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Dave Reilly

November 2021 · Post Falls School District Zone 5
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Attended the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally

August 2017 · identified under oath November 2021
  • Attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
  • Video of his attendance cost his father's radio station several sponsors, including Bloomsburg University.
  • He resigned from the station, WHLM, days after the rally.
  • His resignation letter denied being a white supremacist.
  • Rally organizer Jason Kessler later identified him under oath as active in Charlottesville planning servers.
Sources (3)

5,000+ deleted tweets: antisemitism in his own words

October 2021 - February 2024
  • Take Back Idaho published more than 5,000 of his deleted tweets in 2024.
  • The tweets documented Holocaust denial and white nationalist content in his own words.
  • Deleted tweets included wanting Iran to bomb Israel.
  • He answered a poll about rising antisemitism with "Let's get those numbers up!"
  • He called women's suffrage "a mistake."
  • Brent Regan dismissed the archive as "some posts that were critical of the Israeli government."
Sources (3)

2021 school board endorsement amid national condemnation

October - November 2021
  • The KCRCC endorsed him for Post Falls School District Zone 5 in 2021.
  • National outlets documented his "All Jews are dangerous" tweets during the race.
  • Christians United for Israel and a second pro-Israel group condemned him and urged the KCRCC to withdraw.
  • Regan claimed a Holocaust survivor had endorsed Reilly; the survivor's son said she had not.
  • The KCRCC quietly removed his name from its website after the Daily Beast story broke.
  • Residents of his Pennsylvania hometown wrote to warn Post Falls voters about his record.
Sources (6)

$11,000 from the KCRCC and a $222K shell-company network

July 2022 - December 2023
  • Brent Regan and the KCRCC treasurer personally authorized $11,000 in payments to his shell company.
  • The payments ran while Regan chaired both the KCRCC and the IFF board.
  • The KCRCC and 14 endorsed candidates paid over $222,000 to a shell-company network connected to Reilly.
  • Business filings trace Idaho Dynamics to the same PO Box as his campaign and personal website.
  • Companies promoted as Backlash podcast "advertisers" are owned by Reilly.
  • Matthew Colligan, whose reported catchphrase is "Hitler did nothing wrong," received KCRCC-connected payments.
Sources (4)

IFF hired him; Idaho leaders demanded it stop

December 2023 - April 2024
  • The Idaho Freedom Foundation quietly hired him to help shape its messaging.
  • 33 lawmakers, clergy, and community leaders signed a public letter demanding IFF sever ties.
  • IFF's president was replaced as the controversy lingered.
  • After IFF ended his employment, he was spotted filling KCRCC voter literature bags.
  • Neither IFF nor the KCRCC disavowed him.
Sources (4)

Promoted Aryan Nations' founder; hyped the Pride confrontation

June 2022 - May 2026
  • A video shows him attempting to rehabilitate the image of Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler.
  • He recruited a national far-right account to target Coeur d'Alene Pride before Patriot Front's arrests there.
  • The SPLC confirmed he controls the Idaho Tribune website.
  • He hosted Frank DeSilva, a convicted member of The Order, the neo-Nazi cell behind the 1984 Boise synagogue bombing and the murder of Alan Berg.
  • He appeared twice on Press TV, the sanctioned Iranian state broadcaster.
  • On April 8, 2026, posted "Boise, Idaho is ran by Jewish Sodomites." The post drew over 1,000 likes.
Sources (4)

Plot to install an antisemite in Democratic Party leadership

March 2022
  • A recording captured KCRCC members discussing a plan to take over the Kootenai Democratic Party.
  • KCRCC Youth Committeeman Dan Bell named Brent Regan as the plan's author.
  • The plan was to install Reilly as chair of the local Democratic Party.
  • Reilly announced a write-in run for governor as a Democrat; Regan then tried to distance himself.
  • The KCRCC had already endorsed Reilly and paid his shell company $11,000.
Sources (3)

Fake pizza flyers at a homeless shelter

July - August 2022
  • He distributed fake pizza flyers at a homeless shelter during the 2022 Idaho GOP convention.
  • The flyers directed hungry families to a GOP rival's event as a prank.
  • The shelter director identified him by name.
  • Idaho Young Republicans unanimously expelled members over the prank; Tom Luna called it "shameful."
  • Regan had personally donated to his 2021 school board campaign.
  • Asked to disavow him, Regan wrote that "the committee has not opined on the status of Mr. Reilly."
“…the committee has not opined on the status of Mr. Reilly.”
Brent Regan, asked to disavow Dave Reilly
Sources (3)

Racist remarks at a 2025 Boise festival

June 2025
  • He whispered "There's not a lot of Black people" while describing Boise during a live podcast broadcast.
  • When called out, he stood by the remark, saying "Diversity is a weakness."
  • The festival organizer had to respond publicly; multiple outlets covered the remarks.
  • IFF and Idaho GOP legislators had promoted the event.
Sources (3)

Still inside KCRCC politics: delegate seats and The Backlash

September 2024 - April 2026
  • Despite his documented record, he was voted a delegate to shape Idaho's 2024 GOP party platform.
  • Retired State Senator Mary Souza identified him as a "behind-the-scenes player in the KCRCC."
  • He co-hosts The Backlash podcast with Vincent James Foxx, secretary of Nick Fuentes' white nationalist organization.
  • His podcast used KCRCC town hall footage to mock an ejected constituent; police records contradicted Regan's account of the event.
  • West Bonner superintendent Branden Durst hired his wife, Melissa Reilly, as the district business manager.
  • Mother Jones called Kootenai County a "bellwether for radicalization," naming him and the KCRCC.
Sources (6)

Pennsylvania court record

2012
  • Arrested in 2012 in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on a disorderly conduct charge.
  • He pled guilty and received 12 months of probation.
  • The court later dismissed the complaint with prejudice.
Sources (2)

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