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A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2018

Sen. Bill Nelson has been in the news in recent weeks for claiming that “Russians are in the records” of local supervisors of elections, and that they are “continuing” with tactics employed in 2016. Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner meanwhile have said there is no proof for the claim, with Scott wondering if/why Nelson has divulged […]

Staff ReportsAugust 4, 2018

Kamala Harris has been the target of social media misinformation campaigns since she became a U.S. senator. Every month for the last 18 months, her office has discovered on average between three and five fake Facebook profiles pretending to be hers, according to a Harris aide. It’s unclear who creates the pages, which are often […]

Ryan NicolJuly 20, 2018

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch is now calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign, partly because of comments made by Nielsen during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum. Nielsen touched on a variety of topics during an interview with NBC’s Peter Alexander, including last year’s violent protests in Charlottesville and Russian interference in […]

Staff ReportsJune 24, 2018

Protesters confronted Attorney General Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, and they questioned the Republican’s stands on immigration and health care. The Tampa Bay Times reports Bondi received a police escort Friday when several members of Organize Florida confronted her as she left a Tampa theater after seeing “Won’t […]

Ryan NicolJune 20, 2018

President Donald Trump appears to give in to widespread criticism over his administration’s policy of separating thousands of migrant children from their families. Trump said Wednesday he will sign an executive order ending the controversial policy. “We are going to sign an executive order in a little while to keep families together, but we have […]

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Feds rebuke Bill Nelson’s assertions of current Florida elections breach

Campaigns on their own as cyber threats roil midterms

Ted Deutch: Homeland Security head should resign

Pam Bondi confronted at Mr. Rogers movie

Donald Trump: New executive order will end child separation policy