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Ashley Moody

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Ashley Moody

Angie Nixon

Ashley Moody

Angie Nixon

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Ashley Moody

Ashley Moody is a fifth-generation Floridian, former prosecutor and judge, and Florida’s 38th Attorney General. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in January 2025, she focuses on conservative priorities, including public safety, national security, religious freedom, economic prosperity, and President Trump’s America First agenda.

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Angie Nixon

Angie Nixon is a Jacksonville-born State Representative, union organizer, small-business owner, and mother. Drawing on personal experiences with poverty, educational inequality, and gun violence, she advocates for affordable childcare, lower costs, higher wages, voting rights, well-resourced schools, and greater accountability for corporations and wealthy interests.

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Position on major issues

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Abortion and reproductive policy

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Agriculture and rural policy

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored four bills and two resolutions on agriculture. The bills cover freeze disaster assistance for Florida, land grant research priorities, the TEMP Act and the Healthy SNAP Act of 2025, and the resolutions designate “National Women in Agriculture Day.” The sources contain no votes or statements from Moody on agriculture.

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Artificial intelligence

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Nixon supports “protecting your privacy and ending mass surveillance.” The statement describes automated license plate readers and says data from them can reach federal immigration agents and others “without a warrant.” Nixon says “you shouldn’t have to choose between public safety and your right to privacy,” and this is the only statement on artificial intelligence.

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Civil rights and freedoms

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored three items on civil rights: the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025, a resolution recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month and calling on elected officials to counter antisemitism, and the RECLAIM Act, whose title does not state its subject. The sources contain no votes or statements from Moody on civil rights.

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Nixon supports “combatting anti-blackness, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Nativism, transphobia, and all forms of hate.” Nixon also supports “robust funding and enforcement” for hate crime laws, restoring and expanding the Voting Rights Act, and protections against discriminatory use of surveillance systems. Six statements cover these topics, along with campus safety.

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Gillespie describes freedom of speech as “the right to express opinions and ideas without fear.” Gillespie says “We are not a ‘Christian Nation’ as some claim” and says the right to petition “is under threat with our current broken court system.” These are the three statements on civil rights.

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Criminal justice and policing

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 46 bills and resolutions on criminal justice, with titles covering fentanyl and other drugs, police and law enforcement, scams and fraud, child exploitation, carjacking and prison contraband. Moody also voted yes on a bill on scheduling fentanyl-related substances, which the record lists as passed.

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Nixon supports ending mass incarceration, ending for-profit prisons and detention centers, federal decriminalization of marijuana, demilitarizing policing and restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions. Nixon also supports requiring a warrant to access surveillance location data “in most circumstances” and says “mass incarceration and mass deportation are moral failures.”

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Gillespie says a 15-year-old Black student taunted at West Port High School “was wrongly cited by the police in lieu of arrest.” The statements also say Gillespie was motivated to run by “lawfare and lack of due process in our state and federal courts.” These two statements are the only ones on criminal justice and policing.

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Economy, jobs and wages

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 17 bills and resolutions on commemorative coins, scams, small business weeks, banking and independent workers. Moody voted no five times on joint resolutions terminating national emergencies declared to impose tariffs or duties, and yes four times on a stablecoin bill and three federal banking and payment rules.

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Nixon supports a “Working Families Guarantee” that includes Medicare for All, free childcare, paid family and sick leave, a national rent freeze and a universal jobs program. Nixon also supports passing the PRO Act, raising the federal minimum wage and tuition-free public college, and says to pay for it “Tax the billionaires so that everyone pays their fair share.”

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Education

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored ten bills and four resolutions on education, covering school choice and charter schools, religious education, home school graduation, financial aid verification, pregnant students’ rights and Title IX. The sources contain no votes or statements from Moody on education.

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Nixon supports tuition-free public college and trade school, canceling student debt, fully funding public K-12 schools and increased teacher wages. Nixon also supports universal child care and pre-kindergarten, universal school meals, and opposes efforts “to ban books, censor curricula, or punish teachers for teaching accurate history.”

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Gillespie says “Parents have the most important role in the education of their children.” Gillespie says the state, “acting ‘in loco parentis’”, is responsible for the child’s safety at school. For higher education, Gillespie says students 18 and older “are generally considered adults.”

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Elections and voting

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored four items on elections. They are a constitutional amendment resolution so “only citizens are eligible to vote in Federal elections,” a bill requiring voters to provide photo identification, a bill to prohibit individuals who are not citizens from voting in District of Columbia elections, and the Ballots by Election Day Act.

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Nixon supports overturning Citizens United, abolishing super PACs, public financing of elections, full transparency in campaign spending, and ending partisan gerrymandering with “independent redistricting commissions.” Nixon also supports making Election Day “a national holiday,” restoring and expanding the Voting Rights Act, and restoring voting rights to Americans with felony convictions.

