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- politics
Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly won the special election for the district Tuesday night, The Associated Press projects. Trump carried the area in 2024.
Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election Tuesday for the Florida state House district that includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, flipping the seat from Republican control, The Associated Press projects.
Gregory beat Republican Jon Maples, whom Trump endorsed, in the race for a seat that has been vacant since August, when Mike Caruso resigned from the Legislature and was appointed Palm Beach County clerk.
Gregory had 51% of the vote to 49% for Maples with all precincts reporting.
Democrats have performed well in special elections during Trump’s second term, with the party pointing to those results as a sign of strength ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Florida’s 87th District is the 10th GOP-held state legislative seat Democrats have flipped around the country since Trump took office again last year. Republicans have not flipped any Democratic state legislative seats during that time.



I think if the push against them is too strong, they’ll just go full dictator and enact autocracy. I mean we’re quickly marching there anyways but they have to go through some other steps before they just rid of Congress and the SC, though they might keep vestiges as an appeasement for the dumbest of the dumb.
I think we all know where this is going. And I want everrone who reads this to know, I am not an accelerationist and I am not giddy about this. But I don’t think there’s a peaceful way out of this, and that means a lot of people are going to die, like a lot, probably a lot of my loved ones and community, as well as potentially me. I’m not planning on sitting this one out on the sidelines. It’s either me and everyone I love in concentration camps/dead without a fight, or going down fighting and striving for a better world.
I just really don’t see many other options besides decades of resistance and guerilla warfare, which we don’t have the time for. In a few decades Earth will be so much worse due to an accelerated climate crisis. And this regime has shown itself to be part of a global threat, installing far right governments, or converting them alongside Israel and Russia. We literally do not have the commodity to not fight back with every fiber of being, when that time comes.
If climate change is already looking bad, it won’t just be the US pumping out full throttle carbon emissions, it will be most of the world. And yes, what we’ve done so far is laughable and pitiful, but imagine a world where green energy is banned for oil profits, and governments haven’t just stopped caring a little bit, but are actively determined to burn as much oil and coal as possible.
The population isn’t ready for armed resistance. I doubt they ever will be.