal Lands

IACI vs IFPAC

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Check Your Pride

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 9/28/24

United Against Prop 1

The End of Property Taxes?

Banned Books Nonsense

Vote No on Prop 1

My Substack Summer

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 9/21/24

Library Update

The Switcheroo Stretch

Time for DEI to Die

The Truth About Multiculturalism

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 9/14/24

A Closer Look at JFAC

What Went Wrong?

Guthrie for Majority Leader?

Policies Over Personalities

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 9/7/24

What Should We Do About Child Care?

Episode 24: Founding Myths

When DEI Destroyed a Local Business

Paying for Nice Things

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 8/31/24

When Journalism Becomes Advocacy

Is Education Funding for Kids, or for Unions?

Locker Room Wars

Making Room for Liberty

School Choice Is Coming

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Find Your Niche

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 8/24/24

Podcast on Idaho Water Issues

Illegal Alien Sanctuaries in Idaho?

IACI Scorecard Quiz

The Cost of Government Childcare

Democrat Switcheroo

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Failure to Excommunicate

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 8/17/24

The Perpetual Now

Who Doesn't Pay Property Tax?

The Truth About Property Taxes

Grocery Tax Survey Results

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 8/10/24

Reader Poll on Grocery Taxes

Who Decides What's Healthy?

The Grocery Tax Debate

Are You a Platform Republican?

The Grocery Tax: White Whale or Red Herring?

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Charity in All Things

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 8/3/24

Men Punching Women

School Choice: A Defining Issue for Republicans

Tax Increases and Government Waste

Laws or People?

Life is Not a Spectator Sport

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 7/27/24

Equal and Opposite Errors

Labrador's Opening Salvo Against Ranked Choice Voting

PRIVATE BRIEFING 7/24/24

Bring Back Civics

Uncharted Territory

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Uncertain Times

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 7/20/24

Complex Systems

Dangerous Left Wing Rhetoric

The Purpose of a Platform

Who is J.D. Vance?

Episode 23: American Elegy

Political Assassinations in History

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Providence

The Once and Future President

The Battle Over RCV Begins

Putting Principles Into Practice

Democrats are not Democratic

Why We Must Win

It's Not Happening / It's a Good Thing

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 7/6/24

Lessons of the Tory Wipeout

The Meaning of Independence

Here We Have Idaho

Water Update

The Technocratic Utopia?

The Straightforward Gospel

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 6/29/24

Episode 22: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden?

A Busy Week at the Supreme Court

Going Through the Motions

School Choice in 2025

Assange: Hero or Villain?

What's Going On With Our Water?

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Salute the Rank, Not the Man

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 6/22/24

2024 Idaho GOP Resolutions

WEEKLY BRIEFING: 6/20/24

We are the Establishment Now

The Idaho Republican Platform

Open Letter to the Gem State Conservatives

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Sabbath Rest

Convention Concludes With Conservative Sweep

Convention Day 1: What Rules?

Requiem for an Astronaut

WEEKLY BRIEFING: 6/9/24

SUNDAY DEVOTION: True North

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 6/8/24

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Did We Waste It?

