As evidence, he cited the $1.4 billion in pandemic assistance that Idaho had received from that “foreign” power, the U.S. “We’re losing our freedom to foreign governments and foreign corporations,” said one dark-horse gubernatorial contender, a cowboy-hatted county commissioner from the state’s remote northern Panhandle. Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of anti-government activism that is confounding attempts to battle Covid-19. A parked vehicle last September in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, displays a Gadsden flag sticker.