Defund Oligarchy Blessed by Liberty - Polk-FL

10/23/2026

Nuestros respaldos para elecciones 2026 Condado Polk:

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10/22/2026

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10/22/2026

I personally met Byron Donalds, and he said he did not support our right to democratically install moratoriums on data centers and he said he was interested in enabling the construction of five hyperscale data centers in Florida.

I approached him to express that my question is not about partisan issues, but about Polk County issues. As a Floridian who lives in an environmentally sensitive county and believes in a degree of freedom FROM big government, my concern is less about whether we can trust the government to follow environmental protections (obviously we can't, because look at what his party is doing to Big Bend), but more about whether Tallahassee will respect Polk when we want to stand up and protect our communities from another Mosaic-level disaster.

It was a no, Donald's does not respect us. Review our interaction for yourself.

10/21/2026

If you're wondering what our previous post was about, it's related to this video where we captured a school board member on-camera at the JD Vance rally in what appears to be a VIP section. We did not know that we were going to blow her cover, but that begs the question, why go to an event like this if you are ashamed to be seen there? I would imagine that many of her supporters were also there in attendance.

I shot a lot of content that day, and this was a few seconds out of an hour of footage, and it's a happy accident that what I considered a throwaway clip for a TikTok trending sound went viral. She was sitting right in front of a man who was interrupting, and then she herself was interrupting as well. Neither of them were kicked out of the event because they were interrupting in a way that showed they enthusiastically supported MAGA.

There was another candidate who also interrupted, and we made content about him, Ben Braverman. He was kicked out of the event and assaulted by security. You can see the video on our Instagram.

I was struck by the way two down ballot candidates can be equally disruptive, but face very different treatment. One was literally assaulted, while the other was allowed to continue sitting in the front row. But most of all, this really was an authentic reaction in the moment, and I hope it got people engaged to really analyze the ideas on the ballot, and most importantly, go vote!

10/17/2026

1st: Deva Simmons. This NPA candidate is worth your time to check out and get to know.

If you are not convinced by Deva, then
2nd: Curtis Gibson.

Never Scott Franklin. It is time for a change, and for a candidate that will go to D.C. and advocate on behalf of Florida. Instead of a candidate that comes back home to Florida and advocates on behalf of D.C. and corporate interests.

U.S. Rep. Scott Franklin's newly redrawn district is now completely within Polk County. But he faces two challengers in his bid for a fourth term. See link below ⬇️

📸 Photos provided by the candidates

10/17/2026

We welcome Floridians whether they're registered Republican, Democratic, NPA, or third-party. We don't have a problem with anyone's voter registration, we have a problem with the Polk County Republican Party Facebook account specifically spreading this post that involves a reference to Defund Oligarchy Blessed by Liberty - Polk-FL.

Updates on this post: We have spoken with the party leadership, while her reference to our content creator as a campaign volunteer is false, it was unintentional on the part of the party leadership to elevate her [what we consider false] statements when they were looking for an example.

Last year we started attending campaign events for candidates that appear on the local ballot in Lakeland and Polk County. Earlier this year one of our videos on a gubernatorial candidate went a tad bit viral. We received an influx of environmentally conservative, mostly Republican-leaning voters asking for more content on candidates, on campaign events, and on Florida-specific issues.

Our primary organizer made a pledge to attend as many events as possible and analyze as many candidates as she could to put together another "chisme-tical analysis" for 2026.

Now that schoolboard member is asking candidates to bring us under control. Because we outed their endorsed candidate as being in attendance at the JD Vance rally. Apparently, this DeSantis-appointee was supposed to be in the closet, yet sat in the front row hooting and hollering. We said we'd film all the candidates that we could find at the campaign event, . . . . AND WE DID IT! There are voters who may see a candidate at the JD Vance rally and think it's a good thing, and there are others who may see it as a bad thing. The point is to put the information out there so voters can decide.

So let's set the record straight on this misrepresentatio ln:
DOBL is nonpartisan and does not work for or volunteer for anyone's campaign. Individuals within our collective are free to volunteer for whoever they want and to belong to whichever party or no party. We have promoted and platformed Republican, NPA, and Democratic candidates. We are happy to engage with third parties as well.

Our chair, who does our "chisme-tical analysis" content, is not secretly volunteering for anyone's campaign. She has been asked by multiple people, and she has declined. If a candidate likes her content, she has no problem with them resharing/reposting/recycling it. She will continue asking hard questions and being critical when there is BS. No party, no candidate, no person will be "managing" her or "setting expectations" for her blogging or content creation.

We happily platformed Sam Neelam and Sarah Corona when they were running and encouraged people to engage with their ideas, regardless of party affiliation. Our members took time out of their personal lives to record and share content presenting Neelam and Corona as dynamic and nuanced individuals in centrist-leaning and left-leaning spaces. Meanwhile, all the Republican Party had to share was memes and an inability to differentiate between Corona and Wallace.

We promoted both Sims and Corona as our top first and second choice. We defended Neelam when people within his own party subjected him to racist and bigoted comments online. If Corona would have been the one to proceed to run-off instead of Sims, we would be full steam ahead endorsing Corona.

When people tried to talk about a certain candidate's chins, we called that behavior out as unacceptable. Thankfully there were very few comments that were body-focused, and those commenters received a response stating that we want people to criticize the ideas, not bodies, not skin color, not accent, not party affiliation, not age.

If you are unable to run a campaign or a political party's social media account without spreading lies about citizens that dare to criticize you, maybe you shouldn't be running things. And if you want to keep it a secret that you support JD Vance, maybe don't sit in the front row. We will continue to practice our right to free speech and chisme-tical analysis. Looking forward to posting our election week blog ✌🏼

10/02/2026

Polk Schoolboard race is one of the craziest races on the ballot. A historic run-off. We are endorsing Sims. This post is not sponsored. We continue to learn more about what she plans to do to teachers and continue to be horrified.