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      Protesters march while the Democratic National Committee's Mobile Billboard drives through the streets of Miami ahead of Governor Ron DeSantis' Presidential campaign launch on May 24, 2023 in Miami, Florida.

      Ron DeSantis Has a Very Un-American Vision For America

      While the poet Amanda Gorman has provided a beautiful and promising song, the GOP presidential candidate—with hopes to do to the nation what he has done to Florida—offers up a dystopian nightmare.

      Steven Harper
      May 25, 2023

      Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) wants to be the 47th president of the United States. He’s running on his record as governor, which an overwhelming majority of Americans should find alarming. Armed with a Republican legislature that rubber stamps his every whim, DeSantis’s most celebrated accomplishments defied the will of most Americans:

      • He spearheaded a ban on abortions for women who are more than six weeks pregnant, even though many women don’t know by then that they’re pregnant and most Americans oppose such a draconian restriction.
      • Only days after the mass shooting in Nashville, he signed legislation allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training. The vast majority of Americans want more gun restrictions, not fewer.
      • He defunded diversity, equality, and inclusion programs at all state universities, ignoring the contrary desires of most students.
      • His crusade against the LGBTQ+ community has compromised the freedom of an oppressed minority and morphed into a blood feud with Mickey Mouse. Popular opinion is running against him on those issues as well.

      And most recently, a vivid illustration of his dangerous view of the First Amendment emerged – once again defying the wishes of most Americans.

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       The Democratic National Committee's mobile billboard drives through the streets of Miami ahead of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign launch on May 24, 2023. ​

      Rights Groups Alarmed as 'Fascist, Anti-Choice' DeSantis Launches Presidential Campaign

      "From his hostility toward racial equity and LGBTQ+ rights, to book bans, to one of the most draconian abortion bans on record, he poses an immense threat to our freedoms and our country's most vulnerable communities," said one critic.

      Jessica Corbett
      May 24, 2023

      "Of all the extremists gunning for the GOP nomination, Ron DeSantis might be the worst."

      That's what NARAL Pro-Choice America president Mini Timmaraju said in a statement Wednesday as Florida's Republican governor formally launched his long-anticipated campaign for the party's 2024 presidential nomination.

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      'A Shame for the Children,' Says Amanda Gorman After Far-Right Parent Gets Poetry Banned

      "One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them," noted Gorman, who recited her poem, The Hill We Climb, at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

      Brett Wilkins
      May 24, 2023

      Amanda Gorman, the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, reacted Tuesday after a South Florida school banned elementary students from reading the poem she recited at President Joe Biden's 2021 inauguration following the complaint of a parent who has repeatedly espoused white supremacist and anti-Jewish views.

      "I'm gutted," Gorman said in a statement posted on Twitter. "Because of one parent's complaint, my inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, has been banned from an elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida."

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