Dallas Freedom and Liberty Community Calendar

Below you will find a calendar of events in the Dallas area (we'll expand geographically once we figure everything out here) that may appeal to you, though some will not.  Within the WithContxt App, these event announcements are more interactive, allowing those who choose to RSVP to communicate prior, during, and after the event.

Create an Account and Your First Contxt!

Click below for a Walk Through of how to create your first Contxt (Event Invitation).

The Opposition

Many of the people at Pete Sessions' town hall came because of resources like Michael Moore's new ResistanceCalendar.org, which is a public calendar for sharing activist activities.  Below are some screen caps from the website.

​Every day that we sit idly by without our own tool that facilitates for mass, uncensored coordination is another day that we concede ground to liberals bound and determined to silence our side.  While we don't have a Michael Moore to shout it from the rooftops, "WithContxt," which is currently in the App Store, will soon become a viral social media tool for grassroots organizers to turn out activists.  We can counter the protesters from the "UnKoch My Campus" group that targets libertarian and conservative professors who dare spread anything other than the vile hate and oppression advanced by the Left.  We can organize and plan that opposition in a respectful, rational, and constructive way.

Be a Winner WithContxt!

Think of WithContxt as a calendar with a group text that allows you and other invitees to communicate before, during and after the event.

We'll work in more fun "game-ification" later, but, in the mean time, we're going to make sure that the main functionality works well (and it currently doesn't, so, if you'd like to wait to download it until we sound the all clear, sign up for updates here).

As the Founder of WithContxt, I'm tired of seeing good people get sucked into never-ending rhetorical battles on Facebook and Twitter within their echo chamber or with CNN-parroting liberals, without any positive action taking place.  We have to get out from behind screens and into communities.  Arguing in 140 characters so we feel smart or clever isn't the answer to "How do we take our country back from the socialists?"  Going door-to-door, hosting educational events, uniting to effect change, replacing bad legislators with good Constitution-loving, gun-toting Americans, and generally talking to people one-on-one IS the answer and WithContxt is a tool to facilitate that activity.

Why Do Organizers Use WithContxt to Water the Tree of Liberty?

Maintain Privacy

We won't track your whereabouts.  We won't listen to your conversations. We won't use an algorithm to figure out what was in your breakfast so we can put adds for prunes or cereal in your face.  We're just going to provide a great service without violating your trust.  If the App asks for access to your pictures, well, that's because we want you to upload the pictures you choose.  We don't want your pictures that are out of context because, frankly, we have no use for them and it takes up valuable hard drive space.

Become Informed

Did you know that, on a weekly basis in Dallas, organizations put on about a dozen different informative and interactive meetings and events for conservatives and libertarians?  We're going to help you find the events that inspire and inform you best.

The Left has multiple resources for organizing their "resistance" to rational thinking, including Michael Moore-endorsed ResistanceCalendar.org.  While we don't have pseudo-celebrity endorsement currently, WithContxt will be better.

Engage Your Community

Share your views with like-minded people without having to worry about ideologically-based censorship and outraged, misinformed opportunists who seek to silence you and your rational views.

People are angry and the only people out there providing answers to their perceived problems possess a passion for having taxpayers pay for the provision of their list of desires provided by our wise overlords in DC, Austin, and local government.  We cannot wait for every young impressionable mind to be melded into this hive mind that sees government as the answer to every problem.

Remove Anxiety

Do you remember the first time you worked up the courage to attend a political meeting?  The Founder of WithContxt remembers that first Ron Paul Meetup like it was... well, a decade ago and his memory is terrible (which is why WithContxt would have been great to have the videos, pictures, and text from the meeting!!!!).  He was nervous, but excited and motivated.

There's no way to know how many people sat in their cars in the parking lot outside of a candidate's meet-and-greet because they didn't know anyone, but the number is in the bazillions.

By engaging people in conversation prior to any meeting, a grassroots organizer can be profoundly more effective at getting people over that hurdle of attending the first meeting.  

WithContxt provides a platform for conversations between invitees and organizers.

Save the memories

Event Organizer - "Everyone share your pictures on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Myspace, Tumblr, AOL, GeoCities... using the #WWDRHSHDHSHW!"

Ugh.  That's infuriating.  Most of our Facebook friends don't care when we go to an Entrepreneur networking event.  The people who care are those who are in the room and/or weren't able to make it.  Why not share that content in ONE place where the event organizers AND the attendees can get the greatest use out of them?  Then, if you want, you can share content outside of that Contxt to other platforms.

Actually, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Android are all trying to automate this sort of thing for you, too.  Clearly, we're on to something.

Award and Reward

We're working on the "reward/award" system and probably will be working on it forever, but the people who complete the task (attend an event, knock on doors for a candidate, spread the word about a fundraiser, engage with voters, etc.) would like to be recognized.  You get a warm fuzzy when you get a sticker for making phone calls for your favorite candidate or attend the Executive Committee Meeting.  

​Now, you'll earn virtual stickers.  It's not much, but it's something more than you're getting now.  Plus, since they're virtual, you'll never lose them in the wash.

Cast of Characters

Seabiscuit

Sock Thief Extraordinaire

Seabiscuit is the logo because he attracts positive attention from the right kind of people.
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Back when the Founder was a Grassroots Political Coordinator for Ron Paul, Debra Medina, and other liberty-minded Republicans, he needed a way to get the attention of the people who needed to know about his candidates.  "Hey you!" may work for some people, but not as much for large bald men.  Now that he has an amazingly handsome lab, he takes pictures of him all the time and realizes that good people love dogs.  Strangers want to pet Seabiscuit and tell their stories about yellow labs.  If Jarrod had a cause about which to inform people, Seabiscuit would be the perfect opener.  So, who better to grab your attention than a handsome (completely insane) yellow lab?  Answer: no one.

Jarrod Atkinson

Founder

"First" generated the framework and marketing plan for WithContxt over nearly two decades of studying how people allocate their scarce resources, beginning during undergraduate and graduate study in Economics at Hampden-Sydney College and Southern Methodist University, respectively.  He then went on to devote himself to political activism and entrepreneurship, having started four businesses over the last fifteen years.  Remarkably creative, he struggles with focus, as well as accepting that Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.

​The Chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party's Community Outreach Committee (fancy title meaning "he works for free for the Party organizing all of the volunteers"), Jarrod represented Congressional District 30 at the 2016 Republican Naitonal Convention and has served the Republican Party and Clubs in numerous positions, including Senate District Convention Chairman, Precinct Chairman, and Chairman of the TYRF PAC Board.