Indian Gaming Association

Guess who pops up in this article? The New York Post recently reported about a failed attempt at a collaboration in 2025 between Tarek Mansour, he's the co-founder of Kalshi, and Victor Rocha.

Our protagonist, the conference chair at the Indian Gaming Association, who you might have seen us reference on Twitter.

He's a leading anti-prediction antagonist on social media who has boasted about curb stomping Kalshi with no mercy.

Last month, Roka derided a coffee boy that he said was sent by Kalshi to court potential new tribal partners at a professional conference in Las Vegas.

That's why tribes have collaborated with state attorneys general to regulate the gaming space themselves by suing prediction market companies.

Jason Giles, a tribal citizen of the Muskegee Creek Nation and executive director of the Indian Gaming Association, spoke on stage during the conference and said, they really don't like when tribes point out that for 40 years, even before that, We had to fight all the way to the Supreme Court just to get bingo.

Recently, the 6th and 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Nevada, Ohio, and Tennessee to regulate prediction markets.

That said, there are plenty of, uh, suppliers and vendors who supply and, and vend with, uh, prediction markets who are here, um, which I think is a little bit of a gray area, but n- you know, not mine to determine.

Um, I would say, in general, uh, the tenor of this is, is what IGA was in... or Indian Gaming Association was in the spring, which is we're banding together, and we are fighting against prediction markets, and no opportunity has been lost for pump fists, fist pumps, um, for the Ninth and the Sixth Circuits in the last few weeks.

Right.

Yeah, I guess, uh, there certainly, the anti-prediction market crowd has some very positive momentum with regard to the way almost every court ruling has gone, uh, [chuckles] of late.

The bill also blocks states and tribal nations from enforcing their own laws on the books to protect their citizens from getting scammed.

The president of the Indian Gaming Association calls this bill, quote, "The greatest threat to tribal sovereignty in a generation." This is not what the American people want.

They want Congress to do something about the affordability crisis.

They want an end to Trump's war in Iran.

The bill also blocked states and tribal nations from enforcing their own laws on the books to protect their citizens from getting scammed.

The president of the Indian Gaming Association calls this bill, quote, the greatest threat to tribal sovereignty in a generation.

This is not what the American people want.

They want Congress to do something about the affordability crisis.

Other trade groups have opposed Tuesday's vote, at least without further revision to the bill.

The Indian Gaming Association called for provisions limiting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ability to let prediction market operators offer sports event contracts, while a bipartisan multi-state coalition of state attorneys generals said the bill would unduly restrict their ability to bring enforcement actions tied to online scams under the SEC provisions.

The major banking associations, for their own part, continued to call for revisions to stablecoin yield and reward language ahead of any vote.

So there's a lot of headwind on Clarity, and we'll know at sometime early this afternoon what the hell, at least on the Eastern Seaboard, exactly what the hell's gonna happen with that.