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Historic U.S. Child Rescue: 60 Missing, Trafficked Children Saved in Florida Operation

Florida’s “Operation Dragon Eye” was successful in rescuing 60 children who were missing, endangered, or victims of human trafficking, state officials announced Monday.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said in a press briefing: “We are here to announce the most successful completion of the largest child rescue operation, not just in Florida history, but in the United States history.” As he went on to say, “Protecting our kids and keeping Florida the safest state to raise a family is our number one priority. Today is a result of the hard work to deliver on that promise.”

For two intense weeks, the U.S. Marshals Service, in collaboration with Florida state and local authorities, conducted a sweeping operation across Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties in the Tampa Bay area. This coordinated effort united 20 federal, state, and local agencies, mobilizing over 100 law enforcement officers, investigators, and support personnel. The children, ranging in age from 9 to 17, were found in a variety of dire circumstances, including situations involving human trafficking, abduction, and endangerment. Upon rescue, each child received immediate medical evaluations and psychological support to address the physical and emotional trauma they had endured.

U.S. Marshal William Berger revealed the operation’s dual mission: to locate and rescue vulnerable children while targeting the criminal networks responsible for their exploitation. “[E]xperience tells us,” he noted, “if the offenders are not apprehended, they will reconnect with these children.” The team arrested eight predators, charging them with heinous crimes including human trafficking, child endangerment, and drug trafficking. Bonds for these offenders ranged from no bond to a staggering $250 million.

Fox News reported that “The operation uncovered the gut-wrenching realities of sex trafficking — including several young girls who were pregnant, one of them carrying the child of her trafficker.” According to authorities, the investigation is ongoing “and additional charges may follow.”

In a statement, Uthmeier, speaking as both state attorney general and a father of three, underscored the mission’s heart. “The real heroes behind this operation are the law enforcement who built and executed this mission,” he said. “As your Attorney General and a father of three young kids, protecting children is my top priority. If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.”

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Commissioner Mark Glass captured the operation’s profound impact. “Sixty kids saved,” he said. “That number sends the message that Florida will never be a safe place for traffickers. At FDLE, we will continue to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. And to any family still missing their child, we will never stop searching until we make sure they are brought home safely.”

Berger’s final words echoed the operation’s unprecedented scale: “[T]he successful recovery of 60 missing children, complemented with the arrest of eight individuals, including child predators, signifies the most successful missing child recovery effort in the history of the United States Marshals Service; or to my knowledge, any other similar operation held in the United States.”

According to The Child Crime Prevention and Safety Center, roughly 840,000 U.S. children are reported missing annually. And Florida, with its large population and major transportation hubs, has long been a haven for traffickers seeking to exploit vulnerable populations. As such, while “Operation Dragon Eye” marks a significant triumph, authorities warn that human trafficking remains a pervasive threat. In 2024 alone, Florida received over 1,830 trafficking signals, leading to the identification of 1,874 victims, many of them minors lured through manipulation or online platforms, as reported by Fox.

In response, Florida has intensified its efforts. Governor Ron DeSantis (R) recently allocated $4.9 million to expand emergency shelter beds and staff support for trafficking victims, alongside $900,000 in grant funding for the FDLE. As DeSantis previously affirmed, “Florida is being proactive about stopping human trafficking.”

Mary Szoch, director of Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity, praised the operation’s monumental success in a statement to The Washington Stand. “Attorney General James Uthmeier should be commended for his commitment to upholding the dignity of every human being,” she said. “The rescue of these 60 trafficked children is a huge accomplishment for the state of Florida.”

Szoch concluded with a call to action: “Every single person’s life matters, and no one should be exploited as if he or she was an object. We should all continue to pray for the well-being of these 60 children, and we should thank God for the work they are doing in Florida to uphold the sanctity of life in all of its stages.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Rick Scott Tells Charlie Kirk He Won’t Support Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ In Present Form

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday that he would not vote for President Donald Trump’s House-passed “one big, beautiful bill” in its present form.

Trump gave Senate Republicans permission to make major changes to the bill on Sunday as some GOP senators are warning that the package is dead-on-arrival without significant reforms. On “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Scott said he would “absolutely” vote against it without additional spending cuts.

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“If they brought it to the floor like right now, there’s not a chance it’ll get the 51 votes it needs … Look we all know we have to balance the budget,” Scott said. “Look, we know that it’s getting harder to sell our treasuries, we know interest rates are going up. We want to get interest rates down, we can get inflation under control. That means balance the budget.”

Kirk said Scott’s opposition to the current bill was “a big statement.” The host asked the senator what it would take to get the bill to pass and about the reconciliation process.

