COEUR d’ALENE — Charlene Baron didn’t move to North Idaho to invest her time in politics. Like most people who migrate to the area, she moved to Coeur d’Alene because, well, it’s Coeur d’Alene.

“I love to ski,” she said. “It’s beautiful here, and I love the outdoors. I can’t think of a better place to live.”

The Virginia transplant is just as eager to hit the pavement as she is to hit the slopes. The activist and member of Engage The Right, a conservative group focused on raising awareness on contemporary Republican positions, said she intends to stand and march for political causes in which she believes, starting Thursday with a pro-Trump, anti-impeachment rally at the corner of Northwest Boulevard and Ironwood.

“I love being involved,” Baron said. “I loved it in Virginia, when I was ‘26 miles or two-and-a-half hours from D.C.,’ as they say.

“I attended CPAC [the Conservative Political Action Conference], and I stood for my President over there, and I was very honored to be a parade ambassador at the President’s inauguration. Then we moved here, and I just decided to make it happen here.”

Baron wasted little time, too. In the three months she and husband Dale have lived in Coeur d’Alene, she said she’s mingled in popular cuisine locales with local conservatives to make an impact on what she finds most important: a local difference.

“[Local involvement] is what it’s all about,” she said. “We’ve been working hard to get the word out. Some of us here decided we’ve had enough of the way the President has been attacked by the left, and how Democrats are trying to enact a socialist agenda. So we got together at Capone’s trying to build this up. If we have 20 or 25 people there, I think that’s a big win for us.”

Baron said she admits her involvement and fervor are recent developments, as the former teacher said it was President Trump who ignited her calling to political activism.

“I’ve always been more-or-less interested in politics,” she said, “but I’ve never really been active in it until recently. Day or night, I never had time to do anything extra. Both our boys went to Virginia Tech and got their graduate degrees in engineering. After they moved out, we became empty-nesters, and that’s when I found the time to do something to try and help.”

While she’s still getting accustomed to life in the Inland Northwest, she made clear her political positions are firmly grounded.

“It was interesting to me to see just how much RINOs [an initialism for ‘Republicans In Name Only’] and Democrats are really out there for themselves,” she said. “It’s interesting to me to see how their socialist agenda is driving [Speaker of the House of Representatives] Nancy Pelosi’s office. I’m going to do anything I can to make sure the elites and the criminal Democrats don’t get elected here.”

It’s a mission Baron said is more in danger than Idahoans might realize.

“This is supposed to be a purple state,” she said. “I want to see that what’s happened to California, Washington and Oregon doesn’t happen to Idaho ... I believe anyone who votes Democrat is completely uninformed.”

The rally — which Baron contends will be amicable and peaceful, with plans to ignore those honking or voicing their disagreement — coincides with a nationwide system of rallies planned for Thursday by American First and Engage The Right. The rallies, now known as March For Trump, are intended to dissuade passersby from supporting further impeachment proceedings.

Pelosi began formal proceedings to investigate Trump after the President admitted he pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate Vice President Joe Biden — currently leading the polls as the Democratic Party’s frontrunner — for corruption stemming from the in-country business dealings involving Biden’s son, Hunter. Pelosi announced Tuesday she would not move forward with an impeachment inquiry vote for the time being.

“We could have a really good showing [at the rally],” Baron said. “People are going to spread the word. It’s going to be fun. We’re going to support our President, we’re going to be patriotic, and we’re going to be positive. I know we have good people here [in North Idaho].”

She said she and other organizers would break out banners and signs promoting Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, as well as slogans calling for an end to the impeachment proceedings, including “Stop the hoaxes” and “Stop the coup.”

“I just think the Democrat party is being controlled by ‘the squad’ [the term used to describe Democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.],” Baron said. “‘The squad’ is controlling Nancy Pelosi’s office and controlling the Democrat and socialist agenda, and it has to be stopped.”

The event will begin at noon Thursday with a rally point along the sidewalk outside the Days Inn in Coeur d’Alene, on the corner of Northwest and Ironwood.