THIS IS HUGE!

Folks, it is really happening. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party just did something Republicans have never done before. They turned the 2026 midterms into a full-blown national convention in Dallas, Texas. Yes, a midterm convention. Now, apparently, President Trump looked at the traditional Republican strategy of politely losing congressional seats every four years and said, you know what? We're not going to do that anymore. But here's where this gets hilarious. Trump isn't even on the ballot. And yet, he's speaking both nights. J.D. Vance is there. Scott Passant is there. Republican candidates are pouring into the American Airlines Center. Now, this thing looks less like a midterm strategy meeting and more like somebody accidentally scheduled the Republican National Convention two years early. Meanwhile, Democrats are staring at control of Congress, okay? Hakeem Jeffries, he could become Speaker if Democrats capture the House. And Jamie Raskin is still publicly talking about impeachment as a constitutional tool, because apparently, two Trump impeachments were not enough. Well, Washington ordered the unlimited refill. Excuse me, sir, would you like another impeachment? Oh, yes, absolutely. And bring some subpoenas for the table, please. We're breaking down what's really happening in Dallas, why Germany suddenly belongs in this story, what John Thune is doing, and what President Trump's unprecedented gamble could reshape the political fight heading into November. So, go ahead and subscribe, because this circus apparently has a sequel. Oh, and by the way, if you need free Medicare help through Chapter, check out the description down below. I left their phone number and a link, 909-563-8279. Call them right now. You've been thinking about it. And of course, if you enjoyed the show, leave me a like on the way out. Appreciate you. So, folks, it's official. It's really happening. For the first time ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, Republicans are holding a full-blown national convention for a midterm election right now, this week, in Dallas, in Dallas, Texas. So, it's happening at the American Airlines Center, 20,000 seats, Trump speaking both nights. Let that sink in, guys. Midterms usually get a yard sign and a prayer at best. This year, this one's getting a full production. So, here's a question that should really be bugging you right now. Why? President Trump's not on the ballot. There's no nomination to hand out. There's no trophy at the end. So, why build a presidential-sized spectacle around an election where his name isn't even printed anywhere? Something's up. Something's really up here. And Washington, bless their hearts, they still haven't figured it out. But we're about to. Oh, and by the way, guys, this is exactly why I created the Ron Yates Report, because Washington, they can go ahead and spend $40 million on balloons and speeches and flashing lights and sparklers and whatnot, enough political theater to make Broadway jealous. But the expense of show isn't necessarily the important part. The important part is what happens after the show, what changes, what could affect your money, your retirement, your investments, your business, or simply what Washington decides to do next. And that's what I break down in the Ron Yates Report, what happened, why it matters, and most importantly, what I'm watching next. Now, think of it as leaving the political circus with the information instead of just the souvenir cup. Now, if you want that informational advantage, there's a link in the description down below where you can join the Ron Yates Report. So, here's the answer. And it's almost too simple. Trump, he could sit this one out. I mean, let Congress fight its own battles, play golf. I mean, he's got a beautiful course. In fact, he's got a handful of beautiful courses. Nobody would even blame an 80-year-old man for taking it easy. Instead, two keynote speeches, nonstop campaigning, full send. Because here's the real math nobody's saying out loud. President Trump, he can turn out Trump voters. Can Republicans turn out Trump voters without Trump on the ballot? That's the entire experiment. So, he's actually trying to hand his own energy to a hundred different candidates like as a chain letter. Pass it on. Trump said, come here. Pass it on. Trump said, you're invited. Pass it on. You know what I'm saying? Like ambitious and exhausting, possibly brilliant. We're going to find out in November. But one thing is for sure. The man's not doing this because he's bored. Now, let's go ahead and talk about the real enemy hiding inside the GOP's own living room. It's not Hakeem Jeffries. It's not Jamie Raskin. And well, it's apathy. That's right, guys. Some Trump voters are tired. Iran's got them stressed. Prices still sting. And Washington Republicans haven't exactly been sprinting to get things done. More of a kind of like a light jog, not even a brisk jog. I mean, like if we're being generous here, some folks