Make Florida Blue
An honest look at how Florida got here, and what it would take to change it.
This project examines the laws, court decisions, and constitutional changes of roughly the last decade and beyond that have made life harder for working people, immigrants, and vulnerable Floridians. Every claim here is tied to the documented record: bill text, session votes, published opinions, and the ballot language voters actually saw.
The goal is not outrage. It is a clear account of what was decided, who decided it, what it changed in practice, and which of those changes can be undone.
The first research pieces are being written now.
What is coming
Four lines of work, each built on primary sources and each written to be read start to finish rather than skimmed.
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01 The History
How we got here. The long arc of Florida politics: the shifts in who votes, who draws the districts, who funds the campaigns, and how a competitive state became a one-party government.
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02 The Laws
What has been passed and what it actually does. Session by session, the bills that reshaped housing, health care, labor, immigration enforcement, public education, and the right to protest, read against their real world effects.
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03 The Constitution
What the Florida Constitution says, how it has been amended, and how the rules for amending it have themselves been changed. Citizen initiatives, signature requirements, the sixty percent threshold, and judicial review of ballot language.
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04 The Path Forward
Ideas for making it better. What is reversible by statute, what requires a constitutional amendment, what depends on the courts, and where organized people have already moved the needle in this state.
How this site works
- Primary sources first. Bill text, roll call votes, court opinions, and official ballot summaries, cited and linked.
- Claims are specific. Named laws, named dates, and named effects, not vibes.
- Corrections are published, not quietly edited away.
- Disagreement is welcome. The argument here rests on the record, so the record is where it should be tested.