A California Democratic House hopeful has taken backing from an activist who claimed “evil Jews run the world,” and his campaign is now racing to separate itself from the hate.
Fox News Digital reported that Adina Flores, a self-described civil rights advocate with more than 144,000 Instagram followers, is endorsing Eric Jones for Congress in California’s 4th District.
Flores framed the endorsement around Jones’s promises to combat the sexual exploitation of women. Social media clips show the two have met multiple times. Jones has centered his run on affordability, government transparency, and protecting government-run programs.
His online priorities list ending corruption, lowering the cost of living, and “resource sustainability” in government. He has also highlighted a childhood in a military family with a disabled father, medical debt, Medicaid, and food stamps.
That biography has not stopped the problem created by his backer. Flores’s own posts and videos put open antisemitic claims in plain view.
In an August Instagram post, Flores wrote, “Evil Jews run the world through Masonic Lodges.”
On Facebook she went further. In a video she said:
“But we’re literally run by the gay Jewish mafia, the Zionists in Sonoma County. The Jews still run the world. That’s where we’re at.”
She added: “All our money gets sent to Israel, but nobody wants to talk about that.”
Those lines are not coded. They track the oldest conspiracy trash about Jewish control of money, media, and government. Flores also cast Freemasons as the “real puppet master” pulling both parties.
“The real puppet master, as always, the Freemasons. This is not a conspiracy. And that is who is pulling the narrative of both sides, red and blue,” she said.
Flores’s feed does not stop at Jews. She has attacked Santa Rosa City Schools in harsh terms, calling them recruitment grounds for “little gay communists” and “liberal prison indoctrination centers.”
In another clip she held up a rainbow school design and said she had “stood up for conservative parents,” then claimed the logo “looks like a p-nis.” She told parents to pull their kids out because, in her words, they are “going to be gay and r-tarded.”
She has also said her Instagram is filled with Democrats and Republicans arguing over “who is more gay and r-tarded even though they are two sides of the same bird.” The language is crude. The target is public education and anyone she tags as “woke.”
Flores has described herself as a former government employee and “whistleblower” forced out over COVID-19 mask rules and information she shared with parents. She says she is now banned from public roles. She spoke at a Cloverdale City Council meeting on April 8, 2026, according to a photo caption in the coverage.
After the posts surfaced, a Jones campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital the candidate rejects the bigotry.
The spokesperson said: “I firmly condemn any and all hate toward our Jewish and LGBTQ+ communities. It has no place in our district. My wife is Jewish, we are raising our kids in a Jewish household, I’m a fierce advocate for our public schools and educators, and I have zero tolerance for hateful commentary toward my neighbors or my family.”
That statement is clear on paper. It does not erase the meetings or the endorsement. Flores praised Jones on her Substack as one of the only candidates willing to talk about sexual exploitation “even though you’re not even in office yet,” adding, “God bless you, brother.”
When Fox News Digital reached out, Flores posted an Instagram video response. She cast herself as a private citizen with accounts that are “not monetized.”
“My views are mine & mine alone. I am an unpaid advocate & have never been paid to support a political candidate,” she said. She continued: “I am highly against the two-party system. If I feel someone is a good fit for office, I support them. F--- your gangs! It’s really that simple!”
In short, she kept the endorsement and owned the views.
Jones has also drawn backing from Indivisible and Our Revolution, progressive groups with ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders. That is the same left lane that has pushed hard into Democratic primaries nationwide, including the DSA-aligned primary win by Melat Kiros in Colorado.
Voters watching this race are not required to treat every endorsement as equal. A candidate can renounce hate in a press statement while still pocketing help from an activist who says Jews run the world. The record shows both happened here.
The timing adds another layer. Flores moved on the Jones endorsement shortly after Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., surrendered his office following accusations from several women of unwanted sexual advances, which he denied. Jones is running in a California Democratic lane that has already absorbed that scandal’s shock.
Nationally, Democrats are still wrestling with how far left their brand can drift before swing voters bolt. House members have even had to face floor votes condemning socialism as the party’s activist wing grows louder.
Flores’s rhetoric is not “anti-corruption” talk. It is classic scapegoating dressed up as civil-rights activism. When a congressional hopeful accepts that kind of ally, the burden sits on the campaign to explain the judgment, not on voters to ignore the posts.
Antisemitic claims about secret cabals, Israel, and “puppet masters” are not new. They resurface whenever online influencers need a villain. What is new in this cycle is how quickly some Democratic candidates will share a stage with whoever amplifies them, then issue a clean-up quote when cameras appear.
Jones’s team says hate has no place in the district. Flores’s feed says Jews still run the world, money flows to Israel, and Freemasons pull both parties’ strings. Those two messages cannot both define the same coalition without cost.
The broader left has spent years insisting “punching up” at institutions is moral. Platforms that once policed speech now host rants about a “gay Jewish mafia” in Sonoma County while progressive brands chase the same audiences. That double standard is why trust keeps eroding.
It also tracks a wider socialist surge inside Democratic politics, the kind of shift that has left figures like Ted Cruz warning that hard-left energy is freezing normal dealmaking in Washington.
Policy fights over borders, schools, and crime already divide the country. Adding conspiracy talk about Jews and Masonic lodges does not help working families with costs or safety. It poisons the well.
Democratic committees and local parties have a simple test available: read the posts before celebrating the cosign. If an unpaid “advocate” with a six-figure following is pushing “evil Jews run the world,” the endorsement is not a prize. It is a warning label.
Jones wanted a message on exploitation, affordability, and clean government. He also accepted help from someone who traffics in collective blame against Jews. Campaigns that cannot tell those apart invite the voters to do it for them.
Voters in California’s 4th District, and anyone watching the next House map, should demand better gatekeeping than this. A party serious about pluralism does not shrug at “Jews run the world” talk and call it noise.
