James Wesley Rawles

Rawles presents his name as "James Wesley, Rawles", using a comma to differentiate between the names that belong to him, and that which belongs to his family.{{Cite news |last=Cowles |first=Gregory |date=2012-10-12 |title=Inside the List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/inside-the-list.html |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Onion |first=Rebecca |date=2016-10-06 |title=Prepper Fiction Reveals a Dark Truth About American Virtues |url=https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2016/10/prepper_fiction_reveals_dark_truths.html |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Slate Magazine}}{{Cite news |title=The last big frontier |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2016/08/04/the-last-big-frontier |access-date=2025-01-16 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}} He was born James Wesley Rawles in California in 1960 and attended local public schools. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from San Jose State University.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7855159.James_Wesley_Rawles |title=James Wesley Rawles (Author of Patriots) |publisher=Goodreads.com |access-date=November 5, 2015}}{{Cite book |last=Rawles |first=James Wesley |url=https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S172C373892 |title=Founders: a novel of the coming collapse |date=2012 |publisher=Atria |isbn=978-1-4391-7282-7 |edition=First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books |location=New York}}

From 1984 to 1993, he served as a United States Army Military Intelligence officer.{{cite web|url=http://www.rawles.to/miobc/index.html |title=MIOBC Class 85-6 Virtual Reunion |publisher=Rawles.to |access-date=September 4, 2013}}{{Cite web |last=Guilfoil |first=Michael |date=February 1, 2015 |orig-date=February 1, 2015 |title=Blogger, author preaches survival from safety of Inland Northwest {{!}} The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/feb/01/always-prepared/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204065150/https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/feb/01/always-prepared/ |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |website=www.spokesman.com |language=English}} He resigned his commission as a U.S. Army Captain immediately after Bill Clinton was inaugurated as President of the United States.

Rawles worked as an associate editor and regional editor (Western U.S.) with Defense Electronics magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990sDefense Electronics magazine masthead (p. 7) – James W. Rawles, Associate Editor, EW Communications, Palo Alto, CA, August 1987 (Vol. 19, No. 8) to November 1988 (Vol. 20, No. 12);Defense Electronics magazine masthead (p. 7) – James W. Rawles, Associate Editor, Cardiff Publishing, Englewood, CO. December 1988 (Vol. 20, No. 13) to September 1990 (Vol. 22, No. 9); Defense Electronics magazine masthead (p. 7) – James W. Rawles, Regional Editor (Western U.S.) Cardiff Publishing, Englewood, CO. October 1990 (Vol. 22, No. 10) to April 1991 (Vol. 23, No. 4); James W. Rawles, Associate Editor, EW Communications, Palo Alto, CA, January/February 1988 (Vol. 1 No. 1) to May/June 1988 (Vol. 1, No. 3) Concurrently he was managing editor of The International Countermeasures Handbook.The International Countermeasures Handbook (14th Edition, 1989). masthead (p. 388) James W. Rawles, Managing Editor

He worked as a technical writer through most of the 1990s with a variety of electronics and software companies, including Oracle Corporation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090211124958/http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/A91202_01/901_doc/appdev.901/a89865/title.htm Pro*COBOL Precompiler]. download-uk.oracle.com. June 2001 In 2005, he began blogging full-time.

Rawles has eight books in print that are sold by mainstream booksellers: five novels and three nonfiction survival books.

His novels tend to be heavy on acronyms and technical jargon,{{cite web|url=http://adviceandbeans.com/2011/10/survivors-a-great-concept-an-average-novel/ |title=Survivors: A Great Concept, An Average Novel |publisher=Advice and Beans |date=March 5, 2014 |access-date=November 5, 2015}} {{Self-published source|date=July 2024}} while his non-fiction books concentrate on practical skills and tools. In the Acknowledgments note to his book Tools For Survival, Rawles credits David Brin, Algis Budrys, Tom Clancy, Bruce D. Clayton, Colonel Jeff Cooper, Frederick Forsyth, Pat Frank, Gordon Dickson, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Ernest Hemingway, Dean Ing, Elmer Keith, Herbert W. McBride, Ludwig von Mises, Dr. Gary North, Arthur W. Pink, John Piper, Jerry Pournelle, Ayn Rand, Lew Rockwell, Murray Rothbard, George R. Stewart and Mel Tappan as influential to his writing.Tools For Survival p. xviii In his blog, Rawles also cites Robert A. Heinlein as an influence, and often quotes him.{{cite web|url=http://survivalblog.com/notes_from_jwr_698/ |title=Notes from JWR |publisher=SurvivalBlog.com |date=July 7, 2013 |access-date=November 5, 2015}}

