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Angie Nixon

U.S. Senate
Statewide — appears on every PBC ballot
D Nominee — upset winner
★★★★☆
123 / 165 points
Integrity & Legal Record
Professional & Business Transparency
Policy & Platform Consistency
Community Engagement & Character
Campaign Transparency
Issue-Based Positions

Challenger (Florida State Representative, HD-13 (Duval County), serving since 2020, re-elected 2022 and 2024; Jacksonville native, born 2/27/1984; B.A., University of Florida; opened a bookstore in 2025 dedicated to banned books and Black history; running against incumbent Ashley Moody)

Last updated: 2026-08-21

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Integrity & Legal Record 22 / 25

Criminal History

Nixon was arrested on 5/15/2026 following a roughly five-hour sit-in at Gov. Ron DeSantis's Capitol office, protesting a newly approved congressional redistricting map (HB 1D). She faces two misdemeanor charges: trespassing in a structure or conveyance and resisting an officer without violence. A trial date has been set for the week of 9/21/2026; the maximum sentence if convicted on both counts would be up to two years. Nixon has stated she has "absolutely no regrets" and has framed the prosecution as a "weaponization of justice." No other adverse nationwide criminal history was found.

Sources:
  • WLRN — "Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon arrested after 5-Hour protest at Florida Capitol" — 2026-08-03
  • News4Jax — "'Weaponization of justice': Jacksonville Rep. Angie Nixon gets September trial date in DeSantis office sit-in case" — 2026-08-03
  • ClickOrlando — "Florida Rep. Angie Nixon arrested after sit-in outside DeSantis' office" — 2026-08-03
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Angie Nixon" arrested OR convicted OR indicted — 2026-08-03 — no other adverse matches
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — This is a pending, unresolved misdemeanor case arising from a political protest/civil disobedience action (a legislative-office sit-in), not an allegation of financial or personal misconduct. Consistent with this project's treatment of other pending charges, this is presented as charges, not a conviction; trial is scheduled for the week of 9/21/2026. Recommend the operator review before scorecard finalization, given the case remains open.

Civil Court History

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" lawsuit OR sued — 2026-08-03]`. No adverse civil litigation found.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-03 — no adverse matches

Ethics Violations

On 5/14/2026, the Florida House Rules and Ethics Committee formally reprimanded Nixon — the Florida Legislature's first such official reprimand in more than 20 years — for disrupting House floor proceedings during an April 29, 2026 special session on redistricting. The reprimand found she violated three House rules (addressing the House out of order, use of a prop — a megaphone — on the floor, and disrupting official legislative business) while protesting HB 1D, a redistricting plan Democrats characterized as diminishing minority representation. This is a formal, adjudicated finding by the House's own ethics body — not merely an allegation — though it concerns legislative floor decorum/procedure rather than financial self-dealing or corruption, a materially different category of "ethics" finding than other candidates researched this session (e.g., license discipline, undisclosed conflicts). Nixon was not given the opportunity to address the committee in person before the reprimand was approved on a voice vote, though she submitted a written statement; she has said she does not regret her actions ("I'm standing up for my elders").

Sources:
  • Florida Phoenix — "Ethics panel delivers first reprimand in 20 years over Angie Nixon's bullhorn" — 2026-08-03
  • News4Jax — "Florida House panel issues rare reprimand to Rep. Angie Nixon over protest against approved congressional map" — 2026-08-03
  • Florida Politics — "Megaphone mistake: Angie Nixon reprimanded for interfering with redistricting vote" — 2026-08-03
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — A real, adjudicated reprimand exists, but it is a legislative floor-decorum/procedural matter arising from a political protest, not a corruption or self-dealing finding. Recommend the operator weigh this in light of its different character from other Category 1 ethics findings in this project.

Campaign Finance Violations

No FEC complaints or violation records found. Her campaign reported nearly $196,000 raised total as of Q1 2026 filings, with roughly $178,000 on hand.

