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Kameron Glasgow with his wife, Kenya Glasgow, and their daughters, Kennedi and Kensli. A Fort Lauderdale father is mourning the loss of his wife and young daughter Monday after a lightning strike a day earlier took their lives. Kameron Glasgow said his 31-year-old wife, Kenya Glasgow, and their 2-year-old daughter Kennedi were getting out of their car in front of a family member’s Margate home when the lightning hit. Kennedi’s twin sister, Kensli, was still in the car, and Kameron was about 15 feet away — where he felt the aftershock. “It’s the worst feeling in the world to turn...

Florida is doing what no blue-state classroom dares: forcing students to confront the actual body count of communism instead of romanticizing it. Starting this fall, every public school student from sixth grade onward will receive mandatory instruction on the history and evils of communism under standards signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The curriculum covers the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Revolution, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and the recent capture of Nicolás Maduro. It details the mass deaths under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Castro, the failure of collectivism, and the superiority of free enterprise and private property....

A Haines City, Florida, police officer has been charged with official misconduct after allegedly misusing Flock Safety surveillance cameras 717 times to track his estranged wife’s vehicle. According to Tampa TV station WTSP, officer Christopher Goodson, 31, was charged Tuesday with multiple offenses. According to an affidavit obtained by the television station, Goodson used the surveillance system between Sept. 1, 2024, and June 30, 2026, entering his estranged wife’s license plate into the system to track her vehicle. Goodson allegedly used the system 280 times in September 2025 and 104 times in November 2025. When asked for the reason behind...

Progressive Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon has pulled off a major upset in the Democratic primary for US Senate, defeating former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman, according to projections from multiple networks on Tuesday. Nixon will face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody in the general election. Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who became nationally known after testifying during President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment hearings, had been considered the strong favorite heading into Tuesday's primary. Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, campaigned as a progressive challenger seeking to demonstrate that insurgent left-wing politics could...

It was a crowded field of Republican candidates vying for the chance to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis – who is term-limited and unable to run for reelection a third time – but Florida Republicans made a decisive choice Tuesday night: Rep. Byron Donalds (FL-19) will be the GOP nominee for governor. Donalds beat out 10 other candidates to seal the nomination, with preliminary results showing him sitting around 49 percent, compared with 25 percent for Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, 10 percent for James Fishback, and 8 percent for Paul Renner. On the Democrat side, former Republican congressman David Jolly cruised...

Midterm Primaries 2026 The battle for control of Congress is on. Republicans hope to maintain and expand their narrow majorities in the fall for the second half of President Donald Trump’s term, while Democrats will aim to win over voters frustrated with Trump on the economy and other issues. Republican Primaries Florida Governor Donalds 47.8% Collins 25.2% House District 14 Beltran 45.6% Steele 30.2% Florida House District 19 Schwartzel 29.1% Lauf 22% House District 22 Askar 30.8% Carbonara 19% Democratic Primaries House District 20 Debbie Wasserman schultz 45.4% Dale Holness 23.1% Elijah Manley 13.9% Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick 9.2% Luther Campbell 8.4%...

🚨 LMAO!! White Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz just WON the Democratic House primary for FL-20, a plurality BLACK district Members of her own party CONDEMNED her for running and taking a seat from black people You can't make this up 🤡 Democrats don't care about black people, THEY JUST WANT POWER

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is term-limited, opening up an opportunity in the nation’s third-largest state. GOP Rep. Byron Donalds got President Donald Trump’s endorsement. It is 8:06 pm in Florida and enough votes have been counted to declare Byron Donalds the winner. Within the next hour more than 90% of the votes will be counted. Meanwhile, California is still wondering why their residents are moving to FL

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Florida man just casually walked away with a full Flock surveillance camera… still bolted to a 12-foot pole… while draped in the American flag 🇺🇸 Security followed him like lost puppies. This is either the most based thing You’ll see all year or pure chaos. Is this what peak freedom looks like in 2026? Would you have the balls to do this? Hero… or criminal?

