Thread by @ExposingALEC

1/ #NorthCarolina Could Be Next in Joining Initiative to Restore Balance Between State and Federal Government theepochtimes.com/north-carolina… North Carolina could be joining the Convention of States using Article V of the United States Constitution. #NoConCon

2/ "In March 2021, the North Carolina House passed House Joint Resolution 233, which calls for the state to be added to the convention, now leaving it up to the Senate to follow the House’s lead."

1/ "Just seven states. That’s right, just SEVEN! If just 7 more states sign on, the #Kochs, the #Mercers, corporate funders, and their extremist allies will reach the 2/3 supermajority required to convene the convention they need to tear apart the U.S. Constitution"#NoConCon

2/ Supporters "talk about shredding #FirstAmendment protections... gutting #environmental regulations... rolling back #CivilRights advances... and enshrining far-right economics as permanent fiscal policy – that will gut #Medicare, #Medicaid, and other safety-net programs"

3/ To learn more about the dangers of an Article V Convention, visit defendourconstitution.org. And please. make a donation to help @CommonCause ramp up their state-by-state battle to block and rescind calls for an Article V Convention. #NoConCon

4/ "Wealthy special interest groups are advancing a radical plan to permanently change our Constitution and restrict our civil rights and liberties. Find out what is happening in your state and what you can do to stop it." #NoConCon

GOOD NEWS: “Convention of States” Resolution Defeated in Ohio thenewamerican.com/convention-of-… Senate Committee had been considering the COS resolutions. However, the General Assembly recessed without acting on them.#NoConCon #Ohio

"To urge your state legislators to oppose resolutions applying for an Article V Con-Con, visit The John Birch Society’s legislative alert here" jbs.org/alert/stop-art… [Important note: I do not condone the JBS, but in this case they are presenting cogent arguments for #NoConCon]

"Regardless of the...merit of any amendment proposals, the fact remains that such a convention opens the Constitution to extensive rewrite or potentially to replace it altogether as the Articles of Confederation were at the original Philadelphia Convention in 1787."

Special interests have been influencing our elected officials to exercise powers not granted to them by the Constitution. An Article V convention would provide them the opportunity to rewrite the Constitution to codify their agenda which is inconsistent with the Constitution.

Not missing an opportunity:
Flag Day Celebration Set for St Mary’s Hall in Westville vermilioncountyfirst.com/2022/06/08/fla… A speech re the Convention of States movement in #Illinois followed by Q&A. Later there will be a showing of Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “2000 Mules.”
In a church?
#NoConCon

America has not had a Constitutional Convention since 1787. The result then was a blessing. But holding a new convention today could end up being disastrous for the nation. This article explains why. thenewamerican.com/article-v-conv… #NoConCon

Convention of States group violated campaign law montanafreepress.org/2022/06/20/con… the conservative super PAC failed to disclose spending in Republican legislative primaries. #NoConCon

Hoover Institutions' Thomas Sowell: “If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”kansasreflector.com/2022/06/28/in-… #NoConCon

Conservative PAC accused of violating Montana campaign law, and referred for prosecution, pushes back legalnewsline.com/stories/627993… Convention of States Political Fund accused of violating Montana campaign finance law by not properly registering for its political activity #NoConCon

Pro-life Victory, 2nd Amendment Defeat Prove DC Still the Swamp newsmax.com/markmeckler/da… "Overturning #RoeVWade gave us a TASTE of the good that comes from restoring federalism..calling a Convention of States we can keep the string of successes going...ONCE AND FOR ALL." #NoConCon

1/ Rick wants what? post-gazette.com/opinion/letter… Santorum demands American state legislators call a convention of states to amend the US constitution without specifying what amendments he has in mind #NoConCon

2/ "Sure, let’s get a group of gerrymandered, #CitizensUnited funded legislators from various states decide that #abortion is illegal in the US, all people have a right to any weaponry that they want, and gay marriage and contraceptives are illegal." #NoConCon

