“Missouri is a Passed State. So, we’re done right?”
I hear this quite often and it is a reasonable question to ask. It is perception that we caused ourselves to a certain extent. When the Convention of States Project was founded in 2013, we were attempting to do something that has never been done. The plan that Mike Farris charted was to have 100 activists in at least two-thirds of state legislative districts in America. We were young and foolish (young anyway). We did not focus enough on that goal. We focused on the passage of our resolution. That is an easier task. Our resolution can be printed, carried and handed to a legislator. It is tangible.
So, it is reasonable to expect our volunteer teams to relax when their state passes. That is exactly what happened in every Passed State. Every one of them.
Passage of our resolution is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning. Following our mantra of act, learn, adjust, we have learned from our mistakes. Building a strong, grassroots team is most important. If we pass our resolution but do not have a strong, active team continuing to fight for liberty and to be willing to hold our elected officials accountable, we will lose the ground we worked so hard to gain.
One of our volunteer activists in Texas developed a smartphone app which we call TelePatriot and we use this tool to make phone banking calls. Phone banking is where volunteers call a pre-selected group to deliver a message. These activities are grouped in missions. Each mission has a stated purpose, a selected target group to contact and a scripted message to deliver to the person being contacted. A call is placed with the touch of a button. It doesn’t matter how many volunteers are working on a mission at the same time. Nobody will be called multiple times.
The types of missions TelePatriot can be used for are numerous. Here are some examples:
- A District Captain can contact supporters in their district efficiently.
- We can conduct a Call to Action to alert supporters of a committee hearing, contact their legislators for a specified purpose or attend a rally.
- We can recruit volunteers to staff a booth at a fair or other event.
- We can have a Get Out the Vote effort to affect elections.
“Passage of our resolution is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.”
Just in 2022, Convention of States Project volunteers…
- made over 150,000 calls into target districts in the mid-term elections resulting in dozens of electoral victories for limited-government minded officials;
- flipped school board seats in the Francis Howell and Springfield School Districts to pro-liberty candidates;
- contacted thousands of supporters to attend hundreds of committee hearings, rallies and events across the country
- helped pass dozens of bills promoting liberty or defeating bills that diminish liberty;
- and in February, 2023 hundreds of calls were made to supporters in North Dakota to defeat an effort to rescind our COS resolution.
Being a TelePatriot Volunteer is a fun and exciting way to be an activist for liberty. If you are comfortable using the phone, enjoy speaking with people and want to work with teammates across the country, the TelePatriot Volunteer role may be for you. The TelePatriot platform will continue to be used more often to accomplish our mission to bring back a culture of self-governance. Click here if this sounds like a project for you. A member of our team will be in touch to answer your questions and provide all the training you need to be a warrior for liberty.
Kind regards,
Brett
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