American Redoubt

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The American Redoubt movement is an conservative political migration initiative created by novelist James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog. The movement encourages citizens to pull up stakes and to move to a more open and free location, a safe haven similar to a Galt's Gulch—to vote with their feet. This movement has targeted a multistate area in the Intermountain West of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, and Eastern Washington as a relocation zone.

The movement was launched when Rawles started advocating that libertarians relocate to the area on his SurvivalBlog. Rawles and his followers do not track how many people have actually moved into the area in response to these efforts.

The American Redoubt concept was endorsed by former presidential candidate Rev. Chuck Baldwin, who had recently relocated his entire extended family to western Montana. It also soon inspired the launch of a weekly survival-preparedness podcast by Christian libertarian journalist John Jacob Schmidt, called Radio Free Redoubt,[1] as well as a volunteer network of amateur radio operators called AmRRON (the American Redoubt Radio Operators Network) established in 2012.

The second podcast is by Alex Barron (http://alexanderbarron.com), an African American Catholic redoubter, who founded the Charles Carroll Society podcast (https://charlescarrollsociety.com). Alex is the self-proclaimed Bard of the American Redoubt who speaks from a Traditional Catholic, Constitutional Conservative, American Patriot viewpoint. Alex says, "Jim Rawles coined the term, but it is actually a simple concept, it is called political migration. There are many groups who have done this over the years; Protestants and other minority religious groups escaping the Catholic church in Europe (I guess that would actually be religious migration but you get the point), liberty-minded people escaping the Protestant King of England. Native Americans moving West to escape the European colonization (I guess forced ethnic cleansing, but again I hope you get the point). Americans of African descent escaping the South (racial migration?). Many, many groups move because of various reasons including political reasons. The American Redoubt is Christian and Jewish liberty-loving traditionalist politically migrating from militant progressive secular states.".. -- Blue states such as California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Washington DC and others.[2]

Politics

The American Redoubt movement differs from the Free State Project (FSP) where the FSP seeks to have a threshold number of libertarian political activists move into a single state to gain a significant amount of political power in that state. In contrast, the American Redoubt movement intentionally has no organized leadership, has targeted a zone that is divided between several states and has no objective way to measure its political influence in the target zone. The FSP had its supporters sign a pledge to relocate within a specified time period, while there is no specific time table for the American Redoubt. As a result, although the American Redoubt has experienced a net increase in population, it was unclear what fraction of those relocating were aligned with the American Redoubt movement.

The American Redoubt movement is not a political party or movement. It has never fielded or endorsed political candidates. Some Individual Redoubters sought to use the May 2016 primaries to gain more political positions in Idaho, but they reportedly lost more of the positions than they won.[3]

American Redoubt Relocation

Because of its low population density and diverse economy, Skousen,[4] James Wesley Rawles, Chuck Baldwin and Boston T. Party,[5] all recommend the Intermountain West (American Redoubt - Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, northern Utah) region of the United States, as a preferred region for relocation and setting up survival retreats.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com accessed December 4, 2014
  2. ↑ https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2013/01/28/the-american-redoubt-who-the-players-are accessed December 4, 2014
  3. ↑ News From The American Redoubt (May 24, 2016). Retrieved on July 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.joelskousen.com/About/about.html
  5. ↑ http://www.survivalblog.com/retreatareas.html
  6. ↑ http://www.survivalblog.com/redoubt.html The American Redoubt -- Move to the Mountain States

Bibliography - Further Reading

  • Skousen, Joel, Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places, 3rd Edition Perfect Paperback, 2011, ISBN 1568612621, ISBN 978-1568612621
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