I'm Gen Z: If the GOP wants my vote, stop the speeches and fix the housing crisis

Im going to Dallas next week to attend the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention. I'm not going for the merch and not for the parties. Im going because Republicans are about to get two nights of primetime television, the first midterm political convention in American history, and if we waste that stage just talking to ourselves, we will deserve a Blue Wave on Election Day, November 3.

Let me say the quiet part at full volume: We are running against a Democratic Party that has stopped pretending. Democratic socialists are winning primaries, and their platform is not "more Medicaid." It is a new constitution, public ownership of the economy, and the end of the United States Senate. 

President Trump has called members of the DSA communists, and he wasnt being cute. If we lose Congress to that coalition, it will not be because America secretly wanted commissars. It will be because we could not look a 20-year-old like me in the eye and tell him why our side will let him buy a house, keep a paycheck, and speak without getting hurt.

REPUBLICAN PARTY TO HOST HISTORIC MIDTERM CONVENTION IN DALLAS, TRUMP ANNOUNCES ON TRUTH SOCIAL

Gen Z is not a lost cause. Young men already moved toward the GOP in 2024. Housing is their number-one issue, and the cost of living is the countrys number-one issue. They do not care about our process stories. They care whether this country still works for people who were not born holding a down payment.

So here is what I want to hear from that stage at American Airlines Center: Highlight the wins that are real, and stop burying them under slogans.

The border is not a vibe. Illegal crossings collapsed, catch-and-release is dead, and net migration went negative for the first time in half a century. Fentanyl deaths dropped more than 20 percent in a year. That is not "tough talk." That is fewer dead classmates.

REPUBLICANS CAN WIN THE MIDTERMS IF THEY JUST STOP UNDERSELLING SUCCESS

The Working Families Tax Cuts made the 2017 rates permanent, with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, Trump Accounts for kids, and a bigger Child Tax Credit. That is money that stays with a bartender, a welder or a nurse working a double. Do not assume young voters already know, because their algorithm has been feeding them the opposite story.

School choice is expanding, hostages came home, and factories are being announced again. And when we remember Charlie Kirk, who was killed on a campus last September for doing the one thing Gen Z actually respects—showing up and arguing in public—it should not be a 90-second tribute and a cut to commercial. His death is the argument. If a 31-year-old can be shot for debating college kids, free speech is not a branding exercise. It is a survival issue.

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