“Charlie, we’ll change it. We’ll have our own bill and … it will go back to a conference or just go back to the House and they’ll pass our bill. But I believe we’re going to dramatically reduce mandatory spending to get this budget balance in a short period of time, which is what we have to do,” Scott told Kirk. “It’s what we promise. I just went through my election just like President Trump did. We all promise we’re going to balance the budget. We are going to set the process to quickly balance in this budget.”

GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky are among the fiscal hawks influencing the deliberation about spending deficits. Johnson has also noted Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Scott as senators who are seeking further spending cuts in the bill.

Johnson is advocating for the government to return to pre-pandemic spending levels — a nearly $6 trillion reduction — and calls the current bill “completely unacceptable.”

While House Republicans felt pressured to accept the bill due to the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, numerous Senators do not.

“In the House, President Trump can threaten a primary, and those guys want to keep their seats. I understand the pressure. Can’t pressure me that way,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. “I’m not going to vote for it with minor tweaks. I think everybody’s kind of happy talking and ‘get together and pull together and gotta do this’ and that crap. That’s the way they’re going to try to make it go.”

Paul has said that he opposes the bill based on language that will increase the debt limit by $4 trillion over the next two years — something Trump has demanded.

“I’ve told them if they’ll take the debt ceiling off of it, I’ll consider voting for it,” Paul told reporters on Thursday. “We’ve never, ever voted to raise the debt ceiling this much. It’ll be a historic increase. I think it’s not good for conservatives to be on record supporting a $4 (trillion) or $5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling.”

“If they were to take the debt ceiling off of it and have the tax reductions and spending reductions, I’d probably vote for that,” Paul added. “The spending reductions are imperfect, and I think wimpy, but I’d still vote for the package if I didn’t have to vote to raise the debt ceiling.”

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Jason Cohen

DCNF Reporter/Clipper

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‘Sh*tshow’: Florida’s Democratic Party Turning Into Circular Firing Squad Following Mass Exodus

The Florida Democratic Party has been grappling with a series of hurdles in recent months, including losing two costly Congressional special elections and seeing some high-profile members unexpectedly exit the party.

Florida Democrats have been struggling with rising tensions and intraparty fighting since the 2024 election cycle, Politico reported on Wednesday. The report comes after former Florida state Senate Democratic leader Jason Pizzo, who was once viewed as a potential gubernatorial candidate, announced in April that he was registering as an unaffiliated voter and stepping down from his leadership role.

Pizzo said at the time that the Florida Democratic Party was “dead.” He added that he thought his state’s political system was akin to the “infighting, power struggles, corruption and decline of civic virtue that pervaded and eventually ushered in the fall of Rome.”

Pizzo’s office referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to his prior comments on why he left the party, when reached for comment.

“It’s a sign of larger problems we all know about,” one Democratic political organizer told Politico about Pizzo leaving the state’s Democratic Party. “This party right now is in shambles and has been in shambles for I don’t know how many years. At this point, we have been doing the same thing for 30 years and there’s just nothing happening.”

One anonymous Florida Democrat told Politico that the state’s Democratic Party is “such a goddamn shitshow.”

“What Democratic Party?” another anonymous Florida Democrat asked the outlet.

Pizzo’s departure from the party comes after two Florida state representatives, Hillary Cassel and Susan Valdés, announced in December 2024 that they were switching to the Republican Party, one month after winning reelection as Democrats. The pair of defections expanded the Florida GOP’s supermajority in the Florida House of Representatives to 86 seats, compared to the Democrats’ 34.

Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, who exited the party in 2024 after serving on the Miami-Dade County Democratic executive committee, told Politico he realized the Democratic Party of Florida was “far worse than I expected and far more dysfunctional and grim than what I had reported from the outside looking in.”

The Democratic Party lost two special elections in Florida in early April, despite the party’s candidates massively outraising their GOP opponents.

Florida was long considered a swing state and was viewed as being competitive in presidential election cycles as recently as 2020. However, after years of trending rightward, it is now considered to be a deep red state.

In the 2024 presidential election, Trump carried the Sunshine State by 13 percentage points, receiving 56.1% of the vote to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 43%. Trump’s performance in Florida marked the best performance of any Republican presidential candidate in the state since 1988.

In 2020, the president won Florida by a significantly smaller margin, notching 51.2% of the vote to former President Joe Biden’s 47.9%. Meanwhile in 2016, Trump had barely carried the state over failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, securing 48.6% of the vote compared to Clinton’s 47.4%.

