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The victory in New Mexico’s governor’s race of former president Joe Biden’s interior secretary, Deb Haaland—who famously invoked “indigenous knowledge” to ban oil drilling—presents a major challenge to the state’s sizable oil and gas industry that Haaland, a fierce environmentalist, has vowed to dismantle.
Haaland’s election was cheered by liberals and representation advocates as “historic” because she is the first Native American woman elected to a U.S. governorship. But her election may be more significant in what it represents for the energy industry in New Mexico, the country’s second-largest oil-producing state and third-largest natural gas producer.
“As Interior secretary, Deb Haaland restricted access to energy resources and increased regulatory burdens on American oil and gas producers,” said Jason Isaac, the CEO of the right-leaning American Energy Institute. “Now she will lead America’s second-largest oil-producing state, where energy production supports jobs and funds essential public services.”
“The question is whether Haaland will sacrifice New Mexico’s economy to undermine President Trump’s broader energy agenda,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. “New Mexico’s workers and families cannot afford to become collateral damage in a political fight over American energy.”
Haaland—who spearheaded vast oil and gas drilling bans while serving in the Biden administration—didn’t shy away from rhetoric promising to dismantle oil and gas development during her campaign. She vowed, for example, to set the state on a pathway to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and “go all in on” green energy.
Her Republican opponent, by contrast, promised to back New Mexico’s oil and gas industry and said the state “depends on” the industry. If the state were to scale back oil and gas production as Haaland promised, it would dramatically decrease energy supplies nationwide at a time when the country’s supplies are already strained and prices have surged.
Overall, according to federal data, New Mexico accounts for about 15 percent of total oil production nationwide and 8 percent of total natural gas production. Last year, the industry generated $13.1 billion in state revenue, which was directed to government services and schools. New Mexico’s legislature said the industry plays a “critical role” in the state’s economy.
Haaland’s campaign rhetoric mirrors how she led the Department of the Interior as its secretary between 2021 and 2025.
Haaland notably implemented a sweeping moratorium on federal oil and gas leasing, gutted the nation’s offshore oil drilling program and banned such drilling in all waters except the Gulf of Mexico, prohibited oil drilling across 41 million acres of federal lands, and slashed oil drilling permits by 84 percent.
When Haaland banned drilling across millions of acres in some of America’s most oil-rich land in Alaska, she cited “indigenous knowledge” and said that climate change is “warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet.”
Perhaps most notably, Haaland issued a 50-year mining and oil drilling ban across thousands of acres in northern New Mexico to protect “important cultural and natural resources” and issued a 20-year oil drilling ban across hundreds of thousands of acres near the Chaco Culture National Historic Park in northwestern New Mexico.
The Chaco ban drew the particular ire of New Mexicans, including members of the Navajo Nation tribe who rely on oil leasing for royalties that help them afford basic necessities. The tribe—which has clashed with Haaland’s rival Laguna Pueblo tribe over the matter—ultimately sued her over the action, arguing it would decrease tribal revenue by millions of dollars and drive many of its members into poverty.
A government watchdog group eventually filed an ethics complaint with the Department of Interior’s inspector general, noting that Haaland’s daughter personally lobbied for federal officials to pursue such a ban. And Congress separately launched its own investigation into the matter.
An oil industry executive with experience in New Mexico’s vast energy industry said that Haaland “for the past decade has defined her career by opposing oil and gas production.” “She’s now going to have to face the reality that voters want affordable gasoline, and she can’t stand in the way,” the executive added.
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When Democrats investigate the administration — and they will — Republicans shouldn’t lift a finger to defend corruption, greed, or influence-peddling.

