The political action committee affiliated with far-left Florida Marxist group Dream Defenders—which has received millions of dollars from George Soros's charitable network, advocates for abolishing prisons and defunding the police, and glorifies to Palestinian terrorist organizations—has spent $35,863 in support of Florida state representative Angie Nixon's (D.) U.S. Senate campaign, according to FEC filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The super PAC known as Dream Defenders Fight PAC, the filings show, has spent the money on text message campaigns, staff wages for canvassing efforts, and printing flyers, with the most recent expenditure taking place in early October. Almost all of those expenditures list Dream Defenders as the vendor, meaning the super PAC paid it for the provided services. Super PACs can pay for campaign work that supports a candidate but cannot directly coordinate with the campaign.
Dream Defenders, a self-described socialist, "Black-led, feminist," abolitionist, and internationalist organization, appears to have spent the money targeting college campuses across Florida, hosting three pro-Nixon canvassing events at Broward College, Florida International University, and Florida Atlantic University in October.
The spending comes as Nixon has focused her campaign on affordability and health care issues facing Americans and has sought to distance herself from the far-left positions for which Dream Defenders and the Democratic Socialists of America, which she formally joined over the summer, have advocated.
"They are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, of saying things like I want to abolish prisons and I want to defund the police," Nixon said during a CNN interview last month. Nixon said she would like to see her opponent, incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R.), "locked up and punished in jail."
"They want to call us radical and extreme. For what? For believing people should be paid a living wage?" Nixon added in an X post on Sunday.
But Dream Defenders' financial and canvassing support for Nixon's campaign shines a spotlight on the close relationship she has had with the group dating back to when the group was founded following the death of Trayvon Martin outside Orlando more than a decade ago.
In 2013, Nixon helped organize a rally in Jacksonville with Dream Defenders to protest Martin's death where she told those in attendance to help create an "antiracist" movement—"not a moment"—according to unearthed footage of the event.
Years later, in 2022, Nixon joined the political action committee Florida for All to serve as its executive director, her financial disclosures show. Jonel Edwards, who served as a leader of Dream Defenders from 2012 until this past August, was Florida For All's president in 2022 and 2023.
In May 2024, shortly after Nixon founded Cafe Resistance, a black-power-themed bookstore in Jacksonville, she hosted Dream Defenders there for a "Books & Brunch" event where they provided an educational lesson. "If you know some young folks from 18-30 please tell them to stop on by. If they have kids, they're welcome as well," she wrote at the time.
And, in an interview this summer with Convergence, a boutique progressive magazine, Dream Defenders co-executive director Nailah Summers-Polite said Nixon "is us, is of us" and referenced a secretive plot to influence Nixon to run for Senate.
"She got asked to run—this is not somebody with some deep ingrained desire to run for office because it does something for her ego," Summers-Polite told the magazine. "She was like, 'Oh, okay. If I run a campaign, the infrastructure for that will help us build our organizations,’ and 'Okay, if I go to Senate, then, there are things that I can tangibly deliver for my state.' And so yeah she is just… she is the best case scenario for our movement."
In a statement, Summers-Polite reiterated Dream Defenders' support for Nixon but added that the group does not agree with Nixon on every issue.
"We believe that Angie Nixon cares deeply about regular people and not a bunch of CEOs," she told the Free Beacon. "We have disagreements with her, but her policies resonate with people all over this state and we hope she becomes our next U.S. Senator."
Convergence, however, reported in its article featuring Summers-Polite that Nixon supports Dream Defenders' extremist manifesto, called the Freedom Papers.
The Freedom Papers formally outline the Dream Defenders' platform, which calls for the abolition of police and prisons, demands the outlawing of billionaires, calls for socialism to replace capitalism, endorses the Green New Deal, and characterizes national borders as "arbitrary."
"The police don't protect or serve me or you," the manifesto states. "They never have, and they never will. It was never their job. … But we know what they're really doing in our streets: frisking us, beating us, framing us, killing us."
It adds that Americans have "a right to dismantle the prison industrial complex and the racist, sexist, profit-driven society that capitalizes from it."
In addition, according to archived records captured by the watchdog group Canary Mission, Dream Defenders was cofounded by Ahmad Abuznaid, the son of high-ranking Palestinian official Nabil Abuznaid. Under Abuznaid's leadership, Dream Defenders coordinated multiple mission trips to the Palestinian territories, trips that he said were designed to let "group members to experience and see first hand the occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality Israel has levied against Palestinians, but also to build real relationships with those on the ground leading the fight for liberation."
During the trips, Dream Defenders leaders met with boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement founder Omar Barghouti, former Palestine Liberation Organization spokeswoman Diana Buttu, and Mahmoud Jiddeh, who was convicted of planting bombs in Israel in 1968.
In 2016, around the time of one of the mission trips, the records obtained by Canary Mission show, Dream Defenders published a "common core compatible" curriculum for middle and high school classrooms that glorified the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—despite its designation as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
After noting that the PFLP has planned "hijackings, assassinations, car bombings, suicide bombings, paramilitary operations against civilian and military targets," the curriculum concludes that the PFLP wants "to be free from global imperialism. They want liberation. They want equal rights. Just like the Dream Defenders."
Dream Defenders is a fiscally sponsored project of the California-based Tides Center, a sister organization of left-wing grantmaker the Tides Foundation. The Foundation to Promote Open Society, a major funding arm of Soros's giving network, has given Dream Defenders $2.1 million in recent years, according to tax filings.
