Patriot Express Newsletter Edition #304
- Butch Erskine

- Feb 1
- 12 min read
Greetings and welcome to the Patriot Express Newsletter Edition #304. Thanks for stopping by for this month's edition. It is February 2026.
Christmas was a blur, January has come and gone, bringing with it two major winter storms impacting the east and southeastern states with frigid temperatures, ice, and snow. Doom and gloom, worst storms since forever. I suppose the forecasters must be born post 2000. Many of us grew up during periods of blizzards, snow, and school closing for weeks at a time. Is it me or does it seem anything broadcast today is sensational and full of drama?
The weather has occupied much of the month however several global events occurred and continues into February in the Middle East, Europe, Caribbean, and Asia. The world is changing quickly before our eyes, and many are failing to dig below the surface to what is taking place. Meanwhile riots continue with protestors attacking federal ICE agents. Have you noticed, just like before, these attacks are all in blue states? Is there a point to be made here? If the funders are trying to entice a civil war within our society between liberals and conservatives, why aren't they conducting these protests in red cities and states? Have you also noticed how the majority of protesters are females? We all know the majority of protesters are from other states who are being paid to travel and create chaos in targeted locations?
Ms. Lucy and I had two weeks of travel in January that was enjoyable and relaxing, but it was good to get back to East Tennessee and home. We got to spend time with several local Hope for Survival families and as always it was good to share time together. Brother Otis and Mrs. Otis traveled to the area for a week, and we got to spend some quality time, meals, and discussions, together. It's always a pleasure. We had dinner together at our house the night before they departed and another HFS family joined us for the evening. Time passes to fast when we all get together. Brother Otis did turn us on to a great deal at Palmetto Armory in South Carolina on a 9 mm pistol kit. You can check it out at this link. Otis had already purchased the kit and took the pistol to the range and had glowing feedback on it. https://palmettostatearmory.com/sar-sar9-x-package-4-4-9mm-17rd-19rd-pistol-black-sar9xbl.html Myself and another HFS brother both ordered one as well.
Something that has my interest is feedback from the two storms we are passing through. Lessons learned, both positive and negative on how you faired through the storm with your current posture. Most of the feedback so far deals with knowledge and understanding alterative heat using solar and temporary heaters like the buddy heater that runs off propane. Another issue faced is gasoline generators and operating them. Folks waited until the storm to get out their generator and then faced issues when trying to start. Either first users or generators that took up residence in a storage building or garage for months and need some attention along the way. Preparedness is evergreen. It is daily, nonstop. It is preparing for all possible situations we may face from natural or manmade events. From your boots to your generator, your gloves to your temporary lighting, from cooking without electricity to cleaning water for consumption. Folks are so worried about where to find their next coffee stop that they fail to monitor their gas gauge that may be near empty. Priorities must be established, monitored, and maintained. It's that simple.
Let us move along.
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Hope for Survival - How Food, Water, Shelter, and Security Could Save Your Life (Book 1)
Hope for Survival - The Mindset (Book 2)
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Ding, Ding, Ding....Attention HFS readers..... Opinions shared in this newsletter are just that, opinions, and nothing more. Read at your own risk. The owner and author of this site is not responsible for hurt feelings or thin-skinned readers. I do my best to show restraint and respect to the best extent possible. I take as many precautions as possible and try to remain as nonpolitical as possible, however, there are times when I just can't help but point certain things out. Occasionally I use words only Patriots recognize and understand. It's not personal against any non-Patriot. It's just the truth. Sometimes we must pull up our spenders and suck it up. Just saying. Stay the course, read what you want, and avoid the rest. Avoid fear porn as much as possible and the day will be okay. When all else fails… Keep the faith and always have Hope.
Thoughts for the month - matters most.
I recently heard a quote spoken that said, "where you've been is not important. It's where you are going that" From a spiritual perspective I could agree with this quote. From a personal perspective I would tend to disagree a bit. Yes, working or knowing where you are headed is important to avoid pit traps, falls, failures and more. But, isn't much of the choices we make in our direction based on the lessons learned that makes us who we are today? I know I would not be the same person today had I not recognized bad choices in the past and changed course completely. I have to look at my own life as a book and then break it down to the chapters I've lived. If I don't, I get really confused at times with names and events. My life has so many different segments in it. I have a growing up period with family and friends. I have a music era period with musicians of the past. I have 20 years of military with six different duty stations that all includes different people from the previous duty location. I then have a period of working in Washington D.C. I then had a 17-year period of life working in Huntsville, AL. I have a period of life in Eastern TN. I then have a 7-year period of life that is based around Hope for Survival and all the people I've met and consider family. Sometimes when Ms. Lucy mentions a topic or name, I look at her strange because I have to pause to remember which chapter of life it's from. It gets even harder as I age.
