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This article provides a useful starting point, but it leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Why is a national emergency over election integrity necessary?

One way to understand the political dynamics is to recognize a broad distinction: Republicans tend to focus on money, while Democrats tend to seek power. From that perspective, Republicans often appear willing to sacrifice political power in pursuit of economic objectives, while Democrats are more willing to sacrifice financial considerations to preserve political power because political power ultimately provides access to money, influence, and institutional control.

This helps explain why the Democrats, while remaining in the minority, have strong incentives to preserve the filibuster and resist reforms they believe could further reduce their power. If Democrats regain control of the Senate, they have indicated they would eliminate the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, and renew congressional oversight and investigations into President Trump and his administration.

Republicans meanwhile too often appear willing to “go along to get along.” Without meaningful changes in Senate Republican leadership and strategy, it is difficult to see how the status quo changes—even when Republicans maintain a majority.

President Trump’s approach is fundamentally different. He seeks both money and political power—not for personal benefit, but as tools for advancing his broader goal of Making America Great Again.

His agenda includes tax reform, judicial appointments, trade negotiations, foreign policy, border security, and deregulation. Whatever one’s political perspective, the scope of that agenda demonstrates an effort to use both political and economic leverage to help reshape our country.

That brings us to a more important question: What vehicle could actually implement the plan outlined?

Assuming their facts and analysis are accurate—and assuming Democrats don’t succeed in tying the proposal up in the courts—the Republican National Committee’s upcoming midterm convention provides an important vehicle for turning that plan into tangible action steps.

On September 9–10, the Republican National Committee will hold its first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, headlined by President Donald Trump. The convention could provide a national platform to highlight the benefits of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which Republicans note every Democrat in Congress opposed, along with the administration’s broader MAGA accomplishments. National television coverage should energize Republican voters and strengthen candidates in critical races nationwide.

More importantly, however, the convention could become an opportunity to train, motivate, organize, and fund approximately 20,000 Republican activists from all 50 states around a strategy to implement a clear, step-by-step strategy for ballot security.

That strategy should focus on implementing President Trump’s election-integrity plan state by state while simultaneously building the political organization necessary to advance his policy agenda over the next two years and beyond.

If election integrity truly constitutes a national emergency, simply discussing the problem is not enough. The Republican Party needs a coordinated strategy capable of translating presidential leadership into concrete action at the state and local levels.   The Dallas convention provides precisely the platform needed to begin that effort.