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His first novel was a work of speculative fiction set in a near future including hyperinflation and socioeconomic collapse. Initially titled: Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, and later re-titled: Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse. The book was originally released in draft form as shareware"On-line Underground," The Spokesman-Review (Spokane). December 3, 1995, page H7 under the title "Triple Ought" in the early 1990s. It was released in a printed edition by Huntington House. After Huntington House went out of business, the book was re-released by Xlibris, a "print on demand" publisher.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Starting in April 2009, the novel was published in a paperback edition by Ulysses Press.

In early April 2009, shortly after its release, it was ranked number 6 in Amazon.com's overall book sales rankings, but fell to number 33 a week later.{{cite web |url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651539.html |title=Survivalist Novel Patriots Rates High in Amazon, Not Libraries |publisher=Library Journal |date=April 14, 2009 |access-date=February 21, 2010 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425071958/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651539.html |archive-date=April 25, 2009 }} By the end of the month it had fallen to number 98.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2009-04-27/books/ref=pd_ts_pg_4/190-5513629-2305443?ie=UTF8&pg=4 |title=Best Sellers of April 27, 2009 in Books |website=Amazon |date=April 27, 2009 |access-date=September 4, 2013}} The book's initial popularity caught librarians unprepared because it was considered a niche title and had not been reviewed by the major book review publications. Librarians then scrambled to purchase copies of the book to meet the unanticipated demand.

The popularity of the first book spawned four sequels: Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse, and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse.

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His How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times is a non-fiction book drawn primarily from his posts on SurvivalBlog.com. The book was described as "The preppers' Bible", by a Reuters journalist.{{cite web |last=Forsyth |first=Jim |date=January 21, 2012 |title=Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization's collapse |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-civilization-collapse-idUSTRE80K0LA20120121 |access-date=February 10, 2012 |publisher=Reuters}} His blog addresses preparing for the multitude of possible threats toward society. Rawles describes how to prepare against a post-disaster society that suffers looting, armed violence and food shortages. He recommends establishing rural safe havens at least 300 miles from the nearest major city, financial planning for a future barter-based economy, water retrieval and purification, food production and storage, security and self-defense techniques and strategies.{{cite web |url=http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6767.5292.120.0 |title=Are You Ready for the End of the World? theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God |access-date=March 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208211029/http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6767.5292.120.0 |archive-date=February 8, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

The book received a mixed review from the New York Journal of Books:

For a neutral assessment of the huge efforts put in by the author, the book has its own strengths and weaknesses; however, the former outweigh the latter by a huge margin. One of its crystal clear strengths is the author's obsession with precision and a clinical eye for relevant details.{{cite web|last=Babi |first=Max |url=http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/how-survive-end-world-we-know-it-tactics-techniques-and-technologies-uncertain-times |title=How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It: Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Times | New York Journal of Books |work=New York Journal of Books |date=30 September 2009 |access-date=4 September 2013}}

It received a favorable book review on the weblog of Orville R. Weyrich Jr.[http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/teotwawki.html Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. weblog book review The End of the World as We Know It]. Weyrich.com. Retrieved on April 30, 2014. {{Self-published source|date=July 2024}} A summary of the book was published in the March–April 2010 issue of The Futurist magazine, under the headline: "Alarmingly Practical Advice For Doomsday."[http://www.wfs.org/J-F2010/booksinbrief.htm The Futurist March–April 2010 Books in Brief, pp. 60–61]. Wfs.org. Retrieved on April 30, 2014.

