# Ron Filipkowski > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ron_Filipkowski > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ron_Filipkowski.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Filipkowski > Source revision: 1355353915 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor (born 1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|10|30}} | children = 5 | occupation = Attorney | political_party = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) (since 2021) | other_party = [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) (until 2021) }} '''Ron Filipkowski''' (born October 30, 1968){{Cite tweet |number=1719113098252922923 |user=RonFilipkowski |title=It is Ivanka's birthday today, as well as my own. Thankfully, I will not be at this party. |first=Ron |last=Filipkowski |date=October 30, 2023 |access-date=January 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240306132748/https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1719113098252922923 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=McGraw |first=Meridith |date=2023-08-17 |title=The Hard-Tweeting Defense Lawyer GOP Candidates Have Learned to Fear |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/17/ron-filipkowski-desantis-trump-00110950 |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=[Politico](/source/Politico) |language=en |archive-date=January 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120014118/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/17/ron-filipkowski-desantis-trump-00110950 |url-status=live}} is an American criminal defense attorney and former state and federal prosecutor who is known for sharing political clips and commentary on social media. He is the [editor-in-chief](/source/editor-in-chief) of [MeidasTouch Network](/source/MeidasTouch_Network), a [liberal](/source/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States) news website.{{Cite web |last1=Jacobson |first1=Louis |last2=Putterman |first2=Samantha |last3=Sherman |first3=Amy |date=October 26, 2023 |title=Did Donald Trump make these 27 campaign promises? Fact-checking this viral list |url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/26/did-donald-trump-make-these-27-campaign-promises-f/ |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=[PolitiFact](/source/PolitiFact) |language=en-US |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031060147/https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/26/did-donald-trump-make-these-27-campaign-promises-f/ |url-status=live}} ==Early life== Filipkowski grew up on [Cape Cod](/source/Cape_Cod) with his mother, a single parent. He worked to pay his college fees. ==Career== Filipkowski served as a [Marine](/source/United_States_Marine_Corps) from 1986 to 1990.{{Cite web |last=Filipkowski |first=Ron |date=2020-08-27 |title=I'm a veteran — and I'm sick of Trump lying about what he did for my health care |url=https://americanjournalnews.com/donald-trump-veterans-choice-military-health-care-barack-obama-marines-ron-filipkowski/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=American Journal News |language=en-US}} In 2008, Filipkowski ran on the [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) ticket for [public defender](/source/Public_defender_(United_States)) in Florida's 12th Judicial Circuit. He was elected president of the Republican Club of South Sarasota County in 2009 and 2010. In December 2020, Filipkowski resigned from his judicial nominating committee appointment, citing [Florida](/source/Florida) governor [Ron DeSantis](/source/Ron_DeSantis)'s [handling of the COVID-19 pandemic](/source/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Florida). His departure came a day after data analyst [Rebekah Jones](/source/Rebekah_Jones) had her home raided by Florida's [Department of Law Enforcement](/source/Florida_Department_of_Law_Enforcement).{{Cite web |last=Klas |first=Mary Ellen |date=December 9, 2020 |title=GOP lawyer resigns over treatment of Florida data analyst |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2020/12/08/gop-lawyer-resigns-over-treatment-of-florida-data-analyst/ |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=[Tampa Bay Times](/source/Tampa_Bay_Times) |language=en |archive-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913040134/https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2020/12/08/gop-lawyer-resigns-over-treatment-of-florida-data-analyst/ |url-status=live}} Prior to the [2020 U.S. presidential election](/source/2020_U.S._presidential_election), Filipkowski started tracking [far-right](/source/Radical_right_(United_States)) extremists on social media, working with two anonymous researchers to monitor livestreamed events, social media, podcasts and radio shows and post their findings on Twitter.{{Cite web |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |date=December 31, 2021 |title=A former Marine and prosecutor who monitors Trump's base online worries confrontations over race and gender education could endanger school-board members |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-ron-filipkowski-monitors-trump-supporters-rightwing-conspiracy-theories-online-2021-12 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=[Business Insider](/source/Business_Insider) |language=en-US |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201224534/https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-ron-filipkowski-monitors-trump-supporters-rightwing-conspiracy-theories-online-2021-12 |url-status=live }} In February 2022, Filipkowski said he and his team had turned over "hundreds of very obscure interviews and podcasts from the planners, leaders and participants" of the [January 6 Capitol attack](/source/January_6_Capitol_attack) to the [January 6 Committee](/source/January_6_Committee).