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After a lengthy pandemic, the state of Florida is finally completely open for business after Governor Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) signed an executive order canceling all local COVID restrictions across the state. Gov. DeSantis, along with many other officials have started discussing recovery and how we can be prepared for the next crisis. One of those officials is CFO Jimmy Patronis...
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is expected to announce her 2022 gubernatorial run for office in the coming weeks, is referring to Governor Ron DeSantis as a communist dictator and equating him to some of the most notorious murdering and human rights oppressors in the Western Hemisphere—Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.
Today Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) held a press conference in St. Petersburg, Florida to discuss COVID-19 in Florida, and surprise everyone with signing a new bill into law and signing an executive order that would lift nearly all local and state COVID restrictions. The Governor was joined by Speaker Chris Sprowls (R-FL) and Senate President Wilton Simpson (R-FL). Senator Danny Burgess,...
Today US Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) called out the "progressive" Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried (D-FL) for violating a law that hurts efforts to restore Florida's waterways and benefits water polluters.
While criticism against other lawmakers that voted against Trump have lost steam, the criticism against Cheney has subsisted with her being called "an obstruction to leadership unity."
It’s receiving criticism across the state from Democrats like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who called it another attempt to “keep the ugly legacy of voter suppression alive” in the Sunshine State.
Anyone that tries to convince you that ANTIFA and the Black Lives Matter movement are not one and the same is trying to pull a fast one over you.
When Rep. Alcee Hastings (D) passed away earlier this year, his loss caused a political vacuum in South Florida that prompted several top Democratic legislators, like Sen. Perry Thurston (D) to scramble to launch their respective congressional campaigns to fill the void Hasting’s passing left in the U.S. Congress.
Miami—With May 1st being arguably the most important communist holiday worldwide, where radical left-of-center groups like ANTIFA and BLM celebrate with violent events, a group of activists from the conservative group called Floridians First held a lawful Pro-America rally on a known protesting location of local ANTIFA members. The rally was held directly in front of Bayside Market Place at...
The controversial bill that bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girl’s sports that passed in the Florida Legislature has received an unexpected show of support for one of most prolific athletes in U.S. history — Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner.
Conservatives are right to be concerned with Big Tech censorship - and might be tempted to celebrate the Florida Legislature’s passage this week of one of Governor Ron DeSantis’ priority bills for this session: SB 7072, which cracks down on online platforms for their content moderation abuses. However, the bill includes one notable Disney exemption […]
The Florida legislative session had plenty of issues to tackle this past legislative session, and now that it's finally over, some members of the Florida Legislature, such as Senator Debbie Mayfield (R-Melbourne), have delivered on their promises on COVID liability, balancing the budget, and more. The Republican-led legislature aimed at the beginning of this session […]
In an interview with Fox News, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) discussed the President’s address, commenting that Biden avoided mentioning “the biggest disaster of the first 100 days.”
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, there was plenty of damage left by the passing storm, including facilities at Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (NASP), Florida Senators Marco Rubio (R), and Rick Scott (R) have teamed up on a joint effort to launch a recovery campaign. The recovery campaign starts with the NAS […]
Liuetenant Governor Jeanette M. Nuñez (R) directed a tweet to Commissioner Fried, calling her comments "offensive" and praising Governor DeSantis’ decision.
It’s the last day of the 2021 legislative session and Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is on the verge of officially announcing her run for governor in the 2022 mid-term election, has going full frontal fascism in her campaign assault against Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party.
This week, a Miami private school was the center of national criticism after their faculty and staff publicly discouraged vaccines and spread disinformation about the coronavirus vaccine. Which then caught the attention of state Senator Jason Pizzo (D-38). The Miami private school, the Centner Academy, prevented all teachers from getting the vaccine, and would not […]
The Florida Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis have done it their way as the 2021 legislative session comes to an end today. The Republican-led governing body swung for the fences many times over the past two months and found itself circling the bases over and over and over.
