Body camera footage shows people arrested for voting under DeSantis’ voter fraud law
The arrests are part of a larger effort by Florida Republicans to disenfranchise Black voters, civil rights advocates say.
By Matt Cohen - October 20, 2022The arrests are part of a larger effort by Florida Republicans to disenfranchise Black voters, civil rights advocates say.
By Matt Cohen - October 20, 2022‘I’m not a global warming person. I don’t want that label on me,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis said in 2018.
By Adrian Cole - October 18, 2022The false claim was based on conservatives taking the vice president’s comments about the Biden administration’s racial injustice policy out of context.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2022The veterans’ group’s leader wrote in 2016 that nonpartisanship is a ‘mandate.’
By Adrian Cole - October 06, 2022Hurricane Ian highlights the double standard on federal aid as Florida begins to rebuild.
By Adrian Cole - October 05, 2022President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration for Florida a day after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request despite DeSantis’ repeated attacks on the administration.
By Oliver Willis - September 30, 2022The complaint against Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and others says they ‘designed and executed a premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme centered on exploiting’ vulnerable asylum-seekers for their own political, personal and financial gain.
By Adrian Cole - September 22, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis decries ‘Bidenflation’ but fails to credit the billions from Biden’s American Rescue Plan that helped create his state’s budget surplus.
By Adrian Cole - September 21, 2022Dozens of asylum seekers say they were lured into boarding buses or planes headed to Washington, DC and Martha’s Vineyard with promises of jobs and housing.
By Oliver Willis - September 16, 2022Staff in Florida schools face legal jeopardy, attention from hate groups, and demonization from conservatives if they show support for LGBTQ children.
By Adrian Cole - September 13, 2022Education advocates in the state say the move sets a ‘dangerous’ precedent.
By Adrian Cole - August 31, 2022Gubernatorial candidates Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist were among those who condemned proposals by the governor and other Republicans to bus mostly Cuban migrants out of the Sunshine State.
By Adrian Cole - August 23, 2022‘If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,’ wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. ‘But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.’
By Associated Press - August 21, 2022Trump is under investigation for keeping classified White House documents at his Palm Beach residence.
By Associated Press - August 09, 2022Gov. Ron DeSantis’s appointees are pushing to restrict transgender health care post-Roe while ignoring advocates’ concerns.
By Casey Quinlan - August 05, 2022Republican luminaries such as Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Ted Cruz took to the stage in Tampa to spew slurs and insults for an appreciative audience.
By Adrian Cole - July 26, 2022‘The governor doesn’t make the law,’ said Shelly Skeen of Lambda Legal. ‘The family code in fact says that parents should be providing medically necessary care to their kids.’
By Casey Quinlan - July 07, 2022‘We’re not seeing a whole lot of common sense in his policies. He tends to toss aside serious ideas about climate change as just left-wing politics,’ said Sierra Club Florida political director Luigi Guadarrama.
By Adrian Cole - July 06, 2022Judge John Cooper noted that the Florida Constitution’s provision on the right to privacy ‘is clearly implicated in a woman’s decision of whether or not to continue her pregnancy.’
By Adrian Cole - June 30, 2022Anti-LGBTQ Republicans have turned their attention to falsely accusing drag performers of ‘grooming’ children for sexual abuse.
By Casey Quinlan - June 21, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis denied funding for new personnel for the state’s licensing division.
By Adrian Cole - June 06, 2022Ron DeSantis’ campaign had previously said it would not take any money from Steven Alembik.
By Adrian Cole - May 13, 2022TransSOCIAL in Florida and the HiDad Project in Arizona are two of the groups providing assistance to LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - May 05, 2022President Joe Biden acknowledged that the potential decision in Dobbs would have consequences for other civil and human rights issues.
By Oliver Willis - May 03, 2022Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said, ‘I can tell you that before I am done as governor, we will have a signature on that bill.’
By Adrian Cole - May 02, 2022Florida’s Republican governor has passed a flurry of bills this month attacking abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights, making districts less representative, and creating a police force just for elections.
By Adrian Cole - April 28, 2022Charlie Crist demanded transparency about the Florida Department of Education’s reasons for banning of math textbooks.
By Adrian Cole - April 22, 2022The Republican Florida senator has taken at least $9,000 from Disney’s corporate PAC this election cycle alone.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt has a long history of opposing the civil rights of LGBTQ people.
By Josh Israel - April 06, 2022