This group started out of an outpouring of individual men desiring to find more like-minded men, develop tight friendships with those men, and see those friendships develop into a fraternal network that would orient each other’s willpower toward something good. We live in a time when many of the things that once naturally connected men together have been severed, such as familial bonds, love of place, tradition, and so on. We seek to restore those natural affections—those things which a man, finding himself in the natural order of society, finds easiest to defend, and to defend to the hilt if need be.
As Thomas Paine once wrote, “These are times that try men’s souls,” and no man can stand against the decay of this age alone. We must, like our fathers before us, seek to organize so that our collective might may clear the Old Paths once again.
As a young boy, I lamented that I was not born to storm the beaches of Normandy, ride in the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, be there on that frosty morning when Washington and his men crossed the Delaware, or even take part in the struggle of settling the frontier. In some sense, as a young boy I thought the heroic struggles of the ages before us were over, and that progress had brought us into an age of civilization in which struggles such as these were no longer needed.
In this age God placed us, and in this age we shall live and die. We have the privilege and honor of living in a time such as this, and we have the joy of being men who can do something about it.
But here, in the year of our Lord 2026, I need not even lay out how deep the rot is or how low the West has been brought. Many of us, myself included, are prone to despair at the current makeup of our society, disheartened by our elected officials from the federal level down to the local level, by the filth spewed within public schools, and even at formerly Christian institutions.
We have no right to complain or discuss these problems apart from a willingness to do something about them. And so, join us here as we begin to sow seeds that we believe, with faithful stewardship, can bear much fruit a year from now, three years from now, and for as long as the Lord tarries. May we rise to the occasion of the hour, and may we insert ourselves into the arena.
Pro Aris Et Focis
— Cody Black