The Radical Federalist Doctrine And Resistance Schematics
Guiding Principles to Build a Resilient, Decentralized Resistance to Authoritarian Overreach—And Their Applications
Previously we discussed some of the the primary elements with which we build our doctrine. Today we build alloys and apply them to example operating schematics for both Institutions—cities, states, counties, and any wielders of formal, institutional power—and for the Mesh—the mass movments, the distributed disobedience, the informal communities. Many of us exist, in our different roles, on a continuum between these two extremes, and will want to adapt and interpolate elements from both sets of examples.
This doctrine is bifurcated by design. Formal resistance must be mirrored by informal disruption. Each feeds the other. Together, they form a dual power capable of withstanding collapse and seeding what comes next.
I. Friction as Tactic
The regime governs through velocity. Executive orders drop faster than injunctions can be filed. Agencies are dissolved before lawsuits are heard. By the time courts respond, facts have hardened. The objective is clear: overwhelm with speed and ambiguity.
Our answer is friction.
Clausewitz taught that war is a contest of force constrained by resistance. Gene Sharp refined that insight for asymmetric struggle: power is projection, and resistance is denial. Together they form the first doctrine of unified resistance:
Create so much friction that no federal mandate moves cleanly.
Not through protest alone. Not through slogans. Through deliberate, measurable interference in the regime’s operational momentum.
Strategic Principle
Delay is not indecision. Delay is attrition. Every slow-rolled regulation, every procedural challenge, every redirected budget is a form of exhaustion. The goal is not to win in court. The goal is to clog the machine until it stalls.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Resistance Calendars
Synchronize state-level actions to create cascading delays: legal injunctions, mass FOIA requests, hearings scheduled to conflict with regime directives. Time them for maximum bureaucratic interference.Friction Dashboards
Build digital infrastructure that tracks:Budgetary irregularities tied to noncompliance
Legal backlogs created by resistance cases
Statistical slowdowns in federal disbursements
This isn’t for PR. It’s for command and control. If you can’t measure the damage, you can’t multiply it.
Rapid Response Cells
Deploy legal and administrative teams who can respond within 72 hours to regime escalation: freezing assets, filing injunctions, triggering delay clauses in local compacts.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
Resist them at the level they cannot see: the rhythm of daily life.
The Mesh doesn’t need court injunctions to slow the regime. It uses fluid disobedience—tenants who pay rent late in mass, workers who all “get sick” the same day, students who “forget” IDs required by federalized compliance tools. When done together, these microacts create procedural entropy. The machine stalls, not from protest—but from absence, misalignment, delay.
Start in your node. Coordinate with three others. Pick one system and gum it. Then move on.
█ Friction in the Mesh is not a march. It’s a syncopated refusal. Distribute the delay.
Escalation Path
Start small. Delay a permit. Freeze a zoning compliance. Hold a vote open 36 hours longer than necessary. The point is not disruption for its own sake—it’s systemic tempo denial. Over time, the regime will need to prioritize. That’s when it exposes its hand.
Force the center to choose between enforcement and legitimacy. They can’t have both.
If This Principle Is Ignored
Without tactical friction, the regime’s timeline becomes your timeline. And that’s how you lose—not with a bang, but with a series of deadlines you didn’t set and cannot shift.
█ This is how we begin. We don’t race them. We slow them. We don’t out-legislate. We overcomplicate. This is asymmetric governance.
II. Legitimacy as Network
The regime is not winning hearts. It is seizing ground. Bureaucratic ground. Judicial ground. Narrative ground. And in that void, legitimacy becomes whatever moves fastest and punishes deepest.
We don’t answer that with slogans. We answer it with infrastructure.
Arendt reminds us: power does not come from the barrel of a gun, but from collective consent made visible through institutions. Bismarck shows us that consent can be manufactured through alliances of mutual interest—even among enemies. Together, they give us the second doctrine:
Build a decentralized web of institutional legitimacy strong enough to absorb the collapse of the federal center.
You don’t need to persuade the country. You need to make your alternative real enough that people can walk into it when the regime falters.