When I look back over my life in America, I am now seeing America in the same manner as my own life. Just as I don't know where my life will take me here on earth, I am even more confused to where America will be in a month, year, or ten years. Heck, maybe even next week. I find this very troubling in so many ways. America is off the train track and headed towards the cliff with no guardrails unless something happens immediately to change course. I've been telling this story for 15 years because it was apparent something was wrong long ago. Now it is here and seeing so many failure points is mind blowing. It is wide open in the clear and not a single government official talks about it or warns the citizens. I silently ask myself often, what do they know that they aren't telling us?
I served under Presidents of both political parties with both parties having majority numbers in the Congress and Senate. I didn't always agree with decisions, and I couldn't hide foreigners overseas when working in their country while our President back home was being investigated for bad choices. I didn't care for any of the liberal Presidents I served under, but I never went to bed wishing for bad things to happen to them. I look around today and I see and read comment from Americans who would hang our current President by his neck in a public execution. They feel the same for any MAGA supporter or citizen who voted for him. I'm sure the feeling is mutual amongst MAGA people also. What happened to our country?
I remember the Carter Administration where the nation tanked. Interest rates off the rails, the military fell apart and couldn't fight a single war, unemployment skyrocketed, and the communist entered our hemisphere more than ever. Reagan took office for eight years and he spent like a drunken sailor to rebuild America and the US Military and immediately put them in to action to start removing Communist from South and Central America. Bush got elected and we stood down our nuclear missiles and heard we needed to be a light on the hill and a kinder gentler nation. Clinton took office with his soft southern charm, and it was asserted he and Gore started the sale out of America to the Chinese Communist party. Read the book Year of the Rat - How Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash. 1998 by Edward Timberlake and William Triplett II. It's mind blowing. After the Clinton years we went into 8 years of Bush and 911. Yes, we had 911 and the trillions spent on the war on terrorism. Theres more evidence questioning how 911 went down but that is for another day. The biggest eye sore from this administration was the installment of the Patriot Act that was later edited to turn against white, veteran, males instead of the original target, middle eastern terrorist, by the Obama administration. Things drastically changed again under the Obama administration and "you didn't build that" and "America is not a Christian Nation" and on and on. Americans could care less what Obama did, they drooled over him. The debatable first black president who sold this nation out even more. Trump spent his first four-year term fighting impeachments, trials, and investigations. Not to mention all the slimes recommended to him to hold cabinet positions. Uncle Joe was put in office as a place holder to cause more damage and allow several million unknowns across our border. Now we have the 30-year mess at our hands. It wasn't until the Obama Administration that I started dreading going to sleep because I lost trust that our government would protect our nation and "we the people." It was evident the top was not acting on behalf our nation but a higher power who was trying to bring down America.
Everything is left or right. Rarely do you ever hear a person say, "what is best for America." Or offer the option of negotiating or meeting at a center point to avoid collapse or failure. Many simply do not care any longer. Or, they tell me, "I just can't worry about it because their plate is full. For years there has been an outright effort to divide the nation and to keep Americans at each other's throats. Have you ever witnessed so much hate amongst Americans? Citizens who would just as much kill you as to have a conversation over differences.
I know that a lot of the problems surfaced through indoctrination education in our public schools. A lot changed through lies and misinformation campaigns with our media. There has always been a small percentage who never trusted the government but not as large as today. Why? What changed? Is it possible access to the internet made people smarter or did people fall in to a "believe anything" syndrome. Blacks hating whites. Whites hating blacks. Cubans hating Mexicans, Rich hating poor. Poor hating rich. Older people being angry at youth. Christians not trusting anyone. All people being aligned with anyone who agrees or believes the same. The media is biased because the left feeds them talking points and pays them to do it. The left also has allowed external funding and influence into the stories they want our media to share. Our government even stated the populace would be fed lies to the point the majority of the populace believed the lies. This was during a period our nation was led by the right.
Even with all the problems we face and the hate we see, we have far more in common when the truth is known and shared. The color of skin, difference of faith, rich, poor, ethnicity, or whatever, we have way more in common and beliefs. It is the hate being pumped out at every opportunity. It is planned this way. As Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, you can win the war against our adversary by creating chaos and dividing the people. The nation will collapse without ever firing a shot.
