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I launched my journey into dissident politics over 30 years ago. Back then, connecting with forbidden ideas required tracking down a mailing address for a semi-underground hard-copy newsletter. Publications like Instauration and American Renaissance never appeared in bookstores or public libraries, but once I found them, they linked me to thousands of fellow heretics who resisted establishment orthodoxy on race. Discovering others who recognized the war on whites—and who wanted to fight back—brought immense relief.
Another outlet, Chronicles, operated above ground but featured a regular column by Sam Francis, who delivered unflinching truths on race and other topics. Subscribing to Chronicles to read Sam also introduced me to writers, artists, and philosophers ignored in my school and university classes.
Beyond our tight circle of newsletters and occasional conferences, our ideas rarely surfaced in mainstream discussions or debates back then. That shifted about a decade ago. Overnight, the Dissident Right exploded onto the scene. Podcasters and YouTube streamers—mostly young men I’d never heard of before—rose to prominence, blasting taboo ideas to large audiences.
In the decade since, the Dissident Right has had its ups and downs. But it is now thriving and growing like never before. Thanks to the spreading of our ideas through social media, our perspectives are becoming more and more mainstream. Our side has all the intellectual energy.
But where will that energy go?
The short answer seems to be Substack. Most of our best minds now have Substack pages where they can write whatever they want free from leftist censorship (so far). Not only that, they get paid for doing so. It is easy to support our writers by subscribing for a mere $5 or $10 a month. In fact, when Morgoth was doxed a few months ago, the first thing I did was subscribe to his Substack account to show support for a fellow dissident.
However, the growth of Substack has come at a price. It may mean the end of the Dissident Right publication. When I subscribed to Chronicles to read Sam Francis, I was also exposed to numerous other writers, thinkers and scholars who have shaped my views. This will not happen for young readers who are searching for answers like I was 30 years ago if they simply follow individual Substack accounts.
This is why Counter-Currents is so vital. Not only do we push the forbidden thoughts that are eventually taken up by mainstream types like Matt Walsh and the late Charlie Kirk, we form a community where readers can learn about a multitude of topics they are not taught in their schools or universities. As I write this, the last few articles on Counter-Currents include:
- A discussion of the Young Republican chat group that used forbidden words and jokes and how most conservative leaders now rally to their defense rather than throw them under the bus as in years past.
- How nonsensical gibberish and slang are being added to the English language due to mass non-white immigration.
- An overview on how the FBI under Trump is cutting ties with anti-white hate groups such as the ADL and SPLC.
- A deep dive into the foundations of the French Nouvelle Droite.
- A comparison of legal fees and hurdles in the US versus Europe and how this helps to protect the far-left legal establishment in America.
These represent a wide-ranging selection of excellent articles available in one publication. This is the kind of platform we will lose if the Right reverts to a series of individual Substack accounts, but the dearth of new race realist and Dissident Right publications indicates that is indeed where we are headed.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Imagine what Counter-Currents could do with just $300,000 a year. This is a small sum in the world of intellectual ideas. While no one has to give up their Substack accounts, imagine if we had the money to pay Morgoth, Millennial Woes, Scott Greer, James Kirkpatrick, Chad Crowley, Academic Agent, Mark Collett, Martin Sellner and a whole host of other great writers and activists for even one article a month. Not only would this easily be the most dynamic intellectual publication of all time, it would put much needed money in the pockets of guys (and more than a few women) who do great and necessary work for our people.
This is not just idle talk. A few months ago, Millennial Woes announced that the annual Millenniyule—a mainstay of our scene—was in jeopardy due to his Monetary Woes. Imagine if he had a modest but steady stream of revenue to ensure that this would never happen.
There is simply too much energy and intellectual firepower on our side for this not to occur. Conservative Inc. is dead or dying. The Left is still in charge but is stagnant and repugnant to any decent person. Our ideas are breaking through. We can win much faster with a vanguard such as the writers at Counter-Currents. But that takes money.