Syndicated radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy interviewed Rawles and said that his book "posits a collapse of civilization."{{cite web|url=http://feeds.radioamerica.org/loudwater/ggl/000000193_000_000000006.mp3 |title=The G. Gordon Liddy Show archived audio stream |publisher=Feeds.radioamerica.org |access-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111031017/http://feeds.radioamerica.org/loudwater/ggl/000000193_000_000000006.mp3 |archive-date=November 11, 2013 }} When Rawles was interviewed by radio host Laura Ingraham, she described the book as going "through point-by-point the basics of being prepared and heightening your chances of surviving some type of major crisis." Ingraham said that "there is a thin line between order and total anarchy in time of a crisis, when peoples' lives are on the line—and all the niceties and the rules go out the door."{{cite web|author=Payam Zarrabizadeh |url=http://www.lauraingraham.com/pg/jsp/charts/audioMaster.jsp?size=90&dispid=304 |title=Interviews and Clips |publisher=Laura Ingraham |access-date=September 4, 2013}}

Brilliance Audiobooks produced an unabridged audiobook edition narrated by Dick Hill. As of April 2012, there were 12 foreign publishing contracts in place to produce editions in 11 languages.{{cite web|url=http://www.parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Monde/Actu/Les-survivalistes-attendent-la-fin-du-monde-453663/ |title=Les survivalistes attendent la fin du monde |language=fr |publisher=Paris Match |access-date=September 4, 2013}} The German edition, Überleben in der Krise was translated by Angelika Unterreiner and published in 2011 by Kopp Verlag.{{cite web|url=http://www.kopp-verlag.de/%DCberleben-in-der-Krise.htm?websale8=kopp-verlag&pi=922800 |title=Überleben in der Krise – Überleben Selbstversorgung & Überleben|publisher=Kopp Verlag |access-date=September 4, 2013}}→{{cite web |url=http://www.seiten-ladefehler.de/uberleben-in-der-krise |title=Überleben in der Krise |publisher=Seiten-ladefehler.de |date=June 24, 2011 |access-date=September 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130211221323/http://www.seiten-ladefehler.de/uberleben-in-der-krise |archive-date=February 11, 2013 |url-status=dead }} The French edition, Fin du Monde: Comment survivre? was translated by Antony Angrand. It was released in September 2012.{{cite book|url=http://www.librairiedialogues.fr/livre/2305681-fin-du-monde-comment-survivre--wesley-rawles-james-altipresse |title=Livre: Fin Du Monde, Comment Survivre ?, Wesley Rawles James, Altipresse |isbn=979-1090465138 |publisher=Librairiedialogues.fr |date= 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.de/Fin-Monde-James-Wesley-Rawles/dp/B007T5K41O/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1353698076&sr=8-13 |title=Fin de Monde : Comment survivre ?: Amazon.de: James Wesley Rawles, Antony Angrand: Bücher |publisher=Amazon.de |access-date=September 4, 2013}} The Spanish edition: Cómo Sobrevivir al Fin del Mundo tal Como lo Conocemos was translated by Juan Carlos Ruiz Franco in Spain and Javier Medrano in the United States. It was released in April 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.paidotribo.com/ficha.aspx?cod=01116 |title=CÓMO SOBREVIVIR AL FIN DEL MUNDO TAL COMO LO CONOCEMOS. Tácticas, técnicas y recursos |publisher=Paidotribo |access-date=September 4, 2013}} A Romanian translation (Ghid De Supravietuir) from Editura Paralela 45 in Bucharest was released in November 2013. It was translated by Ioan Es. Pop, a well-known Romanian poet, political figure, translator, and academic.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140214192701/http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/11/notes-from-jwr-774.html Notes from JWR:]. survivalblog.com. November 2013:ro:Ioan Es. Pop {{Circular reference|date=July 2024}}