On Monday’s PBS News Hour, Fred de Sam Lazaro reported from the Twin Cities on what co-anchor Amna Nawaz solemnly described in her introduction as “a surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric and xenophobia in political ads and speeches” as the midterms loom, as part of the program’s occasional “Race Matters” series.Amna Nawaz: ….Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro brings us a report on some of the targets of that language and the impact it’s having….Imam Abdulahi Farah, Dar Al-Farooq Mosque Islamic Center: People are choosing tribalism over humanity. Immigrants are blamed. Muslims are blamed. Black and brown communities are blamed.Fred de Sam Lazaro: During a recent prayer service at the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque Islamic Center outside Minneapolis, Imam Abdulahi Farah had a pointed message, both for politicians and his own community….Even while admitting inconvenient facts about the Somali community in Minnesota, the reporter can’t seem to treat the community as other than passive, possibly innocent participants. Meanwhile, cynical Republicans pounce!de Sam Lazaro: Minnesota’s Somali population has been in the national spotlight since last year amid a series of massive fraud scandals. But the community is now again under intense scrutiny over a rash of gun violence that authorities blamed on gangs of young Somali men. Minnesota Republicans seized on the events.After lamenting Trump having “singled out Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar” for Justice Department investigation, PBS played defense once again for Michigan’s radical Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.PBS News Hour’s Fred de Sam Lazaro defends El-Sayed: “But this election cycle, the president and his allies have widened their attacks on Muslim candidates…In particular, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, linking him without evidence to extremist groups.” https://t.co/6OhMZU2QDx— Clay Waters 🇮🇱 (@claywaters44) November 3, 2026de Sam Lazaro: But this election cycle, the president and his allies have widened their attacks on Muslim candidates.Campaign ad narrator: Abdul raises money from dangerous people who finance terrorist networks. And his family has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida.de Sam Lazaro: In particular, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, linking him without evidence to extremist groups.“Without evidence”? PBS is arrogantly ignoring ample evidence linking El-Sayed to extremist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, controversies covered ably by the Washington Free Beacon, doing the job the elitist media won’t.Instead, de Sam Lazaro slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for statements at a rally for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), locked in a battle with El-Sayed.Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: There’s 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Field Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.de Sam Lazaro left out the speech’s initial praise for Islam before the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, as noted even in a hostile New York Times story (“RFK Jr. Makes Bigoted Remarks About Arabs on the Campaign Trail in Michigan”).There was a little jolt of reality involving a police chief battling armed Somali gangs, one who nonetheless gave PBS the quote it wanted: “A lot of this outside rhetoric, unfortunately, is political and is not helping.”de Sam Lazaro soon returned to his main point, Muslim fear.de Sam Lazaro: But at the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque, which is in Bloomington and was the site of a bombing by an anti-government militia group in 2017, some community members said they felt targeted, especially by the president’s comments.He asked one Minnesotan, “Are you afraid for your security?” And she responded the way PBS wished.Amina Adan, Somali Minnesotan: Yes, for sure. I am afraid. I’m a mother of four daughters. Being a woman and outwardly being Muslim, I’m wearing my hijab and I’m already portraying my faith in my community….de Sam Lazaro: Fear that could linger across Minnesota, even as the heated election messaging comes to a close.Speaking of religious-based “fear,” how would someone wearing a Star of David feel in Dearborn, Michigan, or any synagogue in the state? Don’t expect PBS to ask that question.Naturally, Amina Adan was just a “Somali Minnesotan,” and not described as a leftist community organizer and political strategist. You can find her answering the question “Why Was Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE the Strongest Yet?” That would explain why Fred would come calling from PBS. The story ended on a graphic spelling out a statistic from the discredited Israel-haters at the Muslim pressure group CAIR. “Over 8,600 anti-Muslim discrimination complaints were reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in 2025 – the most reports since 1996.” (Those are self-reported incidents, which aren’t nearly as reliable as police records.)A transcript is available, click “Expand.”PBS News Hour11/2/267:38:22 p.m.Amna Nawaz: In the run-up to tomorrow’s midterm elections, experts have documented a surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric and xenophobia in political ads and speeches.Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro brings us a report on some of the targets of that language and the impact it’s having. It’s part of our series Race Matters.Imam Abdulahi Farah, Dar Al-Farooq Mosque Islamic Center: People are choosing tribalism over humanity. Immigrants are blamed. Muslims are blamed. Black and brown communities are blamed.Fred de Sam Lazaro: During a recent prayer service at the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque Islamic Center outside Minneapolis, Imam Abdulahi Farah had a pointed message, both for politicians and his own community.Imam Abdulahi Farah: Whether it’s oppression, whether it’s hate, whether it’s injustice, whether it’s done by someone you know or someone from outside, you have to take action.