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  Broward School Board Candidate Elijah Manley Calls Member a “Demonic Entity,” Alleges Election Interference

  August 21 at 3:47 p.m.

  Broward School Board candidate Elijah Manley called board member Rosalind Osgood a “demonic entity” in a Twitter thread fired off Sunday afternoon. Manley also accused Osgood of violating election laws by intimidating voters and campaigning within 100 feet of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

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  Anti-Trump Fervor Is Driving Record Numbers of Florida Women to Run for Office

  August 21 at 8 a.m.

  It was blindingly sunny and at least 90 degrees as Emma Collum made her way through an Oakland Park neighborhood of colorful ranch houses with manicured front lawns. Dressed in a T-shirt bearing her name, light-blue shorts, and a Dolphins hat, the fast-talking 33-year-old with long dark hair and a...

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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...