Invite Christopher Armitage to Speak

I am taking my talk on the road in 2027, and I will come to any city or town in the United States where a group wants to host it. A group that cannot cover travel or a room still gets the stop, and I come at no charge.

I publish The Existentialist Republic and study the powers state governments hold under their own constitutions. Every talk covers what state and local governments can do with the authority they already hold, from state prosecutions of federal officials to public banks. The title changes with the room. In Yakima the hosts called it “Physics, Fascism, and Soft Secession,” and in Winthrop they called it “Saving Democracy Starts Locally.” A talk takes 30 minutes to an hour and ends with questions from the audience.

The frameworks behind the talks are soft secession and oppositional federalism, and my books cover them at length.

The form asks each host what the group can cover. A group that can pay for travel or a hotel says so. A group that can cover nothing says that too, and I come at no charge.

Go to the sign-up form

How a group hosts a stop

One person from the group fills out the form on this page and chooses “My group wants to host a stop.” It takes about five minutes.
Our team replies by email, and the group and I settle on a date in 2027.
The group reserves a room. A ballroom in Yakima, a barn in Winthrop, a members’ library in Seattle and a Quaker meeting center in Philadelphia have all worked.
The group decides what the day includes. The form lists the choices: a public talk with questions, a signing, a members’ reception, a roundtable with the group’s leaders, meetings with local officials and a recorded livestream.
The group handles tickets or RSVPs and sets the price. Yakima charged $15 and Winthrop charged nothing.
Members with a spare room or a car sign up on the same form, which keeps the cost of the stop low.
The group tells local press and neighboring groups, and I promote the event to my readers with the host’s name and mission in front.
A few weeks ahead, the host and I trade the details every stop needs: the talk title, my bio and photo, arrival and departure times, and who is meeting me.

A seat in the audience

A reader who wants a seat chooses “A seat in the audience” and enters a ZIP code. A cluster of sign-ups in one area tells us where a stop belongs, and everyone on the list hears about tickets before the public does.

A room or a ride

A spare room for a night, a driveway for a van, an airport pickup and a drive to the next city on the route all count. The form has a path for each.

Where I have spoken

Winthrop, Washington State

May 30, 2026 · Hosted by Methow Rising and Common Power

Methow Rising and Common Power hosted a free Saturday night talk at the Winthrop Barn. I was the third speaker in Methow Rising’s series on tools rural communities can use to take action.

Notice in the Methow Valley News Listing at Northwest Public Broadcasting

Yakima, Washington State

Aug. 13, 2026 · Hosted by Yakima Indivisible

Yakima Indivisible opened their Voices of Democracy speaker series with this stop. The day started with a signing at Rooted Yakima Valley and ended with the talk at The Crown Ballroom.

Preview in the Yakima Herald-Republic Yakima Indivisible

Charlotte, North Carolina

Feb. 7, 2026 · Hosted by Indivisible Charlotte

Indivisible Charlotte invited me to speak at their ninth anniversary celebration, and the 19-minute talk is in the video here. Two months earlier their research team interviewed me for their podcast, In the Know Live.

Indivisible Charlotte on the talk The podcast episode

Seattle, Washington State

Oct. 14, 2026 · Hosted by Cascadia Democratic Action at Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum

Cascadia Democratic Action put on a panel called “Soft secession, Indigenous sovereignty, and Cascadia’s resistance to fascism.” I shared the stage with Nadine Maestas and Andrew Engelson.

Cascadia Democratic Action Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oct. 22, 2026 · Hosted by the Public Banking Institute

The Public Banking Institute opened their national conference at Friends Center with my keynote. I walked through what each state could have earned with a public bank modeled on the Bank of North Dakota.

Public Banking Institute

The map

Every sign-up puts a dot on this map near its ZIP code. The lines are the interstates, and a run of dots along one of them becomes a leg of the tour.

Sign-ups appear here as they come in. The squares mark the five places listed above.