{"id":177,"date":"2026-05-20T20:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:10:55","slug":"who-the-fuck-are-these-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWho the Fuck Are These Men?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>By nightfall,<\/span> people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get \u201ca hundred times better\u201d if she would cooperate.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=175\">A New Climate Democracy Is Taking On the Petrostates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what they say to rape victims, you fucking piece of shit!\u201d she shouted back.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, a ginger-haired 41-year-old named Teresa Borrenpohl, had worn beige pumps to the event. Her left shoe popped off as the agents hauled her away.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Kunz, a friend of Borrenpohl\u2019s wearing a \u201cDestroy American Fascism\u201d hoodie, tried to help. But an older man in a blue flannel blocked Kunz\u2019s path, towering over her like a self-deputized sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not my dad!\u201d Kunz snapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you aren\u2019t my wife!\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>The town hall, hosted at a high school by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC), had been contentious from the start. Borrenpohl and others interrupted speakers; conservative attendees shouted back. Emcee Ed Bejarana, an audiobook voice actor with a folksy baritone, called Borrenpohl a \u201clittle girl\u201d and went on an extended diatribe about the \u201ccrazy\u201d audience members who were \u201cjust popping off with stupid remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this a town hall or a lecture?\u201d \u00adBorrenpohl repeatedly shouted at \u00adBejarana.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Bob Norris, the county sheriff, ordered Borrenpohl to leave, before  to remove her. \u201cWho the fuck are these men?\u201d Borrenpohl said as the guards grabbed her. In the struggle, she kicked and bit one of them, according to court documents. People lurched from their seats and shouted. Gregg \u00adJohnson, who\u2019d never met Borrenpohl before, yelled, \u201cHey, leave her alone!\u201d at the men in black. Within minutes, Norris and a security guard had detained Johnson, zip-tying his hands behind his back.<\/p>\n<p>It took Kunz about 10 minutes to locate Borrenpohl in the lobby and return the missing shoe. When she finally found her, Kunz started to cry.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the chaotic town hall zipped across phone screens, a flashing red warning of the Trumpian illiberalism that unfolded in the year that followed. In places like Kootenai County, where white Christian Republicans hold a supermajority, local politics is mutating into something undeniably extreme. North Idaho offers a particularly stark example. A decade after Trump took over the GOP, the Coeur d\u2019Alene region finds itself beset by a \u00advexing mix of far-right activists and white nationalists who are trying to drive moderate voices out of political life.<\/p>\n<p><span>North Idaho<\/span> came up a lot during my time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the storied civil rights watchdog where I worked from 2018 through 2023. The region seemed to have an uncanny ability to attract bigots from elsewhere in the country. But Leigh McOmber, a 57-year-old resident I met last summer at Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2019s annual Pride celebration, recalled a time when the area felt far more tolerant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear people who have just moved here in the last few years talk about Idaho values being these horrific, anti-LGBTQ, racist, awful opinions, this is not what Idaho\u2026was,\u201d she said, reflecting on the decades she\u2019s lived in the region. \u201cIt was never like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the 1970s, though, neo-Nazis were arriving.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Butler, founder of the Aryan \u00adNations, moved from California to Hayden Lake\u2014a few miles outside Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2014around 1973 and built a compound there. In the 1980s, a related terrorist group called The Order committed bombings, robberies, and other violent attacks throughout the American West, including the murder of Jewish radio host Alan Berg in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 1991, an Aryan Nations associate named Randy Weaver failed to appear in court on a firearms charge. US marshals began surveilling his property the following year, and when they approached his residence in the Ruby Ridge area of North Idaho, they came into conflict with the Weaver family, ultimately killing Weaver\u2019s teenage son and Weaver\u2019s wife, who was carrying the couple\u2019s baby in her arms when she was shot. A friend of Weaver\u2019s shot and killed a marshal in the chaos; a jury acquitted him of murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Ruby Ridge disaster galvanized the radical right in America, especially in North Idaho. Longtime residents of Coeur d\u2019Alene remember seeing Aryan Nations supporters standing on street corners, waving swastika flags. Members marched down Sherman Avenue, the city\u2019s main drag.