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After starting the year polling almost even with former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis began losing ground in March and continued sinking through the spring. Notably, the decline began before Trump’s first indictment. A July Economist/YouGovAmerica poll shows Trump at 49% and DeSantis at 20% in a multicandidate…

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How far the Republican Party has fallen, said David French in The New York Times. Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan stood up for Western values in the face of “an expansionist, aggressive Soviet Union” by giving what became known as his “evil empire speech”. 

The case hinges on the claim that the former president tried to cover up a campaign finance violation with which he was never charged.

The former First Amendment litigator and Dispatch co-founder becomes a columnist at the New York Times.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political strategy has won national attention for his ability to shrewdly select culture war issues and use a compliant Florida Legislature to advance them.

The symposium will include representatives of all three teams that drafted reports for the project: conservative, libertarian, and progressive.

The January 6 committee cannot charge Trump, but it can make criminal referrals. Here are the key legal issues at stake

The former president's recklessness is beyond dispute, but that is not enough to convict him while respecting the First Amendment.