Rick Scott says letting Social Security and Medicare laws expire will ‘preserve’ them
Even Fox News wasn’t buying the Florida Republican’s claims about his tax plan.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2022Even Fox News wasn’t buying the Florida Republican’s claims about his tax plan.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2022The Florida Republican is defending his party’s harmful ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation.
By Josh Israel - March 15, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 04, 2022Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to shut down centers assisting undocumented migrant children in Florida.
By Oliver Willis - February 24, 2022Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s plan for GOP control would also undermine aid for children, halt the nation’s climate change response, sunset civil rights laws, and eliminate more than 2 million jobs.
By Josh Israel - February 22, 2022Florida is among many states in which Black neighborhoods have been destroyed by highway construction.
By Oliver Willis - February 01, 2022Rep.-elect Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick improved on President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin of victory in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2022Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021Anti-LGBTQ groups are claiming that schools are violating the rights of teachers and parents.
By Casey Quinlan - November 18, 2021After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 25, 2021Their latest mission is to pull books with LGBTQ themes from school libraries.
By Casey Quinlan - October 22, 2021Anthony Sabatini is running for Congress as ‘the most conservative member of Florida’s state legislature.’
By Casey Quinlan - October 12, 2021The Treasury Department warned Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey about the state’s use of COVID relief funding.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - October 06, 2021Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previously called the Texas law ‘interesting’ and said he would ‘look more significantly at it.’
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2021The Centers for Disease Control recommends wearing masks for all who are unvaccinated, including children.
By Oliver Willis - September 01, 2021Hospital systems are working overtime to get a pro-vaccine message out, but they’re competing against rumors that filter through social media feeds.
By Associated Press - August 22, 2021Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said he feared masks would impact kids’ ‘health.’
By Emily Singer - August 18, 2021A new report shows near-constant communication between Fox News and the Florida governor’s office for months following the November presidential election.
By Oliver Willis - August 13, 2021Florida is now facing one of the country’s worst COVID-19 caseloads.
By Emily Singer - August 11, 2021The Missouri Republican wants to block efforts to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus even while children remain the most vulnerable.
By Emily Singer - August 10, 2021Florida and Texas have banned schools and businesses from requiring that people wear masks or be vaccinated.
By Emily Singer - August 09, 2021Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) says efforts to promote vaccination are ‘things that communist or socialist regimes engage in.’
By Oliver Willis - July 13, 2021‘The work continues with all speed and urgency.’
By Associated Press - July 10, 2021Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini boasted of his endorsement from the longtime political consultant, who has a history of discriminatory and questionable behavior.
By Oliver Willis - June 25, 2021Rep. Burgess Owens briefly posted a tweet promoting Anna Paulina Luna’s run for Congress in Florida.
By Oliver Willis - June 14, 2021Black people, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans argue that dissenting perspectives are often missing from text books and classroom discussions.
By Associated Press - June 10, 2021Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis complained just months ago that Twitter and other social media sites were ‘enforcers of preferred narratives.’
By Oliver Willis - June 08, 2021‘All Floridians will have to face the consequences of this anti-transgender legislation — including economic harm, expensive taxpayer-funded legal battles, and a tarnished reputation,’ Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David said.
By Associated Press - June 01, 2021Georgia Democrats’ focus on narrow demographic slices of the electorate could prove especially intriguing to party leaders in other Southern Sun Belt states.
By Associated Press - May 26, 2021James O’Keefe and his group, Project Veritas, specialize in the production of deceptively edited videos to smear Democrats, progressives, and the media.
By Oliver Willis - May 24, 2021