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PolitiFact Florida explores House Speaker Mike Johnson's larger point about what Democrat lawmakers said before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case.

The eight Democrats said Thursday they introduced the “No Cages in the Everglades Act." The bill faces long odds of passage in the House, where Republicans hold a 220-212 majority.

More than two dozen labor, community, and advocacy groups have formed the Battleground Alliance, a political action committee aligned with Democrats to target three Republican-held congressional House districts in Florida, including the South Florida seat held by U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined other top House Democrats at a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of the party’s strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

Florida House Democrats in Tallahassee are demanding answers from the state Department of Children and Families over its role in handing over a foster child from Honduras to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The boy, Henry, is a suspected undocumented immigrant.

Florida Senator Jason Pizzo is resigning as Senate Minority leader and leaving the Democratic Party On the Senate Floor Thursday, Pizzo who represents parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, announced he has switched over to No Party Affiliation.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz — whose district includes much of northern Broward County — has yet to hold a public town hall event in South Florida this year. Democratic organizers and activists say they feel "very disappointed."

The two Democrats in Florida’s Congressional special elections next month have outraised their Republican opponents by more than five to one. But most of that hasn’t come from Florida donors. The majority come from out of state.

Faced with Republican super majorities in both chambers of the Legislature, House Democrats highlighted a series of priorities Monday—though they acknowledged the bills are unlikely to pass during the annual session that starts Tuesday.

March For Our Lives co-founder and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg on Saturday was chosen for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

The Florida Democratic Party is having elections for who will lead their party Saturday in Orlando. It comes at a time of tremendous turbulence for the party.

COMMENTARY Democrats who are in denial about the liberal condescension that helped elect Donald Trump remind me of Venezuelans who are still in denial about the elitist corruption that helped bring Hugo Chávez to power.