Hey Scott,
With all the items you have found in the drain I suspect you more in the pump. First thing you can do take the drain hose can blow into it without restriction. If not take lose the hoses to the pump. You might want to get some pinch off pliers to save water from going ever where or a shop vac to suck out the tub. If the pump is getting warm current is flowing to it and propeller is jammed more than likely. The front should have a couple of 1/4 screws at the corners on the front I think. should pop after removing them.
Good Luck.
Mike

We had this problem for months. I took the bottom front panel off and removed the drain plug/trap. WOW! I found pens, change, tools, screws, guitar picks, hair, sand...no wonder it wouldn't drain! I cleaned all that out and now the washer is working fine. My guess is the pump that was getting hot had some manner of debris inside it? I wish GE would publish this as a maintenance issue (or did they already?). Anyway, my wife is happy again :)

Remove three small screws from front bottom panel. Drain plug is white on my machine. It is adjaceent to the pump just to the right of center under the door. Note the alignment marks for reinstalling it when you're done. Have a bucket handy! Hope this helps!

Thanks to this site my front load washer is fixed. The washer would not drain or spin. I had drained the washer by taking the drain trap out, what a mess. The washer was still doing the same thing, no drain and no spin. I felt the pump and it was hot. Then I found this site, as other's have sugested, I decided to re-drain the washer and pull the pump out and check for clogs in it. I didn't have any lint in it , however I found a rubber band just behind the propeller. I removed it, put washer back together, and the washer works like new. WOW this site saved me calling the repair man and costing me big money.:)

Thanks to all of you for your input! My frigidaire washer would not empty water from the rinse cycle. I did an internet search and stumbled upon this wonderful site. You explained precisely what to do (it was a GE response, but close enough to work for my Frigidaire). I did it, and it worked! Thanks to the contributor who noted there was little lint or trash in the dryer, but cleaning it of that small amount still corrected the problem. I had almost nothing but a bit of lint and a little gunk buildup. Would NEVER have believed that was enough to interfere, but it was! A later entry commented on working on the frigidaire pump specifically. Sorry I didn't see it earlier. That entry is correct. You need to be prepared to replace the red metal tension clips with metal screw-type bands. It is impossible to get the red metal ones back on in the back area using regular household tools, and it takes very strong hands to open the clips. I was able to remove everything and clean and reconstruct the pump housing, but I didn't have enough finger strength to put the red metal clips back on, even with vise grips, etc. to help. The screw-on bands were a life saver! Be sure to get 6, 3 a size exactly the same as the red clip and 3 one size larger. That way, if you can't get the exact one to open enough to fit around the back hose (the hardest to reach and work on), you can go up one size and then just tighten it more.) There was a lot of water, but my washer is on a draining stand, over a concrete floor with a floor drain, so it was no problem. If you're working on a "good" floor, be sure you have set up a mechanism for catching the water when you open the drains. Thank you again, everyone!!! Your answers were right on and you saved me the $150 repairman fee!