OUR STORY

BUILT FROM THE GRASSROOTS

Secure Idaho began with one statewide fight and a simple belief: informed, organized Idahoans can still shape the future of their state.

What started as a campaign to defend Idaho’s election system has grown into a permanent conservative organization developing policy, holding government accountable, and organizing Idahoans to defend the state’s sovereignty, constitutional values, and way of life.

SEE HOW WE GOT HERE ↓

THE BEGINNING

THE CHALLENGE

In the spring of 2024, Idaho faced a sweeping attempt to rewrite its election system. Proposition 1 would have replaced party primaries with a top-four system and imposed ranked-choice voting in general elections.

There was no established statewide organization prepared to lead the fight against it.

So Idahoans built one.

Secure Idaho Elections was formed with only months until Election Day. Volunteers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs, retirees, and working families began organizing across the state… hosting town halls, producing voter education materials, building coalitions, and talking directly with Idaho voters.

FROM ZERO TO A STATEWIDE MOVEMENT

5 MONTHS

From startup effort to statewide campaign.

Volunteers organized public events, voter outreach, debates, and community education across Idaho.

GRASSROOTS POWER

NEARLY 70%

of Idaho voters rejected Proposition 1.

The campaign proved that organized citizens can beat well-funded political interests when Idahoans know what is at stake and have the tools to fight back.

THE CAMPAIGN ENDED.

THE MISSION DIDN’T.

The lesson of 2024 was bigger than election law. Across issue after issue, Idaho policy is shaped by entrenched interests, outside money, powerful lobbying organizations, and a political class that too often operates without meaningful grassroots pressure.

Secure Idaho became a permanent organization built to challenge that system—and to give conservative Idahoans the research, policy, accountability tools, and organization needed to fight back. →

POLICY
DEVELOPMENT

Turn conservative principles into workable state and local policy.

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY

Track legislation, votes, money, and the decisions elected officials make.

RESEARCH & TRANSPARENCY

Give Idahoans information they can actually use.

GRASSROOTS ACTION

Turn information into organized local pressure and citizen participation.

TAKING THE MODEL TO THE LEGISLATURE

2026 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

In the 2026 legislative session, Secure Idaho applied the same research, accountability, and grassroots model that defeated Proposition 1 to illegal immigration and illegal labor.

Working through Idaho Immigration Watch, we helped build and advance a broad legislative package focused on illegal labor, E-Verify, law-enforcement cooperation, employer accountability, immigration-status reporting, and transparency.

4 BILLS PASSED THE HOUSE

Four major pieces of the immigration reform package passed the Idaho House, breaking through resistance that had stalled meaningful immigration reform for years.

E-VERIFY: 16–2

HB 704 broke through House Business 16–2 after broader E-Verify legislation had repeatedly been bottled up in committee. It then passed the House 43–26.

ACCOUNTABILITY INFRASTRUCTURE BUILT

We tracked bills, scored legislators, and gave Idahoans a way to compare political rhetoric with actual votes.

ILLEGAL LABOR MOVED CENTER STAGE

E-Verify, employer use of unauthorized labor, and the business and political interests fighting reform were dragged into the open and became unavoidable parts of Idaho’s legislative debate.

The package did not fully cross the finish line. But it broke legislative logjams, exposed where resistance to reform remains, and made illegal immigration and illegal labor major accountability issues in Idaho politics. We now know exactly where the next fight is.

SECURE IDAHO TODAY

BUILT TO LAST

Secure Idaho is no longer a single-campaign organization.

Today we are building a durable statewide network capable of researching issues, developing conservative policy, educating the public, identifying and supporting conservative lawmakers willing to fight for reform, and mobilizing Idahoans when important legislation is moving.