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Aryan Nations security personnel fired on a family driving near their compound, mistakenly believing themselves to be under attack. The SPLC sued on behalf of the family, resulting in a judgment of more than $6 million. The suit decimated the Aryan Nations, and for a time, residents felt like things had calmed down\u2014until Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings got weird in Coeur d\u2019Alene after the 2016 election,\u201d Kunz told me. \u201cBut then after the Covid-19 pandemic, shit went completely off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the KCRCC\u2014the same entity that would go on to sponsor the shambolic February 2025 town hall\u2014passed a resolution urging the federal government to reinstate the travel privileges of Martin Sellner, an Austrian \u201cIdentitarian\u201d whose movement aims to \u201cpreserve and secure a future for ethno-cultural identity in Europe.\u201d Sellner had sought to enter the country to marry Brittany Pettibone, a local social media influencer who in 2016 helped mainstream the far-right Pizzagate conspiracy theory about a nonexistent pedophile dungeon below a Washington, DC, pizzeria. It\u2019s unclear why the US government had revoked Sellner\u2019s travel authorization, though the move came following revelations that he\u2019d exchanged emails with Brenton Tarrant the year before Tarrant murdered 51 people in two New Zealand mosques. (There is no evidence Sellner was involved in Tarrant\u2019s crimes.)<\/p>\n<p>Around that time, a new slew of right-wing radicals moved to the area. There\u2019s Lana Lokteff and Henrik Palmgren of <em>Red Ice<\/em>, a \u201cPro-European\/Pro-White\u201d outlet that publishes video episodes with titles like \u201cThe Wrath of the Awakened Saxon\u201d and \u201cAI Zionism: No One Understands How Bad This Is.\u201d Owen Benjamin\u2014a fringe comedian who has made comments defending Adolf Hitler, like saying the f\u00fchrer merely wanted to \u201cclean [Germany] of the parasites\u201d\u2014tried to build a compound in the region, which locals feared might lead to another Ruby Ridge. Matt Colligan, a participant in the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved to the area from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>And unlike the neo-Nazi terrorists of decades past, some of the new extremists quickly began making inroads in the local GOP power structure. A Republican group called the North Idaho Pachyderm Club, which is promoted on the official Kootenai County GOP website, has invited far-right activists Vincent James Foxx and Dave Reilly to speak in recent years. Reilly, who has a history of antisemitic commentary, even secured a KCRCC endorsement for his failed 2021 school board campaign.<\/p>\n<p>More moderate Republicans became targets. Jennifer Drake, who owns an \u00adEnglish-style pub called the Crown and Thistle, says others in her party first lashed out at her in 2020 for participating in a charity drive to provide sanitary pads to needy women. The event was sponsored by a chapter of the Satanic Temple, which promotes secularism and satirizes conservative Christians while also playing with the idea of devil worship in a tongue-in-cheek way. Drake allowed the group to put a \u201cMenstruatin\u2019 with Satan\u201d donation bin outside her restroom. Once word reached Facebook, some religious conservatives took the idea of devil worship at face value, and conspiracy theories spread. Extremists have harassed Drake ever since.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, armed individuals patrolled the city\u2019s streets in an event called \u201cGun d\u2019Alene\u201d\u2014part of the backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement. Two years after that, dozens of masked members of Patriot Front, a neofascist collective, were caught packed in a U-Haul, preparing to storm a Pride parade. Police arrested 31 men associated with Patriot Front from at least 10 states, and the images of handcuffed figures in matching blue shirts and khakis tore across the internet. (Several members were convicted, while some of the cases were dismissed.) Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2019s police chief told reporters that the department subsequently received more than 100 threatening phone calls from as far away as Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Then in March 2024, the University of Utah women\u2019s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d\u2019Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they\u2019d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town. Law enforcement concluded that \u201cfive credible eyewitness statements confirmed that someone shouted the N-word\u201d at a member of the group as they walked to dinner and that two hours later, a white 18-year-old was recorded yelling, \u201cI hate [N-word]s, but I\u2019ll fuck your butt!