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Seeking Rents – The Podcast — 172 episodes

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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

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Florida Legislature 2025: Undermining oat milk, protecting plastic bags

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Florida Legislature 2025: A sneak attack on the state minimum wage

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Florida Legislature 2025: The biggest battle of session has begun

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Florida Legislature 2025: Danger for Ron DeSantis

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Secret study reveals insurance companies pocketed billions while crying poor in Florida

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Florida Legislature 2025: Who's afraid of Ron DeSantis?

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Florida Legislature 2025: Florida lawmakers are flexing

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Ron DeSantis rolls out a Nanny state budget

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Florida Legislature 2025: A bully gets pantsed

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Florida Legislature 2025: The fights ahead

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How Florida became the national leader at denying health insurance to kids

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A most cowardly court

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Why so many state lawmakers don't care what you think

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Florida Legislature 2025: See no evil

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Challenging corporate power — and winning

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Was Bernie right?

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A company town no more?

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Brave new world

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Two Florida communities on the front lines of housing reform

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Why abortion bans, union busting, and tax breaks for billionaires go together

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Election interference in Florida

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Big Sugar’s grip on both political parties in Florida

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The developer and the mayor

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A populist voice in the Florida Legislature

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‘Demented celebrity death match’

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Here's how Florida could cut taxes for the families who need it the most

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Anti-abortion politicians are in a panic in Florida

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A sneak attack on Florida state parks

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A rebellion in Florida

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Moms for Liberty goes down

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Florida politicians will go further to interfere with abortion – unless Florida voters stop them

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Florida is strangling its cities

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Battling the Big Business lobby: Inside the fight to help outdoor workers in Florida working in 100-degree heat

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One weird trick Florida is using to raise insurance rates

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Lawfare in Florida

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Ron DeSantis sides with Visa and Mastercard in budget battle

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Florida may finally have a good cop on the insurance beat

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Farmworkers just wanted water and shade. Florida politicians refused to help. Then they made sure no one else could help, either.

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Florida politicians close their eyes to climate change – and to the state’s insurance crisis

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Florida is hiding some politicians' taxpayer-funded travel

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Florida lawmakers stood up to Visa and Mastercard. Will Ron DeSantis do the same?

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Ron DeSantis signs a state law blocking wage and benefit protections for Florida workers

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Florida is *thisclose* to becoming Alabama

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Ron DeSantis hits the reset button

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$50 and pray: Florida's latest response to the property insurance crisis

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Florida Legislature 2024: It's done

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Florida Legislature 2024: End game

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Florida Legislature 2024: Doubling down

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Florida Legislature 2024: Be kind. Criminalize homelessness.

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Florida Legislature 2024: The pirates of Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2024: The Florida Legislature just rolled Ron DeSantis

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Florida Legislature 2024: A good day in Tallahassee for tax-dodging corporations

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Florida Legislature 2024: Crunch time in Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2024: The Alabama Supreme Court may have killed fetal personhood in Florida

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Florida Legislature 2024: What will Rob do?

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Florida Legislature 2024: Ogres have layers

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Florida Legislature 2024: Trickle-down economics are alive and well in Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2024: What else might Florida ban?

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Florida Legislature 2024: More tax breaks for businesses. But fewer for you.

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Florida Legislature 2024: Ron DeSantis is back. But is he really back?

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Florida Legislature 2024: Masking a corporate favor as a MAGA culture war

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Florida Legislature 2024: Taking on big tourism

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Florida Legislature 2024: Halfway home

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Florida Legislature 2024: Highs and lows

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Florida Legislature 2024: One place where Florida lawmakers may stand up to property insurers

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Florida Legislature 2024: Will the real fiscal conservatives please stand up?

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Florida Legislature 2024: Doubling down on an unconstitutional law

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Florida Legislature 2024: Hiding the ball

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Florida Legislature 2024: Dad's home

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Florida Legislature 2024: Watching out for woke

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Florida Legislature 2024: It's 2011 all over again in Tallahassee

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Florida Legislature 2024: Scorpions and frogs

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Florida Legislature 2024: Trust us when we tell you no one else can be trusted

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Florida Legislature 2024: The art of distraction

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Florida Legislature 2024: The Visible Hand

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The Florida Legislature 2024: Filling a labor shortage by encouraging dropouts

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The Florida Legislature 2024: No health insurance for you

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Billionaires and big corporations unite in Florida…to squeeze 40-hour workweeks out of high school kids

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Retail giants like Walmart, Target and Home Depot want to put more people in prison in Florida

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Rigging the rules: How the state of Florida helps some special interests skip out on property taxes

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How the state of Florida tries to control speech about Black people, women and LGBTQ+ people — under the guise of 'individual freedom'

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Ron DeSantis goes union-busting

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How the 'Free State of Florida' works with business lobbyists to keep wages low

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The 'Free State of Florida' just took rights away from 1.5 million Floridians

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Flood the swamp: Ron DeSantis keeps dragging Florida backwards on campaign-finance reform

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A mining company gave lots of money to Ron DeSantis. Now DeSantis is helping the company turn toxic waste into profit.

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Florida’s tourism industry has taken billions from residents of Florida’s biggest tourism town — and now it wants more

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How Ron DeSantis helps the billionaires who help him

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Gov. DeSanta Claus delivers a Christmas gift to the insurance industry

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Big businesses are leading an assault on local democracy in Florida

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Minimum wage is on the ballot in this year's elections in Florida

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Florida's emperor has no clothes

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Inside the $5 billion deal that Gov. Ron DeSantis' political appointees gave to Florida Power & Light

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How Ron DeSantis and Nikki Fried Teamed Up to Defend Big Sugar

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The bipartisan plot to take out Florida's best senator

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The Florida Legislature did a big favor for Publix — at the expense of Publix workers

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Ron DeSantis took money from you and gave it to businesses. And you didn’t even notice.