1. Maxwell Alejandro Frost was born on January 17,1997 and is an American politician and activist serving as the US representative for since 2023.
28 Facts About Maxwell Frost
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Maxwell Frost was born on January 17,1997, to a Puerto Rican mother of Lebanese descent and a Haitian father.
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Maxwell Frost was adopted from birth; his adoptive mother is a special education teacher who migrated to the United States from Cuba in the Freedom Flights, and his adoptive father is a musician from Kansas.
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Maxwell Frost reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021.
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Maxwell Frost attended Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida.
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Maxwell Frost has been organizing since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign.
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Maxwell Frost volunteered with the Newtown Action Alliance, an organization created in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Maxwell Frost has identified Occupy Wall Street, the Columbine High School massacre, the killing of Trayvon Martin, and the Orlando nightclub shooting as events that affected his thinking.
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Maxwell Frost later volunteered for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Good.
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Maxwell Frost survived an incident of gun violence at a Halloween event in Downtown Orlando in 2016.
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Maxwell Frost was an organizer with the American Civil Liberties Union and worked to support Florida's 2018 Amendment 4 and to pressure Joe Biden to stop supporting the Hyde Amendment in 2019.
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In November 2021, Maxwell Frost was arrested at a voting rights rally in Lafayette Square led by William Barber II and Ben Jealous.
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Maxwell Frost beat state senator Randolph Bracy and former US representatives Alan Grayson and Corrine Brown, among others, in the August23,2022, primary.
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Maxwell Frost was endorsed by numerous national and local political figures, including Jesse Jackson, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, civil-rights activist Dolores Huerta, and US senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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Maxwell Frost has identified environmental justice as a priority of his campaign.
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Maxwell Frost introduced with Representative Doris Matsui in 2024 the EPIPEN Act, which seeks to cap out-of-pocket costs for epinephrine autoinjectors used for severe allergic reactions at $60 per two-pack for individuals with health insurance.
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Maxwell Frost supported Kamala Harris's plan to build 3 million new housing units in her first term and believed that increasing housing affordability and accessibility should be a policy priority in a Harris administration.
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Maxwell Frost was endorsed by the Florida chapter of YIMBY Action, a YIMBY group.
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Maxwell Frost co-sponsored the End Junk Fees for Renters Act in 2023, which aims to eliminate extra fees imposed by landlords, ban application fees, and increase transparency in rental agreements.
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Maxwell Frost believes that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal "certainly fell short in ways, but it blocked Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon, which was an important success".
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Maxwell Frost has criticized the Palestinian Authority's martyr's fund that compensates the families of dead and wounded militants, likening it to a recruitment tactic of Hamas for the purpose of committing politically motivated violence against Israel.
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Maxwell Frost opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and accuses it of harboring leadership from terrorist organizations.
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Maxwell Frost had formerly participated in pro-Palestine activism, signing pledges with the Florida Palestine Network and the Palestinian Feminist Pledge, calling for support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, ending military aid to Israel, and rejecting the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
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Maxwell Frost received $8,700 in contributions from convicted Sam Bankman-Fried and his brother and nearly $1 million in help from the Super-PAC Protect Our Future, almost all of it after announcing the council.
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Maxwell Frost is a jazz drummer and plays the timbales.
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In December 2022, Maxwell Frost said he was denied a rental apartment in Washington, DC, due to a "really bad" credit history.
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Maxwell Frost said his credit rating was bad because he "ran up a lot of debt running for Congress for a year and a half".
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Maxwell Frost was among a handful of Democrats who received about $1 million in support from former billionaire and felon Sam Bankman-Fried's Protect Our Future PAC, as well as the maximum individual donation of $2,900.