EXCLUSIVE: Socialist Angie Nixon Has Received $70K in Unexplained Wages This Year From Obscure Company Run by Anti-ICE Activist

A mysterious company linked to a high-level anti-ICE activist has paid Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon at least $70,000 in personal wage income this year for unknown services, even as she runs for federal office. The wages, which helped Nixon break even after years of negative net worth, raise additional questions about her opaque personal finances, which are already the subject of a criminal referral from an ethics watchdog.

Nixon’s mysterious benefactor, called Building Blocks Strategies, is registered in Virginia but supposedly operates from a shared workspace in Miami. The company was founded by an activist who previously led a powerful Washington, D.C.-based anti-ICE immigration group and now runs a boutique communications outfit with Nixon’s campaign treasurer. The firm’s only known client is the Florida Public Service Union, a labor union based in West Palm Beach for which Nixon once worked, according to public records. Nixon states on her campaign website that she still leads FPSU’s higher education program, though she did not disclose income from the union in her latest disclosures.

Nixon, who now earns wages from her job running a far-left advocacy group and from her other job as a state lawmaker, does not get a salary from her campaign, based on legal filings. Campaigns for federal office are legally allowed to pay non-incumbent candidates like Nixon a salary, though it is rare due to optics issues. But Nixon, a Democratic Socialist, has been getting money from Building Blocks Strategies since last year: She reported in her most recent disclosures, filed as a Florida state representative, that the firm paid her $20,000 in 2025, meaning it has paid her a grand total of $90,000 between 2025 and August 2026.

These wages are the latest red flag in Nixon’s finances, which are shrouded in secrecy. The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that Nixon—whose income is five times that of a typical American—has seen her personal income skyrocket in the last few years, while a nonprofit she founded has simultaneously seen a significant uptick in revenue. That nonprofit, the Jacksonville-based Moxie Group, has classified most of its expenses under the “other” category on state filings but failed to file federal tax forms that were due last year and would have shed more light on its expenses.

Nixon operates a black power-themed “Cafe Resistance”—which contains a shrine to black convicted cop-killers—in a Jacksonville shopping mall parking lot but operates it as a for-profit company, based on her tax filings. This raises further questions about where her charity’s money is being spent.

Nixon’s net worth has fluctuated wildly in recent years, according to state financial disclosures reviewed by the Free Beacon. She reported a negative net worth of $100,752 in 2022, a positive net worth of $12,852 in 2023, a negative net worth of both $256,000 and $22,930 at different times in 2024, and a near break-even net worth in 2025.

And the Free Beacon reported last month that a government watchdog group filed a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into Nixon for failing to disclose various liabilities, including $14,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS, in her federal financial disclosures filed earlier this year.

There is no known explanation for the Building Blocks Strategies payments to Nixon, and the company’s existence is shrouded in mystery. The firm has no website or social media presence and is not registered as a business entity with Florida even though it appears to work exclusively in the state.

According to a Free Beacon review of property records, business registration forms, and other federal filings, Building Blocks Strategies was founded in 2022 by Katherine Boswell, a left-wing activist who’s been involved in organizing illegal immigrant youth. The company is incorporated at a residential address in Reston, Va., but is informally based at a shared workspace that houses several small progressive groups in a low-rise Miami office building. The DSA’s Miami chapter is registered to that same address (Nixon, a longtime socialist, formally joined the DSA in June).

Building Blocks Strategies’ only known client to date is FPSU, the union based in West Palm Beach that represents public employees and is an affiliate of the D.C.-based Service Employees International Union. Since 2022, FPSU has paid the firm, and Boswell, a total of $110,975 for consulting services it classifies as “general overhead.”

Nixon has deep connections to FPSU. She proudly states on her campaign website that she has “spent her career” as an organizer with the union and, as of earlier this month, still directs its higher education program to recruit university professors. However, last week, Nixon’s campaign removed a webpage from its website stating that she “currently” directs the program, and Nixon has called herself a “former union organizer” in at least one news interview. She hasn’t reported income from FPSU since 2021.

The New York Times recently reported that FPSU’s late leader Alphonso Mayfield was a mentor for Nixon and her “biggest champion,” while Nixon told a local Tallahassee paper that Mayfield helped “map out her strategy to run” for Senate before he died.

Boswell herself has personal ties to labor organizing. Her husband serves as the political director for the powerful American Federation of Teachers, which found itself in hot water earlier this year after it was caught using union dues to pay a ghostwriter for a book by notorious AFT leader Randi Weingarten—called Why Fascists Fear Teachers—and then funneling her a portion of the book’s royalties.

Adding to the mystery surrounding Building Blocks Strategies is that in December 2025, Boswell founded a left-wing communications firm, Lost Minds Media, based in the same Miami building where Nixon reported Building Blocks Strategies is based. The registered agent for the firm is David Geller, who is also Nixon’s campaign treasurer. After the Free Beacon contacted Geller on Sept. 21, Lost Minds Media’s website was wiped—it now states it is “under construction.” Before it was wiped, the website described the firm as a collective of content creators who are based in the South and who political campaigns can use to reach audiences more effectively.

Geller is also listed as the registered agent for a firm named EJB Strategies, which FPSU has paid $211,750 for consulting since 2019, federal union disclosures show. While little is known about EJB Strategies, Florida Rising Together, an activist organization that Nixon has helped lead over the last four years, has paid EJB Strategies at least $409,159 for consulting since 2021, according to tax filings.

Prior to founding Building Blocks Strategies and Lost Minds Media, meanwhile, Boswell served as a senior executive for five years at United We Dream, an influential Washington, D.C.-based anti-ICE group focused on so-called Dreamers—illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children. The group is known for conducting disruptive protests. In January 2018, protesters affiliated with the group stormed the U.S. Senate office building while wearing orange hats and, two months later, attempted to barge into then-House speaker Paul Ryan’s (R., Wis.) office. The protests led to dozens of arrests.

Nixon has organized similar protests since entering office six years ago. In 2022, she organized a sit-in protest on the floor of the Florida State House of Representatives chamber and wore a T-shirt reading, “Stop the Black Attack,” in an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt a vote to approve new congressional maps. Then, in April this year, she marched into the chamber with a pink bullhorn, shouting her opposition to another set of redistricting maps. After she was formally reprimanded by leadership two weeks later, she conducted a five-hour sit-in protest in Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s office and was eventually arrested for trespassing and resisting an officer (those charges were dropped after Nixon agreed to pay a small fine and log community service hours).

The Nixon campaign, Boswell, Geller, and FPSU did not respond to requests for comment.