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Though a couple of Democratic lawmakers have been touted as potential candidates for each respective seat, one Democratic lawmaker has taken to social media to joke about a potential gubernatorial run.

Repercussions from the 2020 general elections continue to plague the Florida Democratic Party as the group’s youngest base of support appears to have turned on leadership and have called for them to “resign or be fired from their positions within the party.”

When the political dust settled after the 2020 presidential election in Florida, it was abundantly clear that Florida Democrats suffered embarrassing and “historic defeats” to Republicans statewide,  losing countless local and state elections, as well as two highly-coveted congressional seats in Miami-Dade County.

After the U.S. Supreme Court heard opening arguments in the third legal challenge to put an end to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it appears as if the Justices are going to leave the controversial and broken healthcare law in place.

Over the weekend, demonstrators marched through downtown Miami and Brickell, blocking traffic while calling for defunding the police. Ultimately, the protest ended with protestors being tear gassed on I-395, and this is resulting in legislation that may reach the House or Senate floor.

In a story that has been developing in a tumultuous year, a bipartisan effort has brought the conclusion needed to honor a veteran for his service. It was announced today that the U.S. Senate had approved a bipartisan bill that was introduced by Florida Reps. Stephanie Murphy (D), Michael Waltz (R) and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R), which authorizes the President...

Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R), who recently announced he would be seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate, believes that “the elements that control the Democrat Party today are crazy,” and that if Biden officially becomes president, his cabinet would be comprised of people “that are out of their minds.”

In response to the 2020 presidential election results, where major news sources have reported Vice President Joe Biden (D) as the winner, President Donald Trump (R) has begun litigation this week to contest several state election results, citing widespread voter fraud.

One of the most, if not the most, clear and present threats to U.S. national security in the Western Hemisphere is the growing influence and support from the Islamic State of Iran to the dictatorial regime of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela.

Much to the surprise of certain Pinellas County-based Progressive bloggers with an appetite for just about everything edible in sight (They were wrong again), Senator Marco Rubio has announced that he would be seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate. 

Senator-elect Shevrin Jones (D), on the heels of winning his state senate race, announced his People’s Agenda, which is billed as “a focused set of priorities reflective of his constituents’ interests that he will introduce in the upcoming 2021 session.”

The actual contest between President Donald Trump and Biden appears far from over as the Trump campaign’s legal contests challenging individual state election results begin to take shape this week, so no one should be counting their chickens yet. Even Mexico’s President Manuel Lopez Obrador said to wait before “all legal issues” are resolved.

Siri, everyone's favorite virtual mouthpiece and communicator of all things necessary to navigate through life, has had a slip of the tongue and appears to have gotten ahead of herself in crowning Sen. Kamala Harris President of the United States.

The Florida Hispanic vote delivered a huge and unprecedented victory for President Donald Trump and Republicans throughout the state, with almost half of the Latinos that voted having supported the president, including Cuban-American and Venezuelan-American voters in South Florida.

Regardless of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, one thing is for sure in Florida, Florida Democrats are licking their wounds

Fresh off his Election Day victory over Republican challenger Ana Paulina Luna, Congressman Charlie Crist has weighed in on the outstanding votes- most of which are mail in ballots- that are currently being counted in several battleground states.

President Donald Trump forewarned the nation that massive voter suppression, fraud campaign was afoot months ago, and according to the Trump campaign and other Republican groups and elected officials, not to mention scores of social media videos showing rampant and suspected voter fraud, the fraud is real. Just about every single congressional Democrat in Florida […]

After the dust settled in many competitive and not-so-competitive municipal, state level, and federal races in Florida, it was clear that the Democratic Party effort to co-opt the long-standing Republican absentee ballot effort worked.