On June 28, 2026, pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang showed up outside the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles with a handful of supporters and a sign reading "Black Parents Are Failures." He had come to the BET Awards — the biggest night in Black entertainment — to turn a celebration into his personal hate rally. The crowd responded. Lang was kicked, had bottles thrown at him, and was chased down the block until he fled.

Two days later, on June 30, he posted a rambling video claiming he had been "nearly murdered."

This is not activism. This is a script. And it has played out in city after city across America — from Dearborn to Dallas, Minneapolis to Manhattan — since Donald Trump wiped Lang's criminal record clean on his first day back in office in January 2025. Lang has been arrested at least six times since his pardon. He has faced charges of terroristic threats, property destruction, contempt of court, possession of controlled substances, criminal trespass, and making threatening statements to law enforcement officers. He has been held on $1 million bond. He has been sentenced to jail time. And he has walked free every single time, only to pack up and terrorize the next community on his itinerary.

The question no one in the mainstream press is asking: who is paying for this?

Jake Lang carrying racist signs outside the BET Awards venue in Los Angeles on June 28, 2026, before being confronted and chased away by the crowd

January 6: The Baseball Bat and the Pardon

Edward Jacob "Jake" Lang was born in 1995 or 1996 in Narrowsburg, New York, a small town in Sullivan County. He attended Delaware Valley High School in Milford, Pennsylvania, graduating in 2013, then spent one year at Hunter College in Manhattan on a wrestling scholarship before dropping out. What followed was a series of dead-end business ventures — an online modeling agency, a social media platform called Liberty Centric, a religious-themed clothing line, and vape sales. By his own account, he was broke.

Then came January 6, 2021.

Lang traveled to Washington, D.C., and joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors alleged that he fought police officers for more than two hours, at one point swinging a baseball bat and a riot shield at officers defending the building. He was arrested on January 16, 2021, and was eventually hit with an 11-count federal indictment. The charges included three felony counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon — charges that carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. His sentencing guidelines called for 21 to 27 months.

Lang spent nearly four years in federal detention awaiting trial. During that time, he did not sit quietly. He founded the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia — NAPALM — a network of armed state-level militia groups organized on Telegram, with a leadership council that included QAnon promoter Ann Vandersteel, former Cowboys for Trump leader Couy Griffin, and antisemitic podcaster Stew Peters. The group claimed 20,000 members; independent researchers at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue put the real number at closer to 2,500. Either way, it was enough to draw a letter from Congress demanding the FBI investigate the armed network.

Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism, described Lang bluntly: "This is someone who has intentionally delayed his own trial date in an effort to remain in the spotlight and who continues to promote violent conspiracies."

Then, on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning roughly 1,600 January 6 defendants. Lang walked free. His 11-count indictment — the baseball bat, the riot shield, the assault on democracy — was erased.

Within months, he was back on the road.

Jake Lang during an anti-Muslim demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan near the Islamic Center of America

The Cross-Country Hate Tour

Since his pardon, Lang has embarked on what the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism calls a "crusade" — a systematic tour of American cities with significant Muslim or Black populations, staging provocative demonstrations designed to manufacture confrontation, generate viral content, and inflame racial and religious tensions.

Dearborn, Michigan — November 2025

Lang's first major target after his pardon was Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest Arab-American community in the United States and the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America. He led a group called "Protect White Americans" to the mosque and attempted to publicly burn a Quran. When a counter-protester grabbed the book from his hand, Lang slapped a slab of bacon across it. He later sued the city of Dearborn for $200 million claiming the police failed to protect him.

Plano, Texas — December 2025

The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), already a target of right wing incidents, would be Jake’s next target. During their weekly food pantry Lang and fellow bigots would hold a “no sharia law” protest. However, other than blocking hungry families, many of whom aren’t necessarily Muslim, from getting food, EPIC’s senior scholar, Yasir Qadhi, called the protest an utter failure.

Minneapolis, Minnesota — January 2026

Lang organized a "March Against Minnesota Fraud," promising to burn a Quran and march through Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood with a large Somali-American population. He was surrounded by hundreds of counter-protesters and had to be shielded by a local Black man who protected him from the crowd. Two Black women helped him escape in their car — but when they learned who he was, they told him to get out. Lang claimed he was stabbed but never filed a police report.

After being chased out of Minneapolis, Lang went to the Minnesota State Capitol and recorded himself vandalizing a $6,000 ice sculpture commissioned by the veterans organization Common Defense that read "PROSECUTE ICE." He removed letters to make it say "PRO ICE." He was arrested and charged with first-degree property damage — a felony carrying up to five years in prison — with a bias enhancement added in April.

Confrontation near Gracie Mansion during Jake Lang anti-Islam protest in New York City March 2026

New York City — March 2026

Lang brought a dead pig, a live goat, a bulletproof vest, and a camera crew of 20 to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for what he called an "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City" rally. He screamed racial slurs at teenagers, waved bacon in people's faces, and called Muslims "violent, disgusting people." Only 20 people showed up to support him. Hundreds of counter-protesters arrived.

Then two teenagers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania — Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19 — threw mason jar explosives packed with TATP at the demonstration. Both devices failed to detonate. Before being questioned, both teenagers began pledging allegiance to ISIS on camera. The FBI called it domestic terrorism. Nobody was hurt. Nobody died. Not this time.

Lang later appeared on a podcast with far-right agitator Laura Loomer and was confronted about his Jewish heritage by members of the far-right who had begun to denounce him.

Washington D.C. — March 2026

At a rally marking the fifth anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack, Lang confronted Metropolitan Police Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw, the same officer who had faced down the mob in the Capitol's lower west tunnel back in 2021. Lang told Bagshaw he should be "put down like a dead dog" and "hung" in front of the Capitol, and prosecutors say he added that "public execution is the only solution for animals like you," and that Bagshaw should be dragged out by his ankles and thrown in the Potomac.

What Lang did wrong here is straightforward: he issued explicit death threats against a named police officer in public, on camera. Yet he cannot understand why he now faces a misdemeanor charge in D.C. He was arraigned, and pleaded not guilty, with a stay-away order barring him from the Capitol grounds.

It's part of a broader pattern of legal trouble since his pardon — he's being banned from city after city. However this just passes the problem of Jake Lang’s bigotry and violence on to the next city. All the while Jake faces no real legal repercussions for his actions.

Washington D.C. — April 2026

On Easter Sunday, Lang attended service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House, then emerged carrying a large wooden cross to stage a "Crusader March," proclaiming "Jesus is King" to a small crowd of supporters.

This stunt sits inside a much larger campaign of religious and ethnic provocation. In the months around this event, Lang gave a Nazi salute outside AIPAC's headquarters while throwing gold-wrapped chocolate coins and accusing politicians of being controlled by "Jewish money," invoking the antisemitic "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory that has previously motivated deadly violence. He has separately organized anti-Muslim demonstrations built around burning Qurans and marching into Muslim neighborhoods, and outside New York's Gracie Mansion he hauled a roasted pig on a truck flying a Confederate flag and left it