Voters in two Democratic-leaning states just delivered a result the political establishment cannot easily dismiss. Colorado and Washington voters approved ballot measures protecting sex-based girls’ and women’s sports divisions, even as Democrats performed strongly elsewhere in both states. These results have been reported and called, while formal state certification still lies ahead. The outcome marks a major shift from the pre-election debate: voters were given a direct choice, and majorities in both states backed sex-based eligibility rules. The Associated Press reports that Washington Initiative 638 passed with more than 56% support. The measure requires eligibility for girls’ and women’s sports to be determined by sex and provides for verification by a health care provider when a student’s sex is disputed. The official Washington text spells out the initiative itself, giving voters a concrete policy question rather than an abstract cultural argument. They answered it decisively. The AP also reports that voters approved related restrictions in Arizona and Nebraska. Those outcomes extend a national policy shift already reflected in laws across more than half the states and in President Trump’s 2025 executive order, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. WE DID IT, COLORADO! PROP 134 HAS OFFICIALLY PASSED! In a deep blue state, Colorado voters came together to protect girls’ sports! Because this was never about right vs. left. It’s always been about RIGHT vs. WRONG. This is a historic victory for girls, for fairness, and… pic.twitter.com/3zi5psmbtg — ProtectKidsColorado (@ProtectKidsCO) November 6, 2026 Colorado voters reached the same basic conclusion. Proposition 134 passed with about 52% support, according to the AP. The measure requires school athletic programs to designate teams as male, female, or coed. Eligibility for male or female teams is based on sex at birth. Colorado’s official 2026 ballot guide provided voters with the measure’s language and policy description before Election Day. Whatever one thinks of the surrounding national debate, Coloradans were voting on an identified rule with practical consequences for school athletics. This was not a close legislative vote buried inside a state capitol. It was a statewide decision made by the electorate. Axios puts support at approximately 57% in Washington and 52% in Colorado. It also reports that related measures passed in Arizona and Nebraska, making the results part of a broader Election Day pattern rather than two isolated outcomes. Axios also points to a 2025 Gallup poll finding that 69% of Americans supported requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams corresponding to their sex at birth. The four-state sweep matters because the public made these decisions directly at the ballot box. Colorado and Washington also supplied a sharp political test: voters could support Democratic candidates elsewhere while separately insisting that female athletic categories remain grounded in sex. That pattern gives elected officials a concrete public verdict to weigh as implementation moves from campaign promises into state policy. Voters in Colorado and Washington, both blue states, passed bills to keep boys out of girls sports. I think similar bills would pass in all 50 states. This means @sophaller isn’t remotely “controversial.” The people who are actually controversial are those attacking her. https://t.co/O1ih2wmMQC — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 6, 2026 The Colorado and Washington results carry particular political weight because neither state fits the profile critics might prefer to assign to this issue. These were blue-state electorates making their own judgment rather than following Republican officials. Democrats otherwise had strong showings in both states, yet many voters still drew a line around girls’ and women’s athletic divisions. That cross-partisan split is the story. Voters can support Democratic candidates on taxes, health care, abortion, environmental policy, or any number of other issues while rejecting progressive orthodoxy on school sports. The ballot results show that the public does not necessarily accept an all-or-nothing ideological package. That number helps explain why the issue continues to move beyond ordinary party boundaries. For many voters, the question is not about hostility toward transgender people. It is about whether sex-based athletic categories should continue to have a meaningful and enforceable definition. The voters of Colorado and Washington have now answered yes. The next conflict may concern implementation. Incoming Colorado Governor Phil Weiser said lawmakers may examine the new law, particularly its verification provisions. That response suggests the election result may not end the political fight over how Proposition 134 operates in practice. Protect Kids Colorado organizer Erin Lee responded that elected officials should not undermine the voters’ decision. Her reaction reflects an obvious concern among supporters: that officials who opposed the measure could attempt to weaken it after passage. "The majority of the voters do not get to decide the outcome…" Um. Huh? These people hate democracy. They want to just be weirdo self-appointed elites and experts making all the rules for the rest of us and shouting "No Kings!" all the time. While acting like kings. https://t.co/3agcYNMAfb — Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) November 6, 2026 There is a legitimate distinction between examining how a law will be administered and using the implementation process to frustrate what voters approved. Colorado officials will now be watched closely to see which path they take. The results also land amid a much larger national policy battle. President Trump