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Breaking Down the “Popular Support” Myth
Or, why the Color Revolution doesn't need a majority to succeed
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Mike Shelby
Left Wing Project Tracking Trump-Linked Billionaires Part of Color Revolution Effort
The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the…
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Mike Shelby
Color Revolution: A Strategic Assessment (2025-2028)
A Color Revolution is a coordinated campaign to force political change (revolution) by mobilizing mass protests; undermining government legitimacy…
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Mike Shelby
The U.S. anti-Trump movement shares the same strategy as the 2000 Serbian color revolution
Over the weekend, I was catching up on the Serbian color revolution against Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
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Mike Shelby
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Strategy: Mass Resistance to Revolution
In a series of training videos, Indivisible “freedom trainers” confirmed my expectations of broadly three phases of their “strategic noncooperation…
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Mike Shelby
One Million Rising: Expanding the Resistance
The latest push from Indivisible, the country’s largest protest organizing group, is training a million organizers to hold in-person meetings to recruit…
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Mike Shelby

July 2025

Gerrymandering, the Irish Troubles, and Texas
Over the weekend, I watched a documentary on the Irish Troubles, which focused on its origins in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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Mike Shelby
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Demographics is Destiny
Or, why you should expect a showdown with socialism
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Mike Shelby
Prairieland Detention Center Ambush Storyboard
Here's a quick series of events surrounding this ambush.
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Mike Shelby
ASSESSMENT: State of the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement and the Burgeoning Color Revolution
Former U.S.
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Mike Shelby
Armed Political Violence Catching Up to Rhetoric
What Friday's Far Left ambush tells us about our ongoing domestic conflict
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Mike Shelby
Russian FSB and domestic sabotage in Ukraine -- is it changing the nature of intelligence?
ADMIN NOTE: This is a departure from the normal coverage of operational analysis of the Far Left.
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Mike Shelby
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