are muttering midterms, they don't matter, sir, ma'am. Somebody forgot to tell the Republican Party that because they just built a 20,000 seat convention like it's the Super Bowl. Nobody throws a party this big for an event that just doesn't matter. OK, clearly here's the danger. Those frustrated voters, they don't need to become Democrats to hurt the GOP. They just need to stay on the couch. Remember the whole apathy thing I was mentioning and staying home? That's not a protest. This is a gift wrapped victory for the other side. Now, a quick favor before we go any further. Think of that one friend who keeps saying midterms. They don't really matter. Send them this video right now. Let Dallas do the arguing for you. OK, so what happens if Republicans do stay home? Enter Jamie Raskin. So, Raskin's out there describing impeachment like it's a garden tool, casually just kind of mentioning it like just a just a critical tool in the toolbox. Real relaxed, like like he's not talking about removing a sitting president of the United States of America, just maybe trimming a hedge. Now, folks, Trump's already been impeached twice, twice. All right. This is not a toolbox anymore. This is a full workshop with Raskin's name engraved on the door. And we saw what happened last time. He incited a mob to storm the Capitol to attack his own vice president and Congress. We impeached him in the House and we could get only seven Republican senators to join us. We were ten short again because of Mitch McConnell. So you don't support impeachment. You think it would be a waste of time? No, impeachment is not a taboo with us. It's not a fetish with us. We understand it's not a panacea. It is a tool in the toolbox. We will not hesitate to use it if we need to use it. But we also understand the framers gave it to Congress rather than the Supreme Court because they wanted us to contextualize impeachment in the whole sphere of things we got to deal with, like getting health care back to our people. Because they've thrown millions of people off their health care with the Medicaid cuts and the destruction of the ACA tax credits. Do you believe that President Trump has committed impeachable offenses at this point? Undoubtedly, we don't have time to remotely scratch the surface, but going to war without a declaration of war, for example, continually defying Congress in terms of our appropriation of money, stealing our spending power from us. I mean, I would say even just bulldozing the East Wing of the White House, if he can bulldoze the East Wing, he can bulldoze the West Wing. He believes that he is a king. They've been plundering money from our government in the most massively corrupt presidential administration in American history. I mean, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, brought back billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the other corrupt oil monarchies. They are engaged in all kinds of insider political trading. So, here's the honest question. Are you ready for impeachment? The trilogy? Because if Hollywood won't stop making sequels nobody asked for, why would Congress? At least Marvel gives you some popcorn. So, here's the part that actually matters more than any single headline. This isn't Trump vs. Raskin. This is just the appetizer. The real prize? Congress itself. If Democrats win the House, Hakeem Jeffries doesn't just get a nicer office, he gets the gavel, committee chairs, subpoenas, investigations on tap like a soda machine. So now, before anybody panics, a House majority can impeach, it cannot convict. That still takes two-thirds of the Senate and last time around, Democrats couldn't even scrape together enough Republicans to get there. So, no, Jeffries doesn't get some magic wand but he does get something almost as good. Two years of subpoenas and hearings and cameras aimed squarely at President Trump's final stretch. This is not governing, guys. This is a very expensive reality show and America's already sat through enough seasons of that one. The plan is for accountability. Now, I know a lot about impeachment because I prosecuted the first impeachment trial. I sat on the floor of the Senate in my first term in Congress and made the case to those senators. I looked in their eye and I said, Donald Trump is a danger. He is not qualified. He's not competent. And he's corrupt. They didn't listen to me then, even though there are plenty of warning signs. So, impeachment is one tool of many. And I'm less concerned about, you know, the specific tools. And I won't hesitate to use that tool if we need to. But what we have to do is look at what's available and what's going to deliver results for accountability. That's what I'm concerned about. So now, let's talk memory, okay? Because voters, they don't just vote on promises. They vote on what they can remember. Remember the border basically running itself for four years? Anybody remember that? Remember watching legal immigrants, you know, the ones who did every form, waited every year, followed