Angie Nixon

Biography

Angela “Angie” Nixon is a Jacksonville-born Florida state representative, union organizer, nonprofit leader, bookstore owner, and mother. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from the University of Florida in 2007. Before winning office, Nixon worked in community and labor organizing, including with Florida New Majority, SEIU Florida, and the Florida Public Services Union, and later served as executive director of Florida for All. Elected to the Florida House in 2020, she now represents District 13 in Jacksonville. Nixon is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida’s 2026 special election.

In this race

• Ashley Moody (Republican)

Issue positions

Healthcare (Policy)

Nixon calls for a Medicare for All system that covers all Americans and makes healthcare “free at the point of service.” She has also pushed for extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, reforming the ACA, pushing insurers to reduce premiums, and then moving toward single payer. CBO projects a low-premium plan could induce some private insurers to leave and some employers to stop offering coverage. If Washington sets rates for health care near Medicare, clinics, doctor offices, and rural health care facilities would close. CRFB estimated that financing a roughly $30 trillion single-payer plan could require payroll taxes, income surtaxes, or mandatory premiums at levels that would hit middle-class households. Nixon has condemned the Working Families Tax Cut bill, which provided the largest tax cuts for working Americans in recent history. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon promises broader coverage and lower point-of-service costs, but she has not shown how she would finance the large shift onto the federal ledger or protect provider capacity."

Taxes (Policy)

Nixon says billionaires and highly profitable corporations should pay their “fair share.” As a state candidate, she proposed closing corporate tax loopholes she said could raise more than $250 million annually for housing; she also backed combined reporting for multistate corporations. In 2026, she called to repeal the 2025 Working Families Tax Cuts bill. Her campaign has not published tax brackets, a corporate rate, a wealth-tax design, or a complete pay-for list for Medicare for All, childcare, housing, and insurance. Pentagon savings and higher taxes on corporations and billionaires may contribute, but promising multiple national entitlements without totals obscures the likely pressure for broader taxes or deficits. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon supports tax increases and repealing the largest tax cuts in history, but her campaign plan lacks details, leaving her plan economically incomplete."

Environment & Energy (Policy)

Nixon’s Senate platform currently contains no detailed climate or energy plank. However, in the state house, she voted against Florida’s 2024 energy law, which removed climate language from state policy, encouraged and expanded reliance on natural gas, and prohibited offshore wind projects. That vote aligns with environmental advocates, but it does not establish whether she favors the Green New Deal, a carbon tax, nuclear power, federal drilling limits, or a particular emissions deadline. CBO’s January 2025 baseline placed the 2026–2035 deficit cost of federal wind and solar investment and production credits at about $300 billion. CBO also found the credits would stimulate investment while warning that wage, domestic-content, and location conditions can steer capital toward higher-cost projects. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Her current campaign offers no detailed plan on the energy front. However, her record shows she is in favor of climate projects."

Immigration (Policy)

Nixon supports abolishing ICE, saying its funds should be invested in “strengthening” communities, and “helping families meet their basic needs.” Nixon also supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and “compassionate and comprehensive” reform. Nixon has called ICE deportation operations “fascism” and has blamed corporations for illegal border crossings. Under Biden, nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants attempted to cross the border in a single month, with millions in total entering the United States. CBO estimates the immigration surge under Biden’s watch imposed a direct $9.2 billion net cost on state and local governments in 2023, chiefly for schools, shelter, and border security. New reporting shows it also increased home prices in the United States. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon’s policies support amnesty, dismantling ICE, and are weak on border deterrence, removals, asylum backlogs, and interior enforcement. These policies would lead to an increase in illegal immigration, ultimately burdening taxpayers."

Public Safety (Policy)

Nixon has not directly called for defunding the police. However, her platform promises “real police accountability legislation” and stronger civil-rights protections. Her legislative record includes efforts to preserve civilian review of misconduct complaints and her Visible Act proposal. She is an advocate of gun control, and has made gun violence central to her biography after losing a cousin to it. Nixon has not said what conduct would trigger federal intervention, whether she would alter qualified immunity, or how she would balance disclosure with officer safety. She has, however, called for an investigation of ICE after several fatal shootings during law enforcement operations. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon is clearly aligned with the police-accountability wing of her party, but does not provide detailed plans on this issue."

