Racial Targeting
FLORIDA GOP MAJORITY: 2025-2026 LEGISLATIVE BILLS
HB 1419: Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Florida Voting Rights Act
This Proactive Voting Rights Bill FAILED in the House:
It Stood To:
- Prevent vote dilution & discrimination on the basis of race, color, or language
- Give minority groups an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice
- Expand Language access
- Strengthen Preclearance protections
- Make Election Day a Holiday
- Offer Same-Day Voter Registration
- Establish Automatic Voter Registration
- Make Vote-by-Mail request permanent
- Ensure prepaid Vote-by-Mail Postage throughout the state
- Create a centralized database for returning citizens to determine voter eligibility
- Instead they made it HARDER TO VOTE by Passing HB991 Voter ID into Law!
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HB991: Passed Voter ID Bill - Makes It Harder to Vote: Even Though There is No Voter Fraud in Florida
HB991 created new barriers to voting in Florida. NOTE: THIS DOES NOT GO INTO AFFECT UNTIL 2027!
Who is affected?
- Students- Student ID’s are no longer accepted forms of citizenship documentation.
- People who have changed their last name from the original birth certificate. (Affecting many married women as well as other people.)
- People who do not have access to their original or certified birth certificate.
The Heritage Foundation tracked voter fraud cases in Florida. In the last 43 years, there have been only 93 convictions of voter fraud.
For more detailed information: Click Here
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Immediately after the Supreme Court ruling on April 29th, 2026, Ron DeSantis published a new GOP legislative districting map. The main changes were aimed at the cities where there are more Black voters. These cities were carved up, minimizing the Back vote; with the result of reducing Black representation in the state of Florida.
In 2010, Florida voters overwhelmingly passed the Fair Districts Amendment, placing strict limits on partisan gerrymandering. Florida is one of several states with such protections, including Utah, where a judge struck down a similar GOP map last year after finding it violated a voter-approved ban.
Florida’s Supreme Court which has a 6 DeSantis appointees out of 7 justices, ruled in June 2026 not to take on the case; to rule on it after the 2026 election.
(SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2) (SOURCE 3)
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HB1539/1119: Expanded School Book Removals. Expanded school-library censorship particularly on LGBTQ and marginalized communities.
Redefine “harmful to minors”: Both bills narrow the legal definition, removing some long‑standing constitutional safeguards that require considering the work’s overall literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
Expand objection process: They allow any parent or resident to object to materials in school classrooms or libraries. Under HB1119, districts must remove the challenged material within five days of a single objection, regardless of merit
State oversight and sanctions: The State Board of Education must ensure compliance; noncompliance can trigger sanctions, including potential loss of state funding
Scope: Applies to instructional materials in K‑12 schools and libraries, not just textbooks — including literary, historical, political, and scientific works (Source)
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HB1071: Restrict Diversity Programs – K-12 Education Bill Includes Anti-DEI Provisions that bar school districts, charter schools, and support organizations from spending funds on DEI programs. It removed requirements that school district/advisory councils reflect the ethnic, racial, and economic makeup of the community. ***Passed the House, but not the Senate
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SB1134: Restricted Diversity Programs: Local Governments Cannot Fund, Promote, or Take Any Official Actions that Promote Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion. They are also barred from spending any funds to establish, support, or staff a DEI office or officer. In addition, the bill requires contractors that work for the city must certify that they do not use any local government funding to promote diversity, equity or inclusion efforts.
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HB1471/HB1473: Gave Executive Branch Broad Power to Designate Organizations as Terrorist Organizations; Even Though Florida has No Issues with Any Protestors or Anything Close to Terrorism Activity. This bill was passed without sufficient due-process protections. It also allows concealment of portions of the information used in those terrorist designations from public disclosure. (Source)
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HB1105: Made it Easier to Convert Neighborhood Public Schools into Charter Schools. Decisions now rest solely with parents of currently enrolled students, requiring only a majority vote. The bill removes prior requirements for teacher approval and district oversight in conversion applications (Source)
For More information on Bills passed in this last GOP controlled legislative session: Click Here
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Meanwhile 2026 Black Unemployment Rate in Florida is very high. Double that of other groups.