every rule, essentially lapped by the people who just walked in and hopped the fence? You guys remember COVID-era rules telling you what you could say and where you could go and who you could see, maybe even getting Facebook jailed? Yeah, this is not an ancient history. This is last election's homework. In President Trump's betting, you didn't lose the assignment. This is exactly why border security is front and center at this Dallas convention, not as a talking point, but as a receipt. Because nothing motivates a voter quite like remembering exactly how it felt to have zero say in any of it. Now, let's do a quick history lesson, okay? Buckle up, guys. Impeachment, you know? Then another impeachment. Charlottesville, James Comey fired. January 6th, replayed on loop for four straight years like a bad sitcom rerun. And who was narrating all of it night after night? Yeah. You remember Joy Reid and Chuck Todd, Don Lemon, Nora O'Donnell, Lester Holt, Alex Wagner, Mehdi Hasan, Stephen Colbert. Yeah. Plus, you had PBS and Media Matters cheering from the sidelines like it was a home game. Now, quick trivia, guys. Where are most of these names today? Not anchoring much of anything. Nobody made that happen personally. The audience just wandered off politely, quietly, kind of like leaving a party that got boring around hour three. Two impeachments, firing James Comey, the suckers and losers hoax, Charlottesville, the perfect phone call, COVID, the 2020 election, January 6th, peacefully and patriotically. And the fake news used all of that to attack Donald Trump on a daily basis. Their goal, delegitimize Donald Trump, but most importantly, make sure that Donald Trump is never elected president again. They tried their best. They tried every day, but they failed. Donald Trump was reelected. News organizations that were never news organizations who spent years lying about Donald Trump are just suddenly gone. Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Don Lemon, Nora O'Donnell, Lester Holt, PBS, Alex Wagner, Mehdi Hasan, Stephen Colbert, Media Matters. Donald Trump has finally broken the fake news, a project that started in 2015. He has exposed them for what they are and what they have always been to you. Meanwhile, President Trump's back in the Oval Office. So maybe, just maybe, spending a decade calling the guy every name in the book wasn't the knockout punch that they thought it was. Turns out reruns get canceled eventually. So now, I want to go ahead and hop across the pond because Germany just did something delicious. For years, closing borders and controlling immigration got you called extreme, fringe, scary. But then Germany, they went and elected a party, the AFD, running almost word for word on border security and deportations. Not fringe anymore, mainstream winning. It's funny how that works. Here in America, say secure the border and somehow you're the villain in somebody's group chat. Say it in Germany, apparently you can get actual votes. The borders are closed without any gaps and everyone is illegal and without papers, immigrants are being rejected. And a very clear statement to the whole world, the German borders are tight, dear friends, they are tight. The supply of asylum seekers is switched from money to real estate. So here's a real question and it's a very good one. Why are borders and immigration suddenly the hot topic in country after country? Maybe it's not extremism. Maybe it's just people wanting to know who's walking in their own house. I know it's totally a wild concept, truly revolutionary. Here's a name that's been buzzing around, John Thune. Anybody ever heard of John Thune? You know this guy John, right? No, he didn't skip town. Let's be fair, guys. The man's working the sidelines, raising money, doing Senate majority leader stuff behind the curtain, but he's not headlining. Mike Johnson, he's getting the bigger spotlight instead. That, my friends, is the actual story. Because here's what it tells you. MAGA Energy and the traditional Republican establishment, they're not always singing the same karaoke song. President Trump can fill an arena with pure enthusiasm. John Thune has to keep a room full of senators from tripping over each other. Johnson has to herd a House majority that's about as easy to organize as a group text with 40 replies. Three completely different jobs. Three completely different headaches. Same party, same election, same very real pressure not to blow it. Meanwhile, Dallas itself has basically turned into ground zero. The American Airlines Center, guys, 20,000 seats. Security tight enough to make an airport jealous. Protesters are expected. Cameras are going to be everywhere. Here's the bigger fight nobody's talking about. This convention isn't just competing with Democrats. It's competing with everything, really. Football, Netflix, TikTok, whatever your neighbor's dog's doing on Instagram this week. Yeah, politics, like it or not, is now an attention business. And President Trump, love him or hate him, has