WASHINGTON — GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson and Dem Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have teamed up for a rare bipartisan rebuke of a Florida Republican pol who spewed vile antisemitic rhetoric against his primary foe. Wannabe House member Daniel Bilzerian rolled out a disturbing ad last week attacking fellow Republican and incumbent Rep Randy Fine as a “fat Jew,” “Shylock” and “satanic whore” and suggesting whether it was worth revisiting Adolf Hitler’s "opinions"

Fort Myers News-Press & Naples Daily News via Yahoo.com Trump endorses in crowded Florida Congressional District 19 race. Who is his pick? Aug. 14, 2026 Key Points • President Donald Trump endorsed Catalina Lauf for Florida's 19th Congressional District. • Rival candidates in the Republican primary have emphasized their local roots in response. • Lauf and opponent Jim Schwartzel have clashed over the firing of a local meteorologist. • The winner of the Republican primary is widely expected to win the general election in the conservative district. With the Republican primary election quickly approaching, President Donald Trump has officially entered...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited the Port of Pensacola on Wednesday to award $9 million from the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund to the City of Pensacola, supporting the establishment of Birdon America Inc.’s Southeastern headquarters and creating 2,000 new jobs. The grant funding will aid in public infrastructure enhancements and capacity building to support the construction of two shipbuilding facilities totaling approximately 400,000 square feet of manufacturing space at the Port of Pensacola. The new facilities will expand Florida’s maritime manufacturing capacity, allowing the port to produce complex Navy ship modules for submarines and surface vessels up to 400...

From wrongful arrests to officers stalking exes, license plate cameras keep exposing police failures.On October 4, 2025, Joaquin Deno attended his granddaughter's birthday party in Sanford, Florida. At the end of the night, he headed to his daughter's house. Eight miles down Interstate 4, a speeding car swerved across multiple lanes at over 100 mph. It swiped Deno's motorcycle, then hit a Ford Focus, causing a pileup, before driving away. Deno died at the scene, as did a county official and his wife. Witnesses said the speeding car was a Dodge Durango. Police found that a Flock camera—a type of...

Deputy Troy Savetz kidnapped and murdered Mandy Fackler, 39, after an argument late Monday, authorities said. Authorities say Fackler's ex-boyfriend, Pinellas County sheriff's Deputy Troy Savetz, kidnapped Sackler in Hudson on Monday and then fatally shot her and himself. By the time spring arrived earlier this year, Mandy Fackler was ready to give her relationship with Pinellas County sheriff’s Deputy Troy Savetz another chance. In a public Facebook post on March 24, Fackler shared a couple of photos of herself and Savetz smiling as they held identical mugs that resembled revolvers and bore the American flag. “We hadn’t talked in...

A man who was carrying ammunition was arrested near the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles County over the weekend as the president announced a Southern California visit for a Republican National Committee event on Tuesday. In a news release shared by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, deputies said that plainclothes federal agents reported a suspicious individual on the property at 1 Trump National Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday afternoon. "The individual was observed walking throughout the golf course grounds taking photographs and videos and appearing to monitor security-planning activities," the release said. When deputies approached...

A Venezuelan woman who graduated from St. Thomas University and lives in South Florida was released by ICE on Monday after being detained nearly three weeks ago by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as she tried to travel to North Carolina... “Claudia had no criminal record. Her detention is unacceptable," South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman said. "I was able to speak with her, and she told us about the terrible conditions she experienced while detained at...

Like Joe Biden’s infamous June 2024 debate performance, where he exposed himself to the world as incapable of continuing his presidency, former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci’s non-testimony at Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing may go down as one of the quickest and harshest falls from grace in recent memory. Although people with brains knew long ago that the fibbin’ doctor was a fraud who severely mismanaged the pandemic, made a mockery of the Constitution while chasing ever-more fawning news coverage, and ruined countless lives, the mainstream media and gullible leftists have...

On July 14, the State Leadership Initiative was honored to host the Florida DOGE team and their tech partners, Vulcan, Echelon, and DigiBuild, for the Florida DOGE Showcase in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has become the leader for providing accountable and efficient governance to its citizens.Since its creation in 2025, the Florida DOGE team has identified nearly $1 billion in waste and abuse at the local government level and sent over $878 million back to the federal government. But the team's work extends beyond fiscal savings and budgetary cuts - it also includes auditing university...

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times. It's an unprecedented defiance of congressional will for a man who has already received a sweeping presidential pardon. Congress would do well to vote to hold Fauci in contempt. Wednesday's intense senatorial standoff followed Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) earlier release of damning excerpts...