Florida Democrats were also dealt a blow in the down-ballot races during the 2024 election cycle as voters rejected two ballot initiatives the party had heavily backed, Florida Amendment 3 and Florida Amendment 4. Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state and Amendment 4 would have legalized abortion until fetal viability, usually defined around 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Political analyst Susan MacManus told WUSF in a November 2024 interview that the state’s Democrats suffered significant losses in the 2024 election cycle because the party prioritized issues that did not connect with many Floridians.

The Florida Democratic Party did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Ireland Owens

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Florida poised to become second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water and the Democrats are livid

Following Utah, Florida’s state legislature passes bill and sends to Governor’s desk, as 75 years of lies about fluoride are finally being exposed. 

A bill that would ban fluoride and other harmful chemicals from Florida public water systems is heading to Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk.

The Florida House passed the prohibition on Tuesday. The Senate did so earlier in the month. It’s the Senate bill, SB 700, that both chambers ultimately approved.

Fluoride is a chemical agent used in industrial capacities that communities around the U.S. have for decades added to their public drinking-water systems, allegedly to help protect against tooth decay.

Whether it actually prevents tooth decay may be up for debate.

What’s not up for debate any longer is that fluoridated water, even in relatively small amounts, causes low IQs in children. Even Harvard University researchers found this to be true.

And yet, in 2025, if you state these facts you’re still labeled a conspiracy theorist. It’s impossible to get articles like the one on Harvard to come up in search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo. I had to use the Russian search engine Yandex to find it.

Supporters of the Florida legislation, such as Republican Rep. Danny Alvarez, said citizens shouldn’t be forced to have additives in their water if they don’t want them. This was a clever way of skirting around the truth, which is that fluoride is poison, but you can’t blame the lawmaker given the information matrix in which we live.

“This is not about fluoride,” said Alvarez, a sponsor of the House version of the legislation. “This is about your liberty.”

No. It actually is about fluoride.

The DeSantis administration has already recommended its removal, citing potential health risks.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also railed against fluoride.

But dental groups remain in denial. They argue that fluoride should remain in water supplies for dental-health purposes. They’re for strong teeth and low IQs. Not a position that’s easy to defend if we want to bring this issue down to basic logic.

But we don’t live in a logical world.

Even if fluoride does prevent tooth decay, those who want to poison their children can go right on doing so by simply buying them fluoride-laced toothpaste. They’ll have teeth stronger than a horse with brains as soft as mush.

Most Florida Democrats were opposed to the measure on Tuesday. No surprise there, since the Democrat Party thrives in an atmosphere of low IQs. If people are smart enough to look into Democrat policies, they typically don’t vote Democrat. Dumb them down and keep the Democrat votes flowing. That’s a winning strategy.

Democrats used their fallback strategy, which is to distract from the real issue and stress that banning poisonous fluoride in drinking water would hurt residents who can’t access regular dental care.

They parrot the same tired old talking points.

Democrat State Rep. Daryl Campbell of Fort Lauderdale said:

“For 75 years, fluoridation has been one of the most effective and affordable public health measures in American history. This bill takes a safe and proven and affordable public health tool and rips it away.”

Yeah, and for 75 years American children have been growing up dumber and dumber.

If Governor DeSantis signs the bill, the ban would go into effect on July 1. Florida would become the second state, after Utah, to ban fluoride in drinking water.

Face it, Democrats, the jig is up. People are onto the fact that they and their children have been systematically poisoned by their governments for several generations.

This is progress, of the non-Democrat kind.

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DHS Spox Touts ‘Major Success’ In Florida After Nabbing Nearly 800 Illegals In 4 Days

Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin described the arrest records of some illegal immigrants arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of “a large-scale operation” during a Saturday evening appearance on Fox News.

Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation, according to a post on X by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. McLaughlin said the sweep was a “preview” of additional operations.

“This was a major success, it was a large-scale operation. And to your point, this is a preview of what is to come throughout the nation,” McLaughlin said. “We have partnerships under 287(g) authorities that Secretary [of Homeland Security Kristi] Noem signed, and this empowers state and local law enforcement to actually be able to use their enforcement authority to carry out immigration enforcement.”

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Section 287(g) was enacted in 1996 and allows ICE to delegate certain functions to state and local law enforcement agencies, according to ICE’s website.

“What that means is they can actually make arrests and clean up our streets get these criminal aliens off our streets,” McLaughlin said. “So, like you said, almost 800 aliens including MS-13 gang members, convicted murderers, rapists, all of these people are now off of our streets who otherwise have been acting with impunity and terrorizing U.S. communities. You are going to be seeing this throughout the country, and I think that Americans are going to be really thrilled with the results under this administration in the next 100 days.”

