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DALLAS – A website that claimed to be associated with the Republican Party\u2019s midterm convention happening in Dallas next week was taken offline Friday.<\/p>\n
The move came after visitors to gopdallas2026.com were redirected to the Justice Department\u2019s online library of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n
The website carrying the Republican Party\u2019s initials is one of the first to appear in Google\u2019s results when searching for the phrase “gop midterm convention.”<\/p>\n
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A screengrab of gopdallas2026.com dated Aug. 27, 2026. (Wayback Machine \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n
As recently as Monday, the site featured an image of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, where the convention is being held. The AAC was surrounded by fireworks and had a banner with the likeness of President Donald Trump on the front.<\/p>\n
On Friday, people took to social media with images and videos showing that visitors to the site were being redirected.<\/p>\n
By Friday afternoon, the site was offline and had a message that read: “This site is currently private.”<\/p>\n
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A screengrab dated Sept. 4, 2026, showing gopdallas2026.com had been taken offline. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fake. So what\u2019s the real site? <\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
The site in question seems to have gone live in July, according to captures by the Wayback Machine. Turns out, it was a fake site.<\/p>\n
The Republican Party\u2019s official site for the Dallas convention is gopconvention.com<\/a>, and has been around for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n Neither the Republican National Committee nor the Republican Party of Texas have responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine and social media.<\/p>\n Politics<\/a>Texas<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>News<\/a>Election<\/a>2026 Elections<\/a>Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – A website that claimed to be associated with the Republican Party\u2019s midterm convention happening in Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,409,3485,223,287,216,395,393],"class_list":["post-426527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-election","tag-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tx","tag-tx-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}