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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn't merely campaigning against a popular abortion-rights amendment set to appear on the November ballot: He is turning the organs of state government against it, making a mockery of the notion, enshrined in law, that there should be a firewall between governing and electoral politics. Florida's tinpot governor, whose political potency has been diminished by electoral loss and recent scandal, has abandoned persuasion in lieu of coercion. Attorney General Ashley Moody unsuccessfully fought to keep the amendment off the ballot entirely. A DeSantis-backed board of bureaucrats successfully dreamed up a bogus disclosure that will be attached to the proposed amendment warning voters that the restoration of abortion rights could somehow "negatively impact the state budget."


Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Donald Trump's team is mounting a new angle of attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, and while their plan is very much connected to the campaign's already racist rhetoric, its bigoted legacy goes back even further to the presidential election of 1988.


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