Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon was confronted by a heckler Monday at a Banned Books Week event at Café Resistance, her Jacksonville bookstore and coffee shop, over a wall in the shop featuring 12 Black activists, including Angela Davis, George Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur. "Multiple people on that wall are people that killed cops," the person said, implying Nixon was celebrating them. "So am I supposed to hide history?" Nixon replied. "Do you want me to ban history?" She said "people should know what they did, what they were convicted of, what [they] were exonerated of." Nixon then defended the Black Panther Party's legacy, pointing to its free breakfast programs and community health clinics. She contrasted those with Republican Sen. Ashley Moody's vote for Trump's 2025 tax and spending law, which Nixon said is cutting Medicaid and threatening health care for hundreds of thousands of Floridians. 🎥 Action News Jax (local Fox affiliate)

⭕️ Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is keeping campaign money away from Florida’s Black pro-Palestine progressive Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon. She asked for support, and his answer, she says, was “We’ll see.” The DSCC is Democrats’ Senate campaign arm. Its chair selected by Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, has asked other senators to help Nixon, but Nixon says she is still waiting for a commitment from the committee to help keep her TV ads on air. Nixon believes national Democrats may be hesitating to support her because she is a progressive Black woman running in the South. There is also a sharp divide over Gaza. Nixon calls Israel’s assault a genocide and has pledged to block U.S. weapons transfers. Schumer and Gillibrand both voted in April against advancing a measure to block an arms sale to Israel, even as most Senate Democrats supported it. 🎥 MSNOW / Clock It

⭕️ “For every $32 that Ashley Moody has right now, Angie Nixon has $1.” Data analyst Nathan Jun says the Democratic Party has withheld funding from Nixon even as a poll shows the Florida Democratic Senate nominee running neck and neck with the Republican incumbent. He asks why Democrats call Black women “the backbone” of the party but won’t invest in a candidate who won her primary despite being heavily outspent. MS NOW’s Ayman Mohyeldin says Nixon faces two hurdles with party leaders: she is a Black woman running in the South, and she is a progressive. Democrats have been slow to back candidates who build support outside the party establishment, he explains, even when those candidates show they can win. @AymanM | @ahylton26