understood that better than almost anybody else in the game for a decade. This is why this isn't just a convention. This is a spectacle built to outshout an entire nation's scroll button. Good luck, Netflix. You're going to be competing with Listen, this is a once of a lifetime type election season. And listen, I think we're on the cusp of defying history. Only four times in 150 years, the incumbent party has been able to win these midterms. But we have everything we need to do just that. And it's going to start this week in Dallas on the 9th and 10th. It's going to be absolutely amazing. We have 109 different speakers. President Trump anchoring both nights. We have the vice president is going be there. A lot of our candidates and some of these battleground races. But it's really going to give us a chance to tell the story to the American people directly on the message of everything that the president has done well. And that in terms of growing the economy, it means securing the border. It means just all these incredible things versus the contrast that we're going to show against the Democrats. So here's a fear that you're going to hear whispered by somebody in Washington. If Democrats take back power, they come for Elon Musk. But they don't just come for Elon Musk. They come for X. They lean on YouTube to clean house. Notice, that's a fear, not a done deal. Nobody's got a signed order yet. But here's what's already true. No speculation needed. The media doesn't own the microphone anymore. Not like they used to. It's YouTube now. It's X. It's podcasts recorded in somebody's garage that pulls more eyeballs than primetime cable. Even Bitcoin fits the same story. People wanting control back their money, their investments, their voice, their attention, not filtered through six executives in a boardroom. So sure, a midterm convention might get a shrug from network TV. Doesn't matter. It's about to live forever on YouTube. It's about to get clipped a thousand times on X and then reach more people than the six o'clock news ever dreamed of. The megaphone changed hands. Nobody's asking for permission. So here's where it all lands. Working Americans without a college degree, landing some of the best jobs in decades. Legal immigrants who did it right, still remembering who made them wait. Germany proving borders aren't extremely just popular. Jamie Raskin sharing and sharpening his impeachment toolbox. Hakeem Jeffries eyeing the gavel. John Thune working quietly behind the curtain while President Donald Trump owns the spotlight. All of it collides right here in Dallas. Now, President Trump, he's not on the ballot. Let's say it one more time so it sticks. Trump is not on the ballot, guys. And yet, somehow, President Trump speaking two nights, pouring everything that he's got into candidates who aren't even him. So the real question is not whether the arena gets loud. Arenas always get loud, especially when Trump's there. The question is whether that energy survives the from Dallas all the way to a ballot box in November. That's the experiment. Nobody's running before. And folks, that's where we are. It's really happening. It's not a rumor, not a headline exaggeration, an actual unprecedented midterm convention with Trump front and center, even though his own name is not on a single ballot. Jamie Raskin sharpening tools. Look, this is going to be huge. Now, before you go, think of that one person in your life who's checked out, tired, convinced, none of this matters. Send them this video. Not to make them anxious, just to remind them that the fight's not over and that it's happening, and it's not going to happen without them. Now, if today's opened your eyes even a little bit, do me one favor on the way out. Hit the like button. It's totally free. Helps a lot of people to find this video who still have no idea what's unfolding. And folks, here's the thing about Dallas. Eventually, the balloons come down, the politicians go home, the television cameras disappear. And this is usually when the stuff that can actually affect you starts happening. Congress moves, markets react, policies change, companies adjust. And then suddenly, everybody who's watched the big political show is asking, wait, what does this mean for me? That is exactly why I created the Ron Yates Report. Now, I don't want you merely knowing what happened five minutes after everybody else knows it. I want you understanding why it matters and what I'm watching next, especially when the next development could affect your money, your retirement, your business, or even financial decisions. Because knowing yesterday's headline, that's news. Understanding tomorrow's consequences, this is an informational advantage. So, while Washington is busy dropping balloons and congratulating itself for discovering the midterm election, we'll be carefully watching what actually happens when the balloons hit the floor. So, there's a link in the description of this video down below. 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