The midterm votes are barely counted, and Washington is already staring at its next deadline. Federal funding runs out at the end of the day on December 11, and the election results have made the path to a deal more complicated. A shutdown isn’t guaranteed. But Americans have lived through enough of them recently to […]

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For years, the official advice to American families has been to keep three days of supplies on hand. Now the Pentagon is planning for its own bases to survive 90 days without any outside help at all. The effort is called FORTRESS, and it’s one of the clearest signals yet that the people responsible for […]

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Back in February 2021, a winter storm pushed the Texas grid to the edge, and over four million homes and businesses lost power. With temperatures in the single digits, many people sat in the dark for three or four days. People slept in their cars with the engines running to stay warm, and some of […]

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Washington looks very different this morning. Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, ending two years of unified Republican control of the federal government. For preppers, the headline isn’t about which party won. It’s about what divided government does to the systems your family may rely on in […]

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For more than three decades, Republicans won every statewide race in Texas. Tuesday night, that streak cracked wide open. Democrats led or won several of the state’s biggest contests, and one race that rarely makes national headlines could matter more to rural Texans than most: the race for agriculture commissioner. Where the Race Stands Democrat […]

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A prepper’s equipment rarely attracts much attention when it works exactly as expected. Ammunition poses a particular challenge, though: its condition and performance aren’t always fully visible during an ordinary equipment check. A cartridge can look perfectly normal while leaving unanswered questions about how it will function after months or years in storage. That makes […]

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Last spring, I bought a few acres one town over, along with the old house on them. The man who owned it had passed away, and his family sold the place with the root cellar dug into the hillside out back. I knew him a little from the feed store, a quiet fellow who never […]

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Sometime overnight in late August, freezers at a military grocery store in Arizona switched themselves into defrost mode. By morning, the food inside had been heated until it spoiled. It wasn’t the only one. Now the Pentagon is investigating whether hackers were behind a string of refrigeration failures at U.S. military commissaries, and the answer […]

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Back in the spring, a lot of us thought the trouble with Iran would be over in a few weeks. Now gas averages around $4.27 a gallon, and diesel costs more than $6 in many places. Then in mid-October, drivers in Omaha and Lincoln went to fill up and found the pumps empty. The Strait […]

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Water is the first item on almost every preparedness list, and for good reason. Ready.gov, the federal preparedness site, advises households to store at least one gallon of water per person per day for several days, for drinking and sanitation. For a family of four that adds up quickly, and storage space runs out long […]

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