Trust is the foundation of everything we do in public life. It is what allows voters to send someone to represent them with confidence — believing that when the pressure comes, when the lines are tested, their elected officials will hold firm. That trust is not built on campaign slogans or party labels. It is built on judgment, on consistency, and on a clear understanding of who you stand with and who you do not.

What concerns me right now is not the obvious opposition. We all expect that. What concerns me is when the lines begin to blur — when the boundaries that used to be clear start to fade — and when the people who were sent to stand guard instead begin opening the door.

There is an organization called Indivisible. It is not a neutral civic group. It is a coordinated progressive network, organized at the national level, with a clear mission to influence policy and elections at the local level. This is an organization that, in their own words, declared it critical to defund the police and directed their members to donate to Black Lives Matter organizations during the 2020 BLM riots. This is the same organization that coordinated the No Kings rallies across the country, reportedly funded in part by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

And this is the organization that just promoted a candidate event in Twin Falls, sixteen days before a Republican primary.

The issue is not their existence. The issue is what happens when they stop operating on the outside and are instead welcomed in.

In the summer of 2025, I received an invitation from Indivisible Twin Falls County Idaho to participate in what they called a Speed Representing event — framed as a civic gathering for community members to meet their elected officials. Open dialogue. Nothing alarming on the surface.

It was signed: In solidarity.

That is not neutral civic language. That is the language of a movement with a direction. Here is exactly what I wrote back:

Dear Ms. Muth,

Thank you for the invitation to participate in your upcoming event. After reviewing the purpose and platform of Indivisible, I must respectfully but firmly decline. Indivisible is not a neutral civic organization. It is openly partisan and activist in nature — formed to resist conservative policies, reshape American institutions, and advance a progressive political agenda that I believe stands in direct conflict with the foundational principles of our constitutional republic. As a state legislator, I take seriously my oath to defend individual liberty, limited government, and the rule of law. These are not vague talking points — they are cornerstones of the American tradition. I cannot, in good conscience, participate in an event sponsored by an organization that actively seeks to undermine those principles. If your members wish to speak with me individually or attend one of my town halls, they are welcome to do so. But I will not lend legitimacy to a group whose goals are explicitly aligned with centralized power, ideological conformity, and a redefinition of our system of governance. Please consider this a final and clear statement of my position.

Sincerely,

Representative David J. Leavitt,
District 25, Seat B
Idaho House of Representatives

They came back anyway. A second invitation arrived with five scheduling options. Option 5 read: I will not be participating. They made my refusal a checkbox on a form.

That persistence is not coincidence. It is strategy. Every elected official who shows up — even once — gives them what they need. A face. A photo. An implicit signal to voters that this organization belongs in our political landscape. The goal was never conversation. The goal was legitimacy. I was not willing to provide it.

To understand why that line matters, you have to understand what we are actually dealing with.

Progressivism, socialism, and communism are not separate destinations. They are the same destination reached at different speeds. Communism arrives by force. Socialism arrives through legislation. Progressivism arrives through culture — quietly, gradually, and with a smile. All three rest on the same premise: that the collective supersedes the individual and that the state is the proper mechanism for achieving social outcomes.

That premise is incompatible with a constitutional republic, where rights are inherent, pre-political, and cannot be voted away. You cannot have both frameworks simultaneously. Every step down the progressive road moves the needle away from one and toward the other — whether anyone admits it or not.

Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist writing in the 1930s, recognized that violent revolution would not work in Western democracies. His solution was infiltration — embed the ideology inside institutions, schools, media, and local government, reshape the culture from within, and the politics follow without a fight. He called it the long march through the institutions.

What you are watching in Twin Falls right now is that march.

I spent twelve years in uniform. The most important lesson I learned had nothing to do with tactics. It came from watching what happens when you challenge power.

I watched fellow soldiers — good people doing the right thing — mistreated by leadership that cared more about protecting its own position than the mission or the people carrying it out. When those soldiers pushed back, leadership did not engage their concerns. It came for them. Their reputations. Their records. Their standing.

