Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Royce White, who has spent funds from past campaigns on strip clubs and personal luxuries, has been invited to address the NDGOP's 2026 state convention.

The convention pin era roughly coincided with the early years of the internet. National Journal’s website was for a time known as PoliticsNow, and the editors used pins to increase its name recognition among journalists and political hangers-on circa 1996.