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  235 Progressive Women Are Running for Public Office in Florida, Mirroring a National Trend

  August 16 at 2:21 p.m.

  The number of progressive women running for office in Florida has nearly quadrupled in two years. The 235 candidates Ruth's List Florida is supporting in this November’s election is an uptick from approximately 60 who ran for office with the organization’s backing in 2016.

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  The Ten Progressive Candidates in South Florida

  August 14 at 10:29 a.m.

  Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election by running as an anti-establishment, outsider candidate. (Russia may have helped, too.) In 2018, the Democratic party is responding by propping up outsider candidates of their own, often with political positions substantially to the left of traditional Democratic candidates. Many of South Florida's...

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  ACLU Slams ICE's Private Prison Company Threatening Florida Activists With Lawsuit

  August 13 at 10:38 a.m.

  The Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, has helped turn the GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's single largest contractor, from a largely unknown private prison firm hated by justice-reform activists into a toxic company from which even some Republican politicians are now refusing donations.

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  Two Dolphins Kneeled Last Night, So Trump Got Mad and Tweeted "Be Happy, Be Cool"

  August 10 at 12:46 p.m.

  Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills has been kneeling during the national anthem to protest the racist American justice system for portions of the last three NFL seasons. Stills is extremely serious about his activism — in February, he took a road trip in an RV to meet civil-rights supporters...

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  Video: Protesters Stage Mock Baby-Caging Outside Florida Private-Prison Office

  August 8 at 12:50 p.m.

  Boca Raton's GEO Group — the single largest contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — absolutely does not want anyone to accuse it of caging people or separating families. GEO is so upset by such allegations that it threatened to sue Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group, all...

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  Photojournalist Ian Witlen Documents the #NeverAgain Movement at His Parkland Alma Mater

  August 7 at 12:09 p.m.

  Photographer Ian Witlen got a call from New Times' art director just after 2:30 p.m. on Valentine's Day. She had heard reports that there was an active shooter on the campus of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. Witlen had graduated from the school in 2001. "I immediately thought it was just another...