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Josh Weil Is Taking On Ashley Moody— And He’s Got A Real Plan To Rebuild Florida’s Democratic Muscle
When Josh Weil ran earlier this year in a special House election in rural Florida that I'm sure you remember, it wasn’t supposed to...
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Jun 236 min read


Maybe Republicans Who Switch Parties Should Wait A Bit Before Becoming Democratic Party Leaders
I'm Glad When Republicans Become Progressives, The Way Elizabeth Warren Did The other day, I posted something at Threads about an...
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May 317 min read


Worse Than Florida's Extreme Weather, Unaffordable Housing, Alligators & Mosquitoes— The Politics
The Pythons And Corruption Would Make Anyone Want To Run Away Worse than pythons, mosquitoes and the sinking coastline Florida’s 6th...
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May 253 min read


Is It Fair To Claim That All America’s Problems Flow Through Florida? Sure... Why Not?
Florida Republican David Jolly: pragmatic enough to run as a "Democrat" If you don’t live in in the Sunshine State, did yesterday’s Hope...
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Apr 255 min read


Can Democrats Win Back Miami-Dade? Or Is The Florida Democratic Party Just Too Dysfunctional Now?
A Xenophobic Trump Moves Against Cuban Refugees Miami Dade, until decently a Democratic stronghold, has swung decisively towards the GOP....
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Jan 254 min read


I Bet It Wouldn't Be Hard For Trump To Get Kay Ivey Or Joe Lombardo To Appoint Barron To A Judgeship
Who'd Laugh At Ron DeSantis When He Hands Lara Trump Rubio's Senate Seat? Last month Florida voters came out strong for Trump— 6,110,125...
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Dec 15, 20246 min read


DelBene Is Certainly Not Going To Fix The DCCC— Will Jeffries Appoint Someone Who Even Wants To?
It Starts With Strong Recruiting, Not With Corrupt Blue Dogs This cycle, the DCCC re-recruited two of its worst 2022 candidates,...
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Dec 5, 20246 min read


Another Death Knell For The Florida Democratic Party, Which Is Officially Worse Than The Ohio Dems
Billy Corben Switches Registration To Unaffiliated Celebrated documentarian and a member of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party Executive...
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Nov 14, 20248 min read


Yesterday, The Florida Democratic Party Demonstrated What It's Made Of
Why Would You Think None Of Them Work For The GOP? The mass resignation of the upper echelon of the Florida Democratic Party, the most...
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Nov 6, 20242 min read


State Democratic Parties Need To Be More Like Wisconsin— Much Less Like Florida And Ohio
Wisconsin Dems Are Fighting To Win... Not To Grift It drives me crazy whenever I see how careerist Democrats in the party establishment...
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Oct 12, 20246 min read


Vibes Are Good, But Sometimes It Also Takes Doing The Hard Grunt Work To Win Elections
And Vibes Won't Win Florida For Kamala In 2008, Florida was a key in the Obama victory strategy. His people had made up their minds to...
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Sep 30, 20247 min read


Is The Republican Party Really Waging Interconnected Wars Against American Women And U.S. Democracy?
Yes, But In Some States— Like Florida & Texas— More Than Others In 2008, Obama took winning Florida’s 27 electoral votes very seriously....
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Sep 22, 20245 min read


The Florida Democratic Party Has Now Surpassed The Ohio Democratic Party As The Worst In The Country
The Grifters Are Doing Well— And So Are The Republicans Let’s pick up in Miami-Dade where we left off a couple months ago, when we saw an...
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Sep 15, 20243 min read


Kamala— Lookin' Good, Lookin' Very Good... But It Is NOT In The Bag Yet
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a conservative, addressed the Democratic convention in prime time on Thursday. After...
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Aug 23, 20246 min read


O Florida! O Florida!— A Mixture Of Good News And Bad News
Bonus: The Dark Side Of The Homophobic Republican Party Did you know that I do a radio show with Nicole Sandler every Thursday? We’ve...
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Jun 22, 20245 min read


Florida:“No Law Shall Prohibit, Penalize, Delay Or Restrict Abortion Before Viability”— Needs 60%
What a shame the Florida Democratic Party has been on life-support for a couple of decades. If it was more than active is just a few...
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Apr 2, 20244 min read


No, Florida Is Not A Lost Cause, Despite What Republicans Want Democrats To Think
Yesterday Kimberly Leonard and Elena Schneider reported that “A national Democratic operative, granted anonymity to speak freely about...
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Jan 31, 20242 min read


Flirting With Fascism? The GOP Has Gone Way Beyond First Base... Especially In Florida
Last night on Chris Hayes’ show, former GOP strategist turned #NeverTrump activist Stuart Stevens slammed the Republican Party as an...
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Mar 1, 20233 min read


Florida-- What A Mess!
I haven’t wanted to write much about Florida this cycle— too depressing. The GOP swept the field, won every statewide office (by a lot)...
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Nov 10, 20228 min read


The Florida Democratic Party Couldn't Be Any Worse If The GOP Was Picking Its Leaders
The Florida Democratic Party wasn't always useless. In fact, it was once dominant. But it's basically a worthless junk heap now, at least...
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Sep 20, 20224 min read
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