The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a conservative government watchdog, filed a complaint on Monday against Angie Nixon, a state legislator and candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), alleging that she may have violated "a number of Florida and federal laws." The complaint asks authorities to probe whether she used her now-defunct nonprofit, the Moxie Group Inc., to benefit herself. It comes as Nixon wages an uphill race to unseat Sen.
Nixon's campaign disputes the characterizations, noting that Nixon's involvement with the nonprofit ended in December 2025 when she resigned as its principal manager. The Moxie Group was initially intended to receive federal tax-exempt contributions for a community project named Café Resistance, a community-oriented bookstore and coffee shop in Jacksonville. NLPC is asking the Federal Election Commission, the IRS, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office and the Florida attorney general to investigate the Moxie Group along four lines: unaccounted-for charitable expenses, overlap between the nonprofit and a for-profit business, whether it solicited donations even after the group was disbanded and whether Nixon’s use of her business space for campaign purposes violates federal campaign restrictions. DEFEATED PROGRESSIVE ‘SQUAD’ LAWMAKER IN HOT SEAT FOR NON-PROFIT’S MISSING PAPER TRAIL According to the Moxie Group’s 2024 reporting, it spent $210,000 with an "other" designation, leaving most of its spending unaccounted for. "While she itemized some of the charity’s expenses … a whopping $210,000 ... was simply listed as ‘other’ with no description or itemization of what those funds were spent for even though the form requires the charity to ‘list item’ for those ‘other’ expenses.
What happened to all that money?" NLPC wrote in its complaint. Parts of the $210,000 figure have broad descriptions but lack itemization in the 2024 reporting. Two of them under the "other" designation include one $42,560 payment and another $68,304 disbursement, both under "program services." A third, a $3,437 item, is categorized under "management & general." Outside the "other" category, listed expenses include equipment rentals, insurance, advertising, information technology and fees for non-employees.
The unknowns in the money trail, NLPC contends, are especially important given the overlap between Nixon’s nonprofit and her business — the complaint’s second area of concern. The document notes that after founding her nonprofit in 2019, Nixon transferred its registration license to her personal for-profit company by the same name — DBA Café Resistance Bookstore and Coffee Shop. SENATE HOPEFUL'S 'TREADING WATER' NARRATIVE CRUMBLES UNDER $500K CAMPAIGN PAYOUTS TO FAMILY "Although the charity was ostensibly established to raise funds for a local community bookstore/café, the license for that establishment was transferred to her for-profit The Moxie Group LLC DBA Café Resistance Bookstore and Coffee Shop," the complaint reads.
Third, NLPC questioned whether Nixon raised donations for her nonprofit even after its board of directors voted to disband the group on Dec. 15, 2025. "It waited over nine months to file Articles of Dissolution with the Florida Secretary of State on Oct. 1, 2026," the group wrote. The complaint says the Moxie Group did not take down its fundraising site, stating that its contributors were promised "a tax receipt for making a donation," a confirmation for charitable donations.
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