When the colonies began their war for independence in 1775, they had no formal army, but depended on civilian irregulars or “minutemen.” In a similar way, the American Insurgency was made up of ordinary citizens, self-taught and self-trained, who had prepared themselves for the coming conflict and were ready to take up arms at a minute’s notice. To… Continue reading The American Insurgency, Part 3: The Roots of the Insurgency
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The American Insurgency, Part 2: The Constitution Hangs by a Thread
The sequence of events that made the American Insurgency inevitable had its roots in a political shift that had occured more than a century earlier. It began with the Progressive Era, barely a generation after the first civil war, dovetailed into the New Deal, and culminated with the near complete subversion of the United States. It is worth… Continue reading The American Insurgency, Part 2: The Constitution Hangs by a Thread
The American Insurgency, Part 1: Prelude to Civil War
The American Insurgency officially broke out in 2026, as a direct result of Steward vs. The State of California which effectively nullified the 2nd amendment. However, the conflict was rooted in the politics of the previous decade, and the economic realities of the Great Collapse. Following the election of 2016, the Republican Party split into various regional factions and… Continue reading The American Insurgency, Part 1: Prelude to Civil War