Idaho Pulse

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate break down the 2026 Idaho Freedom Index, revealing that only 12 legislators scored 90% or above on freedom votes — down from 16 last year — while 42 members landed in the "Big Spender Caucus," voting for increased spending more than 84% of the time. Nate names the all-stars and the worst offenders, explains how election-year politics and lobbyist pressure erode conservative voting, and identifies key 2026 primary races where 10 of the 12 top-rated legislators face challengers.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate expose Big Dairy's retaliation against Senator Glenita Zeiderweld's family — pulling 85% of her husband's business over her immigration votes — and lay out the essential questions every Idaho voter should ask candidates before the May primary, from defining what conservative actually means beyond pro-life and pro-gun to whether legislators would overturn a citizen abortion initiative.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate break down the 2026 Idaho Freedom Index, revealing that only 12 legislators scored 90% or above on freedom votes — down from 16 last year — while 42 members landed in the "Big Spender Caucus," voting for increased spending more than 84% of the time. Nate names the all-stars and the worst offenders, explains how election-year politics and lobbyist pressure erode conservative voting, and identifies key 2026 primary races where 10 of the 12 top-rated legislators face challengers.

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker dissect Idaho's 2025 legislative session, exposing how Governor Little's post-adjournment vetoes — including the Medical Freedom Act — align with pharmaceutical and healthcare PAC donations. They trace IACI donor money to policy outcomes, detail the power structure controlling committee appointments, and urge listeners to research candidates at sunshine.voteIdaho.gov. The conversation shifts to Middle East military strategy, Strait of Hormuz control, and Idaho troop deployments.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, dissect the 2026 Idaho legislative session — exposing how committee chairmen's bill drawers killed immigration reform, teachers' union payroll legislation, CPS due process protections, and a Medicaid expansion repeal, while the state budget grew $352 million in a year lawmakers claimed was about cutting spending.

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker break down the DOJ suing Idaho over voter rolls, revealing how Big Ag's dependence on illegal labor explains why Idaho's Republican leadership blocks immigration reform, resists Trump's agenda, and systematically defunds county sheriffs — with Stocker warning Idaho is 10 years from becoming Colorado if citizens don't engage now.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate of the Idaho Freedom Foundation deliver a final-week 2026 session verdict: the $800 million in promised spending cuts have been swallowed by enhancements, pushing the budget to $14.2 billion with more possibly coming. Zero tax relief passed. Key conservative bills — grocery tax repeal, Medicaid repeal, CPS reform, medical freedom — are buried in committee drawers while rat abatement and kratom bills move freely. And a 5,000-person "No Kings" rally signals an organized left that conservatives are not currently matching.

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker deliver a wide-ranging indictment of Idaho's political establishment: a governor's race with no debates and a 16-to-1 campaign funding gap, a Big Ag machine that has run Idaho under both party names for decades, state spending approaching California's per-capita rate while rural EMS runs on fumes, a $70 million corporate-controlled Launch program, political lawfare against reform candidates, and an education system that labels 13-year-olds by party affiliation. The real conservatives are organizing — but time is short.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate of the Idaho Freedom Foundation tear through the final weeks of Idaho's 2026 legislative session: a $14.1 billion budget hemorrhaging through agency enhancements, conservative bills buried in Senate committee drawers, only 13 of 105 legislators scoring an A on the Freedom Index, Big Ag thuggery targeting a senator's family business, and a Firearms and Freedom Dinner celebrating 10 years of constitutional carry in Idaho.

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker tear into Idaho's legislature as session wraps, exposing a stark budget imbalance: a $14.2 billion state budget versus $800 million for all 44 counties combined. Stocker reveals sheriffs have been blocked from the statehouse for years, unfunded mandates are piling on, rural EMS runs on fumes, and House Bill 659 attempts to conscript sheriffs into ICE enforcement with zero additional funding. The state is hoarding revenue while property taxpayers foot the bill.

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate tackle Idaho's spiraling budget crisis where $800 million in maintenance cuts were wiped out by $800 million in agency enhancements. Nate details how committee chairs are killing popular bills—the union funding ban passed the House 45-23 but sits in Dan Foreman's drawer, while Jim Guthrie buries immigration bills to protect big ag interests. The conversation pivots to House Bill 850, IFF's highest-rated bill to repeal the $1.3 billion Medicaid expansion program that was sold to voters on understated cost projections now proven wildly inaccurate.