Sources:
  • Florida Politics — "Angie Nixon adds nearly $117K in Q1 for U.S. Senate bid, holds $178K" — 2026-08-03
  • FEC.gov — candidate overview, S6FL00830 — 2026-08-03 — no violation findings noted

Residency Confirmed

Lifelong Jacksonville, Florida resident (born and raised there); currently represents Florida House District 13 (Duval County), a role requiring district residency verified at each election. No dispute found.

Sources:
  • Ballotpedia — Angela Nixon — 2026-08-03
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: Both the pending criminal case (trial week of 9/21/2026) and the House ethics reprimand stem from the same political protest context (opposition to a 2026 congressional redistricting map) rather than from personal or financial misconduct. Recommend the operator review both sections and confirm the scoring approach appropriately distinguishes this from corruption-type findings documented for other candidates this session, in keeping with this project's nonpartisan, facts-only standard.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate per the roster, and the CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF answers have not yet been extracted/indexed per-candidate in general.

Professional & Business Transparency 23 / 25

Business Ownership

A Florida Sunbiz Officer/Registered Agent search under "Nixon, Angie" found one match: The Moxie Group, LLC (Doc# L15000028585) — ACTIVE, originally filed 2015, reinstated twice (2016, 2020) after periods of administrative dissolution. Registered agent and sole listed Manager is "Nixon, Angela M" / "Nixon, Angie M," at a Jacksonville, FL address matching her documented residency. Notably, the entity's principal address changed on 4/30/2025 to 5007 Soutel Drive, Jacksonville, FL — timing consistent with her Category 1-documented 2025 opening of a bookstore dedicated to banned books and Black history, suggesting this LLC is the likely business entity behind that bookstore, though no source explicitly names "The Moxie Group" as the bookstore's legal/trade name. Annual reports are current through 2026.

Sources:
  • Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), search.sunbiz.org, Officer/Registered Agent Name search "Nixon, Angie" — 2026-08-20 — all returned entities reviewed
  • Sunbiz entity detail — The Moxie Group, LLC, L15000028585 — 2026-08-20
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — The Moxie Group, LLC's connection to her publicly reported bookstore is a reasonable inference from the timing/address match, not an explicit confirmed link; recommend the operator verify (e.g., checking the bookstore's own signage/website/trade name against this entity) before treating this as a confirmed fact.

Financial Conflicts of Interest

No government-body-to-personal-business overlap was identified. Nixon is a sitting Florida State Representative (HD-13, Duval County); her one identified business entity (The Moxie Group, LLC, apparently connected to her bookstore) is a retail/small-business operation with no apparent state contract, grant, or regulatory relationship found. No spouse business entities were searched given no spouse is documented in this candidate's public biography or Category 1 research.

Sources:
  • Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) — as above — 2026-08-20
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Angie Nixon" bookstore state contract grant — 2026-08-20 — no conflicts identified

Bankruptcy History

No bankruptcy filings confirmed for this candidate. A 2014 joint Chapter 7 filing under the name "Angie Nixon" (with "Ryan Duane Nixon") was located in California but is not attributed to this candidate given the geographic and biographical mismatch (see Identity note above).

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — search "Angie Nixon" — 2026-08-20 — one joint filing found and investigated, not attributed (geographic/biographical mismatch)
None — the one same-name bankruptcy record found was investigated and reasonably ruled out, consistent with this project's identity-collision protocol.

Tax Liens

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" tax lien; CourtListener — 2026-08-20]`. No federal or state tax lien records located. Per this project's standing methodology, tax liens are inconsistently indexed online, so this absence of results is not presented as a confirmed clean record.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-20 — no adverse matches

Board Memberships

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" board member director nonprofit corporate — 2026-08-20]`. No corporate or nonprofit board memberships beyond her own business (The Moxie Group, LLC) and elected office were identified.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-20 — no additional board affiliations found
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: The Moxie Group, LLC's link to her publicly reported bookstore is a reasonable but unconfirmed inference based on timing and address; recommend operator verification.
  • Investigated and not attributed: a 2014 joint Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed in California under "Ryan Duane Nixon and Angie Nixon" — geographically and biographically inconsistent with this candidate.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate per the roster.