A New Day at IDHW

Regulating Vice

WEEKLY BRIEFING: 6/3/24

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Pride

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 6/1/24

Know What Time It Is

Conservative Consolidation in Ada

How the Gem State Conservatives Plan to Take Over the Idaho GOP

Appeal to Heaven

The Meaning of Memorial Day

SUNDAY DEVOTION: New Ideas About Old Principles

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 5/25/24

Something Like a War

The Day After

The Day of Days

The Tough Races

SUNDAY DEVOTION: A Christian Republic

Saturday Roundup: 5/18/24

Seven More Interviews

Episode 21: Credibility

Six more candidate interviews

Candidate Interviews: Districts 26 & 28

Candidate Interviews: Burger, Shepherd, Zito, Thompson, Monks, and Scholz

For all the Marbles

Saturday Roundup: 5/11/24

Candidate Interviews: Larry Dunn, Brandon Shippy, Sean Crystal, and Kelly Golden

Local Independent Media & Introducing the Merch Store

Candidate interviews with Lucas Cayler and Steve Tanner

Episode 20: Free Speech

Alex Adams Takes Over at IDHW

Candidate Interviews: House Districts 6, 9, & 25

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Constructive Disagreement

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 5/4/24

Candidate Interviews: Senate 13 and 32

Candidate Interviews: House 1A and Senate 5

Behind the Endorsements

Address to the Valley County Lincoln Day Dinner

Talking Past Each Other

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 4/27/24

Interview Update

Candidate Interviews: House 1B

Sign Wars

Mission Creep and Sacred Cows

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Guarding the Wall

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 4/20/24

A Closer Look at Idaho Chooses Life

Call for Interviews

The Most Important Bill You Missed This Year

Main Street or Dead End?

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Blessed are the Peacemakers

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: 4/13/24

BREAKING: Boise Schools Plot Against New Laws

Insights from the Freedom Index

Sine Die

Purity Versus Pragmatism

New Features!

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Lifted Up

Where Is Your Focus?

Ada County GOP Weighs In

The Boise Circus

"This is a hill I want to die on."

Emergency Council Called

Christ is Risen Indeed

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: Enjoy the Silence

The Game Begins

Senate Kills Summer EBT

The Racism Game

Are There Limits to Speech?

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Palm Sunday

Losing Trust

Form Versus Substance

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: Spring Edition

The Military / Industrial Complex Comes to Idaho

The Specter of Socialism

SUNDAY DEVOTION: St. Patrick's Day

The Board Is Set

First Principles

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: The Storm Before the Storm

Mean Girls

Wanted: Conservative Legislators

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Courage and Humility

There is Nothing Conservative About "Gem State Conservatives"

Gorging at the Public Trough

The God That Failed

Caucus Aftermath

Defend the Guard

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Convenience

SATURDAY ROUNDUP: Caucus Day

They Know So Much That Isn't So

Leaked Document Exposes Fire Union

Always Look Under the Hood

SUNDAY DEVOTION: From Where Do Rights Come?

Survey Results

Dishonest Rhetoric: A Response to Laurie Lickley

THURSDAY ROUNDUP: Here Comes the Sun

Amnesty By Any Other Name

What is Sacred?

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Haters and Losers

Rising Moon

BREAKING: Court Rules Against Bingham in Idaho GOP Lawsuit

Reader Survey

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: Back to Earth

Political Horse Trading

Return of the Library Bill

SUNDAY DEVOTION: A Christian Nation

A Big Day in Boise

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: Crazy Days

Missing the Point

Anatomy of a Budgetary Coup

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Work Without Reward

FRIDAY ROUNDUP: Groundhog Day

Welfare is at Critical Mass

Anti-Christian Bigotry

The Permanent Bureaucracy

SUNDAY DEVOTION: A Big Beautiful Wall

The Myth of Dark Money

Texas Defies the Federal Government

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: Good Guys With Guns

Fentanyl Bill Heads to House

Save the Date - Gem County Lincoln Day

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Working Together For Good

Are Good Intentions Enough?

Make the World Safe for Children

The AI Revolution

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: Session Week 2

The Library Bill

The Modern Plantation

SUNDAY DEVOTION: The Purpose of Government

Anatomy of a Gubernatorial Appointment

Back in the Saddle

WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: The Session Begins

And They're Off

SESSION SNAPSHOT: The State of the State

SUNDAY DEVOTION: Serenity

2024 Winter Meeting, Day 2

2024 Winter Meeting, Day 1

Anatomy of a Winter Meeting

THURSDAY ROUNDUP: The Calm Before the Storm

Introducing the Gem State Chronicle

Episode 19: The Great Migration