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On Tuesday, the Florida GOP met for a leadership forum that included Gov. Ron DeSantis and top-of-the-ticket candidates like Rep. Byron Donalds (FL-19), the gubernatorial nominee, and current Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is seeking a full term after being appointed in early 2025 by DeSantis to replace then-AG Ashley Moody, who was DeSantis' pick to succeed then-Sen. Marco Rubio after he was nominated as Trump's Secretary of State. SNIP>>>> We have 4 million more residents than New York State does, yet our budget's $117 billion, their budget's $268 BILLION dollars!" "We have the lowest per capita tax in the...

The funeral for a Florida teen who died in a shooting devolved into violent mayhem over the weekend when mourners allegedly attempted a street takeover and cops fired mace balls at them. Loved ones grieving the death earlier this month of Nigel Beckford, 19, in Boynton Beach claimed that officers unfairly attacked them after they had buried the teen and left the gravesite Saturday. Five men were arrested, and sheriff’s deputies found four stolen firearms when the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office gang unit broke up the unruly situation, WPBF reported. “We’re just coming from the graveyard!” Beckford’s aunt Shanna Burks...

DeSantis does it again. On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did something no other governor has done. He tore down all the Flock cameras on the highways. [DeSantis] told interviewer Eric Bolling that state agencies would take down the units they control and that 'we're going to clear the state right-of-ways.' The governor estimated that the large majority of Florida's roughly 7,500 license-plate readers sit on local rather than state roads. The memo applies only to devices in the right-of-way of the State Highway System. It does not cover cameras on county or city roads, private property or other types...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that the state will be ending its partnership with Flock, resulting in approximately 700 cameras being removed across the state. JUST IN: FDOT cracks down on license plate readers, orders Flock cameras removed from state roads“The purpose of this memorandum is to notify local law enforcement agencies of updates related to the Florida Department of Transportation’s (Department) authority regarding the…— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) August 31, 2026Florida will be revoking Flock's License Plate Reader permits on all state roads.That is roughly 700 Flock Cameras that will be removed.Other contractors, are not being touched, nor are...

FLOCK is being locked down by Florida DOT.

Florida Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar did a quick about-face on President Trump’s massive Venezuela oil deal Saturday — deleting a social media post blasting the pact before returning to declare it was “a great deal” for America and the Venezuelan people Salazar, who has been outspoken of communist Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, took to X to declare that the pact would come to an end once President Trump’s term ends. “Any oil “deal” with Venezuela’s interim regime has an expiration date: the day President Trump leaves the White House,” Salazar wrote on the site. She later deleted the English...

Democrat gubernatorial candidate David Jolly is sharing the top of the ticket race with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Senate candidate Angie Nixon in Florida, and despite acting as a moderate Democrat, Jolly shares many of the same positions as DSA. Jolly – a Republican turned Democrat – has attempted to position himself as a moderate Democrat, but that is anything but the case. He has openly said he wishes to apologize to the world for Florida’s “culture wars” and sided with disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci during the pandemic, fleeing Florida...

On Thursday, Florida became the first state to bar recipients of the Temporary Cash Assistance program (TCA) from using those funds on purchases like tattoos and body piercings, theme park tickets, video games, vaping products, and other items that are not considered "basic needs." It is a move that the Trump administration hopes other states will adopt. TCA is a program funded through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, separate from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. However, individuals can be recipients of both programs. The Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and...

Hollywood diners got an invitation to leave the dress code at home yesterday, when a South Florida steakhouse hosted an evening where guests could eat dinner in the nude. The concept is being pitched as upscale, respectful and — according to city officials — legal. CLASS Soiree Steakhouse holds its nude dining event on the first Monday of every month, with chef and owner Maurad Ali expecting about 20 guests for the latest installment, WPLG Local 10 reported. Tickets run $250 for men, $150 for women and $300 for couples, making this one of the more expensive ways to discover...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that Florida state Sen. Bryan Avila (R) will be his running mate in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial race. Donalds, who won the GOP primary last week, praised Avila as a “proven warrior” and “conservative fighter.” Avila, the former speaker pro tempore of the Florida House, has represented the state’s 39th Senate District since November 2022. “He has fought woke ideology, he’s fought higher taxes, he’s fought higher costs every single day, and I could not be more prouder to have him stand by my side,” Donalds said at an event at the Freedom Tower...

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...

New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani is embarking upon a socialist agenda during his first year in office. As wealthy residents flee the Big Apple to avoid higher taxes, Florida is emerging as a major destination for their resources and businesses — a reality in which the Sunshine State is reveling. The Florida Chamber of Commerce launched a Times Square billboard campaign calling Mamdani the “Economic Developer of the Year.” “We wanted to thank him for the jobs, the companies, the people that they’re pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida,”...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday rejected Florida Democratic US Senate nominee Angie Nixon’s accusation that Republicans were “literally trying to kill us” and her characterization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a “weaponized paramilitary force” designed to terrorize people. Nixon made the comments during an interview on the “QNA: Questions Need Answers” podcast earlier this month, days before she won Florida’s Democratic Senate primary. While explaining why she believed voters should send fighters to Washington, Nixon dismissed the prospect of bipartisan cooperation. “Folks often say, like, ‘Oh, are you going to be able to work across...

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....

🚨 WOW! A liberal Miami-Dade judge who tried BLOCKING Donald Trump's Presidential Library was just UNSEATED by conservative Destiny Alvarez, 30, in last night's election Florida FAFO 🔥🔥 Sitting Judge Mavel Ruiz STONEWALLED the land transfer for Trump's library construction from Miami Dade College. She was eventually forced to lift it. Now she's going to be replaced by Destiny Alvarez LFG 👏🏻

A voluntary recall of frozen organic blueberries has been elevated to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s most serious risk category after evidence linked the products to a potentially life-threatening bacterial contamination. According to a report from the Daily Mail, the FDA has reclassified the recall of GreenWise Organic frozen blueberries as Class I. That designation applies when there is a “reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.” The original recall was initiated last month by Chile-based Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur SA after testing detected a...

Another ugly example of America’s collapsing standards of public behavior reportedly unfolded aboard a cruise ship in Florida, where authorities say an allegedly intoxicated couple responded to a simple request for quiet by forcing their way into a family’s cabin and attacking everyone inside, including a 9-year-old child. Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested Saturday evening at Port Canaveral after the ship docked. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey laid out the outrageous details in a Facebook post that left little to the imagination. According to Ivey, Jacox and Hicks “were apparently arguing loudly after taking...

James Fishback is projected to win every college campus precinct over Byron Donalds. Despite having lost to Donalds and Collins, Fishback is likely on track to win younger voters outright and a plurality of the 18-34 demographic or similar young voting groups. ...

Randy Fine easily fends off Hitler-fan Bilzerian, who loves pro-ISIS Islam convert and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate.: The Hebrew Hammer and the Antisemitic Circus Randy Fine did not merely win a Republican primary in Florida. He decisively turned back one of the strangest and ugliest primary challenges in recent American politics. Randy Fine won roughly 57% of the vote in Florida's 6th Congressional District, while social-media influencer Dan Bilzerian finished below 19%. Bilzerian had tried to make the contest a referendum on Fine's Jewish identity. His campaign descended into explicit antisemitism, including an AI-generated attack video portraying Fine through...

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...