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Energy

Moody voted yes six times on joint resolutions of congressional disapproval of federal rules, two from the Bureau of Land Management and four from the Department of Energy under its “Energy Conservation Program.” Moody also sponsored a similar resolution on refrigerators and freezers and the American Shores Protection Act, and cosponsored the Ratepayer Protection Act.

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Nixon supports a “bold, union-built transition to renewable energy,” which the statement says would create “good-paying, union jobs in wind, solar, and grid modernization.” Nixon also supports rebuilding and hardening the electric grid so it is “ready for a clean-energy future,” ending taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel corporations, and “making polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused.”

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Environment and climate

Moody voted yes 13 times on joint resolutions of congressional disapproval of federal rules from the Bureau of Land Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Park Service and other agencies. Moody also sponsored or cosponsored five items: four bills, including the Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act, and a National Park Week resolution.

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Nixon says the climate crisis is “an existential threat” and “rejects the false choice between good jobs and a livable planet.” Nixon supports a “union-built transition to renewable energy,” ending taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel corporations, and “making polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused.” Three statements cover this issue.

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Families and social services

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored seven items on families and social services: three resolutions, on Father's Day and two designating Older Americans Month, and four bills. The bills cover child care scams, fraud, reauthorizing the Older Americans Act and improper payments to deceased people, which the record lists as becoming law.

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Nixon supports universal, high-quality child care and pre-kindergarten, living wages for child care workers, universal school meals, and paid family and medical leave. Nixon also supports a national rent freeze, direct payments to households earning under $150,000 a year, and expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing.

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Firearms policy

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Government reform

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored six items on government reform, including a constitutional amendment resolution requiring that the Supreme Court have nine justices, bills on federal rulemaking and judicial relief, and the Restore Trust in Congress Act. Moody also voted no on a disapproval resolution on a health department policy on the Administrative Procedure Act, which did not pass.

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Nixon supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, closing the revolving door between Congress and lobbyists, term limits and ethics reform for the Supreme Court, and statehood for Washington, D.C. Nixon also supports a binding process for Puerto Rico to decide its political future, and taking FEMA out of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Gillespie names as a top priority to “Restore checks and balances in government, separation of powers.” Gillespie says “Currently our government is corrupted by a failure of checks and balance.” Gillespie also says lawyers admitted to practice are officers of the court and “must not serve in elected office in the legislature or executive branch.”

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Healthcare

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 22 bills and resolutions on healthcare, including Medicaid fraud, biosimilar drug review, seniors’ access to care, association health plans, conscience protections, organ transplant discrimination and microplastics, plus four resolutions on spinal cord injury and naloxone awareness. The sources contain no votes or statements from Moody on healthcare.

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Nixon supports Medicare for All, described as “Health care as a right, not a privilege tied to your paycheck.” Nixon also supports expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, cracking down on corporate price gouging in health care, and restoring U.S. funding for public health programs, and says “we can afford Medicare for All.”

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Gillespie says “I propose national health coverage, with the ability to opt-out.” Gillespie also says “Trial Lawyers add excessive costs, and force doctors to practice defensive medicine.” These are the only two statements on healthcare, and one covers national coverage while the other covers costs and how doctors practice.

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Housing

Moody voted yes on a bill “to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes,” which the record lists as passed. This is the only item on housing, and the sources contain no statement from Moody, so the summary covers only that vote.

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Nixon supports a national rent freeze, a “real moratorium on evictions,” a national rent stabilization standard, expanding Section 8 vouchers and cracking down on corporate landlords. Nixon also supports “permanently affordable housing” investment and federal action on the property insurance crisis, and calls housing “a human right, not a speculative asset for the billionaire class.”

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Immigration

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 13 bills on immigration, including expedited removal of “Criminal Aliens,” deporting people who commit fraud, expelling migrant offenders, barring community development grants for sanctuary cities, human trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children and the Stop CCP VISAs Act. Moody also voted yes on a reconciliation bill, which the record lists as passed.

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Nixon supports abolishing ICE and “rebuilding immigration enforcement from scratch,” a “swift path to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented residents,” and a moratorium on deportations pending an audit. Nixon also supports ending for-profit detention centers and prohibiting sharing of license plate and location data with federal immigration authorities “absent a criminal warrant.”

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Gillespie says “We need qualified, vetted, immigrants legally present in America” and supports “a path to citizenship for immigrants who follow the rules.” Gillespie supports “the lawful removal of people who enter the United States illegally, but not the spectacle created by activists confronting ICE,” and says “We must end birth tourism.”

