3+ week, 4+ day ago   (290+ words) Democrats spent more than half a million dollars to flip a Republican seat on the Jacksonville City Council in a Special Election for a truncated term, and on Tuesday they pulled it off in a potential preview of next year’s…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (610+ words) Less than two hours after flagging a homophobic text targeting Sen. Shevrin Jones in Florida’s 24th Congressional District, Florida Politics received a screengrab of a related message with a likely identical, but currently unknown, source. The first text falsely claimed Jones…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (833+ words) Democrat Eric Yonce is one of 11 candidates seeking to oust GOP U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, who has been in Congress just 16 months but has attracted numerous controversies, including backlash over inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Palestinians and other groups. Four Republicans have…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (495+ words) Former state Sen. Lauren Book is adding major LGBTQ+ organizational support to her Senate District 30 campaign, with endorsements from Equality Florida Action PAC, Dolphin Democrats, SAVE Action PAC and the LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus of Palm Beach County. Collectively, the organizations…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (632+ words) Florida’s LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus is hosting its 2026 Summer Conference this weekend in Orlando, bringing together candidates, elected officials, activists and party organizers from across the state for three days of speeches, policy panels and grassroots organizing. The event, which runs…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (420+ words) The LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, a national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ+ people to public office, is endorsing the Miami Gardens Democrat in the race for Florida’s 24th Congressional District, citing his “record of leadership delivering for people and taking on tough…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (589+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. The court’s conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1001+ words) City Council Member Brandi Gabbard and St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch are battling for LGBTQ+ support in the upcoming mayoral election, with each candidate touting endorsements from members of the community ahead of St. Pete Pride festivities this weekend. Meanwhile,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (514+ words) Pinellas County Commissioner Chris Latvala says his push for a Faith and Family Month proclamation was not intended as a slight to LGBTQ+ residents, even as the county declined to issue a separate Pride Month proclamation this year. The proclamation…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (255+ words) Sen. Clay Yarborough wants to know more about how the city of Jacksonville plans to celebrate its LGBTQ+ community next week, but representatives of Mayor Donna Deegan say there is nothing to elicit concern. In a letter, the Senator wondered…...