Policy & Platform Consistency 17 / 20

Voting Record

Nixon has served in the Florida House (HD-13, Duval County) since 2020, re-elected 2022 and 2024. She has an active bill-sponsorship record; documented sponsored bills for the 2026 session include HB 0677 (education), HB 0845 (Employee Child Care Assistance Program), HB 1257 (documentary stamp tax to fund [a program]), and HB 1259 (trust funds/first-time homebuyer program) — the specific full titles/subjects were not independently confirmed beyond these tracker-listed short descriptions. `[A full multi-session voting record was NOT independently pulled — the Florida House's own sponsored-bills page (flhouse.gov) returned a "Request Rejected" error this session — searched: flhouse.gov, FastDemocracy, LobbyTools — 2026-08-21]`.

Sources:
  • FastDemocracy — "Florida Representative Angela 'Angie' Nixon" bill list — 2026-08-21
  • LobbyTools — legislator profile — 2026-08-21
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — flhouse.gov's own sponsored-bills page could not be accessed this session (site rejected the request); recommend a manual recheck for a complete, full-career bill-sponsorship and floor-vote record.

Position Consistency

Nixon has consistently supported progressive policy positions throughout her FL House tenure and Senate campaign — Medicare for All, canceling medical debt, expanded child care, and paid family leave — per Sen. Bernie Sanders' endorsement statement, which specifically praised these positions as long-held. Following her 8/18/2026 primary upset over Alex Vindman, Nixon began publicly downplaying a "socialist" label and her Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) affiliation ("I don't campaign as a member of any organization," "I don't believe in labels"), while stating she joined DSA for its "grassroots organizational network" and shared positions on housing, public education, corporate power, and Medicare for All. This is documented as a rhetorical/framing shift regarding organizational labeling for the general election, not a reversal of the underlying policy positions themselves, which she has maintained.

Sources:
  • Axios — "Florida's Angie Nixon isn't the socialist you've heard about" — 2026-08-21
  • WLRN — "Progressive icon Bernie Sanders endorses Angie Nixon" — 2026-08-21
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — The post-primary distancing from the "socialist"/DSA label (while retaining the same underlying policy positions) is documented factually for voter awareness; this is a framing/label question, not a substantive policy reversal, and the operator may wish to characterize it accordingly.

Flip-Flops

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" flip-flop reversed position changed vote — 2026-08-21]`. No documented instance of Nixon reversing a substantive policy position was identified; see Position Consistency above regarding the separate post-primary labeling/framing shift, which does not rise to a policy flip-flop.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches
None beyond the Position Consistency note above.

Endorsements

Received: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders; Rep. Maxwell Frost; State Rep. Anna Eskamani; Our Revolution (national progressive organization); IBEW Local 606; 1199 SEIU (healthcare workers union). Given: `[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" endorsed candidate — 2026-08-21]`. No documented instance of Nixon publicly endorsing another candidate was identified this pass.

Sources:
  • angienixon.com — "Endorsements" — 2026-08-21
  • Orlando Weekly — "Frost, Eskamani endorse progressive Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate" — 2026-08-21
  • WLRN / Axios — Bernie Sanders endorsement coverage — 2026-08-21
  • ⚠️ TOOLING BLOCK: flhouse.gov's own sponsored-bills/voting-record page returned "Request Rejected" this session; recommend a manual recheck for a complete floor-vote and bill-sponsorship record.
  • Documented for transparency: following her primary win, Nixon has publicly distanced herself from a "socialist"/DSA label while maintaining the same underlying policy positions (Medicare for All, child care, paid leave, canceling medical debt) that earned her the Sanders/Our Revolution endorsement.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Community Engagement & Character 19 / 25

Community Involvement

Nixon has a well-documented, sustained record of in-person community investment predating this Senate campaign: with her daughter, she owns and operates Natalie's Nook & Candy Shop on Jacksonville's Eastside, a smoothie/ice cream/sandwich shop explicitly aimed at bringing healthy food options to a food-insecure neighborhood; in 2024 she founded Cafe Resistance, a bookstore/coffee shop in Jacksonville's Northside serving as a community organizing space with after-school educational/recreational programming for children and students (consistent with the "bookstore dedicated to banned books and Black history" already noted in her profile summary). As a Senate candidate, she headlined an in-person town hall (8/1/2026, The Emerson Center, Vero Beach, hosted by Young Democrats of Indian River County) and visited Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in Hallandale Beach (8/17/2026) to greet worshippers.

