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Passed States Monday Update - May 5, 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!! ===== Late Breaking NEWS - HJR 98 just passed out of the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee. On to the final Senate floor vote! WOO HOO!!!! GO Texas!!! updated at 4:44 PM CT. =====   Start Your Engines! If you haven’t heard, registration for the Race to Freedom National Grassroots Leadership Summit is now open!! 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. Click HERE to watch a special invitation from Mark Meckler And… since many of you have asked, we’ve answered: Payment Plans are now available for registration fees! Click here to get all the details. Follow THIS link to register for the summit today! We’ll see you in Indy! Attendance is limited! Looking forward to seeing everyone there! You Don't want to miss it!!  ==== Happy Anniversary to our Passed States ==== === Alabama May 22, 2015 === === Louisiana May 25, 2016 === === Texas May 4, 2017 === === Missouri May 12, 2017 === === === ==== Notes from Mark Meckler and Rick Santorum ==== Rick Santorum is covering the Papal Conclave in Rome for Newsmax and is unavailable. Our prayers are with him as he reports this historical event. Mark Meckler is headed to the Texas Capitol today but took a few minutes to share all the hard work that the Texas team has done to make sure that our Lone Star state remains a Passed State. As many of you are aware, Texas had a sunset clause set to expire this year. They have been working diligently to assure that they pass a new resolution without a Sunset Clause for the future. The Texas team has been preparing for this day for six long years - the team has been at the Capitol almost continuously trying to assure the resolution is passed. They have worked the halls, the cafeteria and the gallery. All of this to increase their visibility and presence for the legislators. As they go before the Senate Committee today, all of this hard work comes to the ultimate fruition. They expect to pass in Committee today and on the floor of the Senate later this week. Relationships are what drives this kind of action - although it would be easy to anger and balk at some of the attitudes, kindness and patience carried the day for this team! Mark also reminded us to always keep a cool head and not to respond in anger or resentment to ideas in memes and posts we disagree with. Keep it factual and honest and most of all, do not PANIC! It is easy to feel we must agree with a candidate who says something we don't agree with but because we support them we hold our tongue. We don't have to belabor the issue but it is okay to say we disagree with that position. Read as much as you can, keep yourself informed, and speak the truth. Our candidates (and President) are no different than us, we often misinterpret something or get our facts wrong. Let's don't support misinformation just because we support the one speaking it. The message stay calm - there is no room for panic in Convention of States! If you missed BattleCry yesterday, you need to watch it!  ==== Legislative Activity ==== ==== If you felt extremely busy this past legislative season, consider this: ==== In 2025 - Total # of Bills Tracked 121 Supported Bills that passed first chamber 19 States Introducing COS Resolution 34 COS Resolution Sponsors/Co-Sponsors 191 Democratic Sponsors/Co-Sponsors 12 COS Resolutions Passed in Committee 6 COS Resolutions Passed Committee and 1st Chamber 3 # of 34 Ready Measures Introduced 35 # of 34 Ready Sponsors/Co-Sponsors 109 Democratic Sponsors/Co-Sponsors 6 Passed Committee 5 Passed Committee and 1st Chamber 3 Enacted 1 F3 Bills Supported 16 Issues for F3 Bills: Parental Rights Medical Right of Conscience Immigration (State's Rights) Free Speech Election Integrity Protecting Women's Sports Protecting Children Religious Freedom Passed Committee 2 Passed Committee and 1st Chamber 3 Passed the Legislature 4 Enacted 1 # of Grassroots Actions thru Quorum 99.5 thousand # Supporters Responding to CTA's 12.4 thousand Wow, what a season it has been! Great job troops!!! And we still have more to come!!!  KUDOS to the Top Most Active DC teams by % in the Passed States - Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Indiana! 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!  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  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 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.  ==== Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Convention of States ==== Please review and be aware that these policies are in place! Links are not active in these screenshots. A reminder from Robert Kelly, our legal advisor, DO NOT enter copyrighted material in AI and ask for something similar. This is against the law and punishable!    ==== Important Note ==== ==== When referencing promotional stats, please confirm you are using accurate numbers. We have over 2.7 million petitions. We have 32,800+ volunteers. We are moving away from the ‘5+ million supporters’ number. Let's all make sure we are using this information as cited! ====  We still need your star team members' videos from your state as we revamp COSU to make it more current, and timely. Nothing better than Grassroots teaching Grassroots!! Send us your videos even if you aren't sure we can use them, we will use them for one format or another! In case you are wondering what to put in those videos, a man on the street review of a booth set up, how to get a petition signed, how to set up a district meeting, short 3-5 minute videos of you doing what you do every day! Forward them to your RD please!  Please mark your calendars with the date - our next Grassroots Leadership Focus Call - will be May 13th at 9:00 EST. Join us and hear all the news from around the country! Mark Meckler will be our Guest Speaker! In case you missed the April call, it was great - watch here.  If you are having difficulty getting your teams on Zulip, we now have several people we can call on to make that happen. If you need help, reach out to your RD and they can hook you up with assistance! We now 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.  Petition Roundup The person who routinely gets us the numbers for this segment is in DC with the ELP group so we do not have this weeks results. Please look over those for the previous week and see how great the Passed States are doing! As of Monday the 21st, 2,701,365 people have signed the Convention of States petition so far.If our petition signers stood on top of each other, they would be taller than 18,834 Eiffel Towers! Weekly Total: 1605. This is an average of 229 signatures per day (22% below the weekly total average) Top States: NY (7.4%) FL (7.0%) TX (6.9%) Top Support Sources: Social Media (43%) Gun Show (5%) A Friend (3%) Top Dates: 4/26 (15.4%) 4/22 (15.1%) 4/21 (14.7%) Tags: Social Media Ads (60%) Events (9%) Social Media (2%) Blog (1%) Congratulates Florida and Texas for your position in the top 3!!  Congratulations, Texas!! HJR 98 passed on second reading! Here is the link for the House hearing! See 4:44 PM update today! Jonathan Viaud, Regional Director said “The Texas team has been putting in a tremendous amount of work this legislative session, and that is likely the understatement of the year. We are so thankful to have this House victory. Now, it's on to the Senate, and then Texas is safely ensconced in the Passed States column.” God Bless Texas!  If you missed COS at Home with Tim Barton, Wallbuilders President, catch it now! This Wednesday will be another exciting edition of COS at Home with our own Jonathan Viaud and his great guest speaker, Blake Guichet! Be sure to tune in on May 7th at 8:00 PM EST. https:%%//%%conventionofstates.com/athome  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.  Check out the Citizen Builder training - Building your Team we are offering coming up on May 20th and 27th. Come join us! **Register Here**  Check our **Article V Outfitters** for the latest COS swag and sales!! They have visors in just in time for summer! Check them out!  “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson  We must not, we cannot, let their sacrifice be in vain! |
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