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# Ezekiel Enriquez
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**Type:** Person
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**Role:** Texas House candidate (conservative Republican), Trump supporter
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**Domain:** Internet Finance (Prediction Markets)
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**Status:** Active (political candidate)
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## Overview
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Ezekiel Enriquez is a conservative Republican Texas House candidate and Trump supporter who bet on his own election on Kalshi in early 2026. He cooperated with platform enforcement and received penalties similar to other cooperative cases.
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## Timeline
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- **2026-04-22** — Kalshi announced disciplinary action: 5-year suspension and $784 fine for betting on own candidacy. Enriquez cooperated with platform enforcement, resulting in lighter penalty compared to adversarial cases.
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## Significance
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Enriquez's case, along with Matt Klein's, demonstrates that candidate self-betting on prediction markets crosses partisan lines, occurring among both Democratic and Republican candidates. The cooperative enforcement pathway resulted in minimal financial penalties relative to the information advantage.
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## Related
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- [[kalshi]]
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- [[prediction-market-insider-trading-concentrates-in-three-principal-types-requiring-different-enforcement-mechanisms]] |