Ramon Ciro Castaneda (Department of Homeland Security)

Among the illegal immigrants arrested were Ramon Ciro Castaneda and Carlos Perez-Perez, members of the Venezuelan prison Tren de Aragua (TdA) and each under a “Final Order of Removal,” according to summaries provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by the Department of Homeland Security.

“This success and massive operation is a window into what is to come throughout the country for the next 100 days of the Trump administration,” McLaughlin told the DCNF when reached for comment. “Our state and local law enforcement are heroes as we execute on the president’s mandate to secure the border, remove illegal aliens and make America safe.”

Carlos Perez-Perez (Department of Homeland Security)

President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders to address border security and illegal immigration upon taking office Jan. 20, including designating Mexican drug cartels, TdA and the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations, while invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of members of the two gangs on March 15.

McLaughlin also commented on the Friday arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on obstruction charges after she allegedly misdirected ICE agents seeking to arrest an illegal immigrant who had a hearing before her on April 18 before escorting the illegal immigrant out through a back door.

“This is just beyond the pale. I mean, take the Wisconsin judge. The fact she let this individual this illegal alien. American people should know the charges against him more. Strangulation, suffocation, battery, other domestic abuse charges. This is no innocent guy,” McLaughlin said. “As far as the New Mexico case it went beyond just harboring this member of Tren de Aragua.”

“The wife and that judge went so far as to destroy evidence including two photos on this criminal illegal alien’s phone that showed decapitated individuals, he was sending that around,” McLaughlin continued. “They went so far as to take a hammer and destroy this phone so that police couldn’t access this. We are going continue to go after these activist judges, especially in such egregious cases like this.”

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Urgent Call to Action to Florida Senators — Please Vote NO on SB 1080

SB 1080 Threatens Florida Agricultural Land.

The amendment only mandates a public hearing and vote to certify land as an “Agricultural Enclave” under Florida Statute 163.3164.

That designation is determined by a simple checklist—either the land qualifies, or it doesn’t.

The “public hearing” becomes a formality, not a real protection. And once certified as an enclave, the land is automatically approved for residential development—no further public input, no community vote required.

If this bill passes, it would open the door to unchecked residential development on agricultural land across Florida. It undermines local control, silences communities, and accelerates the loss of working lands we cannot afford to lose.

Please send your message to all of Florida’s Senators asking them to VOTE NO on SB 1080.

Here are their emails:

albritton.ben.web@flsenate.gov
Arrington.Kristen.web@flsenate.gov
Avila.Bryan.web@flsenate.gov
berman.lori.web@flsenate.gov
bernard.mack.web@flsenate.gov
boyd.jim.web@flsenate.gov
Jennifer.Bradley.web@flsenate.gov
brodeur.jason.web@flsenate.gov
burgess.danny.web@flsenate.gov
Burton.Colleen.web@flsenate.gov
Calatayud.Alexis.web@flsenate.gov
Collins.Jay.web@flsenate.gov
Davis.Tracie.web@flsenate.gov
DiCeglie.Nick.web@flsenate.gov
Fine.Randy.web@flsenate.gov
gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov
garcia.ileana.web@flsenate.gov
Grall.Erin.web@flsenate.gov
gruters.joe.web@flsenate.gov
harrell.gayle.web@flsenate.gov
hooper.ed.web@flsenate.gov
Ingoglia.Blaise.web@flsenate.gov
jones.shevrin.web@flsenate.gov
Martin.Jonathan.web@flsenate.gov
osgood.rosalind.web@flsenate.gov
Passidomo.Kathleen.web@flsenate.gov
pizzo.jason.web@flsenate.gov
polsky.tina.web@flsenate.gov
rodriguez.anamaria.web@flsenate.gov
Rouson.Darryl.web@flsenate.gov
Sharief.Barbara.web@flsenate.gov
Simon.Corey.web@flsenate.gov
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truenow.keith.web@flsenate.gov
Trumbull.Jay.web@flsenate.gov
wright.tom.web@flsenate.gov
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Returns Nearly $1 Billion In ‘Unused’ Federal Funds After Meeting With Elon Musk

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that Florida has returned nearly $1 billion in federal funds after meeting with Elon Musk.

“For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it,” the governor said in a post on X. “Today, I met with @elonmusk and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the same day.”

“Other states should follow Florida in supporting DOGE’s efforts!”DeSantis said.

The post was accompanied by an email from DeSantis’ office to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The email noted after his visit with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the state of Florida returned $878,112,000 in taxpayer dollars to the federal government.

The governor’s office said they will “also continue to identify other unused or surplus federal funding granted to Florida and determine if further refunds can be made.”