{{Cite web |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |date=February 5, 2022 |title=A former Marine and prosecutor who monitors Trump's base online has turned over information to the January 6 select committee |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-ron-ron-filipkowski-tracking-trumps-base-helps-jan-6-committee-2022-2 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=January 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124111522/https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-ron-ron-filipkowski-tracking-trumps-base-helps-jan-6-committee-2022-2 |url-status=live}} Filipkowski is the editor-in-chief of the liberal news website MeidasTouch Network. He has written opinion pieces for ''[The Daily Beast](/source/The_Daily_Beast)''.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-22 |title=Ron Filipkowski |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/ron-filipowski |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509133806/https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/ron-filipowski |url-status=live}} In 2024, he said, "The Meidas guys, as a team, said: We are going to do this to [Trump](/source/Donald_Trump). We are going to hit every [gaffe](/source/Political_gaffe), every mispronunciation, every slurred word, every mispronounced name, every time he mixes up a name. We're going to clip that and we're going to put it out and we're going to put it in montages. No one else was doing that."{{Cite web|url=https://www.semafor.com/article/03/19/2024/the-viral-bloodbath-clip-and-the-rise-of-the-liberal-video-influencer|title=The viral 'bloodbath' clip and the rise of the liberal video influencer|date=March 20, 2024|access-date=April 8, 2024|website=[Semafor](/source/Semafor_(website))|last=Weigel|first=David|author-link=David Weigel|archive-date=April 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408045815/https://www.semafor.com/article/03/19/2024/the-viral-bloodbath-clip-and-the-rise-of-the-liberal-video-influencer|url-status=live}} ==Views== Filipkowski was a member of the Republican Party until January 2021, when he registered as a [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) following the January 6 Capitol attack. He describes himself as a [moderate Democrat](/source/New_Democrats_(United_States)).{{Cite web |last=Doleatto |first=Kim |date=August 22, 2022 |title=Former Republican Stalwart Ron Filipkowski Uses Twitter to Track the Far Right |url=https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2022/08/ron-filipkowski-twitter-politics-far-right |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Sarasota Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=December 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208160718/https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2022/08/ron-filipkowski-twitter-politics-far-right |url-status=live }} Filipkowski is critical of [Donald Trump](/source/Donald_Trump) and DeSantis.{{Cite web |last=Tomazin |first=Farrah |date=2022-04-14 |title=Meet Ron Desantis, the Trump rival taking on 'woke' Disney in the culture wars |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/meet-ron-desantis-the-trump-rival-taking-on-woke-disney-in-the-culture-wars-20220413-p5ad2w.html |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |language=en |archive-date=July 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704211927/https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/meet-ron-desantis-the-trump-rival-taking-on-woke-disney-in-the-culture-wars-20220413-p5ad2w.html |url-status=live}} During the 2020 election cycle, Filipkowski recorded a video consisting of reasons he thought the Republican Party should not re-elect Trump as part of an ad campaign by [Republican Voters Against Trump](/source/Republican_Voters_Against_Trump), a group launched by [Bill Kristol](/source/Bill_Kristol). In December 2020, Filipkowski criticized DeSantis's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as "reckless and irresponsible". Following a raid on [Rebekah Jones](/source/Rebekah_Jones)'s home, he suggested that she was targeted for questioning DeSantis's approach to the pandemic. After Jones's accusations of being fired for not manipulating COVID-19 data were determined to be unfounded, Filipkowski has since criticized her as a "fraud" and a "grifter". == Personal life == Filipkowski is married. He and his wife have five children; their first son is named [Ronald Reagan](/source/Ronald_Reagan) Filipkowski. Filipkowski has coached a [Little League Baseball](/source/Little_League_Baseball) team, leading it to six state championships. In 2010, he was named the 13-U National Coach of the Year by the baseball publication ''Travel Ball Select''. In 2011, he published a manual for youth baseball coaches titled ''Travelball: How to Start and Manage a Successful Travel Baseball Team''.{{Cite book |last=Filipkowski |first=Ron |title=Travelball: How to Start and Manage a Successful Travel Baseball Team |date=2011-02-05 |publisher=Harmonic Research Associates |isbn=978-1-933198-29-3 |language=English }} Filipkowski ran [triathlon](/source/triathlon)s, competing in the national championship when he was 50. He later suffered nerve damage to his foot while running sprints, preventing him from running. ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== * {{Bluesky|handle=ronfilipkowski.bsky.social}} * {{Twitter|id=RonFilipkowski}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Filipkowski, Ron}} Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American lawyers Category:United States Marine Corps non-commissioned officers Category:People from Sarasota, Florida Category:Never Trump movement Category:Criticism of Donald Trump Category:Florida Republicans Category:Florida Democrats --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ron Filipkowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Filipkowski) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Filipkowski?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.