Preppers of all political stripes are usually motivated by a “foggy cloud of fear” rather than a belief in one specific doomsday scenario playing out, Mills said.

Bug-out bags, however, are small-scale when it comes to end-times capitalism. ... O’Connell is right to point out that preppers tend to be white, male, and libertarian.

where 20 speakers taught people how to build fires, purify water, forage, plan an evacuation, develop a “survival mindset,” make a “bug-out bag,” wear camouflage, and make a Faraday cage to block ...

Photographer Allison Stewart has been documenting the contents of “bug-out bags,” the stuff their owners deem necessary to deal with various types of emergencies. The bags’ contents project ...

Do you have your “bug-out bag” (BOB) ready for when the “s ... Knobben does not believe in a “post-apocalyptic movie scenario” and avoids the more extreme Doomsday preppers and their ...

Blending automotive and prepper lingo, he calls his CR-V a “Cross-Out Vehicle.” To paraphrase the Boy Scout motto for preppers and everyone else who feels an urge to bug out: “Drive prepared.” ...

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should ...