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Passed States Monday Update - August 11, 2025
This update is provided to keep you posted on organizational changes and updates. We are issuing this weekly report each Monday that the National Team meets! Information shared can be shared with your teams! Hope you enjoy it. Be sure to read to the end, lots of goodies throughout!!   Start Your Engines! Registration for the Race to Freedom Leadership Summit is open and waiting for you! This inspirational and educational event will be held September 18-20, 2025, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Don’t miss this chance to hear from COS headliners like Mark Meckler, Rick Santorum, and Michael Farris. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation; Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Higher Education Policy Director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation; Ryan Walters, OK State Superintendent; Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach; Micah Beckwith, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana; and Calley Means, Sr. Advisor for MAHA and TrueMed Co-Founder will be speaking on the main stage in Indy in September! Just as importantly, this will be an awesome opportunity to meet with hundreds of other grassroots leaders from across the nation. Follow THIS link to register for the summit today! The registration is open to all COS supporters! See you in Indy! **Register NOW!! ** Looking forward to seeing everyone there! You Don't want to miss it!!   COS Anniversaries No State Anniversaries August 18, 1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote. August 6, 1945: The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, marking a turning point in World War II. August 14, 1945: Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day or VP [Victory in the Pacific] Day) August 21, 1959: Hawaii became the 50th state in the U.S. August 16, 1896: Gold was discovered in Rabbit Creek, triggering the Klondike Gold Rush. August 10, 1920: The Treaty of Sèvres, which officially ended World War I, was signed. August 24, 1814: During the War of 1812, British troops set fire to Washington D.C., including the White House. August 25, 1916: President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service. August 24, 79 AD: Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. August 2, 1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War. August 6, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, aimed at overcoming legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. August 16, 1944: The Second Battle of Guam concluded with the defeat of Japanese forces by the U.S. military. Who knew there were two names for VJ Day?   Mark Meckler's Comments Politics are nuanced - there are many factors invoved in every action. We need to practive evaluating stances with research and thoughtful consideration. Rarely are the actions as they seem on the surface. Important considerations: * Do you have an opinion? You are not required to have one on every issue nor are you required to share it if you do! * Do you know the rationale for your decision, not the pundits, yours. * Critical that we research the issue if we are going to form an opinion on it. Without a full understanding, we are just spouting heresay. * You can always say, “It is my gut feeling.” That lets others know that you are speaking personally and not from an expert opinion or parroting something your heard in the media. We should always judge people for their potential, not their past. Be sure to reach out with 5 for Article V - this is a campaign to obtain signatures on petitions from our friends and relatives. Can you imagine how many petitions we could get if everyone got 5 people? It is an easy ask, let's all do it!!   Legislative Activity We are changing our terminology at COS! As we move into District Season, we refocus closer to home than while in the Capitol (Legislative) Season. It is time for us to get our teams fired up about connecting with their legislators on our home turf. This is the easiest time for us to connect with our legislators. We need to also focus on building our teams to be the best we can be as we strive to fulfill the mission of Growing the Largest Grassroots Army!   District Captain Activity KUDOS to the Top Most Active DC teams by % in the Passed States - Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Missippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Great Job teams!! District Captain and Volunteer activity is an area we really need to focus on. Those activity reports are available to communicate to our donors all the great work each of you are doing out there in the trenches! It only takes a second to file an activity report on your phone or computer. And for those District Captains reading this, we need to strive for 100% activity in Citizen Builder!   Fun Facts for the Week George Washington was born on February 11, 1731 under the Julian calendar. In the early 1750s, Great Britain converted to the Gregorian calendar. An act of Parliament added eleven days to complete the adjustment and Washington's birthday became February 22, 1732!  