Florida’s Democratic Socialists of America have themselves quite a candidate in Angie Nixon. She thinks the American dream is basically a capitalist scam. Americans are oppressed. And assimilation is a problem, too.

And that’s before we get to her cozy relationship with CAIR or her admiration for convicted cop killer Assata Shakur.

DSA candidate Angie Nixon quotes Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur while campaigning in a church pic.twitter.com/tJUI5oIkrE

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 19, 2026

This woman is asking Florida voters to send her to the United States Senate. She thinks America is a pretty lousy place. Yet she wants a very powerful job helping run it. Maybe that’s a qualification now.

Those Capitalist Chains Must Be Heavy

Nixon may have joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June, but she was singing the song well before that. During a series of CAIR Florida fundraising events following the 2024 election, she went after capitalism, complained about politicians embracing assimilation, and described Americans as being held back by oppression.

During her November 2024 speech at CAIR Florida’s Tampa gala, Nixon declared that “our oppressor” is “those in power” and that “we are in chains” because most politicians have embraced “respectability politics and assimilation.”

“Let me be clear, we are in chains,” Nixon said. “Those chains are keeping us from realizing our shared power of demanding and accomplishing a ceasefire in Palestine. … Those chains are keeping us from showing up and demanding the cops find the killers of black trans women.” – Free Beacon

I always find this argument fascinating coming from elected politicians. Nixon is a state representative who just won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate. She has managed to climb the political ladder, build a following and put herself within one election of becoming one of only 100 U.S. senators.

The American dream may be false, but Angie seems to be navigating it just fine.

And what exactly is wrong with assimilation? America has spent generations taking people from every corner of the world and turning them into Americans. Somewhere along the way, the Left decided even that needed to be shoved into the oppression box.

Angie Has A Plan

So what does Angie Nixon propose we do about all these chains and that rotten American dream? Angie’s answer is better political vehicles, and she chooses CAIR Florida. Of course she does.

I’m stuck on the word vehicle. Angie has somehow turned CAIR Florida into the family SUV of progressive politics. Everybody pile in, we’re taking socialism, identity politics and our complaints about assimilation on a road trip, and God only knows where we’re going.

UNEARTHED

Far-Left Democrat Angie Nixon praises the pro-Hamas group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as the “right vehicle” to win elections:

“We need to start working on building the right vehicles and the right vehicles are CAIR Florida.” pic.twitter.com/qwYLkk4At3

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 27, 2026

Surely Ang Could Find Someone Else To Quote

And if you’re wondering who Angie might invite along for this little political road trip, meet her new BFF, Assata Shakur. Well, in spirit anyway, since Shakur died last year and is presumably either buried somewhere or sitting in an urn on somebody’s mantle.

Nixon ended each of her three CAIR speeches by quoting Shakur, whom she called a famous freedom fighter. That’s an interesting description of a woman convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who then escaped from prison and fled to Cuba.

America has produced a whole lot of people worth quoting, but Angie went with Assata Shakur. Not Lincoln, Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther King Jr. Nope, the convicted cop killer who escaped prison and spent the rest of her life hiding out in communist Cuba apparently spoke to Angie.

I’m beginning to understand why Angie has such a problem with the American dream. She seems awfully fond of people who wanted to tear it all down.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma Says Hold My Scissors

I might be willing to write Angie Nixon off as a uniquely Florida experience, except Democrats in Oklahoma have been busy finding interesting Senate candidates of their own.

Their nominee, N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas, has her own viral moment involving a pink bedroom, a Mean Girls-style Burn Book, a pair of scissors and a picture of Sen. Markwayne Mullin. She cuts out Mullin’s picture, pastes it into the book, and carries on like Regina George running for Congress.

After spending this much time with Angie Nixon, however, I’m starting to think the woman with the scissors may be the normal one.

And that’s where we are. Florida Democrats have Angie Nixon, Oklahoma Democrats have Burn Book Lady, and both women are running for the United States Senate. Maybe somebody should check the candidate application form and make sure there isn’t a box marked “Must Be Psychotic.”

Ashley Moody has to be looking at all of this and thinking Christmas came early.

Feature Image: Angie Nixon/Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons · cc-by-sa-4.0/edited with AI and cropped in Canva Pro.