Author: Sarah Hoffman

“Nothing shocks me, I’m a scientist.” – Indiana Jones.

Would you like to know how your state legislators voted on the major issues impacting you, your family, and your community? We’ve made it easy to discern who your legislators are REALLY fighting for – Floridians and their families, or powerful special interests and anti-freedom extremists.

Public interest groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch today unveiled their 2024 “People First” Report Card, grading Florida lawmakers on key floor votes cast during this year’s legislative session.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is on the brink of approving a “wildcat” oil drilling plan that will put the future of the ecologically sensitive Apalachicola River floodplain at risk, and we need your help to stop it.

All gas, no brakes: the campaign to restore abortion access in Florida is full speed ahead.

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to falsely claim that book banning in Florida is a hoax. Yet in 2023, Florida led the nation with 1,406 books banned in schools, surpassing Texas as the number one book banning state in the nation, according to PEN America. From July 2022 to June 2023, an astonishing 40% of all book bans in the nation happened in Florida.

This past session, the Florida Legislature passed a truly awful anti-ethics and pro-corruption bill and we’re calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto it.

In the waning days of the recently concluded legislative session, the GOP-led Florida Legislature passed a dirty and dangerous energy bill (HB 1645) that will make it harder to fight climate change and have disastrous consequences for Florida’s health, environment, and economy.

TALLAHASSEE — Today, the Florida Legislature adjourned sine die on the 2024 legislative session.

Florida may be ground zero for the most disastrous impacts of climate change and a warming planet, but you wouldn’t know it based on new laws pushed by the leadership of the Florida Legislature.