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Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism draws from the author's twenty-eight years of grassroots leadership to empower conservatives often bludgeoned into silence by the left. It is a comprehensive tactical guide to direct action in economic, political, legal, and non-legislative arenas essential for conservatives to defeat leftism. If you don't ""do"" politics, politics will ""do"" you. Citizens reluctant to engage in the sometimes dirty business of politics should understand that regardless of whether they participate, political players will make decisions which profoundly impact their lives, generally without citizens' best interests in mind. Understanding that and guided by ""flexible ethics"" in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, leftists have waged a multi-generational war on American culture and values. Unlike the many theoretical treatises decrying leftism, exposing Marxism, and calling conservatives to unspecified action, Rules for ANTI-Radicals is a nuts-and-bolts guide to strategy and tactics the author has used in his twenty-eight years of beating leftists. Personal experience allows him to highlight specific activist operations which have succeeded and failed, and the reasons for success or failure. Written in sardonic and engaging style, the book is divided into three parts: Part I, ""Boot Camp for Conservative Activists,"" is aimed primarily at concerned citizens and neophyte activists, revealing mechanisms by which leftism has metastasized in American society, the many ways it impacts them, and specific methods for countering it in their daily lives. Part II, ""Activist Tools and Tactics,"" outlines the basics of grassroots activism, including the four types of direct action (economic, political, legal and non-legislative); delineates the differences between access-based lobbying and grassroots mobilization; and delves into tactics and strategy for each, focusing in particular in tactics for passing or defeating legislation and winning elections. Part II is directed at both concerned citizens and neophyte activists, political operatives or political candidates. Part III, ""Grass Roots Organization,"" includes techniques for grassroots leadership; creating and maintaining political organizations; conducting effective grassroots mobilization, including targeting and messaging; fundraising, including list-building; and media management. It is intended to augment skills for conservative political activists.

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Tom Gresham, ""Gun Talk Radio"" ""...destined to become the standard ... this thing is fantastic ... I cannot recommend this book any more highly. This is going to become the user manual for gun rights groups ... New book for gun rights is an instant classic."" Dean Weingarten, Ammoland.com: ""Paul knows what he is talking about. He has won his knowledge through hard study and effective political struggle as head of Grass Roots North Carolina for nearly three decades. His tactics are part of how the gun culture has been winning battles in most of the states for those three decades."" David Hines, The American Conservative: ""A departure from most books from people on the right side of the aisle, it offers not just a rant on how terrible Lefties are, but practical advice on how to achieve political goals based on things Valone and his organization have actually done. It's detailed, thorough, and organized, which one would expect considering that Valone spent a couple of decades as a commercial airline pilot, and he's frank about his desire for his book to become The Organizing Manual for the right-of-center... ""Paul Valone is a guy who has achieved successes with an uncompromising grassroots group focused on making a difference via the legislative process."" David Codrea, Ammoland.com: ""Valone shows how to use the tactics of the left against them and does it in an instructive and engaging way... ""Paul Valone has written a very important primer that helps all of us recognize where we can best fit our talents and goals to beat the control freaks and prohibitionists at their own game, and that makes that first step a lot easier: Read this book. You'll know what to do next."" ""Valone ... defines 'the basics, ' the 'tools and tactics' activists have at their disposal to engage in grassroots economic, political/electoral, legislative, and legal actions. He explains how to organize and mobilize, two essential functions the left has mastered, and which 'conservatives' had better learn how to emulate, followed by two more necessary capabilities, fundraising and media management. ""All are comprehensively covered by someone who has spent decades learning and perfecting all the disciplines and methods that he shares. Think of what it has taken for him to lead a statewide group, the knowledge, the discipline, and the force of will needed to keep the leftists at bay and then to make advances against subversion that metastasizes through corrupted media and establishment agendas. ""This is a college-level class on how to fight, and taking it makes us all the more knowledgeable and prepared to win. Valone knows what he's talking about and explains it all in a way that's easy to follow and interesting. He supplements it throughout with graphics, charts, and appendices, making this not just an instruction manual, but an authoritative reference that activists will want to keep nearby for when the innumerable questions arise that Rules for Anti-Radicals has ready answers to.""

