Extremist groups are now organizing locally to pursue their hateful agenda in public view, including the targeting of community safe havens like schools and houses of worship.
Florida Phoenix
Abraham Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address is a fitting tribute for the remembrance today of those who have fallen in defense of this nation, from enemies without and within.
The FOX-MAGA Florida government will not admit that inequality in America is baked into our institutions, from health care to the law to education—even though it’s as obvious as Donald Trump’s fake tan.
Ron DeSantis's behavior is similar to how the Germans handled higher education in the 1930s: You either got with the cultural program or else, like economist Peter Drucker and physicist Albert Einstein, you left.
Florida's GOP House majority now wants 18-year-olds to be able to buy rifles, shotguns and even AR-15s—because, well, its Florida.
Welcome to DeSantistan—an over-the-top look at what life might be like with Ron DeSantis operating without restraints.
At an April 15 retreat for donors to the Republican National Committee, Cleta Mitchell called on her party to find ways to tighten the rules for student voting in several battleground states.
So Ron DeSantis would have command of a military police unit with arrest powers across the state of Florida. What could go wrong?
Republicans from Tennessee to Tallahassee to Tacoma struggle manfully to stop "decorum" rule-breakers who would keep disrupting their white men’s God-ordained exercise of unchecked power.
An EPA survey points out the hidden danger of lead pipes in the water supply system that Florida hasn’t bothered to track.
Florida Republicans hate education that they haven't blessed. So, don't be be surprised if, along with DeSantis’ election cops and his Praetorian Guard, the Legislature authorizes an Iranian-style Morality Police.
Increased burdens on voter-registration groups and higher fines are just some of features of a new bill that was sneaked in quietly after 2 a.m. in the morning.
The proposed Florida House bill's author is trying to create a Florida-specific standard for free speech protections. Even private citizens who speak out on social media could be caught up in costly defamation lawsuits.
Ron DeSantis and his rubber-stamp Republican legislature are on a path to pass laws that will protect big companies from lawsuits for operating in bad faith and easier for officials to sue any critics for liable.
Ron DeSantis's is replacing board members of various groups that have opposed his far-right vision for Florida. And now he wants bloggers that write about him to register with the state. First Amendment anyone?
Republicans want to protect our children from ever knowing that Barack Obama was president, that gay people exist, that sex is something fun, and that white Americans ever took anyone’s land, enslaved anyone or invaded countries for no reason.