Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon said she can't be held accountable for any laws that her charitable black-power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore may have violated because she secretly resigned from the nonprofit nearly a year ago. Nixon's prior statements tell a different story.
A watchdog group accused Nixon on Tuesday of violating myriad federal and state laws through her Moxie Group charity. The alleged violations stem from her failure to report to the IRS what her charity did with the $270,000 it raised in 2024, ostensibly to support her café-bookstore, as well as the charity's overlap with her for-profit LLC, its continued solicitation of charitable funds after the charity's supposed disbandment, and the free services it has provided to her Senate campaign. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the alleged issues in September, just before Nixon began distancing herself from her charity.
The bookstore has become a major campaign issue after a Free Beacon reporter visited the Jacksonville establishment and photographed an interior shrine to black power militants, including several convicted of murdering police officers. Nixon defended the shrine, asking, "Do you want me to ban history?"
In August, Nixon identified herself as the active director of her Moxie Group charity when she filed her Senate financial disclosure, which stated she held the role from "Jun 2019 to present." Fast-forward to Wednesday, Nixon told Fox News she secretly resigned from her charity in December 2025 just before the nonprofit dissolved itself, a maneuver that wasn't reported to the Florida secretary of state until nearly a year later in October.
It's unclear why Nixon's charity waited nearly a year to report its dissolution, and the Florida Democrat has not provided any contemporaneous records confirming she tendered her resignation from the nonprofit in December 2025. Nixon and her campaign did not return a request for comment.
Nixon's shifting timeline on her association with her Moxie Group charity comes after the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group filed a complaint Tuesday with six federal and state agencies alleging Nixon violated federal wire fraud laws through her charity's fundraising solicitations. "Ms. Nixon and any of her accomplices should be criminally prosecuted for committing this fraudulent solicitation scheme," the complaint states.
The Florida Department of Agriculture, which regulates charities in the state, launched an investigation in September into whether Nixon's charity raised charitable funds throughout 2026 with an expired solicitation license. The charity's license expired in January, but records reported by the Free Beacon show she continued accepting donations and offering receipts for tax deductions to donors through late September.
Florida Department of Agriculture spokesman Aaron Keller told the Free Beacon the agency had received the National Legal and Policy Center's complaint and is reviewing it.
The watchdog group also alleged Nixon violated federal election laws by allowing her Cafe Resistance bookstore to provide her Senate campaign with unfettered access throughout 2026 to host campaign rallies, phonebanks, and fundraising events at the shop, all at no cost to the campaign. Federal laws generally prohibit corporations and charities from providing free services to political campaigns.
Nixon's campaign told Fox News on Wednesday it "has used only the [café's] parking lot" in what appears to be another attempt to sidestep the allegations. The campaign, however, used the inside of Cafe Resistance for its first event since Nixon secured her party's nomination, a rally and phonebank on Aug. 26, 2026.
Prior to the event, Danielle Wilkerson, the campaign's northeast Florida regional director, emailed those registered to attend and informed them that after the rally, they would "move indoors for a phonebank."
A Free Beacon reporter attended the event and witnessed campaign workers and volunteers making signs and distributing other paraphernalia, such as buttons, inside the shop prior to the rally.
The rally was then held outside in the store's parking lot. During her fiery speech at the rally, Nixon implored those in attendance to purchase campaign merchandise being sold at the event and to participate in the phonebank inside the shop afterwards.
"I need you all to donate to our campaign. As a matter of fact, you can buy some nice cool shirts today before you leave. They are $25. We need you all to knock on doors for this campaign and make phone calls for this campaign so that we can reach every single corner of the state," she remarked.
Immediately after her speech, many in the crowd reconvened inside the shop to coordinate the phonebank, where they called dozens of Floridians to solicit donations and ask for their vote. A webpage identifying the event as a "rally & phonebank" remains live.