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Minnesota’s Somali population has been in the national spotlight since last year amid a series of massive fraud scandals.Man: Evacuated because of a shooting.Fred de Sam Lazaro: But the community is now again under intense scrutiny over a rash of gun violence that authorities blamed on gangs of young Somali men. Minnesota Republicans seized on the events.Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN): These criminal gangsters, which I would argue are enemy combatants more than anything, they’re not holding them accountable.Lisa Demuth (R), Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate: This is not who we are. We need safe communities, not Somali gang shoot-outs like the one that happened here.Fred de Sam Lazaro: So did President Trump, who said Minnesota is being — quote — “taken over by Somali immigrants” and the state needed to fight back.The president has also singled out Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.President Donald Trump: I think she’s a sick, a very dishonest person, but — who hates our country. And she comes from a country that is essentially not even a country, Somalia. It’s real shithouse, OK?Fred de Sam Lazaro: Federal investigators raided Omar’s home last month as part of an investigation into whether she or family members committed immigration fraud. Omar has denied any wrongdoing.President Donald Trump: We can’t let radical left jihadists…Fred de Sam Lazaro: But this election cycle, the president and his allies have widened their attacks on Muslim candidates.Narrator: Abdul raises money from dangerous people who finance terrorist networks. And his family has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida.Fred de Sam Lazaro: In particular, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, linking him without evidence to extremist groups.President Donald Trump: We don’t want to have a jihadist. We’re going to have to get a special medal detector for Abdul.Vice President J.D. Vance: We have to understand what happens when our nation gives in to these kinds of people, to young men with zero attachment to its land or to its history.Fred de Sam Lazaro: The rhetoric, though, has gone well beyond El-Sayed himself. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a campaign event for El-Sayed’s opponent, former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: There’s 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Field Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literatureFred de Sam Lazaro: In fact, Arabs have won all of those awards.Anti-Muslim sentiment was also widespread at the Republican Midterm Convention in September.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): Islamism, likewise, produces murder and oppression. Sharia law has no place in America.(CHEERING)Sara Tabor, Republican Voter: Islam doesn’t have the same principles and values that we do as Christians.Lisa Holomshek, Republican Voter: All the mosques that are being built, it’s out of control.Saher Selod: The rhetoric certainly is something that I haven’t seen since 9/11.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Saher Selod is the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a think tank focused on America’s Muslim community.Selod has tracked Islamophobia in U.S. politics.Saher Selod: I have never seen the level of anti-Muslim political ads that we’re seeing during this campaign cycle. The fact that it was already somehow acceptable to run on this type of racism and animus means that it’s trending to a certain extent within the general population. If it was so unpopular, then they wouldn’t — they wouldn’t feel like that this would be a successful strategy.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Back in Minnesota, officials are trying to navigate the political realities of the moment while searching for real solutions.Booker Hodges, Bloomington, Minnesota, Police Chief: A lot of this outside rhetoric, unfortunately, is political, and it’s not helping.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Booker Hodges is police chief in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington.(GUNFIRE)Fred de Sam Lazaro: Last month, suspects fired over 100 rounds on a residential street in the city, a shooting Hodges linked to Somali gangs.Booker Hodges: I know that it’s not the entire community that’s doing this, but we do ourselves a disservice if we don’t call it what it is. We get caught up in the name and as opposed to dealing with the issue. And I think now we got to deal with the issue, and right now it’s just Somali-American gangs that we’re dealing with.Fred de Sam Lazaro: But at the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque, which is in Bloomington and was the site of a bombing by an anti-government militia group in 2017, some community members said they felt targeted, especially by the president’s comments.Mural Tifow, Somali Minnesotan: I do respect the president. He is my president, and I would love for the president to respect me as well as a voter, as a citizen. But that is not coming from this White House, and I feel threatened.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Are you afraid for your security?Amina Adan, Somali Minnesotan: Yes, for sure. I am afraid. I’m a mother of four daughters. Being a woman and outwardly being Muslim, I’m wearing my hijab and I’m already portraying my faith in my community. So, yes, I am very much afraid.Fred de Sam Lazaro: Fear that could linger across Minnesota, even as the heated election messaging comes to a close.For the “PBS News Hour,” I’m Fred de Sam Lazaro in the Twin Cities.Amna Nawaz: And Fred’s reporting is a partnership with the Under-Told Stories Project at Santa Clara University.

