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Your vote is your voice, and in the 2024 election your vote is needed at a critical moment for the future of Florida and our country.

The award winning book “The Princess Diaries” inspired the beloved early 2000’s movie featuring Julie Andrews & Anne Hathaway. Yet in Escambia County Florida, it’s one of 1,600 recently banned books.

Today, Governor Ron DeSantis briefly returned to the state he was elected to serve to deliver his State of the State address to kick off Florida’s 2024 legislative session.

A big win for the environment! Miami-Dade County Commissioners struck down the dangerous Miami Wilds project that would build a water park in the critically endangered pine rocklands. This plan would have threatened the lives and habitat of hundreds of at-risk species.

After Gov. DeSantis enacted new school censorship policies, districts like Collier County were left to interpret the vague, anti-freedom to learn laws, resulting in over 300 books being banned. #UniteAgainstBookBans

Thirty-two days. That’s how long the Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) campaign has to reach the petition collection goal for the 2024 ballot initiative. Every day counts to protect abortion access in Florida. 

An Escambia media specialist recently resigned after her workdays became consumed with book challenges. She told Pensacola News Journal her departure was, “an escape from the Florida Legislature that was making young adult literature the enemy.” #UniteAgainstBookBans

As we prepare to gather with family and friends to give thanks and kick off the holiday season, we wanted to start by thanking our amazing Progress Florida network members and supporters like you.

From the civil rights movement to women’s suffrage, from marriage equality to combating climate change, every societal advancement in modern history has strong ties to student activism on college campuses. Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end that.