1/ Republicans Who Oppose a Convention of States Are a Fringe Minority pjmedia.com/news-and-polit… According to a new poll from Convention of States Action (COSA) and the Trafalgar Group, 81.3% of Republicans support a Convention of States.
#NoConCon

2/ "While SCOTUS slowly and methodically curtails the powers of the administrative states, (COSA President) Meckler believes a Convention of States will act more like a sledgehammer to the foundations of the bureaucratic regime." #NoConCon

1) NRB, the world’s largest association of Christian communicators, announced the addition of 36 organizations and individuals as NRB members in the first two quarters of 2022 nrb.org/articles/nrb-w…
new member: Convention of States Action
new Associate Member: Newsmax

2) NRB is an "international association of Christian communicators whose member organizations represent millions of listeners, viewers, and readers...To protect the free speech rights of our members to speak Biblical truth...providing networking and relational opportunities."

3) This reminds me of the MISUSED confidential church information in the documentary - People You May Know

1/ Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention exposedbycmd.org/2022/07/31/vot… via @EXPOSEDbyCMD "For America’s reactionary Right, a constitutional convention offers their best shot at locking in minority control for generations to come." #NoConCon

2/ "moneyed special interest groups and reactionary politicians whose views diverge dramatically from those of most Americans will most likely control any modern-day convention,” #NoConCon

3/ “That makes the stakes for who controls Congress after the 2022 midterms extremely high. Who gets to decide how to rewrite the Constitution could have an even greater impact on the future of this nation than who gets to pick Supreme Court justices.” #NoConCon

(1) Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win. businessinsider.com/constitutional… "It's a brilliant strategy for controlling a political agenda for quite some time," #NoConCon

(2) "The conservative movement isn't resting on the laurels of its victories in the Supreme Court arena but is aggressively pioneering new frontiers to reshape every aspect of American law and society." #NoConCon

Trump-tied conservatives are 15 states away from an unprecedented rewrite of the Constitution businessinsider.com/constitutional… "Republicans pushing for a convention are playing the long game, similar to how they spent decades working to overturn SCOTUS's Roe v. Wade decision." #NoConCon

Republican State Legislators Have an Ominous Plan to Rewrite the US Constitution truthout.org/articles/repub… via @truthout Project "started with Lewis Powell’s infamous Memo in 1971 and gained serious traction through the late 70s and into the 80s of the Reagan Revolution." #NoConCon

Will Republicans pushing for a Constitutional Convention succeed? newsweek.com/constitutional… "it is certainly possible to imagine that enough states would support a Constitutional Convention"
#NoConCon

"Where we have strong authoritarian tendencies emerging, we have structures in place that might give those authoritarian tendencies the ability to gain power and increasingly gain power. The Constitutional Convention might very well facilitate that." #NoConCon

1/ Republicans have a plan to change the Constitution — and it just may work rawstory.com/constitution-g…
"It would effectively turn America into a feudal state owned by the people FDR called the “economic royalists.”
.#DontBeConned #NoConCon

2/ Billionaires and the groups they fund are working to rewrite our Constitution to benefit "corporations and the rich while chopping away at anything smelling of “socialism” like Social Security or child labor laws that could tax billionaires or reduce their profits."
#NoConCon

3/ "The billionaire right’s behavior today eerily parallels the day in 1936 when Roosevelt said, “In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.” #DontBeConned #NoConCon

Republicans spend big in efforts to change U.S. Constitution pressherald.com/?p=6685085 Conservatives pushing for a ConCon "have been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in state legislative primaries to elect GOP lawmakers sympathetic to their cause." #NoConCon

Conservative push to alter Constitution focuses on primaries kearneyhub.com/ap/national/co… more than $600K spent earlier this year by Convention of States Action and its affiliates in GOP primaries to "elect sympathetic lawmakers who could add more states to its column" #NoConCon