Greater Idaho movement

But if that's the case, then Western Maryland would have joined West Virginia.

Then you would have had the state of Greater Idaho a long time ago, the state of Jefferson.

There's jurisdictions in Colorado trying to break away from the state.

Eastern Oregon is trying to join Idaho.

That's Greater Idaho.

Northern California for the state of Jefferson.

If we actually believed what Democrats were pitching, we would have six more Republican senators when those new states emerge.

So if Puerto Rico should be a state, then so should greater Idaho and Jefferson.

So what happens when residents finally believe their communities are permanently going to be outvoted by a political culture hundreds of miles away? They begin asking a revolutionary question.

If political differences have become nearly permanent, why not redraw the boundaries? And this is where Illinois connects directly with what's called the Greater Idaho Movement.

Since 2020, residents across eastern Oregon have been voting on measures calling for their counties to leave Oregon and join up with neighboring deep red Idaho.

Thirteen Oregon counties have approved greater Idaho measures over several election cycles.

The greater Idaho argument is strikingly similar to the Illinois argument.

Rural eastern Oregonians contend that Portland politics dominates state politics while imposing policies completely incompatible with the culture and economy of Eastern Oregon.

But the difference here is that Greater Idaho, as the name indicates, isn't looking to create a 51st state.

It wants to move the Oregon-Idaho border westward so participating counties can remain inside the United States, obviously, while coming under Idaho's government.

They never take a strong position on the primaries that matter, on the legislative issues that matter, on the strategies that matter.

Look, you could agree or disagree with some of my ideas, but I'm involved in a lot of different movements, whether they're issue-based movements, like with data centers before it was popular, whether it's legislative movements, whether it's primaries, whether it's the convention movement to reform primaries so we can actually stop spinning our wheels, whether it's things like Greater Idaho and putting pressure to, you know, allow rural America and blue states to join other states and be autonomous.

And that, that's something I might get to later in the week.

I have some updates on that, good and bad news on that.

And now moving on to...

Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles, Secretary General of Greater Idaho, who sent in, or actually he handed in cash, one 1111, a row of Schmeckles.

From Sir Donald of the fire bottles.

And he handed it to me in an envelope at the meetup and there was no note, but this was a 1111 in cash.

Well, it's already passed, so it's passed in multiple th- So this November will tell-

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this will, November-

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... will actually tell us what, where it stands.

So Greater Idaho-

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