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was \u201cincredibly upsetting for all of us,\u201d Utah coach Lynne Roberts told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Local prosecutor Ryan Hunter expressed outrage at the \u201cabhorrently racist and misogynistic\u201d behavior but said there was insufficient evidence that any crime had been committed. In the court of public opinion, though, the verdict was damning. The story made headlines everywhere from the <em>Salt Lake Tribune<\/em> to ESPN. Even the governor felt compelled to weigh in. \u201cThere is no place for racism, hate, or bigotry in the great State of Idaho,\u201d tweeted Republican Brad Little. \u201cWe condemn bullies who seek to harass and silence others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then came the town hall.<\/p>\n<p><span>For politically<\/span> engaged residents, the detainment of Teresa Borrenpohl was both a local story about familiar gadflies and an example of how menacing Idaho politics had become.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knew the fiery Borrenpohl. She\u2019d run three long-shot campaigns for the Idaho legislature as a Democrat and spent much of the previous few years opposing efforts by the KCRCC to dominate the board of North Idaho College, where she once worked.<\/p>\n<p>The NIC fights ranged from  over governance to culture war issues like pandemic masking and abortion. At one point, the board\u2019s KCRCC-backed chair wrote that he was \u201cbattling the NIC \u2018deep state\u2019\u201d and lamented that the \u201cliberal progressives are quite deeply entrenched\u201d at the college, according to  and  released by NIC. The situation got so bad in 2023 that the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities threatened to revoke NIC\u2019s accreditation,  that \u201congoing actions\u201d by the community college\u2019s board \u201ccontinue to place the institution at risk for viability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened at North Idaho College prefigured what is happening to higher education throughout the country,\u201d said Kate Bitz, an organizer with the Western States Center, a civil rights group. \u201cThe far right figured out here that it\u2019s a game changer in terms of who is in charge of a community or a community\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things came to a head in the fall of 2024, when moderate board candidates backed by the \u201cSave NIC\u201d campaign faced off against a KCRCC slate running under a \u201cMake NIC Great Again\u201d banner. \u201cLiberal factions, real estate interests, and unelected officials are conspiring to seize our college and convert it into a hub for their woke agenda,\u201d the KCRCC warned voters. \u201cBut we can thwart their plans!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Election Day, even as Trump captured 75 percent of the vote in Kootenai County, Save NIC candidates swept to victory, taking control of the board. But the bad blood persisted. The KCRCC arranged for a private security company, Lear Asset Management, to patrol the February 2025 town hall, citing both a bomb threat that had been made against one of the participants and the fact that Borrenpohl and her Save NIC compatriots were encouraging allies to attend the event. KCRCC Chair Brent Regan later told investigators that Lear\u2019s leadership was \u201cknown to the committee\u201d and offered to do the work for free.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the town hall, Regan issued a stern warning to the audience: \u201cIf there\u2019s any disturbances or people can\u2019t maintain decorum, we have security here, and you\u2019ll be escorted out of the building.\u201d If that message was intended for Borrenpohl, police records later indicated that she arrived too late to hear it. (Borrenpohl\u2019s attorney did not respond to requests for comment.)<\/p>\n<p>In the investigation that followed, the city\u2019s cops also pointed out that Borrenpohl and her allies were far from alone in disrupting the event. Detective Dan Haley counted 13 \u201ccomments\/cheers\/jeers\u201d from audience members opposing the KCRCC speakers and 11 from KCRCC supporters. But the Coeur d\u2019Alene police weren\u2019t the ones calling the shots during the meeting. That was Bob Norris, the Kootenai County sheriff. An elected Republican who\u2019s waged a high-profile campaign against \u201charmful\u201d materials in public libraries, Norris has a contentious relationship with some locals.<\/p>\n<p>Borrenpohl can be heard warning \u00adNorris not to forcibly remove her\u2014\u201cBob, you know this is a bad idea\u201d\u2014at which point he backed away and, , \u201cpointed her out to two\u201d security guards. The Lear guards then \u201cphysically removed Borrenpohl from the event\u201d as Norris \u201cattempted to oversee the matter.