Episode 272 with Angie Nixon
We think Angie Nixon, candidate for the Florida Senate seat formerly held by Marco Rubio, is someone the left will want to hear and learn from. That’s why we’re so happy to have her on the show this week for a conversation with Krystal about her campaign and political vision, plus the World War III we’re facing down, the influence of the Cuba blockade on Florida politics, and much more. Watch below:
She proudly owns the title of “the biggest pain in Ron DeSantis’s ass” — so you know she’s doing something right! Angie’s status as probably the most vocal and involved state legislator comes from her background as a union organizer, as well as an organizer for other grassroots causes. Angie is fighting for these causes in a state run by some of MAGA’s biggest names, whose victories have been supported by massive, craven rollbacks of voting rights. The rise of “election police,” constant attempts to erode mail-in voting, and other anti-democratic measures has kept the state’s working people from getting true political representation. Now Angie is battling to be that representative.
With her experience in that struggle, she also brings unique insight into the complexity of Florida right-wing politics and culture, centered, for example, in the influencer hub of Miami. Republicans moving en masse to Florida to escape lockdowns played a big role in an even further rightward shift; so did endless strategies to purge voter rolls and get folks listed as inactive voters. But as Angie puts it, there’s “more of us than there are of them.” Though Trump and the Mar-a-Lago set have sought to create the Sunshine State in their own image, we have cause to believe that coalition can’t hold, and Angie’s potential win in the Senate race would be a major sea change. As she points out, Trump has a Democratic representative! And her, he voted by mail.
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