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The Florida House voted 81-26 on Tuesday to pass HB 1471, the bill that gives a handful of state officials the power to brand any organization a domestic terrorist group. Rep. Hillary Cassel opened her floor speech by invoking the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran from 72 hours earlier — using a foreign military operation to justify a domestic law aimed at Florida’s Muslim communities. The Senate companion, SB 1632, is expected to be voted on later this week.
After SB 1632 and HB 1471 cleared their final committees, the ACLU of Florida warned the bills would let the government brand its critics as terrorists. Meanwhile, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops confirmed that amendments had addressed their concerns about Canon Law — a carve-out that revealed exactly who the bill’s religious law provisions were designed to target, and who they were designed to protect.
Florida’s domestic terrorist designation bill barely survived its second Senate committee hearing on February 25 — a grueling three-hour session in which approximately 95% of public testimony opposed the bill, the committee chair voted yes but couldn’t guarantee future support, and the bill’s sponsor struggled to explain how it wouldn’t be weaponized. Senate leadership’s response: pull the bill from its third and final committee and send it straight to the floor, bypassing one more opportunity for scrutiny.
The year 2025 was the deadliest on record for journalists worldwide — and Israel was responsible for the majority of those deaths. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 86 press workers were killed by Israeli fire, most of them Palestinians reporting from inside Gaza.
Rep. Sean Casten introduced the Ceasefire Compliance Act of 2026 — a bill that would prohibit the use of US-origin weapons in Gaza and the West Bank unless Israel meets a defined set of compliance conditions verified by the State Department.
A forensic investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture has reconstructed, minute by minute, how Israeli soldiers killed 15 Palestinian aid workers in Tel al-Sultan in March 2025 — firing over 900 bullets at clearly marked ambulances, executing survivors at close range, and then burying the evidence.
A confidential Democratic National Committee analysis concluded that the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war was a ‘net-negative’ for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign — and party leadership has kept the findings secret because of how politically damaging they are.
Even Conservatives See the Danger in Florida’s ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Bill. A Pro-Gun Outlet Is Sounding the Alarm
When a pro-gun conservative outlet warns that a Republican-backed bill could be used to brand Second Amendment organizations as domestic terrorists, something has gone deeply wrong with the legislation. Bearing Arms’ analysis of HB 1471 exposes what civil liberties groups have been saying for months: the bill’s vague language makes it a weapon that can be aimed at anyone.