Power does not argue with a threat. It mobilizes to remove one.

When my colleagues and I won our seats and began voting to actually limit government spending, the response was not debate. It was a coordinated effort, backed by significant money from the highest levels of state government, to remove us. The Governor has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into PACs targeting our seats. The teacher’s union launched a campaign to use the Republican primary against us. A school board chairman held a mandatory meeting on taxpayer time and money to tell school employees we were the enemy — a move the Idaho Attorney General found violated the Public Integrity in Elections Act.

The targeting is the confirmation. When power spends that much to remove you, it is because you were threatening something real.

Now look at what that same network has assembled for this primary. And this time, you do not have to take my word for it. The evidence is on their own Facebook page.

On April 11, 2026, Indivisible Twin Falls County Idaho posted professional photos from their Speed Representing event — individual photos of each candidate who showed up, named by office, documented for the public record. Cherie Vollmer. Alex Caval. Casey Swensen. Grayson Stone. Scott Tverdy. Kristina Glascock. Chance Requa. Each one photographed at an Indivisible event. Each one’s participation documented and promoted by a progressive organizing network that called for defunding the police, directed members to donate to Black Lives Matter organizations during the 2020 riots, and sponsoring the No Kings rallies.

Then Indivisible posted one more photo from that night. Three candidates who declined to attend — myself included — with NO SHOW stamped across our faces in red.

They drew the line themselves. They documented who was willing to walk into that room and who was not. They celebrated the ones who came and publicly shamed the ones who refused. That is not civic engagement. That is a political operation — and they posted the evidence themselves.

From Indivisible Twin Falls County Idaho’s public Facebook page — posted April 11, 2026:

It did not stop there. Indivisible Twin Falls then promoted a Community Meet and Greet on their Facebook page, co-hosted with the Hispanic Political Education Committee and Vota Idaho, featuring those same candidates for Districts 24 and 25. The Hispanic Political Education Committee and Vota Idaho are endorsing them. Indivisible is amplifying it. Different organizations. Same direction. Same candidates.

From Indivisible Twin Falls County Idaho’s public Facebook page — the May 6 promotion:

Look at what those candidates share in common beyond their party registration. They are products of the government class — city councils, county commissions, state agencies, industries directly tied to government spending and policy. They are not outsiders challenging the system. They are the system, seeking to protect itself from the people who came to limit it.

And they know that in Idaho, you cannot win without an R next to your name. So the strategy is not to abandon the Republican Party. It is to use it. Wear the label. Accept the progressive organizational support. Win the primary. And the conservative voters who pulled that lever never know what they actually voted for.

So ask yourself a simple question. If Indivisible — the defund the police, BLM-supporting, Soros-funded protest machine — is documenting your candidate’s attendance at their events and promoting their path to victory, what exactly are they expecting to get in return?

They are not trying to beat the Republican Party. They are trying to become it — just long enough to win.

Birds of a feather flock together. Not as a saying — as a description of observable reality. Where someone chooses to spend their time, who they stand beside, which rooms they walk into willingly — that tells you more about them than anything they will ever say at a campaign forum.

Not what they say. What they do.

I knew my answer before the first invitation arrived. That is what it means to have a fixed sense of purpose — a clear, non-negotiable understanding of what you stand for and who you stand with. The line is drawn before you are ever asked to cross it.

Here is what I am asking of you. Before you accept a candidate at face value, ask the next question. Who is hosting their events? Who is promoting them? Who benefits from their election? Do not take my word for it — go look. The Facebook posts are public. The photos are real. The organizations are documented. The Attorney General’s finding is on record. None of this is hidden. It is simply counting on you not to notice.

The welcoming creep does not announce itself. It shows up as a conversation, a handshake, a community meet and greet. It feels harmless. It feels like nothing has really changed.

But something has.

Hold every candidate who asks for your vote to the standard of principle over convenience. Watch which invitations they accept and which ones they decline. Because that choice — made quietly, before anyone is watching — tells you exactly who they are.

Because once something is normalized, it is already halfway won.

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.