This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, some more attacks on the Redoubt movement. (See the Region-Wide section.)
Region-Wide
‘A spiritual war’: Are Christian nationalists threatening to turn the US into a religious state?
JWR’s Comments: I was surprised to see the SkyNews run this blatantly biased piece. Quoting a strident axe-to-grind anti-fundamentalist liberal like Bradley Onishi was the journalist’s first mistake. (Onishi, an “ex-evangelical minister” is the co-producer of a podcast titled: “Straight White American Jesus.”)
Note the way this paragraph is phrased, to make me seem to be some sort of racist:
“First coined in an online essay posted to a survival blog by former US Army intelligence officer James Wesley Rawles in 2011, the so-called American Redoubt refers to a mountainous area where around 90% or more of the people are white.”
There is of course no mention that I’ve consistently denounced racism in all of my writings, from an early age. For the record: I chose the Redoubt region for its low population density, not its racial makeup. I get along just fine with all of my neighbors, regardless of their skin tone or their religion. Notably, I have had a little disagreement with our valley’s one outspoken liberal. And he is a fellow Pale Face. Liberals are the minority that chafe me. Thankfully, liberals like him are outnumbered by about 90-to-one locally, so his vote won’t be shifting the polls. He is an irrelevant nuisance. But I should also mention that my opinion of his kleptocratic politics doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t help to tow his car out of a ditch, if he slides off of an icy road. He is still a neighbor that lives just a few miles away, and I treat him with courtesy.
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And here is yet another liberal hit piece: Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region. JWR’s Comments: Note how this article attempts to conflate The American Redoubt Movement with the long-defunct Aryan Nations bigots. Liberal journalists are incredibly consistent in evoking the memory of that racist group that left Idaho 23 years ago. This is what I refer to as the “guilt-by-non-association” smear tactic. I suppose that they’ll still be mentioning those Aryan Nations clowns another 20 years from now, to try to tar the image of North Idaho and Redoubters.
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Idaho
Kohberger Attorney: He was taking a ‘long drive’ the night of the Idaho murders.
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Idaho Republicans establish March presidential caucus, tighten ranks during summer meeting.
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Process Begins to Extradite Lori Vallow Daybell to Arizona.
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Level 1 evacuation issued for Ridge Creek fire near Hayden Lake.
Montana
Carbon County man kills black bear that broke into home.
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Jefferson River otter attack sends woman to hospital.
Central & Eastern Oregon
The Great Outdoors: Central Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
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Choice at the pump: Gov. Kotek signs self-serve gas bill, ending law banning it for past 72 years.
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Central Oregon Pee Wee Rodeo Association is teaching a new generation.
Central & Eastern Washington
Colfax pharmacy fined $20,000 following recordkeeping mistakes.
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Spokane Valley deputies arrest group of teens notorious for stealing Kias.
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Miss America welcomed to Tri-Cities by local energy leaders.
Wyoming
Hageman Says Conservatives Should Expect Battle On Capitol Hill To Get Worse Before It Gets Better.
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Teepees exhibit returns to Yellowstone Park for second year.
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Barrasso, Lummis urge Biden Admin to reverse plan to prematurely close Wyoming power plants.
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