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She wears a pink dress with pearls around her neck.)  “I have been the biggest thorn in Ron DeSantis’ side,” Angie Nixon, the Democratic US Senate candidate for Florida, says about the state’s Republican governor.  Mike Stewart/AP  Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. (https://www.motherjones.com/newsletters/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs) Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily .   Back in August, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon did something few outside the state saw coming: She won Florida’s Democratic US Senate primary. Her victory sent shock waves through the political world not only because her opponent Alex Vindman’s war chest dwarfed hers 19 to 1, but also because Nixon ran as a Democratic Socialist.  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