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A 501c3 non-profit based in Washington, DC, we are a national advocacy network of individuals and partner groups with members in all 50 states.

Stop Predatory Gambling works to reveal the truth behind commercialized gambling to advocate for those who have suffered harm, to prevent more victims, and to champion policy reforms that stop predatory gambling. We are one of the most diverse organizations in the United States, one in which citizens of all political stripes work side-by-side to reveal the truth behind gambling operators to prevent more victims.

10/30/2026

Jason Robins, CEO of DraftKings, attempts to frame gambling harm as a matter of parental responsibility in this news clip from Good Morning America.

What Robins is really doing is shielding his financial scheme from legal accountability.

10/30/2026

Is gambling doing anyone any good?

Host Casey Harper is joined by Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling, and The Washington Stand’s Jared Bridges to confront the roots and impacts of predatory gambling.

The three break down what Scripture says about gambling, why corruption around it is so widespread, and whether there’s a real solution to this growing problem.

https://washingtonstand.com/podcast/the-harms-of-predatory-gambling-ep-222

10/29/2026

"It's like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank." Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling.

Groups like Kalshi, Polymarket, DraftKings, and FanDuel: "they’re trying to... buy influence to get legislators to look the other way from a public policy that by every measure has been an epic public policy failure."

Watch our interview with Les Bernal on YouTube, Rumble, and the Stand Firm app. Linked below.

10/29/2026

Election prediction markets claim they become more accurate over time as more information is processed. However, new data from the Campaign for Accountability reveals that Kalshi’s election prediction markets actually became less accurate and overconfident in the final week before the 2026 primaries.

Front-runner odds were found to be overconfident by 7.3 percentage points, a very significant margin in politics, while underdogs pulled off 30% more upsets than the market predicted. Despite their claims that real-time betting improves upon traditional polling, this report shows that election prediction markets are anything but accurate.

10/28/2026

In 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver claimed that bringing sports betting "into the sunlight" would make it safer and easier to monitor.

But after 39 states legalized it, an epidemic of gambling addiction and federal investigations into player prop manipulation forced the NBA to concede that the experiment was a major policy failure when it decided to ban easily manipulated wagers.

Yet that hasn't stopped them from double-dipping.

In May 2025, the NBA warned the CFTC - U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the severe risks of sports prediction markets yet 17 months later, the league named Kalshi and Polymarket its preferred sports betting partner.

10/27/2026

Northwestern Wildcats head football coach David Braun is the most recent prominent sports figure to spotlight the failure of legalizing commercialized sports gambling across the country:

"I’m telling you what, I got 11-year-old and 9-year-old boys at home and I am terrified of how addictive gambling is... It’s predatory. It’s messed up what’s going on. You look at 18-25 year old young men out there right now and the predatory nature of this stuff—it’s really scary."

10/26/2026

Over the past four years alone, Nebraskan citizens have lost more than $850 million of their own personal wealth to casinos and the lottery.

The number of Nebraskans seeking treatment for gambling addiction has surged by 137% over the past seven years—a spike driven largely by casino expansion.

Now just imagine putting a casino in every Nebraskan's pocket.

Legalizing online sports betting in Nebraska will drive up rates of su***de, depression, bankruptcy, and broken marriages, and tear families apart just as we’ve seen in states that have made this mistake before.

10/23/2026

"How do you sell a product that the public intuitively knows is bad for them? You follow a playbook that someone has used with success before you." - Asa Park

Congress needs to ban commercialized gambling advertising just like it does for other known dangerous and addictive products.

10/22/2026

New Jersey is one of the nation's biggest predatory gambling states. The result of their public policy has been such a failure that state officials were forced to step in.

State officials were recently forced to step in with what they described as, "Mandatory Data-Driven Responsible Gambling Requirements."

In their official announcement, state officials went so far as to label licensed operators "unscrupulous"—proving they recognize the devastation being done to local communities yet the state continues to let them operate as business as usual.

10/21/2026

It’s National Estate Planning Awareness Week!

The decisions you make today create a secure foundation for the future. This week, Stop Predatory Gambling encourages you to learn how thoughtful estate planning allows you to leave a meaningful legacy for the next generation of leaders, and the people and causes that matter to you.

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