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On Wednesday, State Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book (D-FL) alongside State Representative Hillary Cassel (D-FL) introduced a bill to ensure paid family leave for state employees who give birth, including cases such as the tragic, traumatic experience of stillbirth. According to Sen. Book’s press release, the Senate Minority Leader introduced the legislation (SB 576) in […]

West Palm Beach—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, to announce his “Digital Bill of Rights” initiative to hold Big Tech and social media platforms accountable for their online “grooming” and exploitation of children. The legislative proposal bans the use of TikTok and other social media […]

Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book (D) and State Senator Tina Polsky (D) held a Tuesday, February 14th, 10 am press conference to discuss the Republican-controlled legislature's plan to pass permitless carry gun legislation. At 10:17 am, the state of Florida paused for a moment of silence in honor of the 17 innocent children and teachers […]

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and his administration just recently introduced bicameral proposal to the state legislature. The bill, according to Gov. DeSantis, will aim to “protect Floridians from the Woke ESG Financial Scam.” The bill proposal was announced in collaboration with State Senate President Kathleen Passidomo (R-FL) and State Speaker Paul Renner (R-FL). Environmental, Social, […]

Nikki Fried (D) is seeking the Florida Democratic Party Chair.

Almost two dozen of the nation’s most prominent Jewish leaders have written a letter to AT&T and DirecTV demanding to know why the Newsmax channel was deplatformed. Earlier the week a broad coalition of 23 Jewish leaders -- including former Senators Joe Lieberman and Norm Coleman, former ADL chief Abe Foxman, power broker Malcolm Hoenlein, […]

TALLAHASSEE --- After a sometimes-emotional debate about immigrants and the nation’s border policies, state lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a plan that likely will lead to Florida transporting more migrants to “sanctuary” areas of the country. The Republican-controlled House voted 77-34 to approve the plan (SB 6-B), giving a victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis. […]

In a recent interview with The Floridian, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D) discussed the state of the Florida Democratic Party, even as state Democrats look to former state Senator Annette Taddeo, and possibly former Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, to possibly lead them. "There really is an absence of leadership," she says, saying whatever leadership it currently […]

The Floridian caught up with Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) and Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) to discuss Biden's comments.

DeSantis  shared excerpts on social media from the budget's unveiling and how his administration will support FDOT.

In just 4 years under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans made an incredible 700,000  voter registration swing, topping Florida Democrats by 400,000 registered voters Gov. DeSantis just made the announcement on social media, reminding Floridians that as of the 2022 midterm election, Republicans were besting Democrats by 300,000. "In 2018, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by […]

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) held a roundtable discussion around the topic of defamation in Hialeah Gardens.. The main point of the event was to consider the legacy media’s effect on regular people who look to post on stories before they can be confirmed or are taken out of context. The discussion included prominent names (but […]

In a special legislative session of the Florida Legislature,  the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), run by the Walt Disney Company, appears to have its days numbered. Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has sought to curb the power of Disney in the state, and this may be the measure that does it. First formed in 1967, […]

Anna V. Eskamani (D) took to Twitter to scold DeSantis over his recent feud with a drag show.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and the state Department of Education (DoE) excluded The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course for high school students, fueling the Democratic narrative that the Governor was racist against the Black community. Gov. DeSantis and the state DoE found that the course “significantly lacks educational value,” but some, […]

TALLAHASSEE --- Florida lawmakers will start a special legislative session Monday that is expected to lead to state control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted last year after the Walt Disney Co. criticized a controversial education law. House and Senate leaders Friday announced plans for the special session, which also […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, through the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DPBR), has filed a formal 6-count complaint against the Orlando Philharmonic Foundation Inc., for exposing minor children to lewd sexual acts during a drag show that took place in Orlando on December 28, and will be revoking the organization's liquor license. As The […]

The historical cruelties of socialism are too great to deny. As such, the House passes a resolution condemning the ideology. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz nonetheless uses this as an opportunity to take a shot at Governor Ron DeSantis. "Socialist tyrants in Cuba and Venezuela deserve condemnation, but today’s resolution fails to list their worst abuses […]