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On Thursday, in more post-midterm election fallout, the network morning shows continued to celebrate Democrat wins across the country. After heavily focusing on the economy as an attack point on President Trump and Republicans throughout the election cycle, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings touted stock rises on Wednesday and insisted Democrats have already led to gas prices falling. Later in the day, stocks subsequently crashed and erased some of the gains touted by ABC and CBS.Robin Roberts led the economy talk and touted it as a result of Democratic wins: “Stocks soaring yesterday following the midterm elections as oil prices plummeted.”Elizabeth Schulze then led off her report with a bit of editorializing, and called the stock rise and oil price moves “an encouraging sign for Americans,” who, she said, “sent a clear message in the midterms: They are fed up with high gas prices.” ABC’s Good Morning America continued its Democrat midterm celebration on Thursday, and seemed to proclaim the economy was set to be quickly fixed by Democrats after the midterms, with gas prices set to drop and stocks up, especially in the healthcare industry. pic.twitter.com/GfdYTjwL9H— Nick (@nspin310) November 5, 2026 She then touted the number as if Democrat wins magically fixed the economy and would lead to prices dropping: The global price of oil plunging to its lowest level in two months as traders got more optimistic that the Iran war will end soon. GasBuddy says this drop in oil could translate into gas prices below $4 a gallon, diesel below $6 before Thanksgiving. Right now, the national average $4.10 diesel is at $6.28. We also saw a big rally in the stock market Wednesday. The Dow surged more than 1,500 points, that’s about 3 percent, the biggest gain in more than a year.”Schulze then painted a happy picture for health care companies, a frequent target of the left, with praise for Democrats:Notably, some of the stocks that went up the most were health care companies. Democrats are pledging that a top legislative item will be to give more access to health care. That could mean more business for hospitals and insurers.  Like ABC, CBS Mornings also hyped the economy as magically being good again since the Democrats won the midterms after stock gains on Wednesday.However, unlike ABC, Kelly O’Grady explained that investors are happy with Trump’s veto power. pic.twitter.com/8fz2iDMfR4— Nick (@nspin310) November 5, 2026 Supposedly ‘MAGA’ CBS continued the stock talk post-midterm, and correlated it to Democrat victories, which CBS Mornings also celebrated on Wednesday, as the chyron read “What The Blue Wave Means For your 401(K)”. Burleson exclaimed, “Wall Street was happy to see the Democrats win. The three major indices had one of the best days of the year on Wednesday.”Burleson then showed surprise at the stock moves and said, “So some may have assumed Democrats taking control of Congress might have sparked a sell-off, but that did not happen. There was a huge rally. Why did this happen? “Correspondent Kelly O’Grady, in a less celebratory mood than ABC’s Schluze, said she was also somewhat “surprised,” before she explained some of the reasoning behind the rise: (Click “expand”)But this rally happened for three reasons. There still will be a divided government because President Trump made it clear he plans to use his veto on policy he does not like. Second, he accepted the results. I was watching the markets Tuesday night. You started to see the blue wave crest. The markets were going down. The second he indicated I will accept these results, I will work with Democrats the markets went up. Finally, the war was clearly very unpopular based on this election. Oil prices immediately came down because traders are betting, “Hey, we