I’ve battled the Left in my own small way for over 30 years and will fight this bacillus until my last breath. Funding organizations like Counter-Currents that defend our people fuels that fight. If you’re a free rider, upgrade to paid membership. If you’re already a member, add a small donation. It sustains a webzine that educates and speaks for our people across generations—and it infuriates our enemies.
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Mr. Bradley, I couldn’t agree with you more.
Maybe you should hire Brad Griffin. Both parties would benefit, as would the movement as a whole.
Bi-Polar Bradifer of Accidental Dipshit runs about living in a Whiggaz Pairodice. Most of the time he is simply the spawn of a Boomercuck from the South who did away wiith the System of Deputy Sheriffs who used to enforce the Rule of the Klan in keeping the South segregated, but after the 1960s this 90-year post-Reconstruction order was abandoned as “bad for business”. So Boomerwhigger cuckservantives cracked down on the deputy sheriffs who enforced the 1870s-1970s Order which used to run from South Carolina to Oklanhoma and from Missouri to Floridah.
Back around 2004 the Order factions and Christian Identity factions of the Movement put pressure oon Billy Roper to do something about TraitorGlenn Miller. Katja Lane sold her Focus Fourteen Press with David Lane material sent from Florence Supermax to his wife and moved back to Secaucus and Billy Roper was touring with Pastor Butler on his “See Pastor Butler before he croaks tour” in 2003 and 2004. Upon pressure from the fighing underground of the Movement Billy Roper was forced during the Christmas Coup of 2004 to take over his v-bulletin forum and server space from jewboy Linder and to ban TraitorGlenn Miller. jewboy Linder with ZOGbux from TraitorGlenn Miller bought a new v-bulletin license and banned us VNNF Boat-Pisspul refugees, so we went to Bi-Polar Bradifer’s “free-speech”phorafags/feebs v-bulletin as VNNF Boat-Pisspul. I even convinced Bradifer to open up a special “jewlag”/rumpus room wherein myself and TraitorGlenn Miller could fight.
Since 2014 when Dylann Storm Roof gunned down 9 niggers in Charleston SC and put paid to Council of Cuckservantive Shitizens and lawfare over Charlottesville, Bi-Polar Bradifer every so often cycles to becum all Cunthair Walrus, ZOGbot and an advocate against violence. Which is fine, because now he is dependent upon Wile E. Hibernigger/Jay Lyin Ryan for a few ZOGbux to help raise his baby whiggers.
The flow of relevant ideas has migrated from fax networks & BBS networks to e-mail listservers to v-bulletin forums to wordpress blogs and now to Substack.
Hail Victory!!!
Pastor Martin Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri
https://substack.com/@pastorlindstedt
Amen, Mr. Bradley.
And if anyone is still intimidated by the e-Check (maybe you’ve had trouble setting up a one-time or recurring payment) feel free to write to [email protected]; I can help you, or even set up the payment for you, if you’d like.
James, thank you for making yourself so accessible. I noticed a 20K fund-matching has just been announced. For those of us who donated yesterday, are those funds eligible for the match?
I appreciate your patience, and thank you in advance for your reply.
Yes, we can match. Thank you!
Greg and James, this is very good to know. Thank you both.
Sometimes when I see these fundraisers, I can’t help but ask myself: Did I make the right choice in raising several kids, over earning more money which I could donate to free speech pro-White causes. It does absolutely kill me that my kids are mere civic nationalists. I really tried my hardest to help them with racial awareness. (My husband, their father, happens to be a racially-blind Christian civic nationalist.)
So, I give a BIG thank you to the generous 20K donation match anon. I look forward to doing the same when I have the opportunity.
Having kids was the right choice.
Kim, be encouraged: It’s safe to say a lot of WNs (myself included) were once race-blind Christian civic nationalists. Don’t give up on them. Just make your case, as opportunities permit, without being shrill about it, while also simply being the type of person people like being around. Right opinions matter, but so do a lot of other things that you doubtless already agree with them about. (And nice job being a mom and wife, i.e. normal!)
Sometimes it takes people years to grow into truths. Thus you should state the truth as early as possible and give them time.
A Christian civic Nationalist is something I have yet to read up on. However, you could ask you husband why the Bible frowns upon “the mixed multitude” and if he cares to google the word Nation he will find that even the gatekeepers are hinting that it is race based: a country considered as a body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular area or territory.
