🚨 Today is the last day to register to vote or update your voter registration for the Florida primary election in August.

We did the math. Of 1,200 ICE interactions nationwide: 418 times agents pushed, shoved, tackled or pinned people. 361 times agents deployed chemical irritants. 131 times they were directly aimed at individuals.

In the last week, three tragic deaths have followed ICE encounters across the nation. ICE is answering to arrest quotas instead of the Constitution, and it will continue costing people their lives until this detention machine is shut down for good.

ICE has paused vehicle stops after ICE officers shot and killed two people in the past week. Keep ICE off — our streets are safer without them.

“Our classrooms are meant to be rooms of curiosity, creativity, and learning. When we stifle this kind of critical thinking, we risk losing our education system as we know it.”

US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions

Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’

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This one is for the teachers, the students, and the First Amendment.

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BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today, a federal court permanently blocked Governor DeSantis’ classroom censorship law, the "Stop WOKE Act," from taking effect. The law would've restricted students and educators in Florida from discussing things like race and gender in higher ed classrooms.

🚨 Make your plan to vote: on our new 2026 Florida Voter Hub! For 250 years, we the people have dared to create a nation where freedom belongs to us all. This election season, we're keeping that tradition alive and voting like our democracy depends on it — because it does.

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Last Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for independent investigations into all deaths under ICE custody. He expressed that justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence must be upheld.

We’ll see the state of Florida in court.

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BREAKING: We’re suing to stop Florida’s baseless designation of the country’s leading Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and its Florida chapter as “domestic terrorist organizations.” If the court doesn’t intervene, they’ll be required to shut down in the state.

Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. Here in Florida, we know just how much this ruling matters.

BREAKING: We’re suing Gov. DeSantis for failing to fill a judicial vacancy on the Third District Court of Appeal. He has missed the deadline by six weeks and counting. The governor’s refusal to act isn’t just an administrative failure — it’s a constitutional violation.

The DeSantis administration spent over $1 billion of Florida taxpayers’ money to build the recently closed Everglades Detention Center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz". That is not governance; that is cruelty dressed up as policy, and complicity dressed up as leadership.

BREAKING: Governor DeSantis announced that "Alligator Alcatraz" has officially shut down. Through community pushback and litigation pressure, we the people successfully closed the chapter on this facility's dark record.

161 years ago today, enslaved people in Texas received word that they were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth is Black History and a day to honor courage and resilience, because freedom belongs to us all.

“Transferring people out of this cruel facility is an important step, but it does not erase the harm that has already been done. The state and federal government must permanently close this facility and commit to never detaining people there again."

Detainees moved out of "Alligator Alcatraz" over hurricane concerns, ICE says

ICE has moved detainees out of a controversial soft-sided detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," a spokesperson said, citing safety concerns around hurricane season.

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BREAKING: We've filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Shepard Scalf, a teacher who was fired without cause because he is intersex. Firing people because of their identity is illegal discrimination, plain and simple.

A Charlie Kirk post upended her life, and now Florida owes her $485K. Read more here:

A Charlie Kirk post upended her life. Now Florida owes her $485K

Brittney Brown was fired by a state wildlife agency over a post she made about Charlie Kirk. Now, Florida owes her nearly half a million dollars.

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BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of Robert Dillon who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.

Help us spread the word! Anyone detained at the Everglades immigration detention facility ("Alligator Alcatraz") can access confidential outgoing legal phone calls by requesting them through the facility's request forms.

Pride is living freely, openly, and without fear of discrimination. In Florida, that's why Pride is still protest. Until that freedom belongs to all of us — we'll keep protesting alongside our LGBTQ+ community. Happy Pride Month 🌈

We researched over 1.4 million traffic stops and discovered rampant systemic disparities within Florida Highway Patrol’s enforcement practices. Here's what you need to know:

How ICE and the 287(g) program threatens our communities: a thread

BREAKING: The City of Clearwater unlawfully rejected thousands of petition signatures that were signed to preserve a public downtown community space — violating its own rules laid out in its City Charter. So, we’ll see them in court.

“The First Amendment does not disappear when someone accepts a government job.”

Florida biologist fired over Charlie Kirk post after his death wins $485K settlement

Florida officials will pay nearly half a million dollars to a biologist who was fired by a state agency for criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on social media after his death

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BREAKING: Brittney Brown, a state employee who was unlawfully fired over a social media post about Charlie Kirk, has secured a $485,000 settlement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Police stopped Wendy over alleged speeding, then called ICE because she spoke Spanish. She pleaded with ICE and police that her son had no one else to protect him. Congress must stop funding ICE's cruel misuse of local police.

She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.

ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.

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Over 1,700 state and local law enforcement agencies have 287(g) agreements, which invite ICE into our communities and lend support to their lawless anti-immigrant crusade. ICE's abuses wreak havoc wherever they go. Participating in the 287(g) program is a grave mistake.

End Funding to ICE's Dangerous 287(g) Program

ICE's 287(g) program turns local police into a weapon for ICE, meaning more racial profiling, more fear in our communities, and more people in immigrant detention. Tell Congress to end funding to it n...

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BREAKING: A Florida wildlife official falsely claimed that our client’s social media post about Charlie Kirk caused operational disruption and justified her termination. In a rare ruling, a federal court sanctioned both the official and the law firm representing the state.

“Alligator Alcataz” has violated basic standards of dignity and due process from the start. We welcome reports that this facility may finally be shut down, but accountability cannot end there.

Federal and State Officials Discuss Closing Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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