Ahead of the first Republican Midterm Convention, taking place in Dallas next week, a Gen Z conservative commentator has written an opinion piece urging the GOP to focus its convention messaging on practical economic concerns rather than political rhetoric. The author argues that Republicans risk losing young voters, and potentially Congress, to an increasingly radical Democratic Socialist movement unless they can convincingly show how their policies help young people afford housing, keep more of their earnings, and speak freely.

The piece highlights achievements the author wants emphasised on the convention stage, including reduced illegal border crossings, a drop in fentanyl deaths, and tax measures such as no tax on tips or overtime. It also calls for concrete pledges on expanding housing supply, banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, promoting trade schools as an alternative to university debt, and treating the killing of activist Charlie Kirk on a campus last September as a serious argument for protecting free speech, rather than a brief tribute.