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Do you know about the threat that Project 2025 poses to our Democracy? Watch Andra Watkins explain the anti-democratic policy proposals in Project 2025. Project 2025 is real and horrifying. Learn from Andra’s expertise and research.
Follow Andra Watkins’s blog How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life on Substack.
Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D. was the featured speaker at the FLVCS 2024 July meeting. He spoke on Christian Nationalism, the Capitol Riot, and the Growing Threat to American Pluralism.
For further information view Dr. Taylor’s slides and watch his video on Spiritual Warriors: Decoding Christian Nationalism at the Capitol Riot.
Florida Veterans for Common Sense continues its 2024 Election Candidate Forums. This month presents candidates for Florida State House District 73. Candidate, Derek Reich, is highlighted. Incumbent, Fiona McFarland, declined the invitation to speak.
Dan Bailey gives a timely presentation regarding this year’s upcoming elections for four open seats to the Board of Directors of the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board (the “SMH Board”). Dan’s presentation is titled, “Why the big fuss about the SMH Board elections? And why you should care”.
Watch the Sarasota County School Board Forum at the April 2024 Monthly Meeting. Candidates Tom Edwards and Liz Barker are featured. Candidates Karen Rose and Greg Wood were invited, but were unable to attend. This video is viewable by request only. To view, send a request to contact@flvcs.us.
Democracy at Risk speaker, Brynn Tannehill, speaks on American Fascism: On the brink of genocide. You will be fascinated by Ms. Tannehill’s historical comparisons of the 1930s versus the current growing authoritarian movement in the U.S. and beyond.
Noted scientist and author, Peter Fiekowsky, is the featured speaker at the FLVCS March 2024 monthly meeting. He speaks on Climate Restoration, a way to drastically reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere without busting the bank.
Watch 2024 FLVCS Thomas Paine Party. 2024 Thomas Paine Award winner, Jim Hightower, is guaranteed to keep you laughing while covering the important issues of our times.
Watch the Florida Congressional District 17 Candidate Forum at the February 2024 Monthly Meeting. Candidates Andrea Doria Kale, Manny Lopez, and Matthew Montavon are featured. Incumbent Representative Greg Steube was invited, but did not respond to the invitation.
Are we veterans bothered that ex-President Trump calls vets like us “suckers and losers”?
Of course – but even more, we are appalled that a man who has clearly mentally deteriorated (just listen to one of his speeches), might soon have his finger on the nuclear launch button as Commander-in-Chief of the biggest nuclear arsenal on the planet. This scenario even scares some of our MAGA friends and neighbors.
Presentations by Karen Svoboda of Defense of Democracy, Madelon Stewart and Marge Cox of the Purple Group, and Bob Schaeffer, Public Policy Communications. Sponsored by the Floridians for Democracy, Florida Veterans for Common Sense, and Choose Democracy Now.
This video highlights some of the many books banned in Florida and the rest of the nation.
Jeffrey R, Orenstein, Ph.D. is the featured speaker at Florida Veterans for Common Sense 2024 January meeting. As the Board President of First Responders for Democracy, he speaks on Civic Literacy and Democracy. The talk is about what civic literacy is; how it impacts American democracy; and what concerned activists can do about it.
