Wisconsin showed up en masse at Convention of States Leadership Summit, with volunteers and leaders making it to the first annual event from all over the state.
What an event it was with notable speakers like David Barton, Dr. Tom Coburn, Pete Hegseth, and even some blasts from the past in Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
This first COS Leadership Summit ran smooth as butter, giving constituents from all 50 states an amazing and revitalizing learning experience. Breakout sessions were a chance to educate and network with volunteers from all over the country, while the plenary sessions focused on giving a rallying cry for us to carry home to our friends, family, neighbors, and legislators.
Dr. Tom Coburn inspired us with his exemplary character and the life-long battle against all odds to see America remain a free nation of self-governance. His words at the end drew tears and applause as he stated emphatically:
Life’s intended to be a battle. We’re in to survive, we’re in to compete, we’re in to achieve. Giving up isn’t in our nature. I’m in this to the end, whenever that is.
The culmination came in an awards banquet and a beautifully prepared feast while we listened to author, lawyer, and radio personality Mark Levin. He challenged us to take on the burden of this daunting task and not surrender the “greatest country on the face of the earth” to the failed European social experiment.
Many of us from Wisconsin met our teammates for the first time at Summit. The bonds formed between us will not fade into the ether, and plans have already been made to take the things we’ve learned to build our team and grow the family we’ve become.
There were laughter and tears and a whole lot of conversation, but above all, Wisconsin volunteers left with a renewed sense of the bigger picture and what a significant role we play, not in just studying about history but in making history.
Our nation is as divided and divisive as it has ever been, and the COS Summit was a beacon of hope in the darkness. As long as there is a remnant, there will always be an opportunity to fight back the forces of evil in this world and keep our hope burning for the next generations.
We here in Wisconsin are ready to continue this fight and continue to the end…whenever that is.