Economy & Labor (Policy)

Nixon would raise and index the federal minimum wage, pass the PRO Act, enable industry-wide bargaining, fund universal childcare, build subsidized housing, expand down-payment aid, curb corporate home purchases, punish price gouging, and impose federal rent stabilization in some markets, suggesting a 10% cap on increases. CBO estimated that a federal $15 minimum wage similar to the 2021 Raise the Wage Act could lift 900,000 people from poverty, but would reduce employment by an average 1.4 million workers and increase the deficit by $54 billion before interest. The PRO Act would preempt state right-to-work protections and broaden employee classification, changes with particular significance in right-to-work Florida. Paid leave and child care can increase labor-force participation, but benefits financed by employer mandates or payroll taxes still have costs that can reach wages and hiring. Rent caps promise to protect covered tenants from sharp price hikes but decrease the amount of affordable housing. A 2024 Urban Institute study across 27 metropolitan areas associated rent control with fewer total rental units, even while increasing units affordable to extremely low-income households. Nixon’s cap therefore needs new-construction exemptions and supply reforms to avoid worsening scarcity. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon’s labor and housing agenda promises to lower costs, create more jobs, and provide more affordable housing, but instead her policies would shift costs to employers, consumers, taxpayers, contractors, and future renters, and would weaken the economy on all fronts."

Democracy & Campaign Finance (Policy)

Nixon supports overturning Citizens United, banning congressional stock trading, imposing congressional term limits, and barring members from becoming lobbyists. Her campaign rejects corporate PAC and AIPAC money. FEC data through March 31, 2026 showed $214,643 in receipts, all reported as individual contributions, and no party or other committee contributions. Nixon faced criticism in April for causing a scene on the Florida house floor following the approval of the state’s new congressional map, chanting through a pink megaphone that the changes were “out of order.” In May, Nixon was arrested and charged with trespassing and resisting an officer without violence after a sit-in at Governor Ron DeSantis’ office protesting the redistricting maps. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon’s fundraising currently matches her grassroots rhetoric, but her confrontational tactics conflict with her platform’s promise to restore “decency, respect and public service.”"

Foreign Policy (Policy)

Nixon promises a foreign policy platform that is “rooted in diplomacy, human rights, and restraint.” She calls Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide” and accuses the U.S. military of aiding in those attacks. She supports “surging humanitarian aid into Gaza and the West Bank” and “Palestinian self-determination.” In November 2023, weeks after Hamas’s October 7 attack, Nixon introduced a ceasefire resolution and faced criticism from both parties. She now says she would suspend U.S. arms and funding to Israel and rejects AIPAC contributions. Nixon says she would exhaust alternatives before responding militarily to a Chinese move against Taiwan, maintain or possibly increase NATO commitments after an attack, restore Obama-era Cuba policy, and remain open to lifting the embargo. Her willingness to strengthen NATO is more conventional than the rest of her platform, but the campaign offers little on Ukraine, Iran, defense modernization, or China beyond Taiwan. — "𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Nixon would move U.S. policy away from Israel and toward diplomatic restraint, but her platform is much clearer about what she would withhold than how she would deter adversaries or protect allies."

Sources (Reference)

◆ Healthcare
• Congressional Budget Office — Economic Effects of Five Illustrative Single-Payer Health-Care Systems
• Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — Choices for Financing Medicare for All

◆ Taxes
• Miami Times — Angie Nixon’s Affordability, Healthcare, and Education Platform

◆ Environment & Energy
• Florida Senate — 2024 Energy Resources Legislation (S.B. 1645)
• Congressional Budget Office — January 2025 Budget and Economic Outlook

◆ Immigration
• Florida National News — Nixon Calls for Investigation of Fatal ICE Shooting
• Angie Nixon — Public Statement on ICE Operations
• FOX 13 Tampa Bay — Angie Nixon on Housing, Healthcare, and Foreign Policy
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection — U.S. Border Patrol Records Zero Releases for Eighth Consecutive Month
• Congressional Budget Office — Effects of the Immigration Surge on the Federal Budget and the Economy
• Congressional Budget Office — Immigration and the Federal Budget
• New York Post — Reporting on Immigration and Housing Prices

◆ Public Safety
• Florida House of Representatives — Angie Nixon Member Profile

◆ Economy & Labor
• Congressional Budget Office — Budgetary Effects of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021
• Heritage Foundation — Analysis of the PRO Act
• Heritage Foundation — National Rent Controls and Housing Supply
• Urban Institute — Rent Control and the Supply of Affordable Housing

◆ Democracy & Campaign Finance
• No source was included in the submitted material for this section.

◆ Foreign Policy
• Angie Nixon Campaign — Policy Priorities
• WBUR Here & Now — Florida Representative Calls for a Gaza Ceasefire