Tools For Survival: What You Need to Survive When You're on Your Own (2014) is non-fiction book drawn primarily from Rawles's SurvivalBlog.com posts. The publisher describes the book as "a guide to the selection, use, and care of tools." It was released on December 30, 2014, by Penguin Books, and immediately jumped to #1 in Amazon's Survival & Emergency Preparedness books category. ({{ISBN|978-0-452-29812-5}}). It is also sold as an e-book and audiobook.[http://www.survivalblog.com/writings.html The Writings of James Wesley Rawles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917100546/http://www.survivalblog.com/writings.html |date=September 17, 2013 }}. SurvivalBlog.com (March 25, 2009). Retrieved on April 30, 2014.Tools for Survival: What You Need to Survive When You’re on Your Own: James Wesley Rawles: {{isbn|978-0452298125}}: Amazon.com: Books. (2014).

Land of Promise is described as the first book in the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles novel series. Released December 1, 2015, this speculative fiction novel is a geopolitical thriller. Set in the late 2130s, Land of Promise describes the world under the economic and military domination of a Global Islamic Caliphate, brought about by a fictional new branch of Islam, called The Thirdists. The novel also describes the establishment of a Christian and messianic Jewish nation of refuge, called “The Ilemi Republic”, in East Africa.{{Cite web | url=http://survivalblog.com/notes-for-tuesday-december-01-2015/ |title = Notes for Tuesday |date = December 1, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/james-wesley-rawles/land-of-promise.htm|title=Land of Promise|work=fantasticfiction.co.uk}}

In 2020, Rawles released The Ultimate Prepper's Survival Guide ({{ISBN|978-1645173779}}).

Rawles is now a freelance writer, blogger, and survival retreat consultant.{{cite web|author=Richard Cockle |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/the_new_survivalists_oregon_pr.html |title=The new survivalists: Oregon 'preppers' stockpile guns and food in fear of calamity |publisher=OregonLive.com |date=September 5, 2009 |access-date=February 21, 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7CZthQJEpoRBwaehT8jURHce5_w |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204011634/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7CZthQJEpoRBwaehT8jURHce5_w |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 4, 2009 |title=AFP: Thought things were bad? US survivalists await worse |date=January 30, 2009 |access-date=February 10, 2012}} He is the author of the survivalist novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse,{{cite web|url=https://www.faz.net/s/Rub48A3E114E72543C4938ADBB2DCEE2108/Doc%7EE340491DBEDE94C4E9DF01F07365C1827%7EATpl%7EEcommon%7EScontent.html |title=Amerikanischer Bestseller: "Patriots": Wie das Ende unserer Welt zu überleben ist – Rezensionen |publisher=FAZ |access-date=February 10, 2012}} and the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a blog on survival and preparedness topics.{{cite web|url=http://charts.technorati.com/blogs/www.survivalblog.com?reactionsdaily |title=Survivalblog.com site details – Technorati |publisher=Charts.technorati.com |access-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114943/http://charts.technorati.com/blogs/www.survivalblog.com?reactionsdaily |archive-date=December 24, 2013 }}

Rawles is an proponent of family preparedness, especially regarding food storage{{cite web|author=Josh Gerstein |url=http://www.nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world |title=Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World |work=The New York Sun |publisher=Nysun.com |date=April 21, 2008 |access-date=February 21, 2010}} and advocates relocating to lightly populated rural "retreat" areas. His preparedness philosophy emphasizes the fragility of modern society, the value of silver and other tangibles for barter, recognition of moral absolutes, being well-armed, maintaining a "deep larder," relocation to rural retreats, and Christian charity.How to Survive The End of the World as We Know It, Plume (Division of Penguin Books), New York, 2009, p. 11-17. In an interview in The New York Times, Rawles identified himself as a "guns and groceries" survivalist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/opinion/05thu3.html |title=Editorial Observer - Out of Work? Read a Recession Blog. Or, Better Yet, Write One. - NYTimes.com |access-date=February 22, 2010 | work=The New York Times | first=Adam | last=Cohen | date=March 5, 2009}} He warned, in 2012, that the U.S. dollar would likely be worthless within five years.

