As if the exciting legislative gains and the amazing number of grassroots events that my erstwhile cohort, Jake Fay, reviewed here weren't enough to make 2024 one for the books, the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and COS supporter JD Vance to the vice presidency is bringing unprecedented national prominence to the Convention of States movement.
The roster of COS endorsers and supporters who have been nominated to serve in significant positions in the Cabinet and elsewhere in the incoming administration is one of the more pleasant surprises of 2024.
Watch and listen to many of them discuss their reasons for supporting an Article V convention:
Secretary of Defense nominee and COS endorser Pete Hegseth was a featured speaker during our Leadership Summit in 2019:
COS endorser Marco Rubio is the nominee for Secretary of State and has long supported an Article V convention. He outlined his thinking during an appearance on LevinTV in 2016:
Along with Elon Musk, fellow entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been asked by the President-elect to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency. Ramaswamy has enthusiastically endorsed the Article V movement, as evidenced in the following clip from a conversation he had with COSA co-founder and senior advisor Michael Farris:
COS endorser and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is Trump's selection to become United States ambassador to Israel:
COS supporter Brooke Rollins has been nominated to become Secretary of Agriculture. Rollins served in the first Trump administration as director of the Office of Innovation and acting director of the Domestic Policy Council:
In addition, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire, Trump 2024 campaign spokeswoman, and COS supporter Karoline Leavitt will be the new White House Press Secretary in January.
In the year's waning days, President-elect Trump nominated Congressman Dan Bishop of North Carolina to become deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Bishop voted in favor of the COS resolution in 2017 while a member of the North Carolina Senate.
The COS grassroots army knows well that even an executive branch filled with COS endorsers and supporters cannot magically codify term limits for federal officials, conjure a balanced budget amendment, or institute any other potential amendment proposals that an Article V convention might yield. Nor can they even call an Article V convention.
It is the states -- through the sovereign citizens -- that must do the work. That is as it should be.
Yet so many prominent supporters and endorsers of our movement to call an Article V convention to reduce the size and scope of the federal government joining the administration presents a golden opportunity to amplify our message as never before.
Now is the time to restore constitutional government before the administrative state totally overruns it.
We have a chance to make the most of this opportunity in 2025 and beyond. If you haven't yet, join this ever-growing and influential grassroots movement that will bring necessary structural change to our political framework by signing the petition below.
Let's get to work.