\u201d Civil claims filed by Gregg Johnson and Borrenpohl assert that the Lear security guards failed to adequately identify themselves, an allegation that Lear and the KCRCC dispute. Local law enforcement initially cited Borrenpohl for battery, but city prosecutors dropped the charge soon after. Instead, they charged Lear owner Paul Trouette and three of his employees with battery and false imprisonment, both misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>The Lear agents pleaded not guilty, arguing that they were acting under lawful orders from Norris. The sheriff \u201ccan command any citizen to assist him in the accomplishment of his duties,\u201d the KCRCC\u2019s Regan argued on Newsmax last April. \u201cAnd that should be a get-out-of-jail-free card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Idaho\u2019s attorney general  to charge Norris, concluding that he\u2019d acted properly in response to the disruptions, and prosecutors eventually dropped the charges against all of Trouette\u2019s employees. But in December, Trouette himself was found guilty of battery against Johnson and another town hall attendee and of two additional misdemeanors. He was acquitted on four other counts, including false imprisonment and the allegations related to Borrenpohl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice was done,\u201d Ryan Hunter, the local prosecutor, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span>Over a pint<\/span> at the Crown and Thistle, Christa Hazel recounted how Idaho Republican politics has changed in recent years. \u201cI remember a time when the local Republican Party celebrated when a Democrat would leave their affiliation and join the Republican Party,\u201d she said. \u201cBut now\u2026Chairman Brent Regan\u2026will accuse other Republicans of being fake or Democrats in disguise.\u201d (\u201cI am not accusing anyone of anything,\u201d Regan countered. \u201cI am simply pointing out when some people who claim to be Republicans act like Democrats.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Hazel moved to Coeur d\u2019Alene from Alabama in 1984, when she was still a girl. She watched as her FBI agent father spent the 1990s investigating the Aryan Nations and The Order. She was hardly a liberal. As student body president at North Idaho College in 1994, she backed an effort to block the formation of a Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Alliance. (NIC\u2019s board overruled the student senate and recognized the club.) Hazel told me recently that she didn\u2019t support the club on grounds that they were \u201casking for special treatment\u201d under the college\u2019s rules, but she added that she was, and remains, supportive of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel first encountered Regan at a tea party gathering in 2010, and their political paths have crossed many times since. In 2012, Regan was appointed to the local school board, becoming part of an aggressive right-wing majority. He sparked an outcry when, during a discussion about gun control, he recounted a conversation he claimed to have had with his wife: \u201cI said, \u2018They can\u2019t figure out what an assault weapon is\u2014it\u2019s just black and it looks scary.\u2019 And she looks at me and says, \u2018Well, so is Obama.\u2019\u201d He apologized, but four months later, Hazel\u2014running as a \u201ccommon sense conservative\u201d\u2014defeated him in his bid for a full term.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Regan bested a more moderate candidate to become chair of the KCRCC, the powerful committee that runs the county Republican Party. Hazel resigned as a member of the committee the following year, telling the <em>Coeur d\u2019Alene Press<\/em> that it had been \u201ctaken over by far-right conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the mustachioed Regan has cast an intimidating shadow over local GOP politics. Dan Gookin, a Republican city council member who was running an upstart campaign for mayor when I spoke with him last year, called Regan a \u201ctyrant\u201d and a \u201cdictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regan chairs the influential Idaho Freedom Foundation, an activist organization that indexes the votes of local legislators. Republican lawmakers have complained that the group is pushing them further to the right by rating them negatively if they fail to pursue a hardline agenda\u2014like an effort to block a state sex-ed program on grounds that it promotes \u201cporn literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His rhetoric can still be extreme. \u00ad\u201cKamala Harris is not a Natural Born \u00adCitizen. Kamala Harris does not meet the requirements to be President,\u201d Regan tweeted in 2024. \u201cIt\u2019s just common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazel, meanwhile, has devoted herself to putting the party on a more mainstream path. She co-founded the Save NIC campaign and joined the moderate North Idaho Republicans group that challenges Regan\u2019s faction. She and Gookin are particularly bothered by the local GOP\u2019s embrace of figures like Dave Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly is a relative newcomer to North Idaho. He was living in northeastern Pennsylvania in 2017 when he traveled to Charlottesville for the Unite the Right rally. When local news outlets reported on his presence at the deadly event, he moved away from the Keystone State\u2014and sued for defamation. He claimed he was not a \u201cparticipant\u201d in the rally and was simply there to film it as a member of the media, but judges threw out nearly all his claims.