signed a 2025 executive order titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. More than half of the states have enacted restrictions on transgender participation in girls’ or women’s sports, according to the broader context reported by the AP. Until now, supporters and opponents could often frame those policies mainly as the work of governors, legislators, courts, or federal officials. Colorado and Washington provide something different: direct statewide votes in places where Democrats remain politically competitive or dominant. That makes it harder to wave away support for sex-based sports divisions as a narrow partisan phenomenon. The election did not resolve every legal, administrative, or personal question connected to transgender participation in athletics. Nor does a vote justify treating any group of people with contempt. It does, however, establish a clear democratic fact. When voters in Colorado and Washington were asked whether girls’ and women’s sports should retain sex-based eligibility rules, majorities approved measures saying they should. The results remain subject to the states’ formal certification processes. But the political message has already arrived: even in blue states, fairness in female athletics commands support far beyond the Republican base. Elected officials should hear that message plainly—and respect the decision voters made. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Blue-State Voters Deliver a Clear Verdict for Girls’ and Women’s Sports appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s Treasury Department just put eight Canadian money businesses on notice over what federal officials describe as a financial pipeline serving Iran’s regime, its sanctioned partners, and other illicit actors. The action reaches beyond old-fashioned wire transfers. Treasury says the firms helped exchange Iranian rials and other currencies for digital assets, giving Tehran-linked customers another route into the international financial system. Treasury announced the designations Friday as part of Operation Economic Outcast: Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated eight money services businesses based in Canada that enable the Iranian regime. — Treasury Department (@USTreasury) November 6, 2026 The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the targets are Diverse Trade Inc., 1380079 BC Ltd., Top PC Technician Inc., NIA Nations Currency Ltd., 2397639 Ontario Ltd., CCC Inc., B Galaxy Inc., and Darvish Exchange. The businesses operate under names including Million Exchange, Amin Exchange, Farah Exchange, CryptoYal, and Canada Exchange. According to Treasury, many of the designated firms transacted with Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges that Washington had already sanctioned. Some also dealt with digital-asset addresses linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered the administration’s warning without leaving much room for interpretation: Canada cannot become a safe haven for financial middlemen helping Iran and its proxies evade American sanctions. The State Department said the move was coordinated closely with Canadian authorities: Today, the United States, coordinating closely with Canada and FINTRAC, sanctioned eight digital asset service providers that help the Iranian regime use digital assets to evade sanctions and fund terrorism. — Tommy Pigott (@statedeptspox) November 6, 2026 The most explosive part of the case may be the alleged crossover between Tehran’s sanctions-evasion machinery and a major narcotics network. Treasury says several of the businesses also worked with Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of running an international cocaine-trafficking operation. Officials say Wedding used money exchanges in Vancouver and Toronto to turn bulk cash into digital assets that could be moved abroad. The department says Wedding was apprehended in January 2026, but not before several of the newly designated firms allegedly helped transfer millions of dollars’ worth of digital assets for him. That is a striking picture: the same financial channels accused of serving the Iranian regime were also allegedly useful to an international drug network. FINTRAC, Canada’s financial-intelligence agency, confirmed that it coordinated with the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on the eight designations. FINTRAC also says it has revoked 161 money-services registrations since the beginning of 2026, more than in the previous three years combined, and imposed more than $198 million in administrative penalties over the past year. The Canadian agency says those penalties covered failures such as operating without proper registration and neglecting to report large virtual-currency transactions. Canada raised the maximum criminal fine for an unregistered money-services business to $5 million in March, with a possible prison term of up to five years. FINTRAC’s numbers show why Washington’s action matters beyond the eight names on Friday’s list. Digital assets can move across borders quickly, but regulators on both sides of the border are now pairing registration crackdowns with sanctions designed to shut the firms out of legitimate financial channels. The sanctions carry real force. Property and interests in property tied to the designated businesses that come within U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and American persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them. The State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau published the broader national-security case for the crackdown: U.S. Sanctions Cripple Financial Networks Sustaining the Iranian Regime — U.S. State Dept – Near Eastern Affairs (@StateDept_NEA) November 6, 2026 The U.S. Department of State says the firms helped Iran’s regime, the IRGC, and other sanctioned actors move money through digital assets. It also says some of the businesses changed names and addresses to avoid detection, while the same illicit networks served both Iranian interests and criminal organizations threatening North American communities. This is what financial pressure looks like when an administration follows the money instead of issuing another empty warning. If Treasury’s allegations hold up, the crackdown exposes a system in which crypto desks, money exchanges, a hostile regime, and narcotics cash all crossed paths. President Trump’s team is making the consequence clear: helping Tehran hide and move money can cost a business access to the American financial system, even when that business sits north of the border. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Trump Treasury Drops Hammer On Eight Canadian Money Firms Accused Of Helping Iran appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

A Georgia House race separated by just 58 votes has been turned upside down after officials found an overlooked memory card holding Election Day results. Republican state Rep. Gerald Greene had appeared to lose his District 154 seat to Democrat Harry James. Then came the post-election check. After the missing results were uploaded, Greene moved from 58 votes behind to an unofficial 262-vote lead. BREAKING: A missing memory card has FLIPPED the apparent outcome of a Georgia House race. Republican Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to LEADING by 262 after uncounted votes were discovered in Seminole County. Officials found a 388-vote discrepancy during routine checks. If the result holds, Democrats will have just a ONE-SEAT majority in the Georgia House. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into the error. Maybe Democrats can agree that we should now go to ALL PAPER BALLOTS? — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 7, 2026 The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office says its routine review found approximately 388 more Election Day voter check-ins in Seminole County than ballots reported as cast. State officials alerted the Seminole County Board of Elections. County officials then determined that a memory card containing election results had never been uploaded into the election management system. The state release says the discrepancy surfaced during the normal post-election review and canvassing process, before the county certified its results. It does not accuse a candidate, voter, or election worker of fraud. It identifies a failure to upload the card and says investigators will determine how it happened. The county’s certification deadline is Monday, giving the inquiry immediate stakes for both candidates and the chamber. That single failure changed who was leading the race. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has now opened an investigation into how the card was overlooked, whether required procedures were followed, and what changes are needed to keep it from happening again. His office called the mistake unacceptable and stressed that the totals remain unofficial until certification. Seminole County officials have until Monday to certify their results. Through post-election canvassing it was discovered that a memory card of Election Day votes had not been uploaded from Seminole County. That has been done & Rep Gerald Greene is now winning that race that he had been trailing since election night. — Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) November 6, 2026 This was not a box of ballots suddenly appearing without an audit trail. The state’s own canvassing safeguards found a numerical mismatch between voter check-ins and reported ballots, which led officials to the unuploaded card. That distinction matters. So does the failure itself. Election safeguards are supposed to catch discrepancies, and in this case they did. But a memory card carrying hundreds of Election Day votes should never have been left out of the reported count in the first place. When a race is decided by dozens rather than thousands of votes, one missed upload can reverse the entire apparent outcome. The political consequences could reach far beyond one southwest Georgia district. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that, if Greene’s lead holds, Democrats would enter the 180-member Georgia House with 92 seats, just one more than the 91 required for a majority. Another contest is headed to a December runoff, leaving the final balance unusually tight. The paper notes that Greene was among the Legislature’s most vulnerable Republican incumbents. James was trying to convert a Democratic wave into a win in a district that has become increasingly difficult for the GOP, and the initial 58-vote margin appeared to have done exactly that. The late Seminole County upload has now put that conclusion on hold. It also means the unresolved District 154 count could determine whether Democrats begin their new majority with any breathing room at all. BREAKING: A missing memory card discovered in southwest Georgia could cost Democrats a seat in the state House and narrow their newly won majority before they even take power. Once the votes were uploaded, Republican state Rep. Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to leading by 262. — AJC (@ajc) November 6, 2026 Greene has represented the region for decades. He was first elected as a Democrat in 1982 and later switched to the Republican Party after the 2010 election. According to the AJC, he is now the only Republican in the General Assembly representing a majority-Black district, and he has repeatedly survived in increasingly difficult political territory. James appeared to have finally unseated him on election night. Now the apparent result has flipped, the state has launched an investigation, and Georgia voters are waiting for certification. WCTV reported that local election officials were unavailable for comment Friday afternoon. The station also confirmed the county’s Monday certification deadline and the state’s inquiry into whether election procedures were followed. The local report traced the sequence from the state’s check-in discrepancy to the county’s discovery of the unuploaded card, then to the revised District 154 total. It emphasized that the race was still uncalled and that the investigation would examine both the overlooked card and the corrective steps needed before another election. That leaves two separate questions for officials to answer: whether the revised count survives certification, and why hundreds of recorded voters were missing from the first reported total. No one should have to guess whether every lawful ballot made it into the reported total. The guardrails caught this one before certification. The investigation now has to explain how a memory card carrying nearly 400 votes was missed at all. And with control of a state legislative chamber hanging by a thread, Georgia deserves a clear answer. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Georgia House Race Takes Stunning Turn After Officials Find What Was Missing appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Laura Loomer is stepping away from her twice-weekly show for a brief hiatus, but she is making one thing unmistakably clear: she is not stepping away from the political fight. The longtime President Trump supporter announced the break after the 2026 midterms, saying years of relentless work had left her running on empty and that it was time to make room for her family, personal life and upcoming wedding. I’ve been going nonstop supporting President Trump @realDonaldTrump ever since he came down the golden escalator. As many of you know, I am chronically tuned in, online, and I am always working. I am a machine. Some days I work more than 18 hours. My work has been one of the… pic.twitter.com/5djlbA9tea — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 6, 2026 Loomer is calling it a hiatus, not a retirement or a retreat from President Trump. It is a pause from the production schedule of Loomer Unleashed, the livestream she has been hosting twice a week while also researching stories, developing sources and maintaining one of the most active political accounts on X. Mediaite reported that Loomer described herself as chronically online and sometimes working more than 18 hours a day. She said that pace had put her family life, personal life, wedding plans and any healthy separation between work and home on hold. The outlet also documented the extraordinary volume of her post-election activity. Citing a Newsweek analysis, it reported that Loomer published 119 messages on X in less than 28 hours as she reacted to Republican losses and argued over what went wrong. But the most important part of her announcement was what she said she would continue doing. Loomer said she still plans to follow the news, support President Trump, conduct research, comment on politics and break stories while the show itself is off the air. That distinction matters because Loomer’s influence has never depended solely on a studio or a regular broadcast slot. Her political reach comes from the speed of her reporting, the intensity of her online presence and her willingness to publicly challenge people she believes are undermining the Trump agenda. She is also already looking beyond the break. And while I’m re-designing my new studio in preparation for the coverage and oppo research I’ll be doing in 2027-2028 ahead of the Presidential election season, if you have any news tips you want to send me, you can always submit them here. https://t.co/Hk4ifNWIZj Anonymity… https://t.co/i0KZcJzCgu — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 6, 2026 The Daily Letter published a transcript of Loomer’s video announcement that put a more precise window on the pause. In the video, she described it as a one-to-two-month hiatus and said she intends to use that time both to prepare for her wedding and to upgrade her production studio. The transcript shows that Loomer is treating the break as a reset before the next campaign cycle, not an exit from public life. She said the studio work is aimed at the political coverage and opposition research she expects to conduct as the 2028 presidential race takes shape. She also thanked the people who have followed her reporting and said she would share more information about the show’s return. That makes the timeline flexible, but the announced purpose is concrete: recharge personally, rebuild the production operation and come back prepared for the next phase. The timing has nevertheless drawn attention because the announcement arrived during a fierce post-election argument inside the pro-Trump online world. Trump digital strategist Alex Bruesewitz had criticized the political value of influencer disputes after the midterms. In an exchange with Loomer, he then said he had paid her for posts in the past, though not for at least a year, and alleged that others still pay her for posts. No I don’t deny that. I’ve paid you for tweets before. I haven’t for at least a year though. I also know you still get paid by others for tweets so I do think it’s fair to refer to you as an “influencer.” What percentage of your tweets are paid for? https://t.co/sIlmXTwnxQ — Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) November 5, 2026 Bruesewitz’s statement establishes his own past payments; his broader allegation about other paid posts remains his claim, not an independently established fact. Loomer’s stated reasons for the hiatus were exhaustion, her personal life, her wedding and the studio rebuild. There will be plenty of speculation about whether the online clash or the election results accelerated her decision. What is not speculative is Loomer’s own roadmap. She plans to remain active, remain supportive of President Trump and keep doing political research while taking the pressure of a twice-weekly show off her calendar for a short period. In other words, Loomer may be going off the air for a bit, but she is not going quiet. