PATRIOT'S GUIDE TO CITIZEN ACTION
What You Can Do for Your Country
Voice your opinion
Learn
Support
Practice Self Governance and Good Citizenship
- Write Letters to the Editor
- Comment online on news stories, blogs, book reviews
- Contact your elected officials
- Call radio shows
- Get on Facebook and share conservative ideas
- Start a Blog. It is SO EASY. You can be blogging in two minutes.
- Discuss issues rationally with your friends, neighbors, co-workers
- Attend local Board Meetings and voice your opinion during public comment
- If you drive by someone with a conservative bumper sticker, give them honk or a thumbs up.
- If you see someone in a parking lot with a conservative t-shirt or bumper sticker, strike up a conversation
- Cheer loudly when a conservative speaks at a public meeting
- Vote
- Come to a Tea Party event or meeting
- Share your books
- Borrow a book from the Outer Banks Tea Party Library
- Start a book club
- Get involved with a candidate's campaign that shares your values (distribute bumper sticker, canvas, phone bank)
- Get involved with the local political party for Get Out the Vote efforts
- Stay on top of events of neighboring tea party groups like Hampton Roads Tea Party and Carolina Coastal Taxpayers Association
- Attend national rallies in Washington DC
Learn
- Learn how to use new media on American Majority's website through free podcasts, user guides and tutorials
- Take a Leadership Institute Seminar through Tea Party Patriots (Win Elections, Raise Money, Impact Government)
- Watch Glenn Beck
- Read and memorize the Constitution (get one free at Heritage Foundation)
- Listen to conservative talk radio
- Set up Google Alerts to be alerted when news stories or blog posts with certain keywords are posted online
- Sign up for Civitas' free newsletter
- Get the free publication from Hillsdale College Imprimis.
- Find out how your Representatives voted: NC, US Congress
- Understand how our government works on our Learn Page
- Learn about state issues through Civitas' White Papers
- Stay on top of the latest polling North Carolina races and issues, Governor's Races U. S. Senate, U. S. Congress
- Read local, state and national conservative news and blogs online. Read the comments, too. Some of our favorites are Carolina Journal, Hot Air, Red State, Truth or Dare, The Right Scoop, Conservative NC, Katy's Conservative Corner, Civitas Review Online
Support
- Support local organizations that reflect your values
- Support candidates that share your values
- Support think tanks and other liberty organizations in your state and nationally such as Civitas and John Locke Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, Freedomworks and Heritage Foundation
Practice Self Governance and Good Citizenship
- Get out of debt
- Don't take government handouts
- Practice your faith
- Exercise your Second Amendment rights
- Volunteer
- Practice what you preach