Idaho’s lawmakers have targeted the LGBTQ+ community — particularly transgender people —for many years, and this year was no different. This year alone, lawmakers introduced at least 19 bills targeting trans people—seeking to control everything from their bodily autonomy to where they can use the bathroom.

In just this legislative session, 14 bills targeting immigrants were introduced in the Idaho Legislature alongside an executive order from Governor Little praising the current administration's efforts to terrorize immigrants under the guise of protecting our border. Idaho is at the forefront of a nationally coordinated, well-funded movement to drive away and criminalize immigrants.

In 2025, lawmakers continued to introduce laws that roll back reproductive rights and further threaten the health and safety of Idahoans. The most extreme bills would have established new and unusual legal and policy frameworks—like assigning personhood rights to fetuses—that assert moral and religious ideals in place of science and research-backed medicine.

Idaho incarcerates more people per capita than most states, and more women than any other democracy in the world. Despite these alarming statistics, this year Idaho lawmakers passed a half dozen laws that will further burden our courts, prisons, and jails.

Idaho lawmakers again introduced a suite of bills aimed at inserting “traditional,” Christian values and ideals into Idaho schools and healthcare. These bills reflect a broader Christian nationalist political agenda being seen across the U.S.—a trend with firm roots in conservative states like Idaho. Proponents of Christian nationalist legislation describe such laws as a necessary response to the rise of “secular and progressive” policy, law, and culture, which ultimately “threaten” society.

Censorship laws are on the rise in Idaho and across the U.S. Idaho lawmakers are continuing a sustained assault on political, civic, and legal efforts to promote racial, social, and environmental justice—an attack evidenced by a litany of bills aimed to stifle dissent, speech, protest, academic freedom, and more. The trend comes at a moment when the federal government, in its relentless pursuit of a retaliatory political and legal agenda, has grown overtly hostile towards dissent and more confident in deploying extraordinary and illegal means to reach its goals.