Author of Be Ready for Anything and Build a Better Pantry on a Budget online course We all have them. Those people we care about who think we’re nuttier than a bag of pecans for our prepping endeavors. Although they’re doubting Thomases, we still love them and want them to be safe in an emergency. I’ve put together a list of gifts with a survival twist that you can get for the folks you love. One day, they may look at that gift, think of you, and be extremely grateful. (Here’s an article about some gentle persuasion to get them on board.) Below, you’ll find some kits that you can put together for a loved one, as well as some smaller, stocking-stuffer-type presents. If the gift recipients in your life are already preppers, here’s a list of gift ideas for them. Survival Kits An Emergency Food Kit In the event of a power outage, people who are unprepared can quickly run out of things to eat or a way to cook them. Put together a kit that provides food sealed up for the long term, an emergency cooking method, and fuel for the cooking method. I recommend: A grab-and-go bucket of food A grab-and-go bucket of food (This can be used indoors if you exercise caution) Butane fuel canisters A Vehicle Emergency Kit This kit won’t be as thorough as the prepper version, but if you put it in a handy bucket, they’ll probably stash it in their vehicle and forget it, and it will be there when they need it. Compact Thermal Sleeping Bag Extra socks Gloves and a hat Granola bars (Clif bars have a lot of caloric bang for the buck) Travel water filter (We use the Sawyer Mini) but for a newbie you might consider a filter bottle like this Waterproof matches Emergency signal (I like these 12-hour ultra-bright glow sticks) Emergency Survival Manual (This one belongs in every bug-out bag, purse, car, and home.) A Home Security Kit Door Jammer: This gadget will add some extra security to your doors. You can use this on an inside solid core door to fortify a bedroom or safe room, and you can take it with you for hotel rooms, too. A wedge is a less expensive option. Window Alarms: Secure the windows with these wireless magnetic sensors. Security Camera: These cameras connect to wifi, so they’re perfect for having eyes on your driveway or gate. However, keep in mind that even a fake camera with a blinking light can serve as a deterrent. Pepper Gel: This stuff has an 18-foot range, and unlike an aerosol pepper spray, it won’t be as likely to affect everyone in the room. Warning: If you or a family member suffers from asthma, pepper products and Mace can be debilitating to you as well as the intruder. Solar Motion Lights: These guys are wireless, easy to install, and powered by the sun. Power Outage Kit You may need to vary this based on the climate of the recipient. Mr. Buddy Heater: This is one of the few off-grid heaters that can safely be used indoors. Be sure to add propane to the gift, so they have fuel to run it. Carbon Monoxide Detector: Make sure the one you get has battery back-up. These are especially important during a power outage when the person might be using off-grid heating methods. Candles: Add some long-burning candles. Rechargeable Flashlights: This one stays plugged in until you need it. Battery-Operated Fans: These will make life much more pleasant if the power outage takes place in hot weather. Stocking Stuffers The SAS Survival Manual: This handy little classic has the necessary information you need to survive any situation in any climate. My girls both carry one, as do I. It’s tiny and fits easily in a purse. Self-Defense Key Chains: This little gadget goes on a key chain. Loop your fingers through the eye holes and the sharp “ears” can be used for self-defense. Be careful, when purchasing these, not to get something that is a concealed blade. Those are illegal in many states and can get a person into big trouble. Mini Water Filter: It even comes in multiple colors. Super-bright Mini Flashlight: This one is a long-lasting LED light, and it’s tiny enough to go in a purse or glove box easily. Pepper Gel: This stuff has an 18-foot range, and unlike an aerosol pepper spray, won’t be as likely to affect everyone in the room. Warning: If you are a family member suffers from asthma, pepper products and Mace can be debilitating to you as well as the intruder. (This is also included in one of the kits above.) What If They Want to Prep But They’re Not Sure How to Get Started? Sometimes it isn’t that they don’t want to prep – they just don’t know how to get started. Beginners always have a lot of questions about prepping. If you want to point them in the right direction, I have a few suggestions. Books Below, you’ll find some of my favorite books for people who are new to preparedness. (Yes, I’m shamelessly self-promoting my own books too.) Be Ready for Anything Prepper’s Pantry The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide Prepper’s Natural Medicine Prepper’s Survival Hacks The Prepper’s Long-term Survival Guide What are your favorite stealth survivalist gifts? Have you snuck some preps into the homes or cars of your loved ones in the form of gifts? What did you get them? Share your ideas in the comments. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging author and blogger who’s traded her air miles for a screen porch, having embraced a more homebody lifestyle after a serious injury. She’s the heart and mind behind The Organic Prepper, a top-tier website where she shares what she’s learned about preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty. With 17 books under her belt, Daisy’s insights on living frugally, surviving tough times, finding some happiness in the most difficult situations, and embracing independence have touched many lives. Her work doesn’t just stay on her site; it’s shared far and wide across alternative media, making her a familiar voice in the community. Known for her adventurous spirit, she’s lived in five different countries and raised two wonderful daughters as a single mom.  Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and X. The post Stealth Survival Christmas Gifts for the Non-Preppers in Your Life appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

In one sense, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are the foundation of the country’s government. The Declaration laid out the principles we aspire toward. The Constitution established the three branches of government. It contains many brilliant mechanisms to check the government’s power. The Bill of Rights offers another layer of protection. But mere words—even some of the most brilliant and influential words ever written—didn’t create America’s greatness. Americans did. Imagine you could magically impose America’s system of government in Somalia, Afghanistan, or the Gaza Strip. Same Declaration of Independence. Same Constitution. Same Bill of Rights. Would it turn those Third World nations into First World successes? Of course not. Just look at the 260,000 people of Somali descent living in America. More than 100,000 of them live in Minnesota. In recent weeks, there have been numerous stories about how Somalis in Minnesota stole billions of dollars from the government. That led to millions of dollars going to Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group. In one scheme, Asha Farhan Hassan created Smart Therapy, which