Social Media Program Let's all help with the new Social Media Program! Watch for your notifications or emails at 10:00 AM Eastern Monday thru Friday. Takes only about 1-3 minutes to carry out the call to action! It has proven to be one of our most effective tools!! http://www.conventionofstates.com/social As with all new things, a few rules follow - remember: Do NOT tag or message legislators; Do NOT ask others to contact legislators or sign the petition; and Do NOT post on legislator's posts or pages We are getting lots of good feedback from this program, the more who participate, the greater the impact! Let's all get involved!! We have even picked up several very active sites that are following us now and posting about COS. Per Mark Meckler - please tell as many people as possible to participate in the Social Media effort to help us combat negative comments there!   Feel free to use your .us email address now! You can now start using your COS email address with the .us ending. Everything else remains the same except for the .us instead of .com! This does not require any action on your part. Your old .com address will forward to the new address. If you purchase business cards or any other material with your email address on it, please use the new cosaction.us. Spoiler Alert - you will still need to sign into Citizen Builder with whatever email address you have used in the past!  Zulip News Are you having difficulty getting your teams on Zulip? If you need help, reach out to your RD and they can hook you up with assistance! We have dedicated Grassroots leaders who understand the system available to help get you and your team ready to go. Let's get our teammates on so we can make it the great communication tool it can be. We would like to see a more robust participation with this new format. Using the Zulip App is much easier than trying to work in a browser. Help your teams use the platform in the most effective way, have them download the app here: Zulip App. Emails for the COS Leaders organization have gone out - be sure to check all your emails so you don't miss it - it takes the place of the DC workspace in Slack and several others! Looking forward to seeing you all on there!   Petition Roundup As of Friday the 1st, 2,733,061 people have signed the Convention of States petition so far. 2,733,061 calories are enough to sustain an adult for about three and a half years! Weekly Total: 1705. This is an average of 244 signatures per day (21% below the weekly total average) Top States: 1. CO (23.3%) 2. FL (6.9%) 3. CA (6.7%) Top Dates: 1. 8/3 (26%) 2. 8/2 (20.5%) 3. 8/1 (16.0%) Thanks to Florida for keeping us in the Action and Top Three!!!  Copyright and Image Use Information We need to be diligent in following best practices in terms of use of other peoples information. In that light, please be sure you communicate that we are seeing increasing violations. Be sure to share this important policy on Copyright and Image Use with your teams.  Artificial Information (AI) and YOU! Check out this article/video (don't forget, subject changes weekly) on how to use AI in the workplace. Be safe. Be prudent. Be successful! Be sure to share this with your teams.   The Writers' Desk Come join on August 19 at 5:00 p.m. ET, the guest will be Mark Meckler, who will be discussing the benefits and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in writing and communicating for COS. The link to the meeting follows: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/89223249680?pwd=1eiibicvbnt1a2BL8DPtr2F9RbYXZW.1#success You will not want to miss this exciting discussion.  Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar Coming up tomorrow: August Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar! If you missed the July Webinar, don't miss the recording! What an inspirational and moving evening it was! Be sure to register for August's webinar - Tuesday, August 12 at 9:00 PM ET - the theme for this month is Turn the Heat into Motion! Sign up here and catch the August webinar recording. Look forward to seeing you there! Please Note: You must register for each session to attend.  COS at Home was great this past week with our own Jonathan Viaud and Craid Haggard, Indiana State Representative. If you were unable to attend, don't miss the recording. The guest next month will be Rick Santorum so be sure to put September 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET.  Wondering where that document is located? Wondering how to get someone opted in for COS emails? The answers are there for you in this tool - **Passed States Webpages.**  Citizen Builder Training Check out the Citizen Builder training - Building your Team - we are offering coming up on August 18th and 19th. Come join us! Register Here If you have attended the class in the past, you will receive a thank you note not the registration link. If this is the case, just drop an email to [email protected] with your name, email address, phone number and state as well as the class you plan to attend and we will make sure you are notified of the class.  Need some Convention of States Swag? Check our Article V Outfitters for the latest COS swag and sales!! They have new Race to Freedom swag now as well as other great things. Check them out!  Words from our Founding Fathers “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” - John Adams   We must not, we cannot, let their sacrifice be in vain! |
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