U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson

Gilbert filed his Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, joining a growing field of Democrats running for Florida’s 24th Congressional District.

Former state Senator Shevrin Jones is running to succeed eight-term U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson in Congressional District 24, according to paperwork filed Thursday morning.

With 83-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson’s announcement she won't seek reelection in November, state Sen. Shevrin Jones has emerged as the likely front-runner for the seat.

Longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson announced Friday she won’t seek reelection in November, ending nearly three decades as one of Miami's most prominent Black elected officials in a career included serving on the Miami-Dade School Board, the Florida Legislature and Congress.

Democratic Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson penned a scathing op-ed in the Miami Herald, condemning recent Republican actions and detailing what she calls the devastating consequences of a major new law President Donald Trump dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” She calls it the "Big, Ugly Law."

Even before the federal government shut down Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in South Florida were engaging in partisan finger pointing on who's to blame for the legislative standoff.

Wilson and her fellow lawmakers face a difficult time convincing President Donald Trump and his administration to change course.

The congresswoman's remarks came same day the state's top medical official announced plans to eliminate vaccine mandates.

"We’re facing a national crisis with an administration pushing authoritarianism day-in and day-out," Wilson said during Wednesday night's tele-town hall. "Democrats are ready to give it our all because this moment demands that we rise to the occasion.”

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens, said a federal judge’s order to shut down Alligator Alcatraz within 60 days said the immigration detention center “should have never been built” from the start.

A bipartisan group South Florida lawmakers want the street in front of the Cuban government’s embassy in Washington renamed after a prominent Cuban dissident killed 13 years ago this month in a mysterious car crash in Cuba.