Sunday he called it a boogeyman. Tuesday, Florida answered.

That was Sunday. On Tuesday, Democrats in Florida nominated Angie Nixon for the United States Senate. Nixon is a state representative from Jacksonville, a former union organizer, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She beat Alex Vindman — the impeachment witness, the national fundraising phenomenon — by roughly 56 to 44. The Associated Press called it at eight o'clock. Vindman raised $16.3 million. Nixon raised $975,000. She won by double digits anyway, in Donald Trump's home state, and she ran up numbers in Orlando and South Florida, including Miami-Dade, that surprised Florida's own political hands. It is the first time a member of the Democratic Socialists of America has won a major-party nomination for statewide office anywhere in this country. Two days. That is how long the boogeyman lasted.

THIS IS THE STATE NEXT DOOR

We are not reaching across the country for this. Florida is one state over. Dothan is closer to the Florida line than it is to Birmingham.

And Alabama's own congressmen were already saying it out loud before Tuesday's returns came in. Dale Strong of Huntsville said this week that socialists have hijacked the Democratic Party, and framed the midterms as conservatives against socialists. That is the framing Doug Jones called the monster under the bed.

Florida Democrats settled that argument on Tuesday. They did not settle it in Doug Jones's favor.

WHY THIS PAGE IS TELLING YOU ABOUT A FLORIDA RACE

Because Doug Jones has spent the last eight days standing next to Shomari Figures.

Montgomery on the twelfth. A Lowndes County press event the same morning. And Troy University last night, where the two were billed to take student questions together — the third joint appearance in eight days. The man at the top of the Democratic ticket in Alabama and the congressman defending District 2, in front of the same voters, making the same case.

Part of that case is that the socialism talk is noise and nobody should take it seriously.

That case got harder to make on Tuesday night.

HE IS NOT A MEMBER. THAT IS NOT THE DEFENSE HE THINKS IT IS.

Shomari Figures does not carry a DSA card. He has not signed their platform. He has never met Angie Nixon. Nobody on this page has said otherwise.

There is also a symbolic vote against socialism on his record from November 2025 — a resolution that changed no law, moved no money and cost him nothing. Symbolic votes are free.

Here is the one that costs something.

We did not sample his record. We pulled all of it — Roll Call 200 through Roll Call 283, every recorded vote he cast between June 3 and July 23, eighty-four of them, downloaded from the House Clerk.

In eighty-four votes, Shomari Figures broke with his party twice. The two breaks came ninety seconds apart on the night of July 21.

Eighty-two times out of eighty-four he voted with the caucus. That is the caucus that just nominated a DSA member for the United States Senate in the state next door.

Membership cards are not the measure. The question on a ballot is never whether a man agrees with every plank of anything. It is which direction his votes push, and whose majority he is building.

AND YESTERDAY, CLOSER TO HOME

Yellowhammer reported Tuesday that Figures is taking credit for Montgomery airport funding he voted against — Trump administration money, claimed as his own in an interview published Monday.

Different subject. Same habit. Vote with the caucus in Washington, then come home and describe the result as yours.

SEVENTY-SIX DAYS

The DCCC's own internal poll has this race tied at 46 apiece in a sample the committee itself calls R+9. Cook rates the district likely Republican. The money is level. The map is settled.

None of that wins anything. Ratings do not vote and neither does money.

What changed this week is not the arithmetic of District 2. It is that the party asking to keep this seat showed its direction in the state next door, two days after the top of its Alabama ticket said there was nothing to see.

On November 3, District 2 decides.

Wall of Shame — Today: Poarch Creek

Today on the Wall of Shame: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (Atmore) has put $3,500 into Rep. Shomari Figures' campaign account. The Wall of Shame exists for one reason — so that total stops growing. https://take2back.com/wall-of-shame.html