Strategic Principle
Legitimacy is not declared. It is performed. If you wait until federal power dissolves before constructing a replacement, you inherit chaos. But if you build the successor structure in parallel, you inherit authority.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Multi-Jurisdictional Compacts
Codify alliances between cities, states, tribal nations, unions, and local governments. Not press releases—binding1 legal instruments with defined responsibilities, mutual defense clauses, and shared emergency protocols.Distributed Sovereignty Councils
Form intergovernmental assemblies that operate alongside state governments—bringing together county commissioners, tribal governments, sanctuary city councils, and constitutional sheriffs. Let the federal government sue all of them at once. It can’t.Shadow Infrastructure Audits
Identify what federal structures your jurisdiction relies on—funding, permits, databases—and begin building local redundancies. One at a time. Quietly. By the time you announce them, they should already be operational.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
Build what people trust before they need to trust it.
The Mesh gains legitimacy not through elections or lawsuits, but through mutual aid, neighborhood safety teams, and underground service networks that show up when formal systems collapse. You don’t need office space—you need consistency. A pantry that feeds ten every week. A Signal group that always answers. A Discord server that tracks which streets are safe.
Over time, these networks become governance. When the state fails, people turn not to theories—but to whoever’s already helping.
█ Mesh legitimacy is earned through presence. Be there first, and they’ll follow when it counts.
Escalation Path
Start with opt-in autonomy: school boards asserting curriculum sovereignty, municipal zoning overrides, cooperative disaster management. Then layer: inter-county procurement pacts, cross-state policy coordination, compact-based labor standards.
Once you’ve got three or more jurisdictions acting in sync, the regime has to choose: enforce and look like an occupying force, or back down and forfeit the claim to authority.
If This Principle Is Ignored
Without a visible, functional, lawful alternative to the regime’s infrastructure, the public will default to whatever remains. And that means Washington—no matter how illegitimate—will still control logistics, disbursements, and momentum.
█ This is the second layer of the Unified Strategy. Build the net before you fall. Decentralize authority not as a theory, but as a daily operational fact.
III. Symbol as Disruption
The regime doesn’t need to win the argument. It needs to look inevitable. Once it owns the spectacle—once it becomes the only thing that moves, speaks, and punishes in public—its contradictions no longer matter. Power calcifies through visibility.
We don’t counter that by matching force. We counter that by hijacking optics and rerouting perception.
Sun Tzu teaches that the greatest victory is the one never fought. Machiavelli teaches that even a failed rebellion can seed legitimacy if it exposes the hollow core of a prince. Combined, they give us doctrine three:
Every symbolic act must erode authority—not just protest it.
Visibility is not enough. The goal is disruption with strategic drag. Let the regime feel your performance in its resource allocation, its legal posture, its PR damage control. Make them pay for optics.
Strategic Principle
A spectacle without operational consequence is sentiment. A spectacle that disrupts systems is strategy.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Symbolic Defiance Protocols
Don’t “hold a rally.” Hold a municipal declaration of noncompliance in a federal building. Don’t “march.” Stage a mock constitutional tribunal in a defunded courthouse. Every action should create a paper trail, a legal friction point, a press bottleneck.Media Loop Disruption
Control the narrative flow before, during, and after symbolic actions:Preload your language into local media.
Flood the zone with real-time counterspeech.
Leak internal regime documents (budget impacts, delays) showing the cost of their response.
Tactical Metrics
Measure disruption like a logistics officer:How many federal operations paused?
How much staff time redirected?
How many news cycles burned?
How many public officials were forced to respond?
If the answer is zero, you’re not hitting hard enough.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
Your meme is your march. Your banner drop is your brief. Your prank is your protest.
The Mesh operates where the regime doesn’t look—until it has to. A sticker campaign that spreads across bus stops. A synchronized drop of glittering USBs filled with banned books. A midnight mural over a courthouse wall. These aren’t side acts. They are signal jammers. Every symbolic act that forces the regime to respond burns their time, not yours.
The goal isn’t to shock. It’s to interrupt. Interrupt their optics. Their message. Their control over the visible.
