On September 2, Florida's largest electric utility monopolies, FPL, Duke Energy and Tampa Electric, filed petitions with the Florida Public Service Commission to increase electric rates in 2023. If the Public Service Commission approves these rates, your electric bill could go up — in some cases by as much as 15% per month.
Read MoreIf the Florida Public Service Commission approves the request from Florida’s largest utilities, your monthly electric bill could be going up by as much as 15%.
Read MoreOutrageously high power bills in 2022 are explained by years of political interference from FPL, Florida's largest electricity monopoly.
Read MoreOn Friday, June 24, Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed SB 620, formally named the Local Business Protection Act, but which critics dubbed the “Ending Local Freedoms Act.”
Read More🚨 BREAKING: SB 620, the Puppy Mill Loophole Law, has now been sent to Governor Ron DeSantis. He has vetoed bad bills before, and he has the chance to veto this cruel bill. New reports suggest Gov. DeSantis was concerned that this bill would give the owners of puppy mills almost unlimited power to operate anywhere in Florida. Now he must decide whether to veto this cruel bill. Add your name and tell Gov. DeSantis: No more puppy mills! Veto SB 620. #NoPuppyMills #Veto620
Read MoreCan you write an email to Gov. DeSantis to veto this cruel new law? Gov. DeSantis has stood up to his own legislature and vetoed bad bills this year, and he is seriously considering a veto on this one. He needs to hear from all of us now.
Read MoreThanks to you, we delivered a petition with over 1,300 signatures to Governor DeSantis asking him to veto SB 620, the Puppy Mill Law.
Read MoreNews: Last week on April 25, Governor DeSantis signed SB 524, the Anti-Voter Freedom Act. What does this mean for Florida voters who believe in improving voting access to working Floridians?
Read MoreThe Florida Legislature passed a cruel new bill that would give businesses that support the puppy mill industry, like Petland, much more power to operate anywhere in Florida. The bill, SB 620, will now head to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.
Take one minute and ask Gov. DeSantis to VETO this license for animal cruelty.
Read More🇺🇸 🗳 ALERT: The Florida Legislature has just passed passed SB 524, the Anti-Voter Freedom Act. This widely criticized legislation creates a new "office of elections crimes" (the first of its kind in the nation), and diminishes the freedom to vote in Florida by adding new and confusing hurdles to voting by mail — a form of voting that many Floridians use, especially seniors and members of the military serving overseas.
Read MoreThis morning, in a 24-15 vote, the Florida Senate passed HB 741, the highly controversial and widely criticized legislation aiming to gut rooftop solar net metering in Florida. The Florida House also passed this bill last week; now the legislation will head to Governor Ron DeSantis for signature or veto.
Read MoreThe Florida Legislature just approved a new law that would put a tax on sunshine, kill thousands of good-paying jobs in the solar industry and impose new fees that would hurt low-income Floridians.
We need your help. Can you send an email to Governor DeSantis and tell him to veto this bill?
Our power bills are too high. We don't need a new tax on energy. What we need is energy freedom and support for good-paying jobs in Florida.
Read More🚨 Florida's local minimum wage laws are at risk. State lawmakers are pushing a bill which would repeal local minimum wage laws across the state. Take action: click and add your name to tell your state representatives and senators hands off our local living wage laws.
Read MoreWe hope you’ve had a great holiday season and that you’re able to start the New Year with health and happiness. As we reflect on all that we have done together, I wanted to highlight all the good that we’ve done with your help.
Read MoreThis piece, by investigative journalist Christopher Heath, ran in the Orlando media market, after we sent out our media advisory with the offer to connect reporters to storytellers in their area.
Read MoreOpportunity For All Floridians sent this press release to news outlets in the Orlando area, after conducting a series of interviews with everyday Floridians who were struggling to make ends meet because they couldn’t get the state’s unemployment system to pay them the benefits they were owed. This press outreach resulted in several local news stories.
Read MoreThis week, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his legislative priorities for his special session taking aim at what he termed “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates. The legislative package included a proposal that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility to those not complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In response, unemployed Floridians who are still waiting for their own benefits spoke out about the current system. “The system is still broken,” several of them said. “What about us?”
Read MoreThere’s a crisis threatening our communities all over Florida. Florida state legislators filed 42 bills in the 2021 legislative session to overrule local city and county ordinances. This "Tallahassee Takeover" affects everything from environmental ordinances designed to keep Florida’s water and air clean to election laws that keep dark money out of local politics.
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