will get some kind of resolution here.O’Grady also noted the recent drop in oil prices and said, “Investors like when we don’t have high oil prices.”Notably, after both of these reports, stocks plummeted on Thursday, especially tech stocks, amid new fears over Democrat wins: “Blue wave is coming” they said pic.twitter.com/zV9zGebab9— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@pelositracker) November 5, 2026The transcript is below. Click “expand”:ABC’s Good Morning AmericaNovember 5, 20267:10:30 AM Eastern(…)ROBIN ROBERTS: Stocks soaring yesterday following the midterm elections as oil prices plummeted. Elizabeth Schulze is tracking all of that for us. Good morning to you, Elizabeth.ELIZABETH SCHULZE: Good morning to you, Robin. And this is an encouraging sign for Americans who sent a clear message in the midterms: They are fed up with high gas prices. The global price of oil plunging to its lowest level in two months as traders got more optimistic that the Iran war will end soon. GasBuddy says this drop in oil could translate into gas prices below $4 a gallon, diesel below $6 before Thanksgiving. Right now, the national average $4.10 diesel is at $6.28. We also saw a big rally in the stock market Wednesday. The Dow surged more than 1,500 points, that’s about 3 percent, the biggest gain in more than a year. Notably, some of the stocks that went up the most were health care companies. Democrats are pledging that a top legislative item will be to give more access to health care. That could mean more business for hospitals and insurers. George?(…)CBS MorningsNovember 5, 20267:08:18 AM Eastern(…)NATE BURLESON: Wall Street was happy to see the Democrats win.The three major indices had one of the best days of the year on Wednesday. “Moneywatch” correspondent and CBS Saturday Morning co-anchor Kelly O’Grady is here to show what it could mean for your retirement savings. Kelly, Good morning.KELLY O’GRADY: Good morning.BURELSON: Alright, so some may have assumed Democrats taking control of Congress might have sparked a sell-off, but that did not happen. There was a huge rally. Why did this happen?O’GRADY: It surprised me a little bit too because traditionally Democrats are seen as a little bit anti-corportation, and investors don’t love when one party takes control of Congress because it is easier to push a ton of legislation through. They like gridlock.BURLESON: Got you.O’GRADY: But this rally happened for three reasons. There still will be a divided government because President Trump made it clear he plans to use his veto on policy he does not like. Second, he accepted the results. I was watching the markets Tuesday night. You started to see the blue wave crest. The markets were going down. The second he indicated I will accept these results, I will work with Democrats the markets went up. Finally, the war was clearly very unpopular based on this election. Oil prices immediately came down because traders are betting, “Hey, we will get some kind of resolution here.”BURELSON: Right.O’GRADY: Investors like when we don’t have high oil prices.O’DONNELL: But front-page news in the papers today, how is it going to affect A.I. and data center build-out?O’GRADY: A.I. data center stocks were killed yesterday because so many of the governorships turned blue like Texas, Georgia, places where they’re building data centers. That being said what I thought it was interesting was a lot of the A.I. Incumbent names, Meta, Alphabet, Apple, they surged. The reason, bngng, is they have a lot of resources. They can say, “Hey, you know what? We have enough money to move to a friendlier state.” It was smaller companies that were hit. But look, Democrats cannot be seen as anti-economic growth, and A.I. is all about anti-economic growth.(…)

The political logic of the situation will push the Democrats to do it.