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 essay, Reilly criticized the \u00adCharlottesville violence, which he said had fulfilled \u201cthe wishes\u201d of political elites who sought to turn the white nationalist rioters into villains. An ardent Catholic, Reilly argued that \u201cwhite identity\u201d was a false \u00adconcept promoted by \u201cJewish sociologists\u201d and that youth should embrace conservative religious identity instead. \u201cAlthough it\u2019s true that the Catholic Church <em>has<\/em> been infiltrated by homosexuals, Jews, and bad leadership,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe Catholic faith is too old and too deeply internalized and too minutely codified to be co-opted by the evil intentions of social engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He arrived in Kootenai County around 2020, and his online commentary continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a \u2018Center for Jewish Ethics\u2019?\u201d he tweeted in March 2021. \u201cIs that where you go to learn how to shoot Palestinian kids, run child sex-trafficking operations, blackmail governments to get your way, oppress the poor and defraud laborers of a just wage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He often took aim at other figures on the right. In November 2020, he complained on Twitter that a prominent GOP influencer \u201cwants Republicans to cater to \u2018dreamers\u2019, homosexuals and J*ws, while COMPLETELY NEGLECTING Christian, white, working-class Americans.\u201d And he blasted conservative activist Chris Rufo for being \u201can employee of Paul Singer; a radical Jewish Zionist, a Vulture Capitalist, and manager of Elliot Management.\u201d When he gave a talk on critical race \u00adtheory to the North Idaho Pachyderm Club in the summer of 2021, Reilly pulled out a copy of <em>The<\/em> <em>Culture of Critique<\/em><em>\u2014<\/em>which promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories\u2014and praised it.<\/p>\n<p>None of that stopped the KCRCC from endorsing Reilly for a seat on the school board of Post Falls, a 45,000-person city in Kootenai County, in 2021. \u201cWe have all seen the headlines about transgender child grooming, the implementation of Critical Race Theory, and the adoption of a race-based \u2018equity framework\u2019 in Coeur d\u2019Alene,\u201d he wrote on a candidate questionnaire published on the KCRCC\u2019s website. Reilly pledged to keep \u201cdivisive, destructive and, frankly, delusional\u201d curricula out of Post Falls\u2019 schools.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=172\">GOP Push for $1 Billion to Fund Trump\u2019s Ballroom Hits Roadblock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regan has repeatedly said the KCRCC wasn\u2019t aware of Reilly\u2019s online rhetoric when it endorsed him. \u201cYears ago there was an individual that the committee recommended for office who we later [found] out had made some controversial posts on social media,\u201d Regan told me in an email. \u201cAfter that we initiated our Vetting Committee to better investigate potential candidates. He is not a member or affiliated with the KCRCC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when media outlets exposed Reilly\u2019s antisemitism a month before the election, the KCRCC didn\u2019t pull its endorsement, instead calling him \u201chighly rated.\u201d And Regan personally defended his character. \u201cHave you bothered to meet Dave Reilly and spend a few moments talking to him before you formed your opinion?\u201d Regan wrote on Facebook in response to a complaint about the endorsement. \u201cIf you bothered to get all the source information, as I have, you would find Dave Reilly\u2019s true story inspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reilly lost, but he hasn\u2019t disappeared from local politics\u2014including his apparent connections to a far-right website called the <em>Idaho Tribune<\/em>. As my SPLC colleagues and I pointed out in 2022, the outlet often promotes Reilly\u2019s favored causes and denigrates people like Borrenpohl, Jennifer Drake, and Dan Gookin. When I asked Reilly whether he ran the <em>Idaho Tribune<\/em>, he texted back: \u201cI\u2019m behind *everything* in North Idaho, depending on who you talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, Reilly sent a tweet alerting Libs of TikTok\u2014the online handle of anti-LGBTQ influencer Chaya Raichik\u2014to Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2019s upcoming Pride in the Park event. Four days later, the <em>Idaho \u00adTribune<\/em> breathlessly warned that the event would feature a \u201cdrag queen show for Idaho children\u201d and that members of the Satanic Temple were planning to attend. \u201cThey are grooming your children,\u201d the website announced.