A former Florida congressional candidate who ran as a progressive against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been arrested and booked into the Broward County Jail on charges tied to a series of Facebook posts warning that Democrats who refused to support Senate candidate Angie Nixon would have their heads cut off, according to an arrest warrant obtained by CBS News Miami.
Elijah Manley, 27, surrendered to Broward County authorities and now faces two counts of making written threats to kill or cause bodily injury, the outlet reported. The Gateway Pundit first flagged the posts over the summer, before the charges were filed.
The Posts at the Center of the Case
Investigators say the messages appeared shortly after Manley lost his August primary race for Florida House District 20. According to the warrant, one post declared that “every Democrat needs to get behind the Democratic nominee for Senate” and that anyone who did not would face violent consequences.
“Anybody not doing that, I promise you I’m going to cut your [expletive] head off,” the post read, according to CBS News Miami’s account of the warrant. The Democratic Senate nominee referenced in the post was Angie Nixon.
Authorities said Manley later tagged two people in the comments beneath that post and added further messages that investigators interpreted as threats. One read, in part: “I’m talking to y’all. I saw y’all comments earlier. I’m already pissed off, do not piss me off more. I swear to god, take me to war over this black woman, and I promise y’all I will burn y’all [expletive] castle to the ground and anyone else in my way.”
In an earlier statement reported over the summer, Manley had also warned: “Any of you that don’t support Angie Nixon. I promise you I will make your life a living hell to the very end.”
A Candidate With a History of Confrontation
Manley, a Black progressive organizer who built a following as an anti-ICE activist, drew attention earlier in the cycle for turning his fire on members of his own party. He criticized Wasserman Schultz for entering the primary in a majority-Black district, calling her decision “a bad move” and “a hostile takeover of the district.”
“I think, for sure, it was a bad move by the congresswoman to run in this district. It was selfish and all about her, her career, and not about the community,” he said at the time. “She failed to do any meaningful dialogue with the community before announcing her run.” Manley was 27 at the time of that race and described himself as a Democrat running to Wasserman Schultz’s left.
His arrest has also pulled attention back to his ties with Nixon, who campaigned alongside him during the primary cycle. Conservative activist Laura Loomer responded to the news by resurfacing a past episode in which she said she had Manley’s campaign events shut down when he attempted to hold them at Jewish-owned businesses in South Florida, with Nixon appearing alongside him. Loomer, writing on X, described the charged language as “an Islamic tactic” and said the episode showed “the red-green alliance is here and it’s in your face and dangerous.”
Rep. Ro Khanna had endorsed both Manley and Nixon during the cycle, a fact Loomer also cited in her posts.
What Happens Next
The two written-threat counts are the product of a Broward County investigation that centered on messages exchanged between Manley and two other Facebook users, according to the warrant. It was not immediately clear whether Manley had retained an attorney or entered a plea; no court date was included in the initial reporting.
The case lands in the middle of a Florida Senate contest in which Nixon is running against Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Manley’s arrest gives Republicans and conservative commentators a fresh line of attack tying Nixon to a supporter whose rhetoric is now the subject of a criminal case — and it revives questions about how far progressive organizers in the state were willing to go in demanding party loyalty.
For his part, Manley has not publicly commented on the charges since turning himself in, and Nixon’s campaign has not issued a statement on the arrest as of this writing.
The arrest also marks a striking turn for a candidate who, less than a year ago, was presenting himself as a community organizer taking on an entrenched incumbent. Instead, his name is now attached to a criminal docket in Broward County and to a set of posts that prosecutors say crossed the line from political pressure into a threat.
Source: www.thegatewaypundit.com — https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/former-socialist-congressional-candidate-arrested-threatening-behead-republicans/