Black: 8.6%
All: 4.8%
White: 4.0%
Hispanic: 4.0%
AAPI: 4.3%
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND EXECUTIVE ACTIONS:
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
Trump's Department of Justice Give up on School Desegregation
September 22, 2026
Trump’s Justice Department has stepped away from many school desegregation cases. In a news release, the department boasted of successfully working through the courts to close more than 50 desegregation cases since Trump took office, with motions to dismiss in the works in many other cases. Previous administrations had used these federal court cases to hold schools accountable when students of color had worse outcomes than white students — high rates of discipline, worse school facilities or reduced access to extracurriculars and advanced coursework.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
September 3rd, 2026
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
The Trump administration released new rules that could revoke tax-exempt status from any school offering targeted support to Black or other minority students, a sweeping change that opens another front in the president’s campaign to reshape American education.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
July 23, 2026
The Education Department rescinded a regulation that allowed schools to gauge potential discrimination by comparing outcomes across races, such as the racial breakdown of students in advanced classes. Then, the Trump Education Dept. issued a letter to American schools, emphasizing it’s illegal to consider race when crafting discipline policies — even if one particular racial group ends up suspended or expelled more often
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump
August 20, 2026
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Navy announced that the Ford-class carrier would be called the USS Doris Miller, recognizing an enlisted sailor who helped defend US forces from Japan’s attack. There have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump. It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president.
Black Unemployment is Surging Again
Under President Biden, Black unemployment reached a low of 4.8 percent. Under the Trump
Administration Black unemployment has risen to 7.4%.
The economic landscape for Black Americans changed rapidly as the year 2025 came to a close. A recent report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies titled “State of the Dream 2026” delivers a sobering message. While the broader United States economy appears to be on stable ground, the Black unemployment rate has climbed to 7.5 percent (ncrc.org). This shift marks a significant departure from previous years where job growth seemed more inclusive across racial lines. The report identifies this trend as a “Black Recession” occurring within a larger period of national growth (ncrc.org). (SOURCE)
Supreme Court rules 6-3 to Strike Down Protections Against Racial Gerrymandering by the States.
President Trump has appointed the last 3 Supreme Court Justices. The GOP majority Senate confirmed all his choices.
This Supreme Court on April 29, 2026 (Louisiana v. Callais) made another ruling against the Voting Rights Act of 1965. States can now ignore their black communities; and ensure they do not have black representation. States can carve up current black districts so that black citizens are split up into predominately white districts. Supreme Court Justice Kagan who was strongly against this ruling stated: “This will likely cause the largest reduction to minority representation since the end of reconstruction.”
Louisiana is in the middle of a primary, and the Governor just declare a State of Emergency to
halt these elections so that Louisiana’s maps can be redrawn. Louisiana has a 33 percent Black population; the governor’s goal is no black representation.
Governor Ron DeSantis and the Majority GOP House and Senate immediately announced the new gerrymandering map, with the intent to eliminate every black district possible.(SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2)
President Trump fired Federal Black Leaders without Cause (click the image for resource)
Many of these Black Americans were the first to fill these roles.
Charles Q. Brown Jr.
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Carla Hayden
Head of Library of Congress
Gwynne Wilcox
Head of National Labor Relations Board
Robert Primus
Head of Surface Transportation Board
Alvin Brown
Head of National Transportation Safety Board
Peggy Carr
Commissioner of National Center for Education Statistics
Lisa Cook
Federal Reserve Board of Governors member (reinstated by a federal judge after President Trump fired her without legally sufficient cause)
DOGE Government Job Cuts have Disproportionate Effects on Black Federal Workers
18% of the federal workforce is Black, with some agencies — including the Postal Service, the Department of Education, HUD, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Veterans Affairs — employing more than 25% Black workers. (Black Americans comprise 12% of the total civilian workforce.) These positions are distributed throughout the country and have long been regarded as a reliable pathway to the Black middle class. (SOURCE)
Trump’s DEI Ban Erases Black Veterans’ Graves from Arlington Cemetery Website
President Trump Issued Executive Order on Policing
Black Americans are already more than twice as likely as white Americans to experience force during police interactions. (SOURCE)
Environmental Justice Offices Eliminated under President Trump
The EPA’s office of Environmental Justice was created to enforce civil rights protections and
ensure Black communities are safe from environmental harms. It was dismantled as part of the anti-DEI agenda. (SOURCE)
June 2025
President Trump announced a travel ban targeting 19 countries, this list has now grown to 39 countries spanning Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Pacific countries.
This travel ban came days after President Trump declared Somalians were “garbage” and that
he wanted to ban all travel from “third world countries”. (SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2) (SOURCE 3)
June 2025
President Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Division has dismissed or terminated many racial discrimination cases.
Including some cases where agreement had already been reached. (SOURCE)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
…responsible for enforcing fair housing laws. Under the Trump Administration, HUD has seen it staff cut by 45%. Former HUD workers say they were blocked from enforcing fair housing laws. (SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2)
Credit: MSNBC – (ms.now)