Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed socialist who has made affordability the centerpiece of her campaign, is reaping the financial benefits of a homestead tax exemption she voted against in the State House of Representatives in 2024, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of property tax records.
Florida offers two property tax exemptions for primary residences, both of which reduce the property's taxable value by $25,000 for a combined total of $50,000 in exemptions. In an 86-29 party-line vote in February 2024, the Florida House voted to approve an amendment to the state constitution to adjust one of those homestead exemptions to the rate of inflation every year, with Nixon joining her fellow Democrats in a failed effort to reject the proposal. Voters overwhelmingly approved the measure in a 66-34 percent vote during the November 2024 elections.
Duval County property tax records show Nixon, who has served in the Florida House since 2020, is now taking full advantage of the measure she voted against to reduce her home's assessed value by an additional $722 in 2025 and $1,411 in 2026. Those savings, which are applied automatically for homeowners who applied for homestead exemptions, are expected to grow substantially over time as inflation continues to chip away at the value of the dollar.
Nixon's legislative efforts to block property tax relief for Florida homeowners resurface as she campaigns for U.S. Senate on a platform of tackling the affordability crisis in her state. Nixon, who joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June and is campaigning for Medicare for All, free childcare, and a national rent freeze, says on her campaign website that homeownership is out of reach for millions of Floridians specifically because homeowners in the state "now pay some of the highest insurance premiums in the nation."
But in December 2025, just one month before she launched her Senate campaign, Nixon came out against another bill in the Florida House that would provide a tax break to Florida homeowners saddled with the nation's highest insurance premiums, saying the measure would unjustly enrich insurance companies.
"This bill seems to somewhat incentivize these insurance companies," Nixon told CBS News. "You're basically looking out for them when you should be looking out for working-class families."
Nixon won her primary in August in a shock upset over establishment Democrat Alex Vindman—an anti-Trump impeachment star—despite being vastly outspent 16 to 1. She now faces an uphill battle in an increasingly Republican Florida against incumbent GOP senator Ashley Moody, with polls showing Moody is the overwhelming favorite in the race.
Nixon is best known for her anti-Israel activism in the Florida House. In 2023, shortly after October 7, she introduced a resolution calling for a "de-escalation and ceasefire in the state of Israel and occupied Palestine," a measure that many of her colleagues panned as antisemitic before it was rejected in a 104-2 vote. The following year, in 2024, Nixon opened her "Cafe Resistance" bookstore, which features a memorial wall honoring several black militants affiliated with the Marxist-Leninist Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, including Assata Shakur, who was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Nixon praised Shakur as a "freedom fighter" during a series of fundraising events for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a notorious pro-Hamas advocacy organization, in 2024 and 2025, the Free Beacon reported.
Nixon on August 26 held a campaign rally at Cafe Resistance, where she touted her affordability pledge.
"Health care funding cuts don't care if you are a Republican or a Democrat. The light bill doesn't care what gender you are. Those gas prices don't care what color you are. Those grocery costs don't care about whether or not you have a college degree," Nixon said in her bookstore. "At the end of the day, we are all in a struggle together while the ultra-rich at the top create fear and division between us about our very few differences so that they can make a profit. That ends today."
The Nixon campaign did not return a request for comment.