Certainly! And thank you, for your generosity, Kim.
I’m getting the money order to renew my CC subscription again shortly. Last year, I got the paywall access sometime in late December. I’m unsure the exact date. If I send it in early, will the renewed sub continue when the current one ends? Send before Christmas to avoid complications or it doesn’t matter?
Yes, US, that is right: regardless of how early we receive payment, your renewal will start when your expiration date arrives. I just sent you an email with your expiration date.
P.S. All things considered, sending anything by USPS early around Christmas time is always a wise idea.
I don’t even know what a substack is—great appeal. 🙃
“Substackification”…You could go further on this. I’ve not been a fan of that platform. I don’t like it. I think it’s creating gutter incentives and effects that aren’t helpful, although I don’t blame our people for using it either. And there’s a good argument we should be using anything that’s possible to use and exposing our ideas to all audiences.
You mentioned Millennial Woes. He’s written some really good stuff on there, although I’ve only read a couple of his articles. What I did read, would have benefited from just a tiny bit of editing. Keith wrote an extraordinarily good article on capitalism, but it drastically needed the last paragraph or two taking out. There’s really a lot to be said for someone else acting as an editor.
I’m all for it…It’s a fine idea to be self sufficient and making content, but I think people on that platform have a tendency to get caught up in writing for substack itself, to maybe compete in this internal market space, sometimes.
And that might be an issue. The platform is also riddled with grifters of the worst kind. And I’m not saying that’s our problem, but the amount of money they have sucked out of our people on worthless bullshit about self-assembling AI nanobots in the vaccines, ‘health freedom’ and a ton of other low hanging fruit quackery, while writing blatantly farmed out articles, is astonishing.
There’s also a strange problem of plagiarism that seems to be rampant on there apparently.
I should clarify this a bit, as sometimes one makes a point it and can look a bit like griping. I think it’s more like about 5 or 6 articles of Millennial Woes I’ve read on there, and a couple I remember were superb. I’m not trying nitpick anyone, all I’m saying is, by all means use it, get what you can out it, but also in the big picture, substack isn’t the “be all and end all”, so I think it’s extremely necessary to have independent platforms like CC and they should be supported as independent platforms.
Also the author is probably right, I get the impression people tend to burrow in a bit on that platform. They pick the things they want to read and aren’t necessarily being exposed to stuff that’s outside their interest zone, but I could be wrong on that.
Peter, thank you. This is an excellent piece. Substack’s appeal is as a sort of OnlyFans for authors: some people make handsome livings. Most do not. But it does offer some independence and options for monetization, in particular credit card processing, denied to CC.
Yeah, I was having the same thought just the other day myself. The “substackification.” I don’t think it was actively conceived this way, but I think that by random arrisal and natural selection, the powers that be of hit up upon it as a useful outlet for dissident right energies, in that people are writing and they feel that they have an outlet, but the inherent atomization and segmentation of it prevents the formation of community and a common set of ideas from forming, as happened earlier in the history of the dissident right and White nationalism. For example, while I have found some really good substacks to follow such as Joseph Nino, the comment threads are seldom more than 10 comments ever. Even Steve Sailer’s threads are very short compared to what they used to be at Unz or elsewhere.You don’t develop a recurring set of celebrity commenters like you do at Countercurrents or formally at Z man or old Taki mag. It’s useful for censorship or at least isolation, in that people have an outlet, so they are satisfied and don’t seek another outlet, while communities remain very fragmented and small and inconsequential. Whereas if you had a community of censored or deplatformed people they would get together and try to form a broader outlet. Therefore, the powers that be have not tried to censor sub stack like they do other websites. It’s an effective means of a certain kind of containment. is that coherent, does that make sense?
Substack is overwhelming with the memes, comments, and recommendations. I subscribe to a handful of writers and read them straight from my email inbox. Otherwise, I end up doom scrolling.
Not sure why, but Substack’s interface, to me, is very very confusing. I’m technically Gen-X, but become a full-blown Boomer on that site.
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