Adina Flores has 144,000 Instagram followers. She uses that platform to inform them that "evil Jews run the world through Masonic Lodges," that a "gay Jewish mafia" controls Sonoma County, California, and that Santa Rosa City Schools is "always recruiting for little gay communists." In August, she posted that "all our money gets sent to Israel, but nobody wants to talk about that."
Eric Jones, the Democratic candidate for California's 4th Congressional District, accepted her endorsement.
Jones is running for the seat vacated by Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned following sexual misconduct allegations, and apparently decided Flores's backing was the kind of support that helps a campaign. Fox News Digital reached out to Jones's team for comment on Flores's public statements. The campaign did eventually respond — we'll get to that.
Flores describes herself as a "civil rights" advocate, which is a creative job title for someone whose civil rights advocacy includes blaming a global Jewish conspiracy for local school policy. She's a former government employee who was forced out of public service — reportedly over COVID-19 mask mandate disputes and information she shared with parents. Whatever her grievances with government, she's channeled them into a worldview where Freemasons and Zionists run everything from county politics to the global economy.
"But we're literally run by the gay Jewish mafia — the Zionists in Sonoma County," Flores wrote. "The Jews still run the world."
Jones's campaign spokesperson eventually issued a statement: "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."
Notice what isn't in that statement. No rejection of the endorsement. No distancing from Flores by name. No indication the campaign will return any support or sever the relationship. Just a generic condemnation of "hate" — aimed at nobody in particular — followed by the biographical detail that his wife is Jewish, as though that functions as a shield. Condemning antisemitism while keeping the antisemite's endorsement is not a condemnation. It's reputation management.
Flores, for her part, tried her own version of damage control: "My views are mine & mine alone. I am an unpaid advocate & have never been paid to support a political candidate." The "unpaid" qualifier is doing a lot of heavy lifting there — as if the problem with endorsing a congressional candidate while posting about Jewish global domination is a question of compensation.
Jones also carries endorsements from Indivisible and Our Revolution, the progressive organizing group with ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders. These are organizations that have built entire fundraising operations around calling Republicans bigots. They have said nothing about their fellow endorser's belief that Freemasons and a "gay Jewish mafia" secretly control California county government.
We know exactly how this would play if the parties were reversed. A Republican congressional candidate accepting an endorsement from someone who posted that "evil Jews run the world" would be the lead story on every cable network for a week. The candidate would be asked to withdraw. Party leadership would issue statements. Opposition research groups would run ads connecting every Republican in the state to the controversy.
Jones's wife is Jewish. Flores says Jews run the world through secret lodges. Jones accepted Flores's endorsement and his campaign's response mentioned neither her name nor her posts.