Revolution is Built with Resolve, Not With a Recipe
We missed the easy off-ramp last November; this is how we can make our exit.
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of building a country on the ruins of the post-constitutional order. Here’s a link for readers who missed it:
In the wake of the 2024 election and the challenge of ‘what do we do now,’ I devoted almost a dozen newsletters to the concept of Purposeful Disengagement.
The strategy of disengaging to build a foundation for change isn’t something new.
Christian Nationalists worked for over fifty years—patiently but with purpose—and used this framework to destroy our Constitution and take over our government.
They created their own education system. Between church-affiliated Christian schools, homeschooling, and taxpayer-funded voucher programs, they found ways to educate their children outside the public school system.
They expanded this to advanced degrees. By building upon an existing network of Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, they gave kids who were the products of this indoctrination a natural next step: Enter full-time Christian ministry; get an MRS degree; or learn a skill that could be useful in radicalized Christian Nationalism’s ongoing spiritual war.
They indoctrinated their congregations to be “in the world but not of it.” Wherever possible, they hung out together. Did business with one another. Quietly boycotted “sinful, worldly” establishments to starve them of attention and profit. Chipped away at rights and freedoms in such small increments hardly anyone noticed for a while.
They created a system of taking care of one another, provided members toed the Christian Nationalist line. As long as people were willing to submit to intrusive inspections of their private lives; attend mandatory church services, Sunday school lessons, and Bible studies; tithe ten percent of their income; and show up for mandatory sessions with an assigned Christian Nationalist “mentor,” members of this community could be provided with food security, housing, healthcare, childcare support, and more.
They made their own healthcare system that aligned with their hardline Christian Nationalist values. They bought entire hospital systems and medical offices, and they established a contributory health insurance program that existed outside US profit-driven models. As long as members followed radicalized Christian Nationalist rules, they could access approved healthcare without going bankrupt.
Of course, we know they created their own media. They have their own influencers. Their non-profit “think-tanks” receive billions per year from radicalized Christian Nationalist extremist millionaires and billionaires.
They created detailed end goals, and they crafted detailed plans to achieve them. With every success, they moved the line further to the radicalized Christian Nationalist right, regrouped, and attacked again. This culminated in Project 2025, the Christo-fascist manifesto that destroyed American democracy and is replacing it with Christian Nationalist theocracy.
Radicalized Christian Nationalist extremists did this by laser-focusing on LOCAL BUY-IN. It wasn’t a top-down effort. They worked church-by-church; community-by-community; face-to-face; for close to fifty years.
Radicalized Christian Nationalist extremists didn’t invent this blueprint. They stole it from another movement, even though its purposes were antithetical to theirs: the Civil Rights Era’s Rainbow Coalition.
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wrote a very detailed breakdown of this movement and how we could recreate it yesterday. Please take the time to read it, because I don’t need to replicate her excellent work.
Creating the multi-cultural, multi-plural democracy we want means holding to purposeful goals while thinking strategically and acting tactically to build a resolute and sustainable movement with at least 3.5% of America participating. It won’t happen overnight, but IT CAN BE DONE:
Connecting face-to-face with likeminded people in our communities
Finding out what each community needs
Creating a means of food security that exists outside the regime system and making sure everyone in the community is fed
Making sure everyone in the community has housing, and pooling community resources to provide it when necessary (including places to protect vulnerable regime targets)
Building alternative supply chains to fulfill community needs independent of the regime system
Developing an independent means of banking and offering credit that don’t rely on government-sanctioned platforms
Shopping local; bartering local; sourcing local wherever possible
Devising a means to educate community children outside a regime-mandated Christian Nationalist religious indoctrination system
Buying as little as possible; withholding support from fascist businesses; and for those who are able, walking out of jobs and refusing to work to support the fascist system
Working together to create a means of electronic communication beyond present internet and social media structures, which are captive to the regime
Developing community healthcare systems that are independent of the regime and stockpiling medicines and therapies necessary to care for vulnerable populations
This isn’t an exhaustive list or a recipe. It is an instigation to get more people thinking and working purposefully.
If at least 3.5% of Americans devoted every spare second of their available energy to making this happen in their communities RIGHT NOW, by the time the regime rolls out their Christian Nationalist AI-fueled surveillance structure, enough of us will be able to break it by saying, “Nah. We don’t need that because we’ve created a means to give ourselves what we need.”
Fascist regimes need US. We don’t need THEM. But we MUST build the means to NOT need them.
This sounds radical and exhausting, but it isn’t. Oppressed people have been doing this for generations. AND SO CAN WE.
Maybe you start with your local Indivisible group. Or likeminded neighbors. Or your book club. Or your church group. Or motivated people from work or school. Or all of the above.
This is how we will build the multi-cultural, multi-plural democracy WE WANT. Give everyone a seat at the table. Work together to create a new structure, conceived in genuine liberty for ALL people.
Where everyone is equal.
How can you apply this to your own communities in the coming days and weeks?
Please brainstorm in today’s comments. Get out a pen and paper and write down natural community leaders, and call a meeting and get them together. What building blocks already exist in your community? How can those resources be scaled up? Who else needs to be involved?
Also, you can form groups and read this book from 2011. Get yours HERE. It is packed with more ideas you can adapt to fight today’s fascist regime:
One way I’m going to help?
I’m going to sign up for
’s Broadcast NOW platform, and I’ll enable people here to create encrypted channels for their communities. We can also have a master channel to share best practices. I’ll let everyone know as soon as that portal is available.WE CAN DO THIS, AMERICANS.
It won’t be easy. It won’t happen quickly. It might get bloody. BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT FOR OUR CHILDREN. OUR GRANDCHILDREN. FOR EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS THEM WHO LONGS TO BREATHE FREE.
I don't want to live long enough to go through so much more suffering.. my life has been an exhausting struggle and I wanted to rest in my last days.. being disabled and relying on services that I may lose. I would be in a wheelchair soon without any support.. I worked 45 years in hours in 30 years.. paid both employee and employer side in to SS. Which as a young child afford.. why can't I save my own? It would be a devastating blow cuz I funded 90 years in total by age 50.
This is the clearest articulation I’ve seen of what actual resistance looks like—not hashtag activism, but intentional parallel systems rooted in mutual care. The Christian Nationalists didn’t “win” because they had better ideas—they won because they built infrastructure and practiced patient infiltration.
We don’t need to mimic their dogma, but we damn sure need to learn from their discipline.
Also, bless you for naming it plainly: this isn’t about fixing the old system. It’s about composting it. Growing something interdependent, not just independent. Something wise enough to refuse the surveillance state and bold enough to feed each other without asking permission.
I’m in. Let’s build.