Mark Moran Appears on OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, Calls Out Prediction Market Loopholes and the Destruction of Young American Men
FALLS CHURCH, VA - Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran appeared Thursday night on OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, delivering a wide-ranging interview that covered his $100 bet on Kalshi, the regulatory loopholes that allow prediction markets to operate outside gambling law, the economic devastation being visited on a generation of young American men, and his Vice Tax proposal to redirect revenue from vice industries back to the public. The interview aired in primetime on One America News Network, which reaches millions of households nationwide.
Moran, a former Wall Street investment banker running as an independent against three-term incumbent Senator Mark Warner, explained that his $100 bet on his own Senate race was a deliberate act of civil disobedience designed to expose how prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket operate through a regulatory loophole at the CFTC — one that harms Native Americans who hold federally protected gambling rights on their reservations.
Watch the full interview on YouTube →"As a former investment banker, placing a $100 bet on something that I knew was going to happen and already publicly reported happening — to me that is by definition not trading on insider information. Trading on material non-public information would mean that the information wasn't out there. I've been calling attention to prediction sites and the ability for them to essentially sway elections for the past two years."
, Mark Moran, OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, April 24, 2026
Moran drew a direct line between the prediction market industry's legal strategy and the damage it inflicts on Native American tribal gaming operations. Kalshi and Polymarket, he argued, used high-priced New York City attorneys to exploit a loophole in CFTC jurisdiction — classifying political event contracts as futures rather than gambling — while Native American tribes, who hold federally recognized rights to operate gaming on their reservations, are cut out of the same market by law.
"They know that they're operating through a loophole with the CFTC — that this is gambling — and that really what they're doing is they're hurting the Native Americans who have gambling on their reservations. Kalshi and Polymarket came in and just used a loophole through the CFTC by getting overpriced New York City lawyers, white shoe attorneys, to find this. We all know that these aren't contracts. This is just gambling."
, Mark Moran, OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, April 24, 2026
The interview's most striking passage came when Rion pressed Moran on why young men are the dominant users of these platforms. Moran's answer went well beyond prediction markets, delivering a diagnosis of what he called the systematic destruction of purpose for an entire generation of American men — one that he traced from the offshoring of manufacturing jobs to the design of social media and video games, and ultimately to Washington's failure to build an economy where young men can compete, create, and build something real.
"This town of weak men has led to this generation of lost young men. Men want purpose. Men want the opportunity to have risk, to have competition. But we live in a society where that is not possible. I look at the number of young men who have lost purpose, who have no meaning, have no ability to afford a home, who have no ability to even be in a relationship. Which is why they withdraw to these fantasy worlds. America used to be young men who would actually produce things. Now we have young men who predict things."
, Mark Moran, OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, April 24, 2026
"We live in a society where if you follow what everyone tells you — you go to the best schools possible, you take out student loans to the point that you can't afford a house, you get an adult daycare job, or you have the opportunity to go die in a war. There is no meaning because we pushed this all offshore, we don't build things anymore. We know weak men create weak societies. And that's where we are. We already have one lost generation. If we allow this to go further, we're going to have two."
, Mark Moran, OAN Primetime with Chanel Rion, April 24, 2026
Moran also used the interview to address Virginia's ongoing redistricting fight, calling the state the "battleground of the future of America" and criticizing the Democratic Party's effort to entrench Abigail Spanberger through 2032 via a gerrymandered map that he has called "absolutely tyranny." He reiterated that his decision to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent was driven by the party's refusal to allow him to speak on college campuses or raise money through standard channels after he broke with leadership on gerrymandering and the Second Amendment.
The Vice Tax proposal, which Moran has introduced as part of his Common Benefits Plan, would impose a dedicated tax on industries that generate social costs — including gambling and prediction markets — and redirect that revenue to public benefit programs. The proposal is designed to ensure that industries profiting from addictive or socially harmful products bear a share of the cost they impose on communities, rather than externalizing those costs onto taxpayers.
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