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DeSantis Signs Bill Renaming Roads After Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation renaming roadways after... READ MORE. Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins: "I am unequivocally pro-life." Gubernatorial Candidate Paul Renner: "Florida didn't just talk about fighting woke ideology, we defeated it." Rep. Gus Bilirakis: "It was a pleasure to meet with officials […]
Former Florida Congressman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly reaffirmed his stance on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (DWS) controversial re-election campaign after a Miami-Dade attorney questioned him on social media in a post commemorating the Juneteenth holiday. Attorney Calls Jolly "Feckless" In an effort to politicize the commemoration of Juneteenth – the federal holiday that […]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, along with FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey, announced the arrest of a convicted drug trafficker whose federal prison sentence was commuted by autopen in the closing days of President Joe Biden's administration while speaking at a press conference in Hollywood this week. According to the attorney general, James Howard Dobbs, […]
DeSantis Touts Success of Progress Monitoring for Students in Language Arts, Mathematics Gov. Ron DeSantis announced more than 60% of Florida K-12 students are... READ MORE. Gubernatorial Candidate David Jolly: "Floridians are tired of the negativity, the division, and of politics that far too often puts special interests ahead of our […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Department of State have announced that Israel and the government of Lebanon have agreed to a framework agreement for “lasting peace and security” between the two countries. In a signing ceremony alongside Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, and State […]
President Donald Trump threatened to impose a retaliatory “100% TARIFF” on imports from any country that enforces a digital service tax on U.S. companies. Addressing the “Numerous European Countries” that have been in talks about the “imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies” and those “close to actually” enforcing it, President Trump […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation renaming roadways after President Donald Trump and late conservative activist Charlie Kirk into law this week. The bill (HB 33) renames a portion of Southwest 107th Avenue (State Road 90) between 8th Street and 24th Street alongside Florida International University (FIU) in Miami-Dade County as “Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue." Kirk […]
A federal judge temporarily blocked part of a Trump administration rule that would have limited how much students pursuing graduate degrees can borrow, depending on their field of study. Mere days before the policy was set to go into effect, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell imposed a preliminary injunction on some of the U.S Department […]
Amid House GOP hard-liners' attempts to jam the House Chamber over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE America Act), President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to end their retaliatory blockade of procedural votes that could put other major bills at risk. “House Republicans should unify, and stop voting down ‘Rules’ or, threatening to do […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced more than 60% of Florida K-12 students are performing at or above grade level in both English language arts and mathematics as part of the state's end-of-year progress monitoring system while speaking at a press conference in Lakeland this week. Florida started end-of-year progress monitoring, officially known as the Florida Assessment […]
Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells Endorses Jay Collins for Governor Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells announced his endorsement of... READ MORE. Gubernatorial Candidate David Jolly: "Let's rise above our politics, ensure TPS remains available to our Venezuelan brothers and sisters who have been displaced and to those who continue to flee the communist regime […]
DeSantis Announces Closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Center Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the closure "Alligator Alcatraz"... READ MORE. Senator Ashley Moody: "We now have anarchist psychos cannibalizing the Democrat Party. This should frighten every American." Byron War Room: "New York Democrats are now sending outright anti-American socialists to Congress — just […]
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) that sought to establish a federal voter list and place new restrictions on mail-in ballots. Trump's Executive Order "Legally Void" U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani declared that procedures ordered within EO 14399, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections”, are “legally void.” […]
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has granted the Trump administration the authority to strip legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the U.S. who fled from humanitarian crises. In a 6-3 vote led by the conservative majority, the high court threw out decisions by federal judges in New York and Washington, D.C., […]
Belinda Keiser, who is competing in the Republican primary for Florida's new 22nd Congressional District, suggested the border crisis under President Joe Biden was intentional in a new campaign ad. The Ad Itself The ad, posted on X, begins with Keiser saying, "It wasn't an accident; Joe Biden had a plan: Biden opened the border […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the closure "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida's illegal alien immigration detention center in the Everglades, while speaking at a press conference in Ochopee this week. "I said from the beginning that this was an emergency solution that would be temporary, that once DHS [Department of Homeland Security] had the wherewithal to be able […]
Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government. Adhering to an executive order (EO) issued by President Donald Trump in Mar. 2026, Steiner defended […]
Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells announced his endorsement of Lt. Gov. Jay Collins for Florida governor by praising his leadership on law enforcement in a statement this week. “I am proud to endorse Lt. Governor Jay Collins for Governor,” Wells said. “Under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis and Lt. Governor Collins, Florida has grown to be […]