Sources:
  • Florida Trib — "Angie Nixon, progressive Jacksonville firebrand, wins Democratic primary for U.S. Senate" — 2026-08-24
  • Vero News — "U.S. Senate Candidate Angie Nixon to Headline Vero Beach Town Hall" — 2026-08-24
  • Reprojustice (Substack) — "Getting to Meet Angie Nixon" — 2026-08-24

Veteran / First Responder Service

`[NO PERSONAL SERVICE RECORD FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" military veteran service — 2026-08-24]`. Nixon has not served in the military or as a first responder. She has documented public support for veterans: Common Defense, a national grassroots veterans/military-families organization, endorsed her for U.S. Senate.

Sources:
  • Common Defense — endorsement announcement — 2026-08-24
None — factual absence of personal service, not a misrepresentation.

Faith-Based Involvement (scored on character consistency)

`[No specific personal denomination/congregation membership documented — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" church faith — 2026-08-24]`, though her campaign includes documented in-person outreach to a faith community (Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church visit, above). Per this project's neutral-scoring protocol, this is assessed on character consistency: her stated values (economic justice, food access, community organizing) are directly consistent with her documented business/civic ventures (Natalie's Nook, Cafe Resistance) — no contradictions identified.

Sources:
  • Reprojustice (Substack) — as above — 2026-08-24

Debates / Town Halls

Documented in-person appearance: the 8/1/2026 Vero Beach town hall (Young Democrats of Indian River County), attended and headlined. `[No additional documented debate invitations for the general election against Ashley Moody were found this pass — searched: nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24]`.

Sources:
  • Vero News — as above — 2026-08-24
None — one confirmed, attended appearance documented; recommend a follow-up closer to November for general-election debate coverage.

Social Media Presence & Consistency

Active campaign presence via angienixon.com and associated volunteer-organizing infrastructure (Mobilize.us volunteer training events, active Facebook grassroots volunteer coordination). `[A full manual review of her last 90 days of posts was NOT performed this pass — searched via news/search aggregation only — 2026-08-24]`. No inflammatory or contradictory content was surfaced in general search; her post-primary "socialist" label-distancing (already documented in Category 3) is a messaging/framing matter, not a social-media-conduct issue.

Sources:
  • Mobilize.us — "Volunteer for Angie Nixon for US Senate" — 2026-08-24
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Full manual 90-day audit not performed; recommend direct platform review if full certainty is required.
  • Recommend a future Category 2 addendum reconciling the newly-surfaced Natalie's Nook & Candy Shop and Cafe Resistance business names against the existing Sunbiz finding (The Moxie Group, LLC) — possibly the same entity operating under different trade names, not independently confirmed this pass.
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: Social media assessment relied on search aggregation, not a full manual 90-day platform audit.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Campaign Transparency 22 / 25