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Infrastructure and transportation

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored five bills on infrastructure and transportation, named the Staged Accident Fraud Prevention Act, the SHIPS for America Act, the Keep America Flying Act, the Safer Truckers Act and the Driving Forward Act. Moody also voted yes on a disapproval resolution on a federal safety standard for hydrogen vehicle fuel systems.

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Nixon supports rebuilding and hardening the electric grid so it is “resilient, affordable, and ready for a clean-energy future.” This is the only statement on infrastructure and transportation, and the sources contain no votes or bills from Nixon, so the summary covers only this grid item.

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Local control

Moody voted yes on a joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council on a tax conformity act, which the record lists as passed. This is the only item on local control, and the sources contain no statement from Moody, so the summary covers only that vote.

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Nixon supports requiring “community consent processes before new surveillance contracts are signed or renewed with federal support” and says decisions to deploy surveillance technology “should involve real public input.” This is the only statement on local control, and the sources contain no votes or bills from Nixon, so the summary covers only this surveillance item.

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National security and foreign policy

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 24 bills and resolutions on national security and foreign policy, with titles on Israel, Iran sanctions, religious persecution in China and Nigeria, Cuba, military pay and a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation. Moody voted no twice on resolutions to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, and yes on two bills, including Russia sanctions.

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Nixon supports using “the UN and multilateral diplomacy, not unilateral military action, as the first tool for resolving international conflicts,” an end to the war in Iran, an end to US support for illegal settlements in the West Bank, and surging aid to places facing humanitarian crises. Nixon also supports upholding the Leahy Law.

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Gillespie says to “Hold Bibi responsible for allowing October 7th to happen, and for the war on Iran.” Gillespie also says “Israel cannot protect Jews. Its wars are creating antisemitism worldwide.” A third statement cites Washington’s warning on “the danger of foreign entanglements.”

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Social Security and retirement

Moody says “No Tax on Social Security” is among the “major wins” already delivered, and says “nearly 5 million Florida seniors have had their taxes on Social Security eliminated.” Both statements come from ashleymoody.com, and the sources contain no votes or bills from Moody on Social Security and retirement.

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Nixon supports protecting pensions and Social Security, and “expanding benefits rather than cutting them.” This is the only statement on Social Security and retirement. It appears in a list of what Nixon will fight for on labor, and the sources contain no votes or bills from Nixon on this issue.

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Taxes and government spending

Moody names “No Tax on Tips,” “No Tax on Overtime” and “No Tax on Social Security” among “major wins.” Moody has sponsored or cosponsored 13 bills and resolutions on gas tax suspension, disaster tax relief and shutdowns, and voted yes 14 times and no twice on budget and other measures.

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Nixon supports “making billionaires and corporations pay their fair share,” including a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires, taxing capital gains the same as wages, and closing corporate tax loopholes. Nixon also supports a federal asset registry with “real IRS enforcement” and rebalancing the federal budget toward “investments in everyday people here at home.”

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Technology and privacy

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored three bills on technology and privacy: the Sunset Section 230 Act, the Kids Online Safety Act and the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025. Moody also voted yes on a disapproval resolution on a Federal Communications Commission rule titled “Addressing the Homework Gap Through the E-Rate Program.”

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Nixon supports federal standards on surveillance data, including warrants for access to location data, mandatory data deletion windows, and ending data sharing with federal immigration enforcement. Nixon also supports tying federal funding to “clear limits on ALPR use, data sharing, and retention,” community consent before new surveillance contracts, and public reporting and independent audits.

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Veterans

Moody has sponsored or cosponsored seven items on veterans: six bills and a resolution designating “Gold Star Children's Day.” The bill titles cover outdoor rehabilitation, a bill of rights, a POW/MIA memorial and museum, critical care access for servicemembers, opportunity and VA accountability. The sources contain no votes or statements from Moody on veterans.

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Animals and wildlife

Moody has cosponsored four items on animals and wildlife: the FIGHT Act of 2025, the Sturgeon Conservation and Sustainability Act, and two resolutions designating “National Osceola Turkey Day.” The sources contain no sponsored bills, votes or statements from Moody on animals and wildlife.

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Drug policy

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Nixon supports ending mass incarceration, including federal decriminalization of marijuana and “investment in treatment over incarceration for substance use.” This is the only statement on drug policy, and the sources contain no votes or bills from Nixon, so the summary covers only this statement.

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Emergency management

Moody sponsored the TRACK Act and cosponsored two resolutions commemorating the passage of four and five years since the Surfside, Florida, building collapse. Moody also voted no twice in 2025 on a joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy, which the record lists as not passing.

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Nixon supports taking FEMA out of the Department of Homeland Security. A second statement, on housing, supports federal action on the property insurance crisis and disaster resilience funding to “harden homes against hurricanes.” The sources contain no votes or bills from Nixon on emergency management.

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