“Almost a billion dollars of your taxpayer money saved,” Musk said in response to DeSantis’ post. The announcement comes one month after DeSantis revealed the creation of the Florida DOGE task force which is set to “further eliminate waste within state government, save taxpayers money, and ensure accountability in Florida,” according to a press release.

“Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida DOGE task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida,” DeSantis said in a statement. “It will eliminate redundant boards and commissions, review state university and college operations and spending, utilize artificial intelligence to further examine state agencies to uncover hidden waste, and even audit the spending habits of local entities to shine the light on waste and bloat.”

The Florida task force is set to eliminate bureaucratic bloat and modernize the state’s government “to best serve the people of Florida.”

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Fiona McLoughlin

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Democrats Are So Antisemitic Even Elected Jewish Democrats are Switching Parties

“Proud of Hillary for seeing the light.”

Rep. Hillary Cassel, a Florida legislator, announced that she was switching parties.

“As a proud Jewish woman, I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party’s failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism,” she posted on Twitter. “I’m constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians.”

“For eight years, I was the only Republican Jew in the Florida Legislature. As I passed into law the most pro-Israel, combatting antisemitism agenda in the country, I could never understand how the Democrat Jews felt comfortable in a caucus with many members that clearly hated them,” Sen. Randy Fine tweeted. “Proud of Hillary for seeing the light.”

Even Florida Democrat Chairwoman Nikki Fried was openly talking about Jews moving away from the Democrats before the 2024 election.

“Nikki Fried, the Jewish chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, told Jewish canvassers in her state that the party was losing Jewish voters because of the robust Republican response to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.

Fried said that, “what has happened since then in American politics has made a lot of our Jewish brothers and sisters start to question the Democratic Party.”

Fried said doubts about Democrats have spread beyond “Republican Jewish friends” who have historically been the “outliers” in a constituency that has long been reliably Democratic.

These are really bad signs for the party.

You’re going to see the same “79% of Jews voted for Kamala” nonsense spammed everywhere and if you’re intellectually lazy, you’ll echo it. The facts on the ground though are that the Jewish Democrat vote is collapsing and even the party’s elected officials and elites are aware of it.

Actual precinct-level vote numbers show a Jewish shift. Including in Florida.

In Surfside, the most ‘Jewish community’ of the Miami area, where Jews make up a third of the population, Trump won 61% of the vote. In Aventura, Miami, a melting pot of Jews from Latin America, the former USSR and the Middle East, where the majority of the population is Jewish, Trump won 59% of the vote.

The times they are a changin’.

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FLORIDA: State Representative Announces Switch From Democrat To Republican Party

Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel announced Friday that she is switching her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.

Cassel, who represents Florida’s 101st House district, announced the switch in a Twitter post. She cited concerns over the Democratic Party’s “failure to unequivocally support Israel” and what she calls its disconnect from everyday Floridians. Cassel is now the second Florida Democrat to join the GOP, along with Rep. Susan Valdés from Tampa.

“Today, I am announcing my decision to change my party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. This decision was not made lightly but comes from a deep sense of responsibility to my constituents and my commitment to the values that guide my service. I will be joining the Republican Conference of the Florida House of Representatives because I believe in their vision for a better, more prosperous Florida,” Cassel wrote in a statement.

“As a proud Jewish woman,” she continued. “I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party’s failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism. I’m constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians. I can no longer remain in a party that doesn’t represent my values.”

Cassel seemed to signal the switch earlier in December, tweeting an infographic depicting the overwhelming Republican majorities in Florida’s upcoming legislative session.

“Understanding the makeup of our State Legislature is key to navigating the upcoming session and addressing the needs of Floridians,” she wrote.

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez endorsed the move, writing, “I am proud to share that @RepCassel has joined our House Republican Conference. Welcome to the team!”

House District 101 includes Dania Beach and portions of Broward County. Cassel won the seat in 2022 with 53% of the vote, defeating Republican challenger Guy Silla, who won 46% of the vote. Her current term expires in November 2026. The 101st District also swung 16 points towards the GOP, shifting from Joe Biden +14 in 2020 to Donald Trump +2 in 2024, according to a tweet from @Uncrewed, who writes about statewide elections on Substack.

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Henry Rodgers

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Florida Muslim Arrested in Plot To Bomb the New York Stock Exchange

The FBI just foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, FL was arrested today for attempting to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce.

”The Stock Exchange, we want to hit that, because it will wake people up,” the suspect is quoted as saying in the documents. At another point, he is quoted as saying that he “feel[s] like Bin Laden.”

Another Islamophobia Awareness Month event.

