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Passed States Monday Update September 8, 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!!  Only 10 more days and that Green Flag is going up, don't miss your starting position! This inspirational and educational event will be held September 18-20, 2025, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Registration is closed so hope you made it! Look forward to seeing you there!! Check out this link to find the sessions that will be live streamed and get ready for the show. 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! Even more importantly, this will be an awesome opportunity to meet with hundreds of other grassroots leaders from across the nation. See you in Indy!   COS Anniversaries No State Anniversaries Days to put on your Calendar for September: * September 11 is Patriot Day, held in honor and remembrance of those who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. * September 15 is George Mason Day. This day celebrates our Founder who insisted on a mechanism to allow We the People to amend the constitution without government interference. * September 17 is Constitution Day. This day celebrates the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, which occurred on September 17, 1787   Mark Meckler's Comments Mark, Rita Peters and Mike Farris are in Washington DC to meet with individuals today trying to increase support from Washington. Mark discussed the need for all of us to be prepared should this happen and have a plan in place for new volunteers in the Follow Up Tool, more public speaking, and increased awareness of the organization should this be successful. He reminds us that it is God's Providence but we should all pray for the best situation for COS. Take part in the 5 for Article V campaign (this campaign may be the biggest one we have done yet) to obtain 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 It is Fair and Festival time - what happens at Fairs and Festivals besides yummy food we shouldn't eat? Petitions! Our teams are out in force bringing them in! Be sure to check out the phenomenal petition update later in the Update! 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.  District Captain Activity KUDOS to the Top Most Active DC teams by % in the Passed States - Arkansas, Indiana, 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 George Washington gave the shortest inauguration speech in American history on March 4, 1793. It was only 133 words long. William Henry Harrison gave the longest at 8,443 words on March 4, 1841 on a cold and blustery day in Washington, D.C.. He died one month later of a severe cold.   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!   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 get in 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. Fun things happening in the Zulip COS Leaders organization so get in there and catch up! Zulip COS Leaders organization takes the place of many of the Slack workspaces (such as DC and other leader workspaces). If you aren't in yet, see your SD or RD to get an invite. Looking forward to seeing you all on there!   Petition Roundup As of Thursday the 4th, 2,746,470 people have signed the Convention of States petition. We have about as many petition signers as the Yale library has books! Weekly Total: 2305. This is an average of 329 signatures per day (8% below the weekly total average) Top States: 1. CO (27.1%) 2. ID (15.4%) 3. IA (14.8%) Top Dates: 1. 8/26 (21%) 2. 8/30 (17%) 3. 8/31 (16%) 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. Mark your calendar for October 21 when Brianna Kraemer, a formerstaff writer for COS will be sharing her secrets.   Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar If you missed the August Grassroots Leadership Focus Webinar, check out the recording and register here! Join us tomorrow night, September 9th at 9:00 PM EST for Fall into Freedom! Remember - you must register for each month's webinar. Look forward to seeing you there!   COS at Home COS at Home was great last week 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 in October. 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  “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever.” - John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1775   We must not, we cannot, let their sacrifice be in vain! |
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