Tom Gresham, Gun Talk Radio ...destined to become the standard ... this thing is fantastic ... I cannot recommend this book any more highly. This is going to become the user manual for gun rights groups ... New book for gun rights is an instant classic. Dean Weingarten, Ammoland.com: Paul knows what he is talking about. He has won his knowledge through hard study and effective political struggle as head of Grass Roots North Carolina for nearly three decades. His tactics are part of how the gun culture has been winning battles in most of the states for those three decades. David Hines, The American Conservative: A departure from most books from people on the right side of the aisle, it offers not just a rant on how terrible Lefties are, but practical advice on how to achieve political goals based on things Valone and his organization have actually done. It's detailed, thorough, and organized, which one would expect considering that Valone spent a couple of decades as a commercial airline pilot, and he's frank about his desire for his book to become The Organizing Manual for the right-of-center... Paul Valone is a guy who has achieved successes with an uncompromising grassroots group focused on making a difference via the legislative process. David Codrea, Ammoland.com: Valone shows how to use the tactics of the left against them and does it in an instructive and engaging way... Paul Valone has written a very important primer that helps all of us recognize where we can best fit our talents and goals to beat the control freaks and prohibitionists at their own game, and that makes that first step a lot easier: Read this book. You'll know what to do next. Valone ... defines 'the basics, ' the 'tools and tactics' activists have at their disposal to engage in grassroots economic, political/electoral, legislative, and legal actions. He explains how to organize and mobilize, two essential functions the left has mastered, and which 'conservatives' had better learn how to emulate, followed by two more necessary capabilities, fundraising and media management. All are comprehensively covered by someone who has spent decades learning and perfecting all the disciplines and methods that he shares. Think of what it has taken for him to lead a statewide group, the knowledge, the discipline, and the force of will needed to keep the leftists at bay and then to make advances against subversion that metastasizes through corrupted media and establishment agendas. This is a college-level class on how to fight, and taking it makes us all the more knowledgeable and prepared to win. Valone knows what he's talking about and explains it all in a way that's easy to follow and interesting. He supplements it throughout with graphics, charts, and appendices, making this not just an instruction manual, but an authoritative reference that activists will want to keep nearby for when the innumerable questions arise that Rules for Anti-Radicals has ready answers to.

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Author F. Paul Valone has been kicking leftist tail for twenty-eight years. Alarmed by passage of the assault weapon ban in 1994, he decided to take action. Finding no suitable organization, he organized a rally leading to creation of Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC), which remains North Carolina's primary and most successful gun rights group to this day.Valone later created Rights Watch International, a legal action arm, and the GRNC Political Victory Fund, a federal political action committee (PAC). Overall, he has directed three political non-profits, four conventional PACs, and a super PAC.The organizations he directs have passed laws for concealed carry, concealed handgun reciprocity, statewide firearms preemption, Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground, and the expansion of concealed carry into restaurants, parks, educational property and public assemblies. Meanwhile, GRNC killed scores of gun control bills, resulting in no significant gun control passing in the state since before GRNC stood watch over gun rights.Using its Remember in November project and independent expenditures through its PAC, GRNC has installed dozens of pro-Second Amendment candidates in the N.C. General Assembly and Congress.Valone's writing credits include 200+ columns and op-eds as Charlotte Observer Community Columnist, Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner, and a McClatchy Newspapers North Carolina Influencer, plus freelance articles in the Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News & Observer, Durham Herald-Sun, Greensboro News & Record, Asheville Citizen-Times, Carolina Journal, VENT Magazine, American Thinker, and elsewhere.Valone has been interviewed and quoted by dozens of newspapers and radio and television stations including CNN, BBC, USA Today, National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, Mark Walters' Armed American Radio, the Alan Colmes Show, and others. He has participated in and directed numerous public forums, town halls, debates, seminars, and lectures.For grassroots leadership, Valone won the Second Amendment Foundation Defender of Liberty Award (2015, 2016) and the Civitas Institute Audentia Award (2017).After earning a B.A. in Psychobiology from Hamilton College, Valone pursued a career in aviation, recently retiring as a Boeing 777 captain from American Airlines. In addition to grassroots leadership, he continues freelance writing and hosts the Guns, Politics and Freedom Radio Show. Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism is his second book.

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