By GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press, Sept 18, 2023. MIAMI — For many in Florida’s vast immigrant community, daily life in recent months has become one governed entirely by fear. Some try to drive as little as possible and make fewer trips to the supermarket. Others no longer take their children to the park and worry about
By MITCH PERRY, The Florida Phoenix, Aug 24, 2023 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 23: Republican presidential candidates (L-R), former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy participate in the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by FOX News at the Fiserv Forum on August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist, New York Times, Aug. 16, 2023. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign may be floundering as he struggles to win over Republican voters with his deadpan robotic demeanor, and he may be shuffling campaign staff like he’s taking a mulligan, but the damage he did to Florida to get himself to
By Rosemary Nidiry and Lauren-Brooke Eisen, August 14, 2023, The Brennan Center for Justice. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has once again taken it upon himself to remove a local elected prosecutor from office. Last week, the target was Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell, who won office in 2020 promising reforms that keep communities safe while
By Maya Vinokour, The Boston Globe, August 13, 2023. In late July, Florida’s Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum that claims enslaved Black people in America “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.’’ Endorsed by Governor Ron DeSantis (who has since attempted to distance himself from
By CHRISTIAN CASALE, Florida Phoenix, July 31, 2023 The Florida GOP enjoys supermajorities in the state House and Senate, along with a governor who spent the spring legislative session itching to show off his conservative bona fides before entering the presidential primary. Thus, these days are rough for progressive groups such as Progress Florida
By HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, Letters from an American, July 22, 2023. The Florida Board of Education approved new state social studies standards on Wednesday (Jul 20, 2023), including standards for African American history, civics and government, American history, and economics. Critics immediately called out the middle school instruction in African American history that includes “how
By JENNIFER SHUTT , Florida Phoenix, July 14, 2023. WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ poll numbers have stagnated at a lower level than many of her predecessors’ ratings, a daunting problem for a running mate as the 2024 presidential campaign gets underway. Professors and political experts interviewed by States Newsroom say there are several
By Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, Jul 8, 2023. On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation without systematic Black enslavement. In 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had prohibited enslavement on the basis of race, but it
(unattributed) The Daily Beast, July 5, 2023. Last Thursday night, I stepped off a bus in Philadelphia and was faced with colorful signs condemning my presence and spirited shouts of “Go home!” “You should be ashamed!” “See you tomorrow!” another protester promised. They believed I was a member of Moms for Liberty (M4L), a far-right
By JOSHUA HOLZER, The Missouri Independent, June 29, 2023. During his presidency, Donald Trump said, “We’re putting America first … we’re taking care of ourselves for a change,” and then declared, “I’m a nationalist.” In another speech, he stated that under his watch, the U.S. had “embrace[d] the doctrine of patriotism.” Trump is now running for
Tallahassee, FL — Following three rulings handed down by the ultra-conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried issued the following statement: “This week, a Supreme Court stacked with Trump sycophants has taken us back to the dark ages, swinging the pendulum of progress backwards and emboldening a new wave of discrimination,” said FDP Chair
By Zac Anderson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 26, 2023. Reporting by the USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida revealing that top staff in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office helped line up endorsements for his presidential campaign is fueling ethics complaints against the state employees. The Florida Democratic Party announced Wednesday that it has filed complaints with the Florida Commission on
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The New Yorker, May 26, 2023. Presidential campaigns are usually launched in a bright burst of hope. Slick videos are posted, bus tours of the hinterlands are announced, e-mails seeking donations flow into in-boxes like the tide. The candidacy of Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, contains some extra, darker emotional layers: defensiveness,
BY DARRELL EHRLICK, MAY 25, 2023, NC Newsline. An illustration of the Boston Massacre (Illustration courtesy of the National Archives) About the Second Amendment: I have questions. I cannot wrap my lizard-sized brain around the notion that the reason for people to keep and own guns is to protect against tyranny. Spare me the historical
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, May 19, 2023. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-wokeness crusade to trample on the First Amendment with a series of state censorship laws aimed at everything from college administrators to Mickey Mouse is a sure loser. After all, when one of the most conservative appellate courts in the nation agrees
Russ Feingold, Boston Globe, May 23, 2023. The far right has been conducting a multiyear stealth campaign to persuade state legislatures to pass legislation asking Congress to call a constitutional convention. The past few years have seen the rise of a modern American authoritarian movement in this country. The people driving this movement, the Steve
By Mike Lux and Celinda Lake, Mike Lux Media, May 12, 2023 TO: Interested Parties FROM: Mike Lux + Celinda Lake RE: Democrats Could Win a Trifecta in 2024 If we do the basic blocking and tackling of great field and GOTV work, and focus on executing an effective strategy for working-class voters, all the
By Charles Homans, The New York Times, May 1, 2023 (originally published April 26, 2003) Republicans are increasingly taking on corporations they denounce as “woke.” The Florida governor is just the latest to find that it isn’t easy. When Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida went to war against Disney over what he labels its “woke”
By Mike Sunnucks, APG National Enterprise Editor, Apr 24, 2023. Part I of II Charlotte County Commissioners and North Port city leaders each held workshop discussions in February 2020 about affordable housing. It’s a problem human services advocates and business owners all say is a top concern. Lack of affordable and workforce housing has been
By Renée Graham, Globe Columnist, The Boston Globe, April 9, 2023 As she made the media rounds before last fall’s midterm elections, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark said, she was “repeatedly’’ asked one particular question during interviews — “Haven’t Democrats put too much emphasis on abortion?’’ Her answer, she said, was always the same:
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