Florida suspect arrested for allegedly planning to bomb NYSE: ‘I feel like Bin Laden’

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener allegedly said he ‘wanted to hit’ the NYSE

By Andrea Margolis , David Spunt Fox News November 20, 2024 7:03pm EST

A Florida suspect was recently arrested for allegedly planning to bomb the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced the arrest on Wednesday.

“Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Fla., was arrested today based on a criminal complaint charging him with attempt to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce,” the office’s statement read.

According to the court files obtained by Fox News Digital, suspect Harun Abdul-Malik Yener unknowingly worked with undercover FBI agents before he was arrested.

“The Stock Exchange, we want to hit that, because it will wake people up,” the suspect is quoted as saying in the documents. At another point, he is quoted as saying that he “feel[s] like Bin Laden.”

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Bradenton, Florida: Capital of Anti-Semitism, Murder Capital 2024, Hurricane Capital

On this eve of Judaism’s most sacred day, Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — many may still believe that sins and crimes against Jews will remain unpunished, as they have for decades in Bradenton, Florida, which has now earned three well-deserved titles:

  1. Florida’s Capital of Antisemitism
  2. Florida’s Murder Capital 2024
  3. Florida’s Hurricane Capital

Who would believe that it is just an inconvenient coincidence that Bradenton has been struck by two devastating hurricanes in two weeks, the second of which is happening during the Holy Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when we must atone for our sins, individual and collective?

In Bradenton, Florida lawyer, Jorge Martinez, mocked the decades of antisemitic persecution against our Holocaust Survivor family as “religious-based nonsense,” with no judicial repercussions.

In Bradenton, there are no known indictments or prosecutions of decades of crimes against Jews.

In Bradenton, Jews can be robbed of thousands of Jewish property items without any law officer, official, judge, legislator, governor, or administrator raising a single objection … Ever.

The sounds of silence opposing Jew-hatred are everywhere in Bradenton.

Perhaps, it is The Almighty Who has raised quite an objection to relentless sins and crimes against Jews in Bradenton with His force and fury. Perhaps this was the last resort “for such a time as this” in an unrepentant society during the Ten Days of Awe and Penitence.

©2024. Beverly Newman, Ed. D. All rights reserved.

Florida high-tech company creates ‘RAIA’ a launch pad for businesses to build, train and test OpenAI™

A Florida based high-tech company has launched its newest product RAIA™.

RAIA™ is a launch pad for businesses to build, train and test OpenAI™ Assistants and Agents. It quickly and seamlessly launches powerful custom A.I. Assistants to automate work that costs business time and money.

WHY RAIA™?

Before you can save time and money, you will need to …

  • Train your A.I. by empowering your business users to transfer knowledge via conversation.
  • Test your A.I. to ensure it asks and answers questions correctly leveraging our platform.
  • Launch your OpenAI Assistants with confidence and the support of your team.
  • Manage and Monitor your OpenAI Assistants to ensure you keep up with new innovations.
24/7 Availability

RAIA™ ensures that no potential lead is missed by being available round the clock. This constant presence means that inquiries and leads can be addressed immediately, regardless of time zones or business hours.

Qualifies and Prioritizes Engagement

RAIA™ can quickly analyze and qualify conversations, helping sales and support teams focus their efforts on high priority conversations. This efficient sorting saves time and resources, which increases capacity and lowers costs.

Personalized Conversations

RAIA™ can personalize interactions. Tailored communication significantly increases the chances of conversion as it resonates more with the customer’s specific needs and preferences.

RAIA can ask and answer any question you want.

Leverage the capabilities of our Conversational A.I. platform for business to launch A.I. Assistants. Our platform enables you to customize and train bots to ask about and answer questions regarding your business.

Conversation is the key to Conversion.
  • Unlock the potential for thousands of conversations, overcoming human resource limitations. Achieve the “impossible” in outreach to your contact database.
  • Integrating conversational A.I. into your sales and marketing sequence adds a dynamic touch, enhancing lead qualification and nurturing.

To test drive RAIA and build your companies bot in a matter of minutes just CLICK HERE.

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Why Seven Florida Counties Got Fake Voter Guides

This is very disconcerting and needs to stop!

Bad enough we have Communist Democrats spreading disinformation and censoring the truth that we also have this sort of dirty tricks being pulled by establishment RINOs.


WHY THOSE SEVEN COUNTIES GOT FAKE VOTER GUIDES

Kat Stansell • The Miami Independent

We are all worried, on a nationwide basis, that 2024 will be stolen just as was 2020.

