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The American Redoubt movement is an conservative political migration initiative created by New York Times best-selling author James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog. The American Redoubt where citizens are encouraged to pull up stakes and to move to a more open and free state, a safe haven similar to a Galt's Gulch -- to vote with their feet -- in the Intermountain West of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon, and Eastern Washington.

One could say that the American Redoubt was "founded" when Montana became a State of these United States of America on November 8, 1889, just 1 year before Idaho and Wyoming.

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]

People move to the American Redoubt from Nanny states such as the "Left Coast" and the East Coast. "The East Coast and West Coasts had the most liberal states including Vermont, Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Maine, California and New Jersey." ^[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]

Texas Redoubt

See Texas Redoubt.

Cumberland Redoubt

See Cumberland Redoubt.

Quotes

See Also

• Essay:Free States Movement
• Strategic relocation: Vote with your feet from an unfree state to a free state
• Jefferson State
• Survivalist retreat - for preparedness-minded conservatives
• Essay:Survivalist Retreat Potential Rank
• Essay:Criteria for Choosing a Survivalist Retreat Locale
• Essay:State Firearms Laws Ranking - Constitutional carry versus Gun control, Ammunition control and Gun free zones
• Essay:Crime Safety Ranking
• Essay:Length of Growing Season State Rank
• Essay:Population Density of the 50 States Versus Available Farm Land
• Essay:Per Capita Income of the States
• Nuclear target structures
• Bugout Location - Bug-out bag, Bug-out vehicle

• Big government-Welfare state-statist leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state
• Free State Wyoming - Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party
• Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places by Joel Skousen
• Rawles on Retreats and Relocation by James Wesley Rawles
• Cumberland Redoubt - Tennessee and Kentucky Redoubt in the Cumberland gap area. Term coined by M.D. Creekmore and Joel Skousen
• Free State Project - New Hampshire and Wyoming relocation
• Libertarianism and Conservatism
• Kenneth Royce (Boston T. Party) of Javelin Press and Free State Wyoming
• James Wesley Rawles - Founder of the American Redoubt movement, editor of SurvivalBlog.com
• Mel Tappan - Southwest Oregon "Grandfather of the the Movement"
• Dave Duffy and Claire Wolfe of Backwoods Home Magazine - Conservative Libertarian relocation to Southwest Oregon
• Alex Jones - regularly interview both James Wesley Rawles and Joel Skousen about the relocation movement
• Ragnar Benson - prolific Idaho survivalist author

External Links

• The American Redoubt -- Move to the Mountain States
• Rawles, James Wesley, "Gun Laws as a Criteria for Choosing Your Retreat Locale". Idaho, American Redoubt: The Survival Blog, No publication date listed.
• Survivalist Retreat Areas at The Survival Blog
• SurvivalRealty.com
• CharlesCarrollSociety.com - The Charles Carroll Society
• RadioFreeRedoubt.com Radio Free Redoubt
• SurvivalRetreatConsulting.com
• AmericanRedoubtRealty.com

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. ↑ http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie Accessed December 4, 2014
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-10: 1568612621, ISBN-13: 978-1568612621

• Rawles, James Wesley. Rawles on Retreats and Relocation. 1st. Clearwater, Idaho: The Clearwater Press, 2007. Print.

• Party, Boston T., Boston's Gun Bible. Wyoming American Redoubt Javelin Press, 2009 revision to 2002 edition, 848 pages, ISBN-10: 1888766069, ISBN-13: 978-1888766066. Contains a several chapters dedicated to Gun rights and the Second Amendment and the ranking of states in term of gun rights.

• Party, Boston T., Molon Labe!. Wyoming: American Redoubt Javelin Press, 30 January 2004, 454 pp (first edition, paperback), ISBN 1-888766-07-7 - Conservative Christian Libertarian dystopian fiction novel entirely based around the issue of States' rights and the Tenth Amendment's connection with the Second Amendment right to armed citizen defense against federal tyranny. Contains plot that is tied to Wyoming and Idaho and issues of constitutional carry, concealed carry and open carry. Inspiring book for the Free States Movement.

• Rawles, James Wesley, How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It - Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times', New York: Plume/Penguin Books, 2009. Released September 30, 2009, 336 pages, ISBN-10: 0452295831, ISBN-13: 978-0452295834, Audible.com Audio book, Amazon.com Paperback. Contains survivalist retreat guidelines with information on the American Redoubt.

• Rawles, James Wesley, Tools for Survival: What You Need to Survive When You’re on Your Own. New York: Plume/Penguin Books, 2015. Released December 30, 2014, 368 pages, ISBN-10: 0452298121, ISBN-13: 978-0452298125, Reviews, Audible.com Audio book, Amazon.com Paperback. Useful advice for those living in a mountainous rural forested area like the American Redoubt.