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Gen Z leader now running for vice chair of Florida Democratic Party
Jayden D’Onofrio, the 20-year-old chair of the Florida Future Leaders PAC, announced his candidacy for the post on Thursday
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Florida Democrat Lindsay Cross predicts a Florida bear hunt in 2025 would be ‘wildly unpopular’
Florida’s last black bear hunt was in 2015 and was shut down after its second day after nearly 300 bears had been killed
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Donald Trump doesn’t think DeSantis will appoint Lara Trump to U.S. Senate seat
‘I probably don’t, but I don’t know. Ron’s doing a good job and that’s his choice. Nothing to do with me.’
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Florida Democrats call on Biden to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment before he leaves office
Public opinion polls taken over the years have shown strong support from American voters for the ERA
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‘There has to be something in it for DeSantis’: The Florida governor’s dilemma on picking Lara Trump for Senate
‘This is a piece of gold that DeSantis has that he’s not going to give up without something in return’
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Hurricanes Helene and Milton potentially spread more than a hundred invasive species to Florida
Among species of concern that may have been spread by Helene and Milton are the giant applesnail and the Asian swamp eel
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Trump insists he ‘pulled’ Florida sheriff Chad Chronister from DEA consideration
The episode would appear to validate complaints the president-elect hasn’t fully vetted his nominees
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Rick Scott defends Pete Hegseth, who is accused of mistreating women and getting drunk on the job
The Florida lawmaker said Wednesday morning that he’s standing by Hegseth to lead the Pentagon
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Florida lawmakers, activists weigh in on what Trump’s ‘mass deportations’ would look like
President-elect Donald Trump has promised the largest deportation effort in American history
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Florida lawmaker wants state to clarify medical exceptions in six-week abortion ban
‘I am focusing purely on medical exceptions. Because we don’t want women in Florida dying’
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‘Conditions that no human should live in’: Orlando’s Maxwell Frost seeks closure of Florida detention center
The center, a county jail near Jacksonville, operates in part as a federal immigration detention facility
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‘Serious allegations of sex parties and drugs’: Florida conservative group blasts Trump for Matt Gaetz AG pick
‘President-elect Donald Trump has quickly named many good choices to serve in his cabinet. But Matt Gaetz is not one of them’
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Trump received 56% of the Hispanic vote in Florida, new exit poll finds
Out of 10 states polled, only in Florida did Trump best Harris among Latinos
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‘It was a reaction to the pregnant pigs’: Florida lawmakers recall what led to 60% threshold to pass amendments
Why did the state even create such a high standard?
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Donald Trump, Kamala Harris featured in new ad touting Florida’s Amendment 3
Trump announced on his Truth Social page last month that ‘[a]s a Floridian, I will be voting YES on Amendment 3 this November’
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Bipartisan group blasts DeSantis for using taxpayer money to fight Florida’s Amendment 3
‘This is undemocratic and a violation of Florida laws to spend taxpayer funds on political ads. Period.’
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Trulieve CEO tours Florida to ‘set the record straight’ on Amendment 3
The company has invested more than $80 million to get Amendment 3 passed in Florida this fall
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‘Republican politicians have gone too far’: Florida Democrats make final pitch to NPA voters with new ad
More than 3.5 million NPA voters are registered in Florida, more than a quarter of the electorate
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Florida activists call out DeSantis for ignoring climate crisis
Activists in Jacksonville, Orlando and St. Petersburg on Tuesday blasted the governor’s stance on climate change
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Rick Scott is ‘Florida’s biggest snake’ in new Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ad
‘Scott slid into the Senate, where he wrote the plan to end Social Security, raise your taxes, and ban abortion’