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Casey DeSantis is the smiling face of anti-LGBTQ activism

By Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast, July 13, 2023  If anybody wondered whether Casey DeSantis shared her husband’s distaste for anything deemed “woke,” there’s no more wondering. The first lady of Florida delivered a hard-right video attacking LGBTQ and trans rights, presenting herself as the lead Mama of “Mamas for DeSantis,” an arm of the campaign, on a mission to protect

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It’s toxic slime time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee

Writer Dan Egan and photographer Josh Ritchie, New York Times, July 9, 2023. For thousands of years, Lake Okeechobee pumped life into Florida’s swampy interior. Summer rains swelled the shallow inland sea, creating seasonal overflows that sustained the Everglades and its alligators, panthers, spoonbills and snail kites. But a vast re-engineering over the past century

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Florida is now America’s inflation hotspot

By Bryan Mena and Alicia Wallace, CNN, July 10, 2023 Florida is America’s inflation hotspot because of a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area has the highest inflation rate of metro areas with more than 2.5 million residents, with a 9% inflation rate for the 12 months ended in

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Analysis

Make America Great Again? Really?

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

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Opinion

How the right’s phony patriotism is destroying America

By RUTH CONNIFF, The Wisconsin Examiner, July 4, 2023. In his book “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America,” best-selling author Kurt Andersen connects the marketing of nostalgia for an idealized American past to the organized campaign led by big business over the last four decades to destroy unions, public schools, progressive taxation and the middle

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Biden's Vision

Bidenomics delivers!

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s daily  Letters from an American,  July 6, 2023. Subscribe to it HERE.  President Biden was in South Carolina yesterday to talk about Bidenomics. After touting the huge investments of both public and private capital that are bringing new businesses and repaired infrastructure to that state, Biden noted that analysts

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Analysis

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

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

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Analysis

SCOTUS rulings swing pendulum of progress backwards

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

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Florida Legislation

Republican assaults on LGBTQ+ Americans are failing in court

By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, June 29, 2023. As we draw to the close of Pride Month, attacks against the LGBTQ+ community from right-wing pols and their followers should shock the conscience. The Anti-Defamation League published a report finding that “between June 2022 and April 2023, ADL and GLAAD documented at least 356 anti-LGBTQ+ extremist

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Biden's Vision

FDP Chair Nikki Fried celebrates Biden’s billion dollar Internet investment in Florida

Tallahassee, FL — After the Biden-Harris administration announced major investments to expand access to affordable, high-speed internet in all 50 states, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried issued the following statement: “Access to high-speed internet, especially in our rural communities, has long served as a dividing line in our state,” said Chair Fried. “With this historic $1.17 billion

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Immigration

Campaigning in Texas, DeSantis reveals unsparing 2024 immigration platform

By JACKIE LLANOS , Florida Phoenix, June 26, 2023.  Gov. Ron DeSantis announces at a June 26 campaign event in Eagle Pass, Texas, his plan to tackle undocummented immigration if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Photo credit: Rumble Just days before Florida’s newest and most restrictive immigration law takes effect, Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to allow

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Opinion

Is it too late for the Republican party?

By J. Michael Luttig, guest columnist, The New York Times, June 25, 2023. Judge Luttig was appointed by George H.W. Bush and served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Donald Trump this month became the first former or incumbent American president to be charged with crimes against

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Analysis

Ethics complaints allege DeSantis abused his office ‘for personal gain’

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

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Opinion

We’re learning now who DeSantis really is

The following Letter to the Editor was published in The Daily Sun on June 24, 2023. Recently, Neo-nazi groups waving swastikas and other banners with hate-filled messages, gathered outside of Disney World to object to Disney’s support of LGBQT citizens. Several members of the group displayed “DeSantis 2024” flags. As in past similar situations, Governor

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Who’s minding the store in FL? DeSantis is campaigning for prez; Lt. Gov. Nuñez is in Paris

By MICHAEL MOLINE, The Florida Phoenix, June 20, 2023. Florida’s top two elected executive officials have been nowhere in evidence in the state, what with Gov. Ron DeSantis campaigning for president in California and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez promoting the Florida aviation industry at the Paris Air Show. On Monday, DeSantis traveled to Sacramento, according to KGO

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