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Florida's 2026 governor's race and its statehouse have produced some of our most read receipts. Topics include donations to the leading candidates, the state's purchase of land from a donor, and the Hope Florida charity case.
Florida campaign finance records are published by the Florida Division of Elections, and political committees file their own reports, which we cite where available.
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Florida GOP is suing TV stations to pull an ad about their $10 million Hope Florida scandal.
The money went from a Casey DeSantis charity to a committee fighting two ballot measures.

NextEra agreed to a $150 million settlement over its alleged political misconduct in Florida.
Now it wants to take over Virginia's Dominion Energy.


GOP Sen. Ashley Moody has taken $50,000 from donors tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
As Florida AG, her probe of Epstein's jail work release found no wrongdoing.

Byron Donalds has been boosted by over $6 million from data center interests.
That includes Florida's power companies, Meta, and Google.

Byron Donalds just received another $1 million from ICE jailer GEO Group.
That's $3.5 million from the company in under a year.

Byron Donalds just told voters, "there ain't no bans coming" on data centers. Donalds and his wife own up to $390,000 in data center stocks.


Byron Donalds received funds from a developer the state of Florida paid $83 million for 4 vacant acres.
The land was just appraised at $10 million.


Byron Donalds has received $40 million from real estate interests alone.
That's about a third of everything he's raised.


Byron Donalds has received over $1 million from Florida's property insurance industry.
He's fighting David Jolly's plan to improve hurricane coverage.


Byron Donalds' campaign raked in over $1.9 million from the Tampa Bay Rays' owners.
Their $2.3 billion stadium is already receiving over $870 million from taxpayers.

Byron Donalds LEFT a mortgage, student loans and his wife's 401(k) off his disclosures.
Every report he's filed since his first run for Congress in 2020 was inaccurate.
