Ron Filipowski is one of the most popular and influential people in all of political social media and he is my guest for an hour long chat today about his life, career and how he evolved from Republican to Democrat

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National news organizations have put Sarasota in the spotlight because of the area’s far-right politics, but if you follow Ron Filipkowski on Twitter, you’re probably already aware of what’s been happening. A criminal defense attorney in Sarasota, Filipkowski is a former longtime Republican who ran for public defender in 2008 as a member of the GOP. These days, he works with two anonymous researchers to monitor live-streamed events, podcasts, radio shows, social media and chat rooms, and then posts what they find on Twitter, where he has nearly half a million followers. For more than a decade, Filipkowski served on Florida’s 12th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, which recommends judges to fill vacancies on the bench in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties. Reappointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2019, the next year he resigned in protest over the treatment of former state data scientist Rebekah Jones, who claimed she was fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data. Addressed to the governor’s office, Filipkowski’s pinned tweet is his resignation letter.

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