Top Donors / Donor Composition

``` DONOR COMPOSITION (through 7/29/2026): Total raised: ~$975,000 Total spent: ~$710,000 Cash on hand: ~$264,978 Committee: "Angie for Florida" (FEC ID C00915041) ``` `[A precise small-donor (<$200) vs. large-donor breakdown was NOT independently confirmed via FEC.gov this session, but her campaign is documented as ActBlue-driven grassroots fundraising — her donation page is explicitly branded around a policy position ("angie-rejects-aipac") rather than institutional courting — searched: OpenSecrets, FEC.gov, localcandidates.org — 2026-08-26]`. She was substantially outraised by her primary opponent Alex Vindman ($1.7M raised in his first day alone) yet won the primary decisively, a data point independently corroborating a genuinely broad small-dollar base rather than reliance on a few large donors.

Sources:
  • Florida Politics — "Angie Nixon adds nearly $117K in Q1 for U.S. Senate bid, holds $178K" — 2026-08-26
  • NPR — "Florida senate primary winner Angie Nixon relied on grassroots organizing" — 2026-08-26
  • ActBlue — "Donate to support Angie Nixon for Senate" (angie-rejects-aipac) — 2026-08-26

PAC / LLC / Funneling Structures

`[NOT FOUND — no PAC funding of her campaign was identified — searched: FEC.gov, OpenSecrets, nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" PAC contribution — 2026-08-26]`. Consistent with her documented policy platform, Nixon publicly supports the Abolish Super PACs Act, which would cap super PAC contributions at $5,000 and replace unlimited money with public financing, and her fundraising page explicitly brands itself around rejecting AIPAC money — an affirmative, stated policy against the kind of PAC influence this metric evaluates.

Sources:
  • angienixon.com — "Priorities" — 2026-08-26
  • ActBlue — "angie-rejects-aipac" — 2026-08-26

Advertising Spend

`[No significant outside-group or super PAC spending on her behalf was identified — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" Senate super PAC advertising 2026 — 2026-08-26]`. Reporting explicitly describes her as "massively outmatched in terms of spending" relative to her primary opponent, consistent with a modest, transparently-disclosed campaign budget rather than heavy outside-group ad spending.

Sources:
  • NPR — "Florida senate primary winner Angie Nixon relied on grassroots organizing" — 2026-08-26

Grassroots Engagement

A strong, extensively-documented ground-game record: multiple national and local outlets (NPR, WLRN, KUNC) attribute her decisive primary victory specifically to "good, old-fashioned grassroots people-powered organizing." Nixon, a former union and community organizer, has stated the campaign's strategy centered on "going out and talking to people all across the state." This is corroborated by an active volunteer-training/mobilization infrastructure (Mobilize.us events, already cross-referenced from Category 4) and her documented in-person town hall and church-outreach appearances (Category 4).

Sources:
  • NPR — "Florida senate primary winner Angie Nixon relied on grassroots organizing" — 2026-08-26
  • Cross-referenced from Category 4 (Mobilize.us, Vero Beach town hall) — 2026-08-26

Donations to Political Figures

`[NOT FOUND — no record of Nixon donating to other political campaigns, PACs, or figures was identified — searched: FEC.gov, nationwide Google/news search "Angie Nixon" donated campaign contribution — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches
  • Notable: this candidate's Category 5 profile is among the strongest documented in this project to date — a clean, PAC-free, grassroots-driven campaign explicitly credited by multiple national outlets for her primary win.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Issue-Based Positions 20 / 40

2A Rights Score

Nixon opposes permitless/"constitutional carry" and supports maintaining firearm-training requirements, background checks, and storage requirements; has voted for gun-safety-related measures during her FL House tenure.

Sources:
  • OnTheIssues — Angie Nixon on the Issues — 2026-08-26; LocalCandidates.org — Angela Nixon policy positions — 2026-08-26

Pro-Life / Pro-Family Score

Supports protecting and expanding abortion access, opposes six-week/heartbeat bans, and has stated a goal to "restore and codify Roe v. Wade into federal law — no exceptions, no backtracking."

Sources:
  • LocalCandidates.org — Angela Nixon on Abortion & Reproductive Rights — 2026-08-26

Fiscal Conservatism Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: AFP, Club for Growth, CATO, NFIB, campaign website — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Parental Rights Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — sources did not contain a distinct parental-rights-in-education statement — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, OnTheIssues — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • OnTheIssues — as above — 2026-08-26

Election Integrity Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Housing / Insurance Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website (angienixon.com/priorities), nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • angienixon.com/priorities — 2026-08-26 (no specific housing/insurance detail returned)

Education / School Choice Position

Explicitly supports "ending the diversion of public dollars into private voucher schemes" — a clearly stated anti-voucher position.

Sources:
  • angienixon.com/priorities — 2026-08-26

Environment / Everglades Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches
  • Scores here reflect the project's confirmed scoring philosophy (higher = constitutional/free-market alignment); this candidate's documented positions lean toward the collectivist end of that framework, consistent with a Democratic platform.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

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