supposedly offered services for children with autism. She and her partners recruited Somali parents and worked to get their children fake autism diagnoses. They used that to secure Medicaid funding. Hassan then cut the parents in on the scheme. “Several larger families left Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other autism centers,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota wrote in a release. Importing Somalis to America didn’t give them American values. They brought their preexisting values to America and ripped off taxpayers for billions. They brought clan rivalries from Somalia along with them as well. Afghanistan provides another example of this. After 9/11, the United States took over the country. We spent more than $130 billion there. That’s more than America spent rebuilding Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, according to the Washington Post. The United States even held elections in Afghanistan. But as soon as former President Joe Biden decided to surrender, the country fell to the Taliban. Despite all the money and lives lost, we couldn’t export democracy to a society with a vastly different history and heritage. These differences were punctuated by an Afghan national allegedly murdering a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., recently. Even democracy isn’t a cure-all. In 2006, Gaza Strip residents elected Hamas to run the region. Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre initially boosted Hamas’ favorability ratings among Palestinians. What the Founding Fathers understood—but many modern Americans don’t—is that our society’s foundation isn’t the government. It’s the shared values, culture, and history that bind individuals into citizens of a nation. Those are the pillars that uphold the government. This is why importing millions of people who have fundamentally different worldviews is a terrible idea—and not just in America. Look at England. Grooming gangs raped thousands of girls over decades. Most officials ignored the problem because the rapists were largely from Pakistan. They feared being accused of racism. Even immigrants who support Western civilization and have Judeo-Christian values need time to assimilate. People aren’t interchangeable units of economic activity. They have religious values, customs, and worldviews. Our country has an interest in making sure new arrivals learn ours. Learning English should be non-negotiable. Those living in the same country need to be able to communicate with each other. This makes it easier to build trust and cohesion. As of June 2025, America had more than 50 million immigrants. More than 15% of the country’s population was born elsewhere. That includes a staggering 19% of the workforce. It’s too much. At this point, the melting pot is boiling over. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Melting Pot Is Boiling Over appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting—covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter. At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence. Who knew? The nearly 4,000-word A1 story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well sourced, but none of its sources have just come to light. It dissects former President Joe Biden’s immigration misdeeds and missteps over each of his four years in office. Great—but why not do that while the guy’s actually in power? Immigration isn’t suddenly an issue today. It’s been the biggest domestic story since COVID-19 ended. And even before COVID-19, going all the way back to 2016, President Donald Trump put immigration at the forefront of presidential politics. In private, Democrats close to Biden were discussing the crisis all along and knew his agenda would only make it worse. “Mr. Biden’s policy advisers sounded the alarm before he even won the election,” the Times acknowledges. “In August of 2020, several aides wrote a memo cautioning Mr. Biden’s inner circle that his promises” of lighter immigration enforcement “coupled with pent-up demand from the Trump years and economic hardship from COVID … could provoke a spike in border crossings.” Democrats were fully aware of what they were getting the country into, and they did it anyway. Their voters didn’t know, however, because the media didn’t do the unflinching reporting necessary to inform them—not until just now. This is the Biden senility story all over again. Even when the president was visibly failing, liberals in the media dismissed what was right before their eyes. A friend who was a lonely conservative columnist at another of the nation’s major metropolitan newspapers told me the one subject he was explicitly forbidden to write about was Biden’s age and infirmity. This code of silence has backfired spectacularly, saddling the Democrats with not one but two unelectable candidates at the top of their presidential ticket last year, and leaving the Left in a state of shock that Americans really did figure out what was happening with immigration and really were mad about it. Better late than never, though? “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration” does teach an important lesson beyond the one about what happens when radical policies go uncriticized by the media and internal criticisms by sane Democrats get ignored. It also showcases the success of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s strategy of busing the border crisis straight into blue cities. Democrats throughout the country could ignore the consequences of mass migration as long as the brunt of its impact was taken by Texas and other border states. Texas is deep red, after all—and more poor migrants could only help turn the state blue over generations, potentially tipping the Electoral College permanently to the Democrats. Abbott short-circuited that design by putting illegal immigrants on buses and sending them to blue cities throughout the country: Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, New York. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants poured into Democrat cities that thought the border emergency was somebody else’s problem. It was a winning move: “Many Biden officials came to view Mr. Abbott’s campaign as the point Democrats lost the debate,” the Times notes—and quotes Biden’s former assistant director for policy at ICE, Deborah Fleischaker, saying, “I don’t think we ever recovered.” Now the journalistic profession has to ask whether it can recover from postgame coverage that should have been deeper reporting on these events while they were happening. Biden’s decrepitude and the calamitous consequences of his immigration policies—ultimately for Democrats themselves as well as the country—aren’t the only scandals conservative media have been sounding the alarm about for years that haven’t received the kind of deep and critical coverage they deserve from all major media, even those that tilt left. Just imagine The New York Times taking a look this close at climate-change alarmism and discovering the world isn’t coming to a fiery end any time soon. It would be a revolution in media credibility, but for now you can still expect only the news that’s fit to print long after liberal follies have become too obvious to ignore. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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