Remember, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, Defund the Police, and Tran genderism? They are Marxist Communist movements to destabilize America. Wind the clock forward to Minneapolis and current day, we are seeing the same thing. A Marxist Communist movement. This is your common connection and the core of much of the problems faced in America. Ask yourself, we see mass deportations taking place, but what is missing? What happened to all the Chinese males crossing our border for the years under Uncle Joe? Why are they not being located? Did you know, there is an estimated 200,000 Chinese Special Forces already in America today. They are waiting on the signal to launch to start their offensive. Are you ready? If you have trouble grasping or believing this, read the book Unrestricted Warfare - China's Mater Plan to Destroy America, from 1989, by Liang Qiao. This is the blueprint to what you are witnessing in America today. The Soros family and others are funding these Marxist Communist movements.
Have you noticed all the riots that occur are in blue cities with blue governors and mayors who allow it? Why would you allow anyone to damage private businesses and burn down buildings? These groups are funded by Communist George Soros to overthrow America. Do you remember when a former CIA Director spoke to the annual rally of governors and he warned them he knew which ones of them communicated with the Chinese Communist Government? Ask yourself, why would Trump send armed federal agents in to these areas to make arrest and start investigations? They are a national security threat to America because they are Marxist Communist and marching to the beat of the Chinese Communist Government. The same government we buy 80 to 90$ of our psychiatric medicines from as well as billions of dollars in tech hardware and much more. Remember, much of these resources we once made in America until our government closed down so much of our industry and farmed it out overseas....to China.
Check out the latest podcast from Monkey Werx and hear what he shares regarding Intelligence and Military balloons up and down the eastern and western coast using GPS jamming devices against shipping lanes. https://youtu.be/iMdcLNLnhSU?si=f4CYx9M1DKZMIGpk. Hear what he offers in his analogy as a possible coastal EMP threat from our enemies. Is it possible we could be hit with one or more EMP's and then the Chinese Special Operators will engage within the United States? Anything is possible, right?
We have been infiltrated to the max.
Let us move along.
Preparing News: Because of lessons learned from the recent winter storms I want to focus on different types of heat sources you can do at home without a generator or if your system fails
Riverside Homestead - Air Heater - https://youtu.be/saXREHrlAIk?si=b-4B8CMYCuNizcKS
Zen Garden Oasis - https://youtu.be/saXREHrlAIk?si=b-4B8CMYCuNizcKS
Zen Garden Oasis - DIY https://youtu.be/-fI2f0E5-SQ?si=aHYpM96Sg2xP4Xjs - Outstanding information for tabletop cook stove with alternative everyday fuels.
Phil G - Clay Pot Heater Test -
Riverside Homestead - 72 hours heat and light -
Other News -
Michael Yon - You are 911
Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) with Matthew Bracken and Michael Yeung - The history between China and the United States
Kerry Lutz with Martin Armstrong - Why Gold and Silver crashed
Sara Adams The Watch Floor - The hidden details of Minnesota Fraud Case
Redacted - The Covid shot turned the human body into a transmitter, the shocking new data - This will be mind blowing to most. When Covid first started I believed it was staged and a false flag, I asked what is the commonality for this purpose. Cell phones and/or transmitters to track people. It falls in line with Technocracy. (Thanks Festus, for this submission.)
Just for fun.... Take a load off and relax. Forget the problems of the world and travel to places most will never see. You may just like it.
Xander Budnick - 32 Days hiking the Himalayas - Xander shares amazing videography that most will never see. The amazing beauty throughout hiking to the top.
Maxim Budnick - 7 days down a dark jungle canyon. Maxim is the brother to Xander in the previous video. Again, the videography is priceless and we would never see such beauty if not shared by these explorers of the world.
Let us move along...
Prayers - Please keep our great nation, our elected leaders, military and first responders in your thoughts and prayers. We pray for good health and wisdom. Please pray for our leadership to find answers and guidance to the problems facing our great nation. May your faith remain strong and answers to the unknown provided. God is good and may our prayers blanket and protect you and your circumstances. I pray for each, and every one of our Patriots.
Our HFS family has many prayers needs for health and positive uplifting. We love you all and continue praying for each of you.
May we pray for all the blessings and things in life to be thankful about and continued hope for revival around the world. We must continually pray for the unsaved, our family and friends who live each day without the protection for eternal life and salvation.
As Patriots we must stay strong and never give up. Our home, community, and nation need us now more than ever. Stay focused on your local community and things that will impact you around the nation. Don't allow the events around you to create fear in your life. Build your own self-reliance and focus on faith and hope. Remember we are a blessed nation, and we must continue to be great people today and make a better tomorrow. Keep charging.
Blessings,



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