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When the mild-mannered and ever-likable Rep. Alcee Hastings (D) passed away on Tuesday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Florida’s 20th congressional district came into play as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now tasked to call for a special election to fill the vacant seat.
With the proposal of HB 267 on the House floor, we could possibly see cruise lines coming back to Key West, FL. HB 267 intends to seize control of city ports in Key West by the state of Florida and allow cruise liners to resume docking, contrary to how voters in the area wished on multiple occasions.
When Major League Baseball (MLB) decided to relocate the All-Star game away from Atlanta because of the recently-signed election integrity law in Georgia, an avalanche of opposition came down against the boycott at the local, state, and federal levels across the country.
Florida lawmakers are sharing their thoughts on what Rep. Hastings meant to Florida politics and the political arena as a whole.
President Donald J. Trump (R) has released a statement, slamming Georgia leadership in his effort to replace some GOP lawmakers with Republicans that support his “America First” agenda.
The Manjarres family would like to extend its condolences to the Hastings family after learning that Congressman Alcee Hastings passed away.
Former Congressman Allen West once said that “Education is the greatest equalizer” in our society today, but Academia has gone from teaching our kids the basis ABCs and 123’s to teaching them about hate and anti-Semitism.
AG Commissioner Nikki Fried and her folks over at Florida Consumers First appear to have taken a premature victory lap around Gov. DeSantis when the 60 Minutes aired their now-debunked and “Fake News” hit piece on him over his COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Ever since President Donald Trump took office, the GOP has adopted an America First foreign policy agenda, and even though there is a new president in the White House, Rep. Brian Mast (R-18) has channeled Sen. Rand Paul (R) and is now calling for the withdrawal all foreign aid. When asked about the recent spending […]
Florida's vaccine plan has made nationwide headlines recently after Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) officially did away with vaccine passports. However, Democrat-run Palm Beach County was the subject of a 60 minutes interview that blasted their handling of the vaccine distribution and Gov. DeSantis vaccine roll-out effort, calling it 'pay-to-play.'
According to the Miami Herald, in 2015 Florida International University (FIU) was ranked #14 in the nation with the amount of attending Jewish-American students (3,500) it had enrolled. But now some of those students, who signed up to take Professor Ronald Morales’s “Terrorism and Homeland Security” course are saying that the last thing they expected was to be subjected to...
Florida lawmakers are asking the U.S. army Corps of Engineers to eliminate regulatory discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie as part of the Lake Okeechobee System Manual.
Whenever the term “pay-to-play” comes up in the state of Florida, usually anti-DeSantis and Left-leaning blogger Peter Schorsch’s name comes to mind to just about every politico throughout the state over the past allegations made against him.
The current “pay-t0-play” narrative being pressed by Florida Democrats and media outlets alleging that Gov. Ron DeSantis picked Publix Supermarkets to administer the COVID-19 vaccine statewide because the grocery giant donated $100,000 to the governor’s political action committee, has been summarily debunked, again.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for Manatee County as an "imminent" and complete breach of the Piney Point wastewater pond is expected.
After decrying that he was completely opposed to “vaccine passports” in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an executive order to prohibit “COVID-19 vaccine passports,” citing individual freedoms and the harm to “patient privacy."
After the 2020 election, voting rights have been at the top of most American minds, especially Republicans. The GOP has taken swift action across the country to combat ambiguous voter laws, and here in Florida, Senator Dennis Baxley's SB 90 is the tip of the spear. However, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried (D-FL) a strong […]
The illegal immigration crisis along the border has reached a fever pitch, and with the “Catch-and-Release” immigration reform strategy the Biden Administration appears to have re-adopted, the Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has now penned a letter to President Biden demanding that he cancel his recent executive edict that allows criminal illegal aliens to go free.
