Contextual Insurgent Project

In this episode Erin deconstructs and analyzes two important armed uprisings in American history -The victory at the Battle of Athens and the defeat at the Battle of Blair Mountain- and lays out the critical reasons behind the wildly divergent outcomes.

Topics Discussed: Carl Schmitt and the State of Exception: https://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/gulli-the-sovereign-exception-8x10.pdf Russell Conjugation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation Celebration Parallax: https://americanmind.org/salvo/from-death-threats-to-lies/ Antifa Industry at work: https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/20/the-antifa-industry-at-work/ TIME maga...

Personal Security in the digitized Cancel Culture age is more important than ever, but for many people the topic is so complex they’re not sure where to begin. Tune in as Erin and guests Dennis and Savannah break it down and provide action items and tips to protect yourself and those you love.

Tune in as I deconstruct the right’s underpants gnomes theory of political power with recurring guest Techbro Tito.

Operant Conditioning, decentralization, expanding battlespace, and swarm attacks. Rand paper on swarming: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf Explanation of what is happening with Gamestop: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_real_greatest_short_burn_of_the_century/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Labor Organizer Cesar Chavez was notorious for using vigilante squads to hunt down illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border for work (and thus suppressing wages) so why did Joe Biden add his bust to the Oval Office? What happened to the restrictionist pro-labor left, and why was the 2015 Ezra Klein interview of Bernie Sanders the last time we really heard that sort of rhetoric at the nati...

Most of us witnessed last summer’s unrest on our TV screens, but Mike Treat was there in-person when it started. As a POST-certified former corrections officer and lead instructor at Condition Orange Preparedness Mike is better positioned to analyze and comment on what happened than most, so tune in as Erin and Mike discuss his experiences during those fateful few days and find relevant lessons fo...

As domestic tensions rise and alarming political rhetoric increases around using counter insurgency tactics at home, more people find themselves worrying about peaceful solutions to our seemingly intractable problems. In this episode Erin critiques some of the more dangerous talking points, and attempts to offer some alternatives.

Tune in as Erin nerds out with Techbro Tito in a winding conversation about the future of the internet, American decline, China’s latest moves, the Capitol Uprising, and much more.

In this inaugural episode for a shorter, more casual Podcast series that will run alongside the more formal Contextual Insurgent seasons, Erin riffs on current events and topics including (but not limited to) Is martial law or secession realistic? Are there better options? If so, what are they?

Protecting your individual rights is ironically best done through collective effort by a likeminded group of people, but how do you find trustworthy folks? More importantly, what do you do once you’ve found them? In this episode Erin explains how the left builds and uses their “affinity groups” and illustrates why their model isn’t a cultural fit for the right, but also gives helpful tips and walk...

In this episode Erin looks back at season 1 and distills each episode down to its most important lesson, then gives a peek at season 2.

Rosa Parks’ act of defiance on an Alabama bus in 1955 has been mythologized as a spontaneous act that sparked a local act of resistance and solidarity known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but what if I told you that the boycott was the result of six years of careful planning, and that Parks had wargamed her nonviolent disobedience at an activist training school in Tennessee earlier that year? Mont...

Erin expands on Episode 7 with a discussion on managing realistic expectations, optimism, black swans and unknown unknowns, four networks theory, and ends by describing a real life incident that illuminates the previous points of discussion.

Votes are still being counted, but where do we stand and where do we go from here? Erin does a dive into the current state of play and breaks down the negatives and positives (spoiler: there are plenty!)

In this episode Erin gives an overview of the largest and most influential socialist group in America (DSA), and how a dedicated cadre of leftists at Jacobin magazine built a networked insurgency, leveraged a tactic called ‘entryism’, and seized control of it. https://contextualinsurgent.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Erin breaks down the hard left’s plans to disrupt the 2020 election, via legal and not-so-legal means. Is a general strike on the menu? What can you do to protect yourself? Tune in and find out!

The second in a three part series, Erin interviews Bolivian National Tad about his experiences with civil unrest and the 2019 uprising that deposed President Evo Morales. This episode focuses on the dynamics and structure of a riot.

The first in a three part series, Erin interviews Bolivian National Tad about his experiences with civil unrest and the 2019 uprising that deposed President Evo Morales. This episode focuses on political and social concepts behind modern revolution.

A dive into what antifa is, where it came from, and how it accomplishes its objectives

Erin talks about her recent viral interview in Reason on her experiences going undercover as black bloc antifa, and further explains dilemma actions and the spectrum of violence model.