█ If they build power through spectacle, we splinter it with spectacle they can’t contain.
Escalation Path
Start with civic disruption calibrated for media spread: simultaneous resignations, rogue school board declarations, coordinated executive branch walkouts across compact states. Then scale: coordinated courthouse closures, interstate noncooperation days, statewide refusal campaigns tied to national holidays.
The goal is never violence. The goal is optical asymmetry: you act with coordination, transparency, and proportionality—while they lurch, overreach, and reveal their fragility.
If This Principle Is Ignored
If you leave the symbolic field uncontested, the regime defines normalcy. And once their contradictions are no longer seen as contradictions, they become rules. Legitimacy is lost not by force, but by fading into the background.
█ You don’t need to own the stage. You need to destabilize it. The regime builds its narrative through dominance. We interrupt it through design—and make that interruption cost.
IV. Automation as Weakness
The regime thrives on automation: pre-cleared executive orders, algorithmic benefits suspension, automated compliance audits, mass data fusion from public systems. Its speed comes not from manpower, but from the mechanical enforcement of centralized control.
That’s its weakness.
Ellul warned that every technological system becomes self-justifying. de Jouvenel warned that every self-justifying system accumulates power unless explicitly interrupted. Together, they give us the fourth doctrine:
Exploit the regime’s dependence on systems it no longer understands.
Don’t fight the enforcer. Target the workflow. Break the loop between command and execution. When central authority relies on digital processes to govern, anything that slows those systems is an act of political resistance.
Strategic Principle
The machine is only sovereign if it runs clean. Clog it, reroute it, or force it to contradict itself.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Vulnerability Audits
Map your jurisdiction’s points of federal system dependency:Interagency data-sharing portals
Licensing APIs
Cloud-based document workflows
Financial rails and ACH networks
Flag each node where disruption would cause governance ambiguity: mismatched records, halted transactions, conflicting directives.
Systemic Countermeasures
Launch measured interference operations:Deliberate file duplication and resubmission
Asynchronous legal filings that jam up digital scheduling queues
Mass opt-outs or invalidations of default digital settings (e.g., local agencies refusing auto-enrollment in federal databases)
Structural Kill Switches
Codify sunset provisions and supermajority reauthorization thresholds for any state-level system integrated with federal infrastructure. Use statutory language to ensure that any default re-centralization fails on arrival.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
You don’t need to hack the regime. You need to confuse its scripts.
The Mesh resists not with root access but with broken assumptions. The system expects inputs—predictable behavior, compliant metadata, normal traffic patterns. Instead, flood it with anomalies. Register accounts that don’t exist. Submit documents in unreadable fonts. Create legal questions with no precedents. Saturate AI classifiers with satire, slang, and subculture noise until nothing can be reliably flagged without a human.
This isn’t sabotage. It’s entropy.
When the regime runs on automation, unpredictability is a weapon.
█ If the machine cannot parse the public, it cannot govern it.
Escalation Path
Begin with digital nullification: reformat federal document flows into non-machine-readable PDFs. Shift jurisdictional requests into offline or analog processes. Require manual countersignatures on documents previously automated.
When the regime retaliates, escalate into governance bifurcation: create duplicate parallel systems for benefits, IDs, licenses, and permitting that operate independently of federal standards but remain lawful under state codes.
Force the center to acknowledge the split. Once they do, their machine becomes fragile. Their consistency fractures. Their reliability dissolves.
If This Principle Is Ignored
If your state’s systems remain fully interoperable with theirs, you are functionally governed from Washington no matter what your legislature says. The regime doesn’t need permission to control. It needs compliance by default. Automation is the default. Your job is to disrupt it.
█ Let them optimize. Let them automate. You operate at the threshold of failure—forcing manual override, delay, or contradiction. That’s where authority becomes exposed.
V. Narrative as Weapon
Power isn’t just enforced. It’s believed. The regime survives not because it persuades, but because it frames its actions as normal, its enemies as fringe, and its contradictions as irrelevant.
That illusion must be shattered—methodically, relentlessly, and with precision.