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The American Redoubt is a political migration movement first proposed in 2011 by Rawles which designates Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, along with eastern parts of Oregon and Washington, as a safe haven for conservative Christians.{{cite news|author=Murphy, Kim |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-american-redoubt-20120209,0,1782251.story |title=The American Redoubt, where survivalists plan to survive |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 8, 2008 |accessdate=September 4, 2013}}{{cite web|author=Lenz, Ryan |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/winter/extremists-are-coming-together-in-mon |title=A Gathering of Eagles: Extremists Look to Montana |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=November 15, 2011 |accessdate=September 4, 2013}}{{cite web|title=The American Redoubt – Move to the Mountain States|last1=Rawles|first1=James|url=http://survivalblog.com/redoubt/|website=Survivalblog |date=2011 |accessdate=August 29, 2016}} Rawles chose this area due to its low population density and lack of natural hazards.{{cite news|author=Young, Matt|url=http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/people-are-flocking-to-a-region-of-america-so-they-can-survive-the-end-of-the-world/news-story/e7f4239dbbeda218168b66d581636fee |title=American Redoubt: James Wesley Rawles on the end of the world |newspaper=news.com.au |date=April 3, 2017 |accessdate = April 4, 2017}}

Rawles lives with his family on a ranch at an undisclosed location that he says is somewhere within the redoubt area, near a river and a national forest.{{cite web|author=Peter Ryan |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/28/2228908.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501181315/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/28/2228908.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 1, 2008 |title=Global food crisis sparks US survivalist resurgence – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=April 28, 2008 |access-date=February 10, 2012}} He says they are almost self-sufficient with a three-year supply of food but have limited access to modern communications.{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/20/survival.feat/ | title=Survivalists get ready for meltdown |publisher=CNN | date=May 2, 2008|access-date=September 4, 2013}}{{cite web|url= https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Thought_things_were_bad_US_survivalists_await_worse_999.html |title=Thought things were bad? US survivalists await worse |agency=Agence France-Presse |publisher=TerraDaily |date=January 30, 2009 |access-date=July 4, 2024}} He explains that one of his reasons for privacy is his fear of being overrun by media and fans of his books in the event of a crisis.

Rawles describes himself as a Constitutionalist Christian libertarian.{{cite web|url=http://survivalblog.com/about/ |title=What is SurvivalBlog? |publisher=SurvivalBlog.com |date=August 24, 2011 |access-date=November 5, 2015}}

Rawles interprets the 2nd Amendment as supporting citizens' individual rights to bear and keep arms. He believes they should be able to take arms to public events.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/25952317/right-to-protest-with-a-gun.htm |title=Right to Protest ... With a Gun? |publisher=FOXBusiness.com |access-date=February 21, 2010 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822130558/http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/25952317/right-to-protest-with-a-gun.htm |archive-date=August 22, 2009 }}

Rawles is an anti-racist.{{cite web|url=http://www.ashevilledailyplanet.com/news/2828-collapse-coming-survival-guru-tailor-tips-to-carolinians|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113135639/http://www.ashevilledailyplanet.com/news/2828-collapse-coming-survival-guru-tailor-tips-to-carolinians|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 13, 2013|title=Collapse coming? Survival guru tailor tips to Carolinians |publisher=Ashevilledailyplanet.com|quote=He also is outspokenly anti-racist.|date=August 9, 2012 |access-date=November 5, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=6700.5220.0.0 |title=What Survivalists Have Right – Columns – theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God |publisher=Thetrumpet.com |date=November 4, 2009 |access-date=February 10, 2012}} In 2010 he explained that all races are equal in the sight of God, noting the Great Commission, while also defending the nation of Israel’s existence because of its prophesied role in the Tribulations.{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/03/lest_any_man_should_boast_a_ch.html |title=Lest Any Man Should Boast: A Christian Survivalist Perspective on Race, Religion, and Reason |publisher=SurvivalBlog.com |date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=February 10, 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229185843/http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/03/lest_any_man_should_boast_a_ch.html |archive-date=December 29, 2011 }} He supports abolition of modern slavery in the world, particularly the enslavement of Christians by Sudanese Muslims.{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/05/modern-slavery-must-end.html |title=Modern Slavery Must End! |publisher=SurvivalBlog.com |date=May 6, 2013 |access-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817101927/http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/05/modern-slavery-must-end.html |archive-date=August 17, 2013 }}