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Laura Loomer Announces Break From Her Show, But She Is Not Leaving The Fight appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump just received a major economic report that the so-called experts did not see coming. American employers added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double the roughly 65,000 positions economists expected. The unemployment rate held near historic lows at 4.1 percent. Even better, 159,000 of those new jobs came from the private sector. Government payrolls accounted for only 6,000. The surprise was obvious when the numbers hit television Friday morning. .@RiggsReport: "HUGE numbers to report for the month of October. Nonfarm payrolls come in at 165,000…100,000 over where we thought it would be." pic.twitter.com/n6kq6nmjEW — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 6, 2026 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that October payroll growth was far above the average monthly gain of 48,000 over the previous year. Professional and business services led the way with 70,000 new positions, including 33,000 in professional, scientific and technical services, a dramatic acceleration in high-skill private employment. Health care added 42,000 jobs. Transportation and warehousing added 25,000, including a 17,000-job jump among couriers and messengers. Manufacturing gained 19,000 positions in one month. Computer and electronic-product manufacturing added 7,000 jobs, machinery manufacturing gained 4,000 and primary metals added another 4,000. Those are the kinds of jobs that build things, move things and keep the real American economy running. The government survey also found that the average workweek remained steady at 34.4 hours, while manufacturing overtime edged up to 3.1 hours. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the report reflects a private-sector economy gathering strength through American investment and reindustrialization. Thanks to America’s unrivaled entrepreneurial spirit and dynamism, the re-industrialization and re-privatization of the American economy are gathering extraordinary force. Today’s jobs report shows our great American companies have created nearly 400,000 private-sector jobs in… — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) November 6, 2026 The report also rewrote the recent economic picture in a much stronger direction. August job growth was revised upward by 53,000, from 133,000 to 186,000. September was raised by 31,000, from 29,000 to 60,000. Together, those revisions mean employers created 84,000 more jobs in August and September than the government first reported. The household survey delivered more good news. The labor force grew by 421,000 people, employment rose by 463,000 and the number of unemployed Americans fell by 41,000. Average hourly earnings increased 14 cents in October to $38.00. That was a 0.4 percent monthly gain and a 3.1 percent increase over the past year. The report was not perfect. The number of people working part time because they could not find full-time work or had their hours reduced rose by 339,000 to 4.8 million. The headline result is impossible to dismiss: the economy created 100,000 more jobs than forecasters expected, and nearly all of them came from private employers. The Joint Economic Committee Republicans highlighted the 159,000 private-sector jobs, the 0.1-point rise in labor-force participation and the broad gains in business services, education and health. Their monthly update also noted that leisure and hospitality lost 13,000 positions and construction declined by 3,000. That is a serious report, not a campaign slogan. It shows where the gains occurred and where work remains. The committee also tracked the broader U-6 unemployment measure, which includes people working part time for economic reasons. That figure rose to 7.9 percent, a reminder that a strong top-line month does not mean every American worker has the hours or position he wants. Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler focused on the manufacturing surge and the small businesses behind most American manufacturers. Today’s jobs report blew past experts’ forecasts once again with strong growth across sectors. Manufacturing added 19k more jobs in Oct, which is over 100k manufacturing jobs added since Dec 2025. 98% of manufacturers are small businesses! Made in America is coming back thanks… https://t.co/mElUN2I48s — Kelly Loeffler (@SBA_Kelly) November 6, 2026 The White House assembled reactions from economists across the spectrum who described the report as exceptionally strong. Analysts pointed to the combination of higher payroll growth, upward revisions, a lower unemployment rate and broader participation as evidence that the labor market accelerated in October. President Trump’s economic program has always aimed at more than a rising stock ticker. The real test is whether American companies invest, factories expand and workers find productive jobs. October delivered exactly that kind of progress. The experts expected a weak report. American businesses delivered something much bigger. The post October Jobs Report Blows Past Forecasts as Private Sector Delivers 159,000 New Positions appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.