Diderot gave us the engine: systematic inquiry that dismantles false authority. Voltaire gave us the tone: merciless clarity, sharpened by ridicule. Together, they form the fifth doctrine:
Wage narrative war like it’s logistics. Track it. Refute it. Replace it.
This isn’t about winning debates. It’s about breaking coherence. When the regime can no longer speak without contradiction, its moral center collapses. When your side speaks with credibility, structure, and repeatability, legitimacy begins to transfer.
Strategic Principle
Narrative supremacy is not a vibe. It’s an operational tempo. You must out-produce, out-verify, and outlast their propaganda cycle.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Exposé Teams
Form narrative strike units. Each team should include:A data analyst
A historian
A strategist
A writer
Their task: one contradiction per week. Unpack it. Visualize it. Amplify it. Then archive it in a shared, open-source database. Over time, this becomes a repository of regime dissonance that no official statement can erase.
Debate Engineering
Host regular live confrontation events: town halls, forums, even mock tribunals. The point is not to convert hardened loyalists—it’s to force the regime to show up or admit silence. Either one is a loss.Ridicule as Hard Tactic
Voltaire wasn’t mocking for effect. He was collapsing the sacred by showing its absurdity. Use satire not as distraction, but as disarmament: frame their proclamations so they look foolish in their own words. Clip. Remix. Meme. Repeat. Not to entertain, but to dismantle sanctity.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
You don’t need a press badge to wage narrative war. You need timing, receipts, and a sense for the fracture point.
The Mesh doesn’t fight for airtime. It saturates it. Clip the contradiction. Caption it with clarity. Pair it with memory. Circulate it across group chats, fandom threads, burner accounts, locked alt timelines. The goal isn’t virality—it’s latency. Let the dissonance fester until the moment strikes, then surface it in unison.
When they say “stability,” you reply with footage of collapse. When they say “efficiency,” you surface the backlog. When they say “law,” you link the lawsuit they lost.
We don’t wait for permission to speak. We speak until their coherence dissolves.
█ You are not the rebuttal. You are the tempo. You are the counter-archive. You are the reason their narrative can’t hold.
Escalation Path
Start with small frame seizures: co-opt regime language and invert it. When they speak of “efficiency,” show how their automation caused service failures. When they invoke “sovereignty,” ask why they sued every state that disobeyed.
Then build narrative tempo: a cadence of exposés, press briefings, meme barrages, and public inquiries that ensures they are always reacting. Never give them time to set the pace. Keep them explaining. Their story cannot survive under interrogation.
If This Principle Is Ignored
The regime will define you if you do not define them. And once you are named by their apparatus—radical, extremist, destabilizer—your ability to mobilize collapses. Narrative is not branding. It is the supply chain of legitimacy.
█ Truth is not enough. Narrative must be manufactured, updated, and deployed like infrastructure. If they own the public story, they own the public mind. If you take that from them, you win the war before a single law is repealed.
VI. Resilience as Infrastructure
Resistance is not enough. If you cannot hold when the center breaks, you lose by default. The regime is brittle—but brittleness isn’t failure unless something stronger is waiting to replace it.
That’s the sixth doctrine:
Build a coalition that can govern itself before it’s forced to.
Bismarck teaches that coalitions endure when every faction sees itself reflected in the structure. Sharp teaches that nonviolence is not passivity—it is discipline, synchronization, and fallback redundancy. Sun Tzu teaches that victory lies in preparation, not reaction.
Together they give us the final imperative: design resistance like a power grid—fault-tolerant, decentralized, load-balanced, and self-healing.
Strategic Principle
Resilience is not softness. It is survivability under constraint. The regime is betting you’ll fracture under pressure. Prove them wrong by preparing for it.
Operational Schematic For Institutions
Resilience Compacts
Forge formal alliances between states, cities, tribes, labor unions, technologists, public banking nodes, and mutual aid networks. Not declarations—constitutionally-compliant de facto treaties.2 Include:Shared emergency protocols
Pre-approved lines of legal defense
Interoperable budgeting strategies
Cross-jurisdictional fallback plans
These are your power lines. When one jurisdiction is hit, the others carry the load.