Rawles is opposed to military interventionism.{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/bhos-africa-policy-confusion-and-duplicity-reign/|title=BHO's Africa Policy: Confusion and Duplicity Reign|work=SurvivalBlog.com|date=January 13, 2014|access-date=May 18, 2020}}

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Rawles as a Christian separatist and promoter of conspiracy theories associated with the anti-government Patriot movement.{{cite web |first1= |date=January 3, 2019 |title=Far-right survivalist and icon of 'Patriot' movement predicts religious civil war |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/03/far-right-survivalist-and-icon-patriot-movement-predicts-religious-civil-war |access-date=March 30, 2022 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center}}

In April 2014, along with his son Robert, Rawles co-founded The Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA),{{cite web|url=http://cfapa.org/ |title=Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA) Free Press Credentials (Free Press Pass) - An Independent Press Association |publisher=CFAPA |access-date=November 5, 2015}} a private free press advocacy group that distributes press credentials to any literate adult U.S. citizen, free of charge, who agrees to abide by their “Constitutional Journalist’s Pledge”. Requirements include a promise that users “will not pander or bow to party politics, pressure groups, agenda pushers, conspiratorial cabals, statist lackeys, censors, or those who seek to hatefully divide us.”{{cite web|url=http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-last-line-of-defense-new-organization-aims-to-protect-citizen-journalists-we-will-stand-with-you_05142014 |title=The Last Line of Defense: New Organization Aims to Protect Citizen Journalists: "We Will Stand With You" |publisher=Shtfplan.com |date=May 14, 2014 |access-date=November 5, 2015}}{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2024}}{{cite web|last=Sheets |first=David |url=http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/tech/2014/05/23/survivalist-starts-issuing-his-own-press-passes/ |title=Net Worked » Blog Archive » Survivalist starts issuing his own press passes | A Society of Professional Journalists Blog |publisher=Blogs.spjnetwork.org |date=May 23, 2014 |access-date=November 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315082643/https://blogs.spjnetwork.org/tech/2014/05/23/survivalist-starts-issuing-his-own-press-passes/|archive-date=March 15, 2015}}{{cite web |title=The Constitutional Journalist's Pledge |url=http://cfapa.org/Pledge |website=CFAPA |access-date=July 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316180825/http://cfapa.org/Pledge |archive-date=March 16, 2015}}

• Rawles on Retreats and Relocation, Print on demand from CafePress, No ISBN (January 2007)
• SurvivalBlog: The Best of the Blog, Volume 1, Print on demand from CafePress, No ISBN (February 2007)
• Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, Ulysses Press, Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|978-1-56975-599-0}} (April 2009), {{ISBN|978-1-56384-155-2}} (November 1998), {{ISBN|978-1-4257-3407-7}} (December 2006)
• How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-452-29583-4}}, (September 2009)
• Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, {{ISBN|978-1-4391-7280-3}}, (October 2011)
• Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, {{ISBN|978-1-4391-7282-7}}, (September 2012)
• Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse, E.P. Dutton, {{ISBN|978-0525953906}}, (October 2013)
• Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse, E.P. Dutton, {{ISBN|978-0525953913}}, (October 2014)
• Tools For Survival, Plume, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-452-29812-5}}, (December 2014)
• Land of Promise, Liberty Paradigm Publishing, Moyie Springs, Idaho, {{ISBN|978-1475605600}}, (December 2015)
• The Ultimate Prepper’s Survival Guide, Thunder Bay Press, {{ISBN|978-1645173779}}, (October 2020)

• Survivalism
• Kurt Saxon
• Ragnar Benson

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• [http://www.rawles.to The Rawles Home Page]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060831052652/http://y2kchaos.entrewave.com/view/y2kchaos/s35p225.htm James Wesley Rawles on Survival Firearms: The End of the World as We Know It] at Y2KChaos

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