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Another Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member just toppled the party establishment’s preferred candidate, this time in Florida.
Florida state lawmaker Angie Nixon, who recently disrupted a vote in the Florida Legislature with a bullhorn protest inside the state Capitol, defeated establishment-backed candidate Alexander Vindman.
Nixon, a progressive activist and DSA member, defeated the retired Air Force officer by more than 10 percentage points despite Vindman’s $16.3 million campaign war chest compared to Nixon’s roughly $1 million.
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Nixon’s viral moment came in April when she took a bullhorn to a legislative fight, walking down the aisle and disrupting proceedings on the Florida House floor during final passage of a redistricting bill backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Dressed in a pink jumpsuit and carrying a pink megaphone, Nixon approached the House speaker’s dais and shouted to fellow Florida representatives as the final vote was called.
She shouted, “This is a violation of the Constitution! It is!”
Nixon continued shouting into the bullhorn for the entirety of the vote. She insisted, “What y’all are doing is illegal!” and “I will not allow you to destroy our democracy!” As she shouted, several colleagues filmed her on their phones.
The protest did not stop the vote. While she continued shouting, “You are out of order!” and “This is a violation of the Constitution,” the Florida House granted final approval of the redistricting bill in an 83-28 vote.
A month later, WUSF reported that Nixon was arrested after she refused to leave DeSantis’ office while protesting the redistricting measure. She was released shortly afterward.
WUSF previously reported that Nixon self-identified as a member of the DSA.
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Nixon also publicly objected to resolutions honoring the late Charlie Kirk. In a September social media post, Nixon called it “BEYOND disrespectful” to honor Kirk because, as she wrote, “that man said some of the most hateful about [sic] Black People and cloaked it in scripture.”
Nixon claimed if someone supported honoring Kirk, “you are a tool of white supremacy.” After his assassination, Nixon also claimed that Kirk was “homophobic, antisemitic, [and] misogynistic.”
On her campaign website, Nixon vows to fight for what she calls a “working families guarantee,” which she says includes Medicare-for-all, free childcare, a national rent freeze, a moratorium on evictions and a universal jobs program with inflation-adjusted wages.
Her website says the government could pay for the programs by taxing billionaires “so that everyone pays their fair share” and by prioritizing “the needs of everyday Americans instead of spending trillions on war and violence overseas.”
Nixon also advocates for “abolishing ICE and rebuilding immigration enforcement from scratch.”
“I don’t believe any person is illegal, and I don’t believe human beings should be treated as commodities in a system built to punish rather than to heal,” she has said.
On policing, Nixon has called for “demilitarizing policing and investing in community-based public safety, violence prevention and crisis response.”
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Nixon has also claimed that the U.S. has “fueled the genocide in Palestine.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Nixon and the DSA for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.
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