I live in the boonies about an hour south of Chicago and am still, thankfully, working full time. So driving up and down every single day isn't feasible for me given traffic and roadblocks.
What can I do inside my community to help our cause? It feels like I'm just powerless, watching Twitter and the news in horror, and I hate it. I've always prided myself on the opinion that if I were alive in the 60s, I'd have been out there on the front lines. And here I am, doing dick, tied down by my job that I need to survive. I feel like a fraud and need to change that.
First things first, important to do some honest self assessment and figure out what level of involvement you can sustain. Beau of the Fifth Column has a video where he touches on the different groups that emerge in an insurgency, from those actively trading fire, to those who offer clandestine support, to those helping to influence attitudes towards the movement. Your material conditions will STRONGLY affect your role. Important to understand the value your role provides and not lose hope. Right wingers can engage in and gain ground from stochastic terror because the people and mechanisms are in place for them to exploit the phenomenon. Less than 10% of the military sends rounds down range. Support isn't glamorous, but without it there is no success.
I'm going to check this out. I just subscribed to his YouTube. Do you remember at all what the video was titled?
I forget which one exactly, but I'm pretty confident it's one of the eight in his Manuals and Related playlist