Having to be concerned with local primaries in a “red state” is new low, but that is the case in Florida. The state Republican Party (RPOF) continued its war with MAGA, which first became obvious this spring, and has continued the battle into these August primaries. ( Florida has separate primaries for national and state/local offices, for those of you who are not residents. )

The local primary season this year was filled with blatant illegal and immoral efforts, perpetrated by the state Party against certain counties. WHY JUST THOSE COUNTIES?
..,.stay tuned…

First the spreading of FAKE voter guides, over THOSE seven counties.

The voters of Manatee, Hillsborough, Sarasota, St. Lucie, Brevard, Lake and St. Johns received voter guides claiming Trump and MAGA support for candidates who were on the other (RINO) side. These were mailed and available in offices of Republican Executive Committees (REC). But, the lies did not stop there, AND some of the attacks involved a good amount of money and planning.

In St. John’s, the county Republican Executive Committee had finally chosen a slate of America First candidates, after years of discord and three separate Chairmen. This sporing, they elected a new chair, a long-time resident, former law enforcement, and strong America First Republican. They also agreed on a slate of candidates to endorse.

The RPOF didn’t like that, so they tried to change those results.

The RPOF (via the RINO Vice chair of the REC ) brought in 57 NEW REC members in one evening, granted them membership then instant voting rights, and sought to replace the slate and officers chosen by the citizens of the county with a slate of RPOF choosing.

[ … ]

The RPOF is in overdrive, attacking their constituents’ freedom to make informed decisions at the ballot boxes across the state, AND trying to forbid participation of people with whom they disagree. If you catch a whiff of Brazil or Venezuela, your olfactory senses are good.

The Republican Party of Florida has been attacking America First Republicans (MAGA Republicans) OPENLY since this past spring.

Was this just a step toward Globlist control of Florida’s lands?. If DeGov couldn’t be their standard bearer on the national scene, then was he going to try to take his state away from MAGA Conservatives, and put the state’s land into the hands of foreign investors?

Evan Power can “take these accusations seriously”. Or not. Florida voters certainly do.

You at the RPOF got caught, RINO-handed, and this will not soon be forgotten.

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FLORIDA: Jordanian Muslim Terrorist Arrested for Attacks pro-Israel Businesses and an Energy Facility in Orlando

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ⁄ Orlando, Florida — Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, a Jordanian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida, is charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. At his detention hearing yesterday, Hnaihen was ordered detained pending trial.

“We allege that the defendant threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by a desire to target businesses for their perceived support of Israel,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Such acts and threats of violence, whether they are targeting the places that Americans frequent every day or our country’s critical infrastructure, are extremely dangerous and will not be tolerated by the Justice Department.”

“Under the guise of expressing his beliefs, the defendant allegedly attacked a power facility, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, and threatened local businesses,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Violence and destruction of property to threaten and intimidate others will never be tolerated. The FBI and our partners will work together to pursue and hold accountable those who resort to violence.”

“Targeting and attacking businesses for perceived beliefs is unacceptable,” said U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate and federally prosecute those who make violent or hate-based threats and who seek to act on these threats.”

According to court documents, beginning around June 2024, Hnaihen targeted and attacked businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support for Israel. Wearing a mask, under the cover of night, Hnaihen smashed the glass front doors of businesses and left behind “Warning Letters.”

Hnaihen’s attacks escalated. At the end of June, as law enforcement worked to identify the masked attacker, Hnaihen broke into a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield, Florida, and spent hours systematically destroying solar panel arrays. He smashed panels, cut wires, and targeted critical electronic equipment. Hnaihen left behind two more copies of his threatening demand letter. Hnaihen is believed to have caused more than $700,000 in damage.

Following a multiagency effort, law enforcement identified Hnaihen and arrested him on July 11, shortly after another “Warning Letter” threatening to “destroy or explode everything” was discovered at an industrial propane gas distribution depot in Orlando.

Hnaihen is charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each threat offense and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the destruction of an energy facility offense.

The FBI and Orange County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the case, with valuable assistance by Maitland Police Department, Winter Park Police Department, and Orlando Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Varadan for the Middle District of Florida is prosecuting the case, with valuable assistance provided by Trial Attorneys Ryan White and George Kraehe of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

©2024. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Florida Reaffirms School Board and Parent’s School Book Ban Rights

Another left slanted hit piece from USA Today which the Ledger often publishes in their Opinion section.  Both USA Today and the Ledger are owned by far left Gannett Media with HQ in NYC.  They own over 100 daily print media companies and; like cable news, they all print and speak to the same Marxist agenda.

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Fla. reaffirms school book ban right

Filing argues government can remove speech it disagrees with

Douglas Soule

USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is doubling down on its position that books can be removed from school libraries solely because the government disagrees with them.

