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Trump Opens GOP Midterm Convention as Super-PAC Tops $400M

9/10/2026

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Trump Opens GOP Convention

The Republican Party held its first midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9-10, 2026.
Party leaders say the convention aims to rally low-propensity voters for the upcoming midterm elections across the nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered the opening keynote address on Sept. 9, 2026, emphasizing party unity.
The GOP super-PAC reported over $400 million in cash to fund campaign efforts nationwide.

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Texas Revives Populism

The Republican Party held its first midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9-10, 2026.
Coverage frames the convention as occurring while Texas’s overlooked left-populist history is being revived to mobilize working-class voters.
David Griscom says Texas’s labor and socialist past, like 1880s fence-cutting strikes, has been hidden.
Building a left-populist coalition in working-class communities is essential to counter Republican dominance, Griscom argues.

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Historical Context

Governor John Ireland deployed Texas militia in 1886 to crush the Fence Cutting War, a barbed-wire conflict that had cost an estimated $20 million and threatened ranches and railroads. That state-level mobilization echoes the 2026 Republican midterm summit in Dallas, where Donald Trump will keynote and a GOP super-PAC has raised $400 million to rally voters against David Griscom’s left-populist surge.

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Trump Opens GOP Convention

The Republican Party held its first midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9-10, 2026.
Party leaders say the convention aims to rally low-propensity voters for the upcoming midterm elections across the nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered the opening keynote address on Sept. 9, 2026, emphasizing party unity.
The GOP super-PAC reported over $400 million in cash to fund campaign efforts nationwide.

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