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June 30, 2025
ORLANDO, FL - Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) announced Central Florida will be receiving $1.8 million in federal grants from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for service and volunteering. This funding will support the City of Orlando’s Operation AmeriCorps and City Year Orlando’s ongoing efforts to provide academic support to students in underserved neighborhoods. This funding announcement comes after a federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to restore funding to A… Continue Reading
June 26, 2025— U.S. Representatives Maxwell Frost (FL-10) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) have introduced legislation on the one-year anniversary of the disastrous City of Grants Pass v. Johnson Supreme Court decision, which allows cities to criminalize homelessness. The Housing Not Handcuffs Act aims to prohibit the criminalization of homeless persons on public lands when there is nowhere else to go. “Since the Grants Pass decision, cities across the country have passed over 200 bills to criminalize homelessn… Continue Reading
June 24, 2025— Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, for announcing plans to redirect FEMA funds — meant for disaster response and recovery — toward building a tent-based immigrant detention center in the middle of an abandoned airfield in the Everglades. The site, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” would reportedly rely on surrounding alligators as a “cost-saving” security measure. Florida Attorney Gener… 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