Greg Pruett

Greg Pruett is the founder and president of the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance (ISAA), an organization he founded in 2012 and has run since. He is also an Iraq War veteran and Idaho native who has built a statewide political operation by targeting Republican legislators as insufficiently conservative, using aggressive Facebook campaigns, fundraising appeals, and voter scorecards to pressure lawmakers into ideological compliance.

Pruett's connection to Chad Christensen is not incidental. Under sworn oath in his 2023 deposition, Christensen admitted that Pruett was the person who recruited him to run for the Idaho Legislature. In February 2018, Pruett called Christensen and asked whether he was still interested in running against his incumbent legislator. That call launched Christensen's political career. It created the relationship that would later be used to destroy someone else's.

Two years later, after the secretly recorded phone call of Gregory Graf was made, Christensen forwarded the recording to Pruett the very next day. Pruett then worked with Dustin Hurst, former vice president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, to publish a multi-part smear series on Keep Idaho Free, a publication Pruett operates. The series framed Graf as having attempted to get Christensen fired, was built on the recording, and was designed to damage Graf's employment at Melaleuca.

When Gregory Graf later sought a civil stalking injunction against Hurst in September 2023, Pruett publicly mocked the action, calling Graf's court filing "outright lies" and "a mockery of people who actually need restraining orders." At the same moment, an anonymous account was broadcasting Graf's home address with homophobic slurs.

Under direct questioning on Twitter, Pruett made two admissions.

Pruett recruited Christensen to run for office, received the secretly recorded phone call the morning after it was made, and worked with Dustin Hurst to publish the smear series designed to get Graf fired. He publicly described Chad's defamation lawsuit as having no realistic legal basis. The lawsuit ran for nearly three years.

That purpose is what Idaho law now calls a SLAPP: a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Idaho enacted anti-SLAPP protections in March 2025 specifically because of cases like this one: lawsuits filed not to win in court, but to drain, exhaust, and silence the target.

In the same exchange, Pruett explained what his "big issue" with Graf actually was:

This is the false narrative the entire campaign against Graf was built on. Pruett's framing, that Graf was the aggressor, that Graf called Christensen's employer and "trashed him," is directly contradicted by the court record. The recording at the center of this case was secretly made by EmmaLee Robinson, Christensen's then-employer, with Christensen's assistance. It was of Graf, not by him. That recording was then forwarded by Christensen to Pruett, who worked with Hurst to publish it as the foundation of a smear series aimed at Graf's own employer. The defamation lawsuit built on that recording was dismissed at summary judgment. Graf did not make a 40-minute call to trash Chad Christensen to anyone. The court's dismissal of Christensen's claims reflects precisely that.

Pruett received the recording the morning after it was made. His characterization of events — that Graf called Christensen's employer and "trashed him" — is the same false framing that animated the Keep Idaho Free smear series he co-published, and that the court's summary judgment ruling directly contradicted.

Screenshot: Greg Pruett (@gregapruett) and Steven T Thyberg (@thyberg_s), Twitter/X exchange  •  View in gallery

The Dorr Brothers Network and What NPR Found

What Pruett presents publicly as a grassroots Idaho gun rights organization is, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning NPR investigation, part of a national network built around brothers Aaron, Chris, and Ben Dorr, political operatives described by Republican lawmakers across multiple states as running a fundraising scam.

According to reporting from The Trace and The Daily Beast, Pruett is one of the original members of the Dorr brothers' network, alongside Aaron, Chris, and Ben Dorr and Patrick Parsons. Together these five ran operations in about a dozen states. The model is identical everywhere: use Facebook videos to attack pro-gun Republican lawmakers as insufficiently conservative, solicit donations in response to manufactured outrage, then take credit for pro-gun legislation they actively worked to undermine.

Iowa Republican lawmaker Matt Windschitl addressed his colleagues on the House floor in 2017 and said of Aaron Dorr: "If you're sending this guy money, I'm asking you to stop… It is time for his scam to end. You need and you deserve the truth: Aaron Dorr is a scam artist, a liar, and he is doing Iowans no services and no favors." The NRA itself accused Aaron and Chris Dorr of being scam artists. Republican lawmakers in Minnesota launched a website at mnscammersexposed.com warning constituents about the brothers' tactics.

NPR's investigation, which called Pruett "a one-man propaganda band", documented how Pruett operates multiple Facebook pages and uses them to build the kind of confrontational base that generates donations. The Pulitzer-winning series was a six-part expose of Pruett and the Dorr brothers' network.

What the IRS Records Show

The most concrete documentation of the Pruett-Dorr financial relationship comes from federal IRS Form 990 filings, publicly available through ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer.

In fiscal year 2023, the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance, Pruett's organization, paid Aaron Dorr $94,277 as "Director" compensation. In the same year, the ISAA took in $183,864 in contributions and spent $213,333, meaning the organization ran a net deficit of $29,469. Member donations were not sufficient to cover expenses; yet $94,277 went to Aaron Dorr as a single compensated director.

The 2024 filing additionally flags "conflict of interest transactions" per ProPublica's data. Aaron Dorr no longer appears as a compensated director in the 2024 filing. His total compensation from the ISAA across available filings is substantial.

Pruett also filed a belated campaign finance report for the ISAA, covered by the Post Register, after the organization failed to file required disclosures on time.

Honor Idaho: A Statewide Expansion

In February 2026, Pruett announced the expansion of the ISAA into a broader statewide operation called "Honor Idaho." The ISAA will continue as a project within it. Honor Idaho describes itself as "a statewide grassroots movement designed to protect life, liberty, and the Idaho way of life from radical overreach, political cowardice, and cultural decay." The same confrontational political model, widened to include more issues beyond gun rights, now claims a statewide mandate.