<\/p>\n<p>Raichik heard the call. \u201cWe are living in hell,\u201d she wrote, before tweeting an image of a Pride in the Park flyer with the date, time, and location. Four days after that, the Patriot Front members rolled up in a U-Haul.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, <em>InvestigateWest<\/em> reported that the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the activist group Regan chairs, contracted with Reilly to help shape its messaging. (According to the IFF, the part-time gig lasted less than three months.) In October 2024, Reilly again appeared at the Pachyderm Club, giving what he described as a talk on \u201cthe hidden connections between the liberal\u201d NIC candidates and the Biden Justice Department. The Pachyderm Club did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Pachyderms have also hosted Vincent James Foxx, whose website has called for the \u201cregulation of morality\u201d in response to queer people and has raised alarms about Jewish influence in Hollywood. A California transplant, Foxx has been described by <em>ProPublica<\/em> as the onetime \u201cunofficial propagandist\u201d of the Rise Above Movement, which,  to ,  to be a white supremacist, \u201ccombat-ready, militant\u201d group. On a 2022 livestream, Foxx boasted about attending one of the contentious NIC board meetings and hurling slurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to call a couple of guys \u2018faggot,\u2019\u201d he bragged. \u201cThis one kid, I guess he was like a college student\u2026He walks up to me, he hands me this flyer\u2026[It says] \u2018Look at how racist these guys are, look how dangerous these [KCRCC-backed] board members are.\u2019 And I don\u2019t say anything, I just take the flyer from him\u2026[Later], he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh wow, you\u2019re, like, a literal Nazi, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re, like, a literal faggot, aren\u2019t you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazel said it\u2019s all part of a disturbing pattern: \u201cWhen you bring antisemites into the tent, what happens?\u201d she asked. \u201cIf you point this out, Regan\u2026will attack the messenger for being woke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regan told me that his critics are wrong. \u201cYou won\u2019t find any direct evidence supporting those claims,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat you will find is a resolution passed by the full KCRCC committee by unanimous vote rejecting supremacy in all forms. You will find I offered a reward for the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the reported racist hate incident involving the Utah Women\u2019s Basketball Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bitz, of the Western States Center, found that response notable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see Regan on his back foot like this,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause looking at the KCRCC, this is one of the local Republican Party organs in our country that is most comfortable rubbing shoulders\u201d with extremists.<\/p>\n<p><span>Once sustained<\/span> by lumber and mining, Coeur d\u2019Alene now runs on tourism. It\u2019s a captivating place: Imagine the woodsy landscape of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> with a shimmering, picturesque lake at its center.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Williams, who owns the Art Spirit Gallery, told me that a quiet but growing group of people in Coeur d\u2019Alene have become fed up with being seen as a hub of hate. They see it as an existential threat not only to their values, but also their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, after Patriot Front stormed Pride in the Park, concerned residents convened quietly to vent about what was happening to their city. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want others to be aware so that we wouldn\u2019t be targeted because we know darn well this is the community we live in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, Williams sent an email to then-Mayor Woody McEvers warning that all of this was bad for business. She alerted him that Get Lit!\u2014a literature festival sponsored by Eastern Washington University\u2014had opted against housing authors in Coeur d\u2019Alene because of its reputation for political extremism. A spokesperson from Get Lit! confirmed this, noting that an Indigenous writer had grown concerned after seeing video of men dragging Borrenpohl out of the town hall.<\/p>\n<p>McEvers never replied to her. Williams handed me a different statement she\u2019d written that read like a cry for help: \u201cWithout addressing the roots of racial hostility and fostering genuine inclusivity, Coeur d\u2019Alene risks further economic decline, continued cultural isolation, and a tarnished reputation that no amount of natural beauty or community pride can easily erase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, locals are doing what they can to persevere. At the 2025 Pride in the Park, Sarah Lynch told me that the LGBTQ community refuses to let Reilly, Libs of TikTok, or Patriot Front win. Lynch, a former Air Force pilot who now serves as executive director of the North Idaho Pride Alliance, pointed out that the event broke attendance records.