You should be borrowing from the muslim playbook and setting up cells and hawala.
You and your five buddies are one cell. Maybe you know a guy from another cell (perhaps your brother, who lives a few states over), somebody else knows a guy from another cell a few towns over. This knowledge is NOT shared with the group. You just “know a guy who can help.” You do not set up a fucking faceberg group, or a discord, or a video game group, etc.
All information is compartmentalized. If one cell gets busted, well, who do these “terrorists” really know? It will take awhile for the feds to sort out who knows who and how to get to them, during which time other adjacent cells can break up, flee, reform, whatever.
Hawala is how money and materials are transferred between cells. Think of it as a Patreon that flows through multiple hands instead of the intertubes.
All of this takes a lot of trust. That may be asking a lot, but the punishment for breaking that trust is death, usually in a very gruesome and public manner.
Muslims have been using it for centuries. the most powerful nation on earth can inconvenience them, but it cannot completely shut them down.
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