Despite Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta’s preferred team winning on Tuesday, he welcomed Harvard Kennedy School Prof. Erica Chenoweth (pronouns: they/them) to Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show, where the two strategized how to combat the “dictator” president. One tactic Chenoweth came up with was for “limited strikes.”At one point, Kosta wondered, “Sometimes it can feel like taking on the president of the United States is too big of a task, but you’ve spoken before about, there are targets that are lower down the rung that can make as much of a difference. Am I saying that correctly?” Sure Democrats just won big, but The Daily Show is still throwing around words like “dictator.” Michael Kosta wonders, “Sometimes it can feel like taking on the president of the United States is too big of a task, but you have spoken before about, there are targets that are lower… pic.twitter.com/C3N8JKfVCm— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 5, 2026 Chenoweth replied that, “I think most people who study civil resistance and nonviolent action would argue that it’s rarely possible to melt the heart of a dictator, but what you can do is constrain his options and begin to withhold the social, political, and economic power and the pillars that they need in order to do what they want.”Kosta then further inquired, “It feels like protesting feels good and does send a message, but there’s other shit we can do, right? That is this word I love: Mass noncooperation. Economic protests and boycotts. What are other examples of that?”Chenoweth rewound to the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa and proposed strikes as an answer to Kosta’s question:Yeah, so during the South African anti-Apartheid movement, non-cooperation played a really important role in shifting the willingness of the business community there to basically support reformist politicians that were willing to do business with the ANC and begin to transition the country toward a democratic transition, and those included things like black townships refusing to buy for, you know, weeks or months on end and engaging in strikes. Limited strikes in order to really impact the economic situation there. Kosta then wonders, “It feels like protesting feels good and does send a message but there is other shit we can do, right? That is this word I love: Mass-noncooperation. Economic protests and boycotts. What are other examples of that?”Chenoweth replies by invoking South Africa… pic.twitter.com/97rllGOFHo— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 5, 2026 Republicans may have lost in a big way, but voters did not vote for Democrats because they want comedy show hosts and Harvard professors to encourage people to go on strike over politics. In fact, the fact that Democrats did win in such large numbers is evidence that Kosta and Chenoweth’s desire to portray America in the Trump era as a dictatorship has no basis in reality.Here is a transcript for the November 4 show:Comedy Central The Daily Show11/4/202611:24 PM ETMICHAEL KOSTA: Sometimes it can feel like taking on the president of the United States is too big of a task, but you’ve spoken before about, there are targets that are lower down the rung that can make as much of a difference. Am I saying that correctly?ERICA CHENOWETH: I think most people who study civil resistance and nonviolent action would argue that it’s rarely possible to melt the heart of a dictator–KOSTA: Right.CHENOWETH:  –  but what you can do is constrain his options –KOSTA: Wow.CHENOWETH: – and begin to withhold the social, political, and economic power and the pillars that they need in order to do what they want.KOSTA: It feels like protesting feels good and does send a message, but there’s other shit we can do, right? That is this word I love: Mass noncooperation. Economic protests and boycotts. What are other examples of that?CHENOWETH: Yeah, so during the South African anti-Apartheid movement, non-cooperation played a really important role in shifting the willingness of the business community there to basically support reformist politicians that were willing to do business with the ANC and begin to transition the country toward a democratic transition, and those included things like black townships refusing to buy for, you know, weeks or months on end and engaging in strikes. Limited strikes in order to really impact the economic situation there.

Popular WNBA star Sophie Cunningham’s support for protecting female sports from biological males posing as females will embolden female athletes to continue speaking out, former NCAA All-Star swimmer Riley Gaines said Wednesday, commenting on the results of four state ballot measures passed in Tuesday’s midterm elections.Colorado, Washington, Nebraska and Arizona had initiatives to ensure that female athletes don’t have to compete against biological males who “identify” as females in school sports. All four measures passed, as even Blue state voters in Colorado and Washington declared that only females should participate in sports designated for females.“This will give them hope,” Gaines said in an interview on Fox News Channel, when asked how the results will affect the teenage girls who have been courageously speaking out against the unfairness of allowing transgender females to compete against actual females.Gaines also praised the influence of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who has been embraced by WNBA fans, but is infamous with the league’s activist elite for saying female sports should be protected:“You look at people like Sophie Cunningham, who has been a hero to these girls. You look at how she has been embraced. Her stock has only increased ten-fold.“That gives these girls security to keep going on full steam ahead.”

The passage of the four ballot measures was unsurprising, because the vast majority of Americans believe female sports should be protected, Gaines said. What is baffling, however, is that two Blue states would vote in favor of conservative values and policies, while Red states like Texas would elect far-left politicians.Biological sex isn’t a matter of opinion and even those who claim it is know better, Gaines said:“No one actually thinks – I think even Democrat politicians who are pushing this narrative and voting on these things – I don’t even think they believe men can get pregnant and women need prostate exams and tampons belong in boys’ bathrooms.“Of course, those are insane ideas, and you shouldn’t believe a word out of any their mouths if they say men can become women.”“Voters say, ‘Enough,’ Gaines explained:“We want accountability. We want transparency. And we want our children to be protected. We want women to be protected in their sports, in their bathrooms, and so on.”“The people had their voices heard yesterday on that,” Gaines said.