“(We) maintain the position that the removal of material from public school libraries is government speech for which it has the complete discretion and freedom to speak through the removal of speech with which it disapproves,” wrote attorneys for various Gov. Ron DeSantis education appointees in a Thursday court filing.

As revealed by the USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida, the state has made the same argument over the last year to counter lawsuits filed over the local school district removals of books with LGBTQ themes.

In a similar vein, another attorney for DeSantis education appointees recently told a federal appeals court that what public university professors say in classrooms is government speech and therefore can be censored by the state.

The federal lawsuit prompting the latest government speech assertion was filed last month by a trio of public school student mothers who accuse Florida’s top education officials of discriminating against them and others opposed to the surge of book removals seen across the state.

In trying to get that lawsuit thrown out, Florida’s attorneys said that since removals are protected government speech, the public can’t experience “harm or concrete injury” over those removals and therefore can’t sue.

It shows the state is only ramping up arguments that have alarmed First Amendment experts, with some accusing them of being authoritarian. And it marks yet another case in Florida that could have big effects on First Amendment law across the nation.

Government speech?

As mentioned by the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, government speech doctrine is relatively new and “not always precise,” with most of the core cases on it coming in the last couple of decades.

“Under the government speech doctrine, the government has its own rights as speaker, immune from free speech challenges,” the center says on its website. “It can assert its own ideas and messages without being subject to First Amendment claims of viewpoint discrimination.”

While the U.S. Supreme Court has not always ruled in favor of government speech arguments, it said in 2015 that Texas could refuse to allow Confederate flag specialty license plates because they represented government speech. Justices said six years before that a city could refuse to put a monument in a public park for the same reason.

But the attorneys for the state — Ray Treadwell, who used to work for DeSantis, and Caroline May Poor of Lawson Huck Gonzalez, PLLC — acknowledged in the Thursday filing that their government speech argument hasn’t yet been confirmed by judges of the 11th Judicial Circuit, a federal jurisdiction that includes Florida.

Florida is not alone in making that argument in recent months. Similar defenses for book removals have also been used in Arkansas and Texas, for example, though it has not prevailed in either state.

Two Florida federal judges also weren’t convinced by the argument and have refused to dismiss two separate cases based on book removals in Escambia County, which is on the state’s westernmost tip.

But one of those judges, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor, said that could change as the litigation continues and more information comes in. Winsor wrote in a court order that the legal balance between book removals and First Amendment protections is “surprisingly unsettled.”

During oral arguments late last year, the USA TODAY NETWORK reported on how Winsor weighed two extreme hypothetical scenarios.

On one side, school library books could be removed by the government because they’re written by members of a certain political party. On another, every bookshelf decision was subjected to First Amendment scrutiny, where tossing pro-Nazi books could be considered “viewpoint discrimination.”

Winsor has also been assigned the new case filed by the moms.

The latest case

Several recent Florida laws have prompted local school leaders across the state to pull books in wildly varying ways, fearing breaking the rules. A free speech group last year ranked Florida as the nation’s book banning leader.

As part of a measure from last year, a public school parent or guardian can ask for a state special magistrate if they’re unhappy that a school district didn’t remove a challenged title.

But the state’s not allowing parents who disagree with district decisions to bar books to likewise appeal.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed last month say that violates the First Amendment by discriminating based on viewpoint.

“The freedom to read is essential to our democracy, and extremists’ efforts across the country to impose their personal discriminatory beliefs on what books our children can read set a dangerous precedent for our most basic freedoms and democratic ideals,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, in a statement.

Perryman’s group, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the Southern Poverty Law Center, are representing the three moms involved in the case.

One of them is Stephana Ferrell of Orange County, who tried and failed to appeal a removal decision. She is also the co-founder and director of research and insight for the Florida Freedom to Read Project, one of Florida’s most-outspoken book access organizations.

Beyond the government speech argument, the state also counters that the appeal process is not a “forum for speech” and the First Amendment “does not require the government to provide Plaintiffs with an official channel to level grievances about book removals.”

It points out how a government-run electricity company might provide the public with a tool to report outages but not provide one to report when their power is functional.

“A health inspection agency might have a process to receive information from the public about unsanitary conditions, without also providing a process to report or discuss sanitary locations,” the lawyers continued.

The governor’s office and representatives for both sides in the case didn’t respond to media requests Friday. No hearing has been scheduled yet in the case.

This reporting content is supported by a partnership with Freedom Forum and Journalism Funding Partners. USA Today Network-Florida First Amendment reporter Douglas Soule can be reached at DSoule@gannett.com.

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