Redundant Governance Cells
Every institution must have multiple successors.If the governor is arrested, the council acts.
If the court is enjoined, the parallel review board steps in.
If funding is frozen, the sovereignty fund unlocks.
Rhizomatic structure, not linear hierarchy. The regime can’t decapitate what has no head.
Secure Communications Infrastructure
Decentralized tools. Encrypted signal mesh. Airtight legal protocols for chain-of-custody evidence, whistleblower protection, and interstate coordination.Your data must survive sabotage. Your plans must outlast breach.
Operational Schematic for the Mesh
The Mesh survives by distributing failure.
When one node falls—an account deleted, a local chapter infiltrated, a leader doxxed—others carry the load. That’s not a glitch. That’s design.
Build peer groups with overlapping trust. Mirror your resources offline. Train others in what you know. Don’t just organize—document, replicate, decentralize. Every action should be teachable, repeatable, swappable.
Practice drills. Assume your Discord vanishes. Your food fridge is raided. Your media thread gets brigaded. What fills the gap? The Mesh that endures is the Mesh that rehearses.
█ Resilience is a system, not a slogan. You survive because someone else can do what you do—and already is.
Escalation Path
Begin with compact layering: combine economic compacts (shared procurement, labor guarantees) with legal ones (mutual noncompliance support) and narrative ones (coordinated releases, shared platforms).
Then stress-test. Simulate crackdowns. Run exercises. Flip the switch on fallback plans without warning. If your coalition breaks during a drill, it will not survive a siege.
Train like war is coming—because it already has.
If This Principle Is Ignored
When the regime fractures, people will look for continuity. If you don’t provide it, someone else will—maybe worse than the last. That’s not a vacuum. That’s surrender.
█ You can’t demand sovereignty if you can’t survive independence. Resilience is not the afterthought. It is the system that outlives collapse. What you build now determines what replaces the center when the center falls.
Conclusion: This Is How You Build a State That Cannot Be Ruled
The regime is fast. It is loud. It is brittle. Its contradictions multiply faster than its mandates, and its strength lies not in coherence, but in velocity. It governs through spectacle, punishes through automation, and survives by framing its failures as victories.
We do not beat it by mirroring its scale. We beat it by fragmenting its momentum—by building a movement that is slower to break, harder to see, and impossible to centralize.
This is the Unified Strategy. Not a protest. A system.
Friction as Tactic: Delay becomes denial. Obstruction becomes outcome.
Legitimacy as Network: Authority migrates to where governance still functions.
Symbol as Disruption: Every act is a wedge in the narrative. Every spectacle has cost.
Automation as Weakness: Their speed is their vulnerability. Jam the machine.
Narrative as Weapon: Break their coherence. Control the tempo. Archive the lies.
Resilience as Infrastructure: What you build now is what replaces them.
This is not theoretical. This is executable. It’s what Radical Federalism has always promised: a power structure distributed enough to survive collapse, and unified enough to resist absorption.
You do not need to wait for the next order from Washington to say no. You need to show your community what saying no looks like when it’s backed by law, budget, network, and belief.
We are not here to match their empire. We are here to end its necessity.
So build. Build slow. Build wide. Build knowing that the center cannot hold—and when it doesn’t, your state, your town, your alliance, your people must already be able to govern.
Let the regime chase the illusion of command.
We will build what comes next.
█ This doctrine will evolve. So must we.
Resources:
These tools are not endorsements. They’re ingredients. Mix, replace, remix as needed.
• Signal Primer: How to Set Up Secure Groups
• Data Detox Kit (Tactical Tech)
• (Digital) Mutual Aid Templates
• State Sovereign Legal Framework Act Whitepaper
█ These are not comprehensive. They are the beginning. Have more? Share them in the comments.
As discussed elsewhere, ‘binding’ in the context of states is best achieved within consitutional limitations by methods such as mirrored unilateral state consitutional amendments, potentially with trigger and contingency clauses built in to activate once sufficiently many parties have passed their variant.
See above.