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Passed States Monday Update September 29. 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 links and information throughout!!   If you missed the Race to Freedom, please take the opportunity to watch the recordings of the plenary sessions!! YOU will be INSPIRED!!!   COS Anniversaries No State Anniversaries Samuel Adams, born on September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts, was a passionate and influential voice against British rule before and during the American Revolution. A second cousin of President John Adams, he played a major role in advancing the cause of independence. The son of Puritan parents, Adams was raised with strong religious values. Initially expected to become a minister, he graduated from Harvard College in 1740 and later turned to politics. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and later served in the Continental Congress. By the 1770s, he had become one of the leading advocates for American independence. Adams was a founding member of the Sons of Liberty, the group that famously organized the Boston Tea Party, destroying British tea in protest of new taxes. Adams participated in the First and Second Continental Congress, signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Due to his strong opposition to British rule, he was viewed as a major threat to the Crown—so much so that British authorities offered pardons to all who laid down their arms after the Battle of Lexington and Concord except Adams and John Hancock. After the war, Adams helped draft the Massachusetts state constitution and served as governor of Massachusetts. He died on October 2, 1803, at the age of 81. His hometown newspaper remembered him as the “Father of the American Revolution.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250/founders-museum/signers/profiles/   Mark Meckler's Comments Mark is on a much deserved vacation this week, but come back here next week as I am sure he will have inspiring and meaningful topics for us!!   Legislative Activity If you have not had the chance to attend a session on “Apologetics” yet, check out this link and get comfortable with the process. Paul Phillips presents the information in an easy to understand presentation that will be so meaningful for you as you address issues with your legislator. Refer to this information frequently and often. Who better to share information about COS with than your legislator - as fall moves into Capitol Season (legislative) around the country, let's make sure we take advantage of our last District Season days (when you can find your legislator in their offices at home) and get in touch with them and let them know we are here to work with them.   District Captain Activity KUDOS to the Top Most Active DC teams by % in the Passed States - Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. All 100% activity! Great Job teams!! District Captain and Volunteer activity is an area we really need to focus on. Those activity/action 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 action report on your phone or computer or go into Citizen Builder and make a note. For those District Captains reading this, we need to strive for 100% activity in Citizen Builder! Remember, an action report will give you activity!   Fun Fact for the Week The term “patriot” was first used regularly by Benjamin Franklin in the years leading up to the war, and came to refer to those colonial soldiers fighting against the British Army for their independence (Franklin himself was a patriot as well, and he also championed American foods like cranberries, maple syrup and Indian corn).   Social Media Program Let's all help with the new Social Media Program! Watch for your emails Monday thru Friday; check out the Zulip Leaders Organization of the same days; or use the link below. 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!  New Happenings! Feel free to use your .us email address now! You can now start using your COS email address with the .us ending. Your COS action email will work but we will be moving toward the .us ending over the next year. Everything else remains the same except for the .us instead of .com! 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. Want to look around on your own? Check this out! 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. The COS Leaders organization is open and active - if you aren't in yet, jump in, the water and dialogue are great! If you aren't in check with your SD or SIA to get an invite. Zulip COS Leaders organization takes the place of many of the Slack workspaces (such as DC and other leader workspaces). Looking forward to seeing you all on there!   Petition Roundup Weekly Total: 1580. This is an average of 226 signatures per day (33% below the weekly total average) Top States:1. CO (14.2%) 2. IL (12.5%) 3. NJ (7.5%) Top Dates:1. 9/20 (26%) 2. 9/15 (16%) 3. 9/17 (13%) (edited) Lots of Fairs and Festivals around the country! Thanks to all of our great grassroots for working so hard!!  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!   The Writers' Desk If you missed the Writers' Desk call on August 19 don't dismay, here is a summary with the link to the recording. The guest was Mark Meckler, who discussed the benefits and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in writing and communicating for COS. You don't want to miss all the exciting insights.   If you missed the September Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar, check out the recording! Join us next month on October 14th at 9:00 PM EST for Harvesting Courage! Be sure you register - you will no longer have to register for each session after you register this time!! Hope to see you there!   COS at Home was great with our own Jonathan Viaud and Rick Santorum. If you were unable to attend, don't miss the recording. The guest next month will be Rick Green of Patriot Acadamy, so be sure to put October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET on your calendar!  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 - Taming the Tech - Unfortunately circumstances dictated that we cancel our September classes but we will be back on October 20th and 21st. 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 “Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.” – John Jay   We must not, we cannot, let their sacrifice be in vain! |
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