What I wasn't aware of, was its role in encouraging its members to take 'action', such as:
- Action Idaho launched sometime between December 2021 and early 2022. One of its anti-LGBTQ+ posts focused on June 2022 Pride celebrations. Following the arrest of 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front en route to disrupt a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Action Idaho published a post with the headline “LGBTQ+ Pride Fest is a Groomer Fest.”
The site was also one of several conservative outlets that attacked Idaho’s 2023 Teacher of the Year, Karen Lauritzen, for her social media posts supporting LGBTQ+ people. “Would Lauritzen be happy to cultivate transgender ideologies among your children? Probably,” Action Idaho’s 2023 post read. Lauritzen faced intense harassment as a result, forcing her to leave Idaho altogether.