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The reckoning

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Election Eve

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From abortion to rural boundaries: What’s at stake in the race for attorney general

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Deceit and deception on the campaign trail

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The tech bros are coming for Florida’s elections

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The story behind a shady land deal in Florida (update)

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The Hope Florida cover-up

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The sickness infecting Florida state government

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Nobody likes to lose

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The bipartisan plot to take out Florida's best senator (update)

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Hope Florida fallout

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‘A sophisticated scheme,’ exposed

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Big money loses big

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Endorsed by Mark Zuckerberg

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Zombie sprawl

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Billionaires for Byron

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Chink in the armor

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The good, the bad and the bought

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Two of a kind

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Season change

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Wasting billions but pleasing billionaires

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The other side of the equation

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Same circus, different clowns

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No way to run a railroad

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Outsourcing prisons, selling lottery tickets and testing toilet water for drugs

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Florida voters passed reforms. Florida politicians are undoing them.

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Cold war thaw

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DeSantis vs. Trump II

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Cracks in the foundation

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Florida Legislature 2026: When rhetoric met reality

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Florida Legislature 2026: At least a billionaire got his waterslide

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Florida Legislature 2026: Nightmare Christmas

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Florida Legislature 2026: End game

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Florida Legislature 2026: Florida lawmakers vote to make life a little more expensive

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Florida Legislature 2026: The rules only matter when they want them to

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Florida Legislature 2026: Mighty MAHA

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Florida Legislature 2026: Over the cliff

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Florida Legislature 2026: Blue ribbon carveouts

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Florida Legislature 2026: The beclowned

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Florida Legislature 2026: Glass half full

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Florida Legislature 2026: Frozen reforms

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Florida Legislature 2026: Blue ribbons, red flags

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Florida Legislature 2026: Florida lawmakers turn on the police (and all it took was a lot of money)

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Florida Legislature 2026: The fate of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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Florida Legislature 2026: Toothless watchdogs

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Florida Legislature 2026: Baby steps

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Florida Legislature 2026: Big Sugar v. MAHA

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Florida Legislature 2026: Torn in Tallahassee between backing the blue and banking some cash

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Florida Legislature 2026: The Sheriffs of Nottingham

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Florida Legislature 2026: Lowering the flag(ship)

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Florida Legislature 2026: Enabling addiction

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Florida Legislature 2026: A good day for defense contractors

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Florida Legislature 2026: The book banners are back

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Florida Legislature 2026: Unleash the zealots

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Florida Legislature 2026: The first bill to pass the Florida state House this year is a favor for a mining corporation

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Florida Legislature 2026: Fortifying the courts ahead of a redistricting fight

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Florida Legislature 2026: Already gone

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The New York hedge fund manager behind a radical development bill in Florida

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A mining company is trying to block radiation lawsuits so it can build homes on former mines

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Florida approved the largest electric rate increase in history. Here's how it happened.

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Florida Legislature 2026: A bill written for the largest landowners in Florida

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Florida Legislature 2026: A sneaky favor for the sugar industry?

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The story behind a shady land deal in Florida

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Florida Legislature 2026: Once more unto the breach

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The governor vs. his voters: Inside Ron DeSantis' tax-funded ad war against abortion rights and legal weed

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The last stand for home rule in Florida

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The Miami billionaire and New York charter system behind a new push to privatize public schools in Florida

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Newsmax secretly lobbied Florida lawmakers to defund fact-checkers

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A small town beat a big corporation. So the corporation turned to Florida lawmakers for help.

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Florida’s largest landowner lobbied to weaken development rules on rural land

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An authoritarian playbook in Florida

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A Republican megadonor got caught hosting a pigeon shoot. Then he got Florida politicians to change the law.

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Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers just handed a legal sledgehammer to developers

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The Tallahassee swamp tries cover its tracks

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Owners of pro sports teams and thoroughbred racehorses are big winners in Florida's new state budget

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Florida’s swamp monster

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Florida is becoming a lawless state

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Florida Legislature 2025: Culture wars are expensive

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Florida Legislature 2025: Last-minute mischief

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Your town, their rules

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The University of Florida sinks into the swamp

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Florida Legislature 2025: Donors over voters

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Ron DeSantis is back...sort of

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Florida Legislature 2025: They're in a ditch (or are they?)

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Florida Legislature 2025: Special interest sausage-making

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Florida Legislature 2025: Unanswered questions

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Florida Legislature 2025: Bad moon rising

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Florida Legislature 2025: The net tightens around Team DeSantis

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Florida Legislature 2025: Free market frauds

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Florida Legislature 2025: Whither the Senate?

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Florida Legislature 2025: Spineless in Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2025: Rays of sunshine

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Florida Legislature 2025: Driving without brakes

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Florida Legislature 2025: Selling snake oil

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Florida Legislature 2025: An authoritarian turn in the state House

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Florida Legislature 2025: Tensions rise in Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2025: Tax favors for Philip Morris

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Florida Legislature 2025: Worst in the nation and proud of it

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Florida Legislature 2025: Pay no attention to the corporation behind the curtain

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Florida Legislature 2025: A bill in Florida could hurt kids in Delaware