Manatee County voters heading to the polls Tuesday have access to one final round of campaign-finance reports showing how candidates for county commission raised and spent money in the final days …
As early voting was set to open, Republican voters in Manatee County’s District 1 began receiving unsolicited PAC-sponsored text messages making alarming claims …
The Republican Party of Florida’s attempt to exert total control over local Republicans should concern all of us. In 2024, local Republican voters sent a clear message: the state does not …
This week, you may have gotten a text message from the Manatee County Republican Executive Committee accusing our publication, as well as me and publisher Joe McClash personally, of being …
The Republican Party of Florida announced last week that it was taking action to remove the Manatee State Republican Committeeman and Committeewoman elects and replace them …
Between the growing list of questionable political communications, fake voter guides, and other sneaky tactics by political operatives working to affect the Manatee County primary election outcome, …
As Election Day voters get set to head to the polls on Tuesday, attempts to influence the vote have ratcheted up to unprecedented levels with deceptive mass texts from groups like the "Christian …
Local voters are probably very familiar with political advertising, from unsolicited text messages, oversized postcards, television ads, or ...
This week, rumors swirled that a certain developer and his political henchman were in Tallahassee lobbying the governor to appoint Manatee County Commissioner James Satcher as Supervisor of Elections …
A Palmetto man is facing multiple county ordinance violations as well as a criminal charge of animal cruelty following a joint investigation into animal abuse allegations…
Last week, TBT reported on "Real Manatee County Conservatives," an Astroturf group that was sending unsolicited emails to Manatee County residents which appeared to be running cover for some county …
Despite the 2024 primary election being more than ten months off, and the general election more than a year, some Manatee County voters are receiving familiar unsolicited …