Idaho Liberty News

Thursday, October 1, 2026

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Labrador wins: Medical Freedom Act stands

SCHOOLS

Charter staff enrolled a friend, kids waited

Lawmakers yank grants, schools left scrambling

Coeur d'Alene teachers' claims denied in trust standoff

Critchfield bails on televised debate

Idaho teachers' union cuts staff, shutters offices

CITY HALL

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Boise buys a bar for 'affordable housing'

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Plan surfaces for Coeur d'Alene waterfront...

TAXES & SPENDING

West Ada builds two schools, skips the levy

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Nampa cuts bus routes, hails you a Lyft

'Hold the line': Little urged to stand firm

THE STATEHOUSE

Ex-GOP attorneys general back Labrador's Democrat rival

Vance: Dems 'prepared to pour millions' into Idaho

Senate hopefuls square off on tariffs, war, spending

Boise Democrat leads Idaho campaign money race

District 29: ousted lawmaker fights to reclaim seat

Pickens maps his path to the governorship

Twin Falls voters grill candidates face to face

Voter pamphlets hit Idaho mailboxes

THE COURTS

Labrador backs workers' faith at Supreme Court

Parents, not the state: Idaho files at SCOTUS

How Idaho decides who dies

Lewiston man jailed over anime drawings

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Hannah Henriksen: Why Human Respect Is Essential to Liberty

George Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

WAR POWERS

And a third carrier strike group joins the armada...^NEW

Talks dead: Iranian negotiators booted, Trump floats more strikes

Trump vows 'very hard' response over FlyDubai attack^NEW

Troops finally quit Iraq. The rest of the Mideast when?

THE FED

Mortgage rates near 3-year high, applications plunge^NEW

Fed vice chair: no rate hike anytime soon...^NEW

Why Congress should restore the monetary veto^NEW

How the Fed juices corporate profits^NEW

Jobs recover, bonds panic^NEW

SPENDING & DEBT

The debt has exploded. The reckoning is still coming^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

How schools and universities muzzle student journalists^NEW

Pepperdine bans professor who taught about a black Jesus

Surveillance CEO's lawsuit against journalist stays dead^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

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Buy Trump's coin, dine with the president^NEW

Washington and Big AI, now business partners

Trump's steel mill: a win for steelmakers. For you?

GUN RIGHTS

Federal judge freezes Connecticut's 'Glock ban'^NEW

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Judge to Trump: hand over the boat strike kill memo^NEW

Judge reinstates the US attorney Trump axed^NEW

Second court torpedoes Trump's $100,000 visa toll

The Constitution never says 'emergency'. That's no accident

'Trump Deserves to Be Impeached'

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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AI dragnet detains innocent Texas driver, judge kills the program

Marin cops caught illegally shipping your plate-reader data^NEW

Flock cameras are watching gun owners, advocates warn^NEW

Border agents grabbed their phones. Now they're suing^NEW

FEDERAL FAILURE

DHS 'illegal voter' tally: 16,000, then 200, then zero^NEW

ICE deletes reports flagging medical neglect in detainee deaths^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Tiny town's 'policing for profit' racket costs it $1.5 million^NEW

Tennessee botches execution; Pike survives the needle^NEW

Supreme Court puts Trump's deportation machine under the knife

Court slaps rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots

TAXES & REGULATION

Australia taxed cigarettes into a thriving black market^NEW

Nicotine isn't what kills you, but the bans march on

Trump preaches AI self-policing. His own FTC isn't waiting^NEW

The first city to price-fix your groceries

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

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Rand Paul: Americans are poorer under Trump than Biden

Ron Paul asks: is Cuba next on the target list?

Hunter: a Massie-style Trump would be winning the midterms

Wolfers: 'libertarian friends were right' about government power^NEW