In His Own Words
These are his posts. His replies. His public record, unedited and unchanged.
Politicians tell voters who they are through their campaigns. They also tell voters who they are through their social media. Chad Christensen is unusually forthcoming in the second category. Over a span of years, his public accounts have accumulated a record of threats directed at a sitting governor, Hitler comparisons applied to COVID public health officials, religious invective deployed as a political weapon, and crass dismissals of constituents, critics, and colleagues. The record below does not require interpretation. It requires only that you read it.
Before the posts, one piece of context: while serving in the Idaho Legislature, Christensen listed on his official government biography that he was a member of the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia organization whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. He put those affiliations on his government bio voluntarily, as credentials. That context shapes everything that follows.
To the Governor of Idaho
To Governor Brad Little, August 2021:
To Governor Brad Little, November 2020:
To Governor Brad Little, August 2020:
On a named state legislator, April 2025 (with a linked image):
On a constituent discussing rumors about state Sen. Jim Guthrie's alleged affair, January 2024:
Not a word of it directed at Graf. This is Christensen calling someone a "pathetic loser" for discussing a sitting state senator's alleged affair, written six months after he sat under oath and could not name the women he had been with during his own legislative tenure. He estimated "probably four or five."
His Language for Officials and Institutions
On California COVID restrictions, October 2020:
"Are there really people in California that plan on complying with Thanksgiving/Christmas government directives, instead of being with their loved ones? Hitler would be proud of his Padawan rulers. Compliance is easy for these rulers to attain, as it was for him."
@chadforidaho, October 30, 2020On the National School Board Association, October 2021:
"Yes, I was one of them. The National School Board Association is a communist/Marxist organization."
@chadforidaho, October 28, 2021On COVID public health compliance, May 2020:
"The more we comply, the more this communist agenda succeeds!"
@chadforidaho, May 3, 2020On political opponents, September 2021:
"Liberty entails not depriving anyone of their freedom of choice. Simple, stop perverting it, libs/commies!"
@chadforidaho, September 14, 2021On Critics, Constituents, and Colleagues
On liberalism, January 2022:
On critics who mailed postcards during his campaign:
On mask compliance advocates, October 2020:
On the monkeypox outbreak, using a racial slur:
On transgender youth, March 2025:
To constituents outside his district who contacted him:
To Gregory Graf, on Facebook:
Invoking Faith to Attack Others
He posts photos of LDS temples. He says Christ laid hands on him. He describes being attacked by demons on his mission. He calls Trump a "strong servant of God." He uses LDS Book of Mormon terminology to describe political opponents as "modern day Gadianton robbers," invoking scripture to brand a fellow Republican legislator as spiritually evil. And then:
The Moral Authority He Claims
He presents himself as a faithful, morally serious LDS man: quoting scripture, posting temple photos, calling himself God's instrument. His sworn deposition testimony tells a different story.
Under oath, he admitted to having a child with a girlfriend outside of marriage. He dated a married woman in June 2020 while she was still married to someone else. He ended it when he found out "she wasn't actually divorced yet."
Asked about his sexual relationships, he estimated "probably four or five" women beyond his named relationships and two marriages. He could only name two of them.
During the 2022 campaign he eventually lost to Wheeler, Christensen pulled screenshots from Wheeler's private family Facebook page and used them out of context as political attacks. He apparently did not know — or did not check — that the posts involved Wheeler's son, who had passed away from brain cancer. He was publicly called out for it. Christensen runs a private investigations firm. The core of that profession is doing research before drawing conclusions. He had to be told by the public why what he had done was wrong.
After Wheeler was in the legislature, Christensen came after him again — this time for accepting a calling as LDS bishop, accusing him of neglecting his duties and demanding he resign. View screenshot
He has built a political identity on moral accountability. His sworn testimony describes a different personal standard.
On the 2020 Election and Its Aftermath
On the 2020 election, November 6, 2020:
On President Biden, August 2021:
Praying for Trump while invoking assassination imagery, March 2025:
Chad Christensen at a political rally (public photograph).
How He Uses Political Office
In March 2022, Take Back Idaho named Christensen as one of the elected officials who "supported Ammon Bundy's rallies and calls for action at St. Luke's," protests that forced Boise's largest hospital to go on lockdown. St. Luke's later won a nearly $52 million judgment against Bundy and his co-defendants.
In October 2019, Christensen launched a public campaign against Boise State University over the university's provision of feminine hygiene products in gender-neutral restrooms. He declared he had "had it with this immoral garbage" and asked whether it "encourage[s] sexual assaults." He then threatened to defund Boise State University entirely. His comments were covered by Idaho Education News.
When an open-carry dispute at a Boise restaurant did not go his way, he posted "Pass this around patriots" and "I am going to use my reach..." and mobilized followers to boycott a private business because he was unhappy with how a confrontation was handled.
Declaring political opponents enemies of the Almighty:
"Those who wish to encroach on these liberties are an outright enemy to our Creator."
@chadforidaho, May 11, 2020The Immigration Hardliner, Running Again
In January 2026, Chad Christensen spoke at a rally in Boise billed as "Idaho Stands with ICE," according to East Idaho News. The event drew hundreds of attendees to the Idaho State Capitol steps. Christensen, already running for House District 35A, used the platform to position himself as a hardliner on immigration enforcement.
On a separate occasion, he posted a Facebook video of himself driving up and down Broadway Street in Idaho Falls blasting "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice from his car, patriot flags flying, trolling protesters on the street. He posted it as a campaign act. He is running for the Idaho Legislature.
The record on this page spans years. The approach in each episode is the same: locate a high-intensity grievance, attach himself to it publicly, use it to build a list, run for office on the energy it generates.
He Blocked Constituents on Facebook. They Sued. The Case Was Dismissed.
In 2022, five Idaho residents sued Christensen after he blocked them from his political Facebook page, "Re-elect Rep. Chad Christensen." The lawsuit alleged viewpoint-based blocking of constituents from a public forum in violation of the First Amendment: a sitting legislator using his official campaign page to silence people who asked difficult questions.
On December 6, 2024, U.S. District Chief Judge David Nye dismissed the case with prejudice. The court applied the Lindke v. Freed standard — the 2024 Supreme Court ruling on when a government official's social media activity constitutes state action — and found Christensen's Facebook use did not meet that threshold. The court did not rule that the blocking itself was appropriate.
The documented behavior remains: a sitting Idaho legislator, on a page he used for official constituent communication, blocked voters who challenged him. His own posts about the case are in the record: calling plaintiffs "5 clowns", "act like peasants", and re-blocking them after letting them back. The same pattern runs throughout this record. The posts continue.
The IDOC Facebook Post
On December 7, 2024, Christensen posted in the Facebook group "Life In Idaho Falls! (SE Idaho)" about an escaped violent offender with pending first-degree murder charges who had been placed in an IDOC work camp:
Christensen signed this post with his campaign website URL. A public records request to IDOC returned zero responsive emails from him through official channels. View related IDHW termination post
Chad Christensen was terminated by IDOC for conduct deemed too aggressive. A subsequent law enforcement agency reviewed his personnel file and declined to hire him. He has held no official authority over IDOC since leaving state service. He posted this in a neighborhood Facebook group, addressed to the Governor and IDOC Director, signed with his campaign website URL, demanding that agency officials be fired. The public records request to IDOC found no corresponding official correspondence from him through any other channel.