In Florida's Democratic primary on Tuesday, voters chose Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon over the establishment favorite, Alexander Vindman (famous for his testimony in the Trump impeachment trial). Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a radical organization that openly seeks to hijack the Democratic Party as a means to undermine American power. More than a member, Nixon is a DSA darling, who already has years of standout performances to her name. Below are four of the most astonishing moments from the Angie Nixon highlight reel.

1. Nixon took her own kids to a drag show, which she defended as “wholesome entertainment.”

Nine days before the primary, Nixon gave an interview on “Legal AF,” a podcast produced by the anti-Trump group Meidas Touch. In the course of the August 9 interview, she declared, “There’s no sexualization at a drag show. It’s just people dressing up and singing and performing. I’ve taken my children to drag shows. And it’s fun. It’s entertaining. It’s wholesome entertainment. And it’s nothing wrong.”

The remarks criticized Florida’s 2023 “Protection of Children Act” (SB 1438), which was widely understood to ban drag queen story hours and other drag performances where children could be present.

Specifically, the law prohibited “exposing children to an adult live performance,” which the law defined as a live performance that “depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or specific sexual activities … lewd conduct, or the lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts.”

2. Nixon praised a convicted cop killer in church and quoted her paraphrase of “The Communist Manifesto.”

At a June 11, 2026 campaign stop at Greater Bethel AME Church, Nixon wrapped up her stump speech, “I’m gonna leave y’all with these words of a famous freedom fighter, before we open it up, Assata Shakur: ‘It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.’”

Shakur was the preferred name of Joanne Chesimard, “an active, prominent member of the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation Army” in the 1970s. During a routine traffic stop on May 2, 1973, Chesimard and two comrades opened fire on two New Jersey state troopers, shooting one officer dead and wounding the other. One of the three was mortally wounded in the firefight and found dead by police, while Chesimard and the other were caught, charged with murder, and sentenced. Chesimard received a life sentence for first-degree murder in 1977.

Two years later, in 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison when BLA members executed an armed assault on the secure facility in which she was held. She fled to Cuba in 1984, “where she attends government functions and her standard of living is higher than most Cubans,” the FBI noted.

In 2013, under President Barack Obama, the FBI added Chesimard to the Most Wanted Terrorists list on the 40th anniversary of her crime, offering a $1 million reward “for information leading to the capture and return of Chesimard.”

In September 2025, Cuban authorities said that Chesimard had died at age 78 from health complications and advanced age. Her victim, New Jersey State Trooper William Foerster, died at age 34, leaving behind a wife and a young son.

Yet this sordid history did not deter Angie Nixon from quoting the words that Chesimard (or “Shakur”) wrote while in prison for murder. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Chesimard later added these lines to her autobiography.

The last sentence is an allusion to the famous conclusion of “The Communist Manifesto,” “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” And it was this last sentence to which Nixon devoted special attention:

“Our chains are attacks on the Voting Rights Act. Our chains are them closing down our neighborhood schools. Our chains are them spending a billion dollars on a ballroom you will never get to dance in — never ever get to dance in. Our chains are them kidnapping our immigrant neighbors and locking them up. Our chains are them not arresting corrupt cops that shoot black unarmed men in the streets. Our chains are the attacks on women’s rights. Our chains are them emboldening racists to come into my district and shoot three black people in the Dollar General and only say that person was a little off and didn’t even want to say that he was a racist.”

Repetition is a powerful rhetorical technique used to great effect by political speakers ranging from Ronald Reagan to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nixon showed herself quite adept at using it too.

Nixon’s final words returned to the Chesimard quote, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another” — and here she placed threefold emphasis on its allusion to “The Communist Manifesto” — “We have nothing to lose. We have nothing to lose. We have absolutely nothing to lose but our chains.”

3. Nixon attempted to disrupt an April vote with a bullhorn, earning a formal reprimand.

On April 29, 2026, the chairman of the Florida House of Representatives called the special session of the legislature to a vote on legislation to redraw the congressional maps. At that moment, Rep. Nixon pulled out a hot-pink megaphone she had smuggled onto the floor and approached the well, attempting to shout down the speaker. “What y’all are doing is illegal!” Nixon yelled, marching up and down the central aisle. “I will not allow you to destroy our democracy!”

The Florida legislature carried on its democratic business over Nixon’s attempted disruption, and the new map passed by an overwhelming margin. Reportedly, Nixon’s disruption even led to two Democrats accidentally voting in favor of the new map.

Weeks later, on May 14, the Florida House Rules and Ethics Committee issued Nixon a formal reprimand for the stunt after a half-hour of deliberations. The reprimand puts Nixon on probation, so that breaking House rules again could subject her to stiffer punishment.

In the Florida legislature, a formal reprimand is an exceedingly rare punishment. It last occurred in 2005, when Democratic Senator Mandy Dawson allegedly solicited lobbyist money for an overseas vacation. The last reprimand (and censure) in the Florida House came in 2002 against Democratic Rep. Willie Logan for allegedly misusing state funds.

“I don’t care if I get a reprimand,” Nixon responded defiantly. “I don’t even care if they expel me, because I’m standing up for my elders. Stop doing illegal things, and I won’t call you out with a pink microphone.”

Nixon, who has served in the Florida state House since 2020, led a similar protest during Florida’s redistricting vote in 2022. Near the end of debate on April 21, 2022, five black Democratic members — later joined by others — occupied the House well and refused the speaker’s instruction to leave. They chanted, “Stop the Black attack,” and sang, “We Shall Overcome.” The situation reached such an impasse that the House was obliged to call a recess for around an hour.

After the brief recess, the House returned to order and passed the three bills, including the redistricting plan, without further debate. This business was conducted over the chants of Nixon and state Rep. Travaris McCurdy (D), who remained seated on the floor in the well while the House did business above their heads.

4. Nixon was arrested for refusing to leave Governor Ron DeSantis’s office and faces a jury trial in September.

The day after being reprimanded by the Florida House for her bullhorn stunt, Nixon staged a sit-in protest outside Governor Ron DeSantis’s office on the afternoon of Friday, May 15. She started her sit-in around noon and continued it for about five hours (or around 5 p.m.).

Capitol Police were notified by reports of individuals loudly chanting and disrupting office operations. Officers told Nixon to leave several times, and she refused. Eventually, the officers escorted Nixon to the Capitol Police office, where she was arrested.

Nixon faces charges of trespassing and resisting an officer (without violence). She will receive a jury trial beginning the week of September 21.

One noteworthy pattern in these Angie Nixon highlights is that the most dramatic moments are all recent. Some candidates whose comments are featured in The Washington Stand made their noteworthy remarks years ago. By contrast, all four highlighted moments in Nixon’s reel have occurred since April of this year. Not only does the recency of these moments suggest that they capture her current character, but all of these moments occurred while Nixon was running for Senate — and thus constitute part of the brand she has crafted to appeal to voters.