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Resistance Report: Special Session Edition And Pride Flag Ban Bill Update
Equality Florida's special session Resistance Report covers DeSantis signing anti-immigration bills that repeal in-state tuition for undocumented students and impose a mandatory death penalty provision, plus Senator Randy Fine advancing the Pride Flag Ban Bill.
Resistance Report: Special Session Edition
Equality Florida's special session Resistance Report covers DeSantis's anti-immigration special session and the TRUMP Act repealing in-state tuition for undocumented students, noting the Legislature's growing independence from the Governor ahead of the 2025 session.
Your Final Resistance Report for 2024: We’re Turning The Tide
Equality Florida's final 2024 Resistance Report celebrates stopping or neutralizing 21 of 22 extreme anti-LGBTQ bills and passing the pro-LGBTQ PEP Access bill, framing the session as a major blow to DeSantis's culture war agenda.
Resistance Report Week 6: Keeping the Pressure On
Equality Florida's week six Resistance Report notes sustained advocacy has stalled some of the session's worst bills, naming Rep. Michele Rayner a winner for the Freedom to Learn Act and Rep. Tiffany Esposito a loser for the Preemption of Employment Protections Bill.
Resistance Report Week 5: Victory on the Frontlines
Equality Florida's week five Resistance Report celebrates the Pride Flag Ban Bill being stopped in the Florida Senate, support for the abortion ballot amendment at the state Supreme Court, and grassroots DMV protests over the transgender license policy.
Resistance Report Week 4: An Unprecedented Attack
Equality Florida's week four Resistance Report details the DeSantis administration's memo rescinding transgender residents' ability to update license gender markers, a virtual town hall with Southern Legal Counsel, and names Rep. Gallop Franklin a winner and Rep. Doug Bankson a loser.
Resistance Report Week 3: Bad Bills Are Moving
Equality Florida's week three Resistance Report covers the Florida Board of Governors' approval of rules dismantling university diversity programs and removing sociology as a core course, plus moving anti-LGBTQ bills, naming Reps. Bartleman and Woodson winners and DeSantis the loser.
Resistance Report Week 2: Divorcing from DeSantis
Equality Florida's week two Resistance Report recaps its Pride At The Capitol kickoff, where 225-plus volunteers demanded lawmakers reject DeSantis's agenda, naming new Rep. Tom Keen a winner and Reps. Randy Fine and David Borrero losers over the Pride Flag Ban Bill.
Resistance Report Week 9: Anti-LGBTQ Bills Fast-Tracked through the Legislature
Equality Florida's Week 9 Resistance Report marked the end of the 2023 legislative session, in which the GOP supermajority passed an unprecedented Slate of Hate including SB 254 and the Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill.
Resistance Report Week 8: Drag Queens And Allies Descend On The Capitol
Equality Florida's Week 8 Resistance Report covered hundreds of drag performers and allies descending on the Capitol to #DragDeSantis, and the advancement of the License to Discriminate in Healthcare bill, which passed the Senate 28-11.