Rigged.RED Card
KCRCC Accountability
Kootenai County, Idaho
Home›November 2021›Dave Reilly

Dave Reilly

November 2021 · Post Falls School District Zone 5
KCRCC November 2021 Rated and Vetted Ballot Card
RIGGED
In His Own Words
Documented Record

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 that assassinated 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."
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.
  • A new Idaho superintendent hired his wife as 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)
Kootenai County, Idaho
What Can I Do? Prepare to Vote.
Make Your Vote Count →
Harm Caused to Our Community North Idaho College Lakeland School District Community Library Network Wasted Taxpayer Dollars