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Passed States Monday Update July 7, 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 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, along with other special guests who will be announced soon! 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! We’ll see you in Indy! Remember, on June 16th, the registration opens up to all COS supporters! Register NOW!! You ask, we answered - a payment plan is available - check out the details here! Attendance is limited! Looking forward to seeing everyone there! You Don't want to miss it!!   COS AnniversariesNo State Anniversaries July 4th, 1776 (Independence Day)   Notes from Mark Meckler and Rick Santorum Rick focused his discussion around what a great week it is for Convention of States and the Big Beautiful Bill passing. - Although the bill has some good features, in it continues to increase the spending of our federal government. - The Big Beautiful Bill proves how essential an amending Article V convention is to our country. - Although there were cuts included, there was much more growth that was not offset. - Congress swung and missed - clearly showing that they will not reduce the federal bureaucracy significantly. - Trump stated “I am not for cuts!” Although he is not for cuts, he does understand the problem with the bloated federal system. - We elected good people, they were unable to move the needle significantly, We need a convention of the states (an amending Article V convention) NOW! Mark seconded Rick's points providing a rundown of the situation in Texas post the flash floods of the Guadalupe River in several counties. - Camp Mystic is a historic camp with 750 campers at any time. It is believed that at least 20 of the deaths were small children (7-8) from the camp and possibly one of the owners who was attempting to rescue them. - There is a book written by Tim Dunn Yellow Balloons that might help those questioning God in all of this. There is also a song by the same name that might help as well. - We must all pray for the victims, their families, and the first responders who are extremely taxed with the tragedy of this event. - The fallacy of Elon Musk forming a third party is ludicrous - it has only served to split the vote in the past (think Ross Perot's effort) and serves us not at all. - The Tea Party created the largest swing vote of all time and failed. The answer is an Article V amending constitution NOW!! - If you have not seen The National Monument to the Forefathers or read about it, you should check it out for the intent of our founders can be found there. This is what we need to reinstall in our country - God driven principles of effective government. - Mark called the Big Beautiful Bill a junk sandwich - some good with lots of junk in the middle. Mark did request that we clarify our content with Convention of States being the organization, a convention of the states being an amending convention. It is important that we use the terms correctly.  Legislative Activity As we move into District Season, we refocus closer to home than while in the Capitol Season. It is time for us to get our teams fired up about connecting with their legislators on our home turf. 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! If you missed this in the last update on COS NOW be sure to check this out - great work and hats off to all of you! Catch it here.  Calling all State Content Writers!! Watch your inbox for information about the July edition of The Writers' Desk!  District Captain ActivityKUDOS to the Top Most Active DC teams by % in the Passed States - Indiana, Alaska, and Oklahoma!! 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 Fact for the Week The reason your Coke tastes so good from McDonald's? They use only refrigerated syrup - it is kept cold from start to finish - when it comes out in your cup. They have engineered the process so that your coke will taste the same from first to last sip with just the right amount of ice added for that perfect taste.  Social Media Program Let's all help with the new Social Media Program! We are all Media Warriors at heart! Get more information here Are you on Facebook or X? Do the simple, daily activities (M-F) PS - it takes less than 3 minutes and so effective! 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. Don't miss your registration for the COS Leaders Organization in Zulip - 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 Monday the 30th, 2,721,539 people have signed the Convention of States petition so far. If you stacked 2,721,539 2×4 Lego bricks, they would reach over 16 miles high! Weekly Total: 2379. This is an average of 340 signatures per day (6% above weekly total average) Top States: 1. TX (7.5%) 2. FL (6.8%) 3. CA (6.1%) Top Dates: 1. 6/24 (18.1%) 2. 6/25 (14.3%) 3. 6/28 (14.1%) Way to go Texas and Florida #1 and #2 respectively! Way to keep the Passed States in the Action!  Artificial Information (AI) and YOU! Check out this article on how to use AI in the workplace. Be safe. Be prudent. Be successful!  Copyright and Image Use 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.  Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar If you missed the Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar, don't miss the recording! What an inspirational and moving evening it was! Be sure to register for July's webinar - TOMORROW NIGHT - Tuesday, July 8th at 9:00 PM EST - the theme for this month is Red, White and YOU! - sign up here! Look forward to seeing you there! Please Note: You must register for each session to attend.  This month was another exciting edition of COS at Home with our own Jonathan Viaud and his great guest speakers Michael Farris, speaking on the impact of the Supreme Court Decisions; Jack McPherson and Dani Landiver provided information on the impactful Emerging Leaders Program. If you missed the live broadcast, tune in here to catch it.  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 July 21st and 22nd. 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!  “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.“ –Thomas Jefferson   We must not, we cannot, let their sacrifice be in vain! |
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