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August 21, 2025
ORLANDO, FL — Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) released a statement following a federal judge’s decision ordering the State of Florida and the Trump Administration to halt construction and wind down operations at the Everglades Immigrant Detention Center, also known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams cited the extensive environmental damage caused to the Florida Everglades as a result of the detention center. Under the order, the faci… Continue Reading
August 21, 2025ORLANDO, FL — Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) announced that the State Department has released the official location for the new Orlando passport office. The State Department has signed a lease to establish the office just north of the Orlando International Airport at 5520 Gatlin Avenue, Orlando, FL 32812 . The anticipated substantial completion deadline for the passport office is summer 2027. After years of fighting for the State Department to expand passport services to Cen… Continue Reading
August 19, 2025— Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10), Congressmen Mike Lawler (R-NY) and John Garamendi (D-CA) reintroduced the bipartisan Safe Air on Airplanes Act, legislation to secure clean air on airplanes to ensure the safety of the nearly 3 million people including flight crews and passengers that fly daily. Specifically, the Safe Air on Airplanes Act would work to phase out bleed air systems which currently exist on almost all commercial aircraft and supply the air we breathe through th… Continue Reading
March 10, 2025
_ Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked out of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday or boycotted the speech altogether. “There's a MAGA fest, a MAGA rally going on in the House chambers,’’ Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said soon after leaving the chamber as Trump delivered his speech. “I knew what was next in the lineup of (his) greatest hits. I didn't need to sit there.” Clarke and some other caucus members who lef… Continue Reading
March 10, 2025Alex Jimenez of Winter Park, a 65-year-old corporate vice president, might look the part of a moderate suburban Democrat open to a bipartisan message in the Trump era. But Jimenez is in no such mood. “WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!” he wrote in a recent letter to the Orlando Sentinel. “The clock is ticking. … Get to work!!” Jimenez, who considers himself center-left, is “extremely disappointed with Democrats at the moment,” he said. “‘Rudderless’ is the word I think of in describing the party, while Repu… Continue Reading
March 05, 2025—Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost walked out of President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Frost revealed a "No Kings Live Here" T-shirt under his jacket as he walked out. In a statement, Frost said: "Donald Trump is many things - a liar, a grifter, a wanna-be-dictator - but no matter how hard he tries and how many Republicans in Congress bend the knee and kiss the ring: he will never be king. "Tonight, the American people saw a desperate liar stand in front of a podium a… Continue Reading
December 17, 2023
My mother, a special education teacher of 37 years, raised me to appreciate what school can be: a place where, with supportive and inspiring instruction, young people can learn a-nd grow into their best selves. Reading is a critical part of that education. But in Florida, with a teacher vacancy crisis, average SAT scores dropping to almost dead last in the nation, and curriculum under attack, our schools have instead become a frontline for politics, not learning. Florida’s law allowing anyone t… Continue Reading
November 07, 2023In 2021, I was a 24-year-old, working class Afro-Latino without millions in the bank — or, really, any money in the bank; without the significant political connections or traditional office experiences that make someone “qualified” to run for office. Everyone counted me out. In Florida of all places — a state where our neofascist governor has stripped people of their reproductive rights, banned books, championed the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law, and taken great pride in targeting minorities and… Continue Reading