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AOC, Bernie and Obama couldn’t save Angie Nixon — and there’s a $270,000 problem waiting

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  • Republican Ashley Moody defeated Democratic socialist Angie Nixon in Florida’s Senate race.
  • Nixon had backing from Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  • Her former charity raised $270,000, but questions about the money and missing financial disclosures remain unresolved.

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It was supposed to be the year of the socialist revolution. Instead, Florida Democrats are discovering that winning a primary and winning an actual statewide election are two very different things.

State Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic socialist who stunned her party by defeating Alexander Vindman in August, has lost her bid for the United States Senate to Republican incumbent Ashley Moody.

And there’s another problem waiting for Nixon back home in Jacksonville.

About $270,000 worth of unanswered financial questions.

Let’s begin with the election.

Nixon entered the general election with some impressive political names in her corner. Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all backed her campaign.

She had also joined the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose positions gave Republicans plenty of material for campaign advertisements.

But Nixon seemed to have a complicated relationship with the socialist label.

After joining the organization in June, she explained in August that she wasn’t really a socialist and had joined to tap into its grassroots organizing network.

That’s an interesting political arrangement. Apparently, you can sign up for the socialist club without necessarily wanting everything on the menu.

Then came an October CNN interview in which Nixon rejected the organization’s positions on abolishing prisons and defunding police, explaining that she wanted to see Moody “locked up and punished in jail.”

Well, that’s certainly one way to express your commitment to criminal justice.

But the most intriguing part of this story may have nothing to do with the election itself.

According to an investigation by the Washington Free Beacon, Nixon’s former nonprofit, the Moxie Group, raised approximately $270,000 in 2024 to support her Jacksonville bookstore and community space, Cafe Resistance.

The organization allegedly failed to file the required federal disclosure explaining how the money was spent, despite the filing deadline having passed.

That does not establish that the money was stolen or misappropriated. It does leave a substantial financial question unanswered.

And the matter has attracted official attention.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services opened an investigation in September into whether the organization continued soliciting charitable contributions while its state registration was expired.

A conservative watchdog group subsequently filed complaints with federal and state agencies alleging additional fundraising violations, including possible wire fraud. Those allegations remain allegations, not established criminal findings.

Nixon’s explanation adds another twist.

She says she resigned from the nonprofit nearly a year ago, shortly before the organization dissolved. According to the Free Beacon, those changes were not reported to state authorities until October.

So voters are left with a rather remarkable combination: a candidate who joined a socialist organization but disputed the label, operated a bookstore called Cafe Resistance, and now faces questions about financial reporting involving a charity previously associated with that business.

Meanwhile, Ashley Moody gets to return to Washington.

Moody, Florida’s former attorney general, was appointed to the Senate after Marco Rubio became secretary of state. Her election victory allows her to complete the remainder of his term.

For Republicans surveying an otherwise difficult Election Night, Florida delivered an important Senate victory.

But the story of Cafe Resistance isn’t necessarily over.

The election is settled. The unanswered questions about the nonprofit’s financial disclosures and fundraising practices are not.

And for a business with Resistance in its name, the resistance at the ballot box turned out to be considerably stronger than expected.

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