Thread by @ExposingALEC

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

https://twitter.com/ExposingALEC/status/1314874416002719744?s=20&t=SCp-0LBa06sQdoPT150uoQ

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

"For years, Convention of States Action has been a staple of the conservative political scene. But its engagement in primary campaigns marks an escalation at a time when parts of the conservative movement are testing the limits of the nation’s political rulebook"

"“They have gone out of their way to set up a web of dark money groups to obscure where the money is coming from and evade reporting requirements,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy"

EXCLUSIVE: Santorum: Mar-A-Lago Raid Is Another Reason For A Convention Of States dailycaller.com/2022/08/16/san… via @|dailycaller
“This is going to become the norm if we don’t do something to take power out of Washington"

Sure, Rick. Keep pushing hyper-partisanship #NoConCon

1/ A MAGA Convention of States americanthinker.com/articles/2022/…

You might ask "Why fear a Constitution of States?"

Well, "the GOP is a now a MAGA party, and a MAGA CoS should amend the Constitution to..."

#DontBeConned #NoConCon

2/ ...Address immigration. Among the proposals:

"Require the federal government to remove all unlawfully present foreigners and require full state and local government compliance with these efforts."

3/ ...Mandate Originalism: "The words and phrases of this Constitution shall be interpreted according to their meaning at the time of their enactment...nor shall such meaning be altered by reference to the law of nations or the laws of other nations."

4/ ...Limit the number of Supreme Court justices to 9,

Deconstruct the administrative state,

Return the Interstate Commerce Clause to its historic (i.e., textual) understanding,

Empower states to repeal federal laws,

Restrict the Federal Reserve to a price stability mandate

Could the government soon control our purchases? Australia proves it’s possible conventionofstates.com/news/could-the… "Americans recognize that #Australia became a government-dependent nation when their right to bear arms was confiscated...the start of tyrannical leadership in the government"

Dems Need to Win State Elections to Save the Constitution thedailybeast.com/democrats-need… With Republicans mounting attacks on voting rights and abortion while expanding gerrymandering, it's not surprising that a constitutional convention is now a part of the GOP playbook #NoConCon

Republicans spend big in efforts to change U.S. Constitution pressherald.com/?p=6685085 Defeated 5-term South Dakota State Sen. Mary Duvall (R) was targeted not for her stance on sex education but for her opposition to...force a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution." #NoConCon

1/ There's a 50-50 chance states will call for a constitutional convention within 5 years: conservative legal scholar businessinsider.com/constitutional… via @BusinessInsider (h/t @TheRynheart)
"It's going to depend a little bit on the results of the 2022 midterms,"
#NoConCon

2/ "we may not even be in an absolute majority when it comes to the people who agree with us, but because of the way the concentration of votes has changed in this country, we can actually accomplish things"- Rick Santorum at #ALEC
exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/21/the… #NoConCon

3/ "every…leftist group in America that stands for the destruction of America, the destruction of babies in the womb, the destruction of life itself...They hate America, they want to destroy America...” - Mark Meckler, president of COSA at #ALEC

Republicans want to rewrite the Constitution to limit federal power but a former senator says a 'runaway' convention could spell danger for health care, education, and the environment businessinsider.com/republicans-co… via @BusinessInsider

1) 'Everyone should be frightened': Historian waves red flag over far-right plans to alter the Constitution rawstory.com/far-right-cons… "it’s mostly wealthy right-wing funders who have bankrolled the organized effort to foist one upon the country"w/ #Koch & #Mercer support. #NoConCon

2) "...frightened about the damage that even the run-up to such a convention would do to the body politic... The extraordinary American experiment in the self-government of an open society that has endured for over 230 years will be in never-before-experienced peril," #NoConCon

The Risk of the Right-Wing Push to Rewrite the Constitution thebulwark.com/the-risk-of-th… Convention of States has received large grants from the Mercer family and funders in the #KochNetwork. Koch-backed #ALEC has been pushing for a gathering to amend the Constitution #NoConCon

1/ Warnings Mount Over Right-Wing Plot to Rewrite US Constitution commondreams.org/news/2022/09/1… "factions of the right are not satisfied to wait for the court to reinterpret the constitution. Instead, they have set their sights on literally rewriting our foundational document."

1/ Ruling the US supreme court isn’t enough. The right wants to amend the constitution theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Why bother with constitutional interpretation when you can change the actual text? #NoConCon

2/ "their radical aims quite clear: to disassemble modern government and the century-old New Deal consensus...an opportunity for the right to try to ban #abortion in this country, to further whittle down #votingrights and to enshrine their interpretation of the second amendment"

Meckler and Bannon discuss structural fixes & taking down the administrative state conventionofstates.com/news/watch-mec… “We need to say constitutionally, no, the federal government may not be involved in education, or health care or energy or the environment."

WRONG! #DontBeConned #NoConCon

Rewriting our Constitution: Why the wet dream of Billionaires to cripple democracy is nearly a reality milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/… "It would effectively turn America into a feudal state owned by the people FDR called the “economic royalists.” #NoConCon

New Constitutional Convention a bad idea bit.ly/3dKejJ4
"these guys aren’t Washington, Adams and Franklin. They are fronts for dark money and Trump election deniers. They have the ethics of toilet paper and the brains of boll weevils."
#NoConCon #DontBeConned

Mark Levin: There’s nothing more worth the fight than a Convention of States, God's on our side conventionofstates.com/news/mark-levi… "the movement against the Deep State...There’s tens of millions of Americans that are fed up and ready to act. Most importantly, God is behind us"🤦‍♂️
#NoConCon

Convention of States Action statement re an investigation into #DeSantis' immigration stunt:

"Under Joe Biden, the federal government has become a political, pseudo-authoritarian weapon utilized against the president’s enemies."

And people believe it.
conventionofstates.com/news/feds-laun…

Convention of States quick to frame #DeSantis after his win in Florida:
America’s Governor Reelected In Landslide Victory conventionofstates.com/news/america-s…

I hope he follows in the footsteps of America's Mayor...
And how long has it been since America's Team won a Super Bowl?

Convention of States Dismissed courthousenews.com/convention-of-… A Texas federal judge tossed an attempt by two Texas Republicans to require Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and other federal officials to host a “Convention of the States” that would allow for amendments of the U.S. Constitution