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, a Sunday, I visited Candlelight Christian Fellowship, a church housed in an old cineplex that locals told me was another source of political extremism. Inside, the stage was flanked by two enormous flags, one American and one Israeli. After some robust singing, a speaker announced a group of four people for whom we should pray. The last one was Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. They projected his face onto a big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Then Pastor Paul Van Noy, balding and with a salt-and-pepper beard, emerged wearing a loose-fitting tropical shirt. He criticized Pride in the Park, which he claimed he\u2019d just happened to stumble upon while taking a Saturday stroll with his wife. \u201cBy the way, I didn\u2019t want to go, and I didn\u2019t want anyone else to go,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t let them count the numbers. <em>Coeur d\u2019Alene Press<\/em> said there were 3,000 people. That is a <em>total<\/em> fabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love the gay community just like we love drunkards, just like we love drug addicts,\u201d Van Noy explained. \u201cBut we do not love what harms people.\u201d He added that \u201cthe only reason I\u2019m bringing this up\u201d was that \u201cthe people that are there, who are being advocated for, are also mutilating children.\u201d (Gender surgeries on transgender youth are extremely rare, and in 2023, Idaho entirely outlawed gender-affirming medical care for minors.)<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the service, a man handed out sacks of locally grown potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><span>That night,<\/span> I met Dave Reilly at Whispers, an outdoor lounge at the Coeur d\u2019Alene Resort. I walked through a winding lobby with a giant fish tank as speakers played Heart\u2019s 1985 power ballad \u201cThese Dreams.\u201d The room gave way to a sprawling patio overlooking Coeur d\u2019Alene Lake. There was a giant stone fireplace.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly was wearing a crucifix the size of a softball around his neck and a keffiyeh, the scarf associated with the Palestinian freedom movement. An outspoken defender of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, Reilly is also vehemently anti-Israel. The genocide in Gaza has opened new opportunities for him to try to win converts to his cause.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly was accompanied by Rebecca Hargraves, a striking woman with blond hair and excellent posture who co-hosted a podcast with him. Hargraves moved to Idaho from Seattle \u201cbecause I was sick of having to deal with minorities,\u201d she wrote on X in 2024. She has urged \u201cwhite people that don\u2019t feel safe\u201d to join her in the state and \u201cfortify the hell out of it\u201d and has called for a return to \u201cvoluntary\u201d segregation.<\/p>\n<p>Also with them was Casey Whalen, a citizen journalist who occasionally writes for the <em>Idaho Tribune<\/em>. And there was a nervous, skinny man who wore a red Bass Pro Shops ballcap and didn\u2019t want to be identified. He seemed to subscribe to Reilly\u2019s worldview, though Reilly told me that he was Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an exodus in California in the early \u201970s, another one in the early \u201980s, another one because of Rodney King in the early \u201990s, and then because of Covid,\u201d Reilly said, sipping his beer. \u201cSo, I mean, this is the fifth or sixth wave of mass migration to Idaho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I asked whether he meant a migration of white nationalists. The man in the red hat corrected me to say they preferred to use the word \u201cseparatists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reilly denied that he wanted to build a white ethnostate and insisted his focus was on his Catholicism. Richard Spencer\u2014who gained infamy for his own participation in Unite the Right\u2014later told me that he thought Reilly, while sincere in his faith, had shifted to emphasizing Catholic themes because the ethnostate conversation \u201chit a brick wall\u201d with the average American.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly said Idaho is already \u201cgreat the way that it is\u201d and noted that celebrities like the Kardashians, Mark Wahlberg, and Justin Bieber have vacationed here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut why do they come up here?\u201d \u00adHargraves interjected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s <em>nice<\/em><em>,<\/em>\u201d Reilly answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it nice?\u201d Hargraves continued. \u201cIt\u2019s, what, 90 percent white? Okay, let\u2019s go to anywhere in the world that\u2019s 89 percent Black. And you can tell me it\u2019s going to be some sort of vacation destination?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversation at one point turned to the Candlelight church. Van Noy is a self-professed Christian Zionist, which puts him directly at odds with Reilly. \u201cWhy do they have such a boner for you?\u201d Hargraves asked Reilly. \u201cI don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey tanked my school board campaign in 2021,\u201d Reilly said. Van Noy later told me over email that while he personally didn\u2019t support Reilly, it was a \u201clocal Jewish man (who is a believer in Jesus as Messiah\u2014and often attends Candlelight)\u201d who \u201cled the charge\u201d to defeat him; the church itself didn\u2019t get involved.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Reilly has been pointing to allegations made by Van Noy\u2019s adult daughter, who stated publicly in November that Van Noy had failed to protect her from past sexual abuse by others. Van Noy maintains he did nothing wrong and told me that there are \u201cmany false accusations circulating.\u201d Candlelight, he said, \u201chas a zero-tolerance, one strike policy, for all sexual crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we sat on the Whispers patio, Reilly talked about how he\u2019d started out as an artist and became addicted to opioids, then got clean through the church. After Unite the Right, he lived in Kansas, where he immersed himself in religion before moving to North Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my life, I just view as\u2014\u2018this is my art,\u2019\u201d Reilly said. \u201cAnd if my art is Nazism, well, then fine, whatever. You can call it whatever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reilly laughed for a moment and then asked me not to print that part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrike that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span>The next day,<\/span> I met Russell Mann, a Republican in his mid-40s who runs the local Bombastic Brewing, over coffee. He said Reilly and his crew bring back bad memories of Idaho\u2019s extremist past, and he blames the KCRCC and the Republican Party for helping undo the progress that had been made since Aryan Nations was driven out. \u201cThe difference between then and now is that political power is behind this,\u201d Mann told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that anywhere I go, or anyone I talk to, and I mention Idaho, they instantly think, \u2018That\u2019s a racist place\u2019 or \u2018That\u2019s a terrible place,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI thought 20 years ago that by now, I wouldn\u2019t have to explain anytime I say I\u2019m from Idaho that I\u2019m not racist. But it came back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mann noted that Reilly had warmly greeted Frank DeSilva during an online chat that took place on the night of the 2025 Pride in the Park. DeSilva served more than a decade in prison for his affiliation with The Order and once admitted in court that he had organized a 1983 cross burning. When I asked Reilly about this, he told me that DeSilva had \u201crequested to speak\u201d and that if he had known DeSilva \u201cwas so long-winded,\u201d he would have passed.<\/p>\n<p>In late June, news broke of a man near Coeur d\u2019Alene murdering two firefighters with a shotgun and severely wounding another before taking his own life. The killer, 20-year-old Wess Roley, who\u2019d aspired to be a firefighter himself, had baited the victims into a death trap by starting a blaze. The crime didn\u2019t seem politically motivated, but it sparked another flurry of social media posts about Kootenai County and messages from pretty much everyone I\u2019d been interviewing\u2014even Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get people that hate cops, but firefighters?\u201d he texted me.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Gookin, the moderate Republican, overcame intense KCRCC opposition to win Coeur d\u2019Alene\u2019s mayoral election by a few hundred votes. His victory came on a night in which ideologically diverse candidates, ranging from center-right to socialist, defeated MAGA-\u00adbacked politicians across the country. And just last week, North Idaho College received  that it had been removed from probation and would keep its accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>One theme I heard repeatedly about Coeur d\u2019Alene was that it is a bellwether for radicalization. Meaning that if you see something like authoritarians \u00adshutting down speech at a town hall there\u2014or maybe even a maniac ambushing firefighters\u2014you should take it seriously, because it could be coming to your city next.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s even true for the modest successes of folks like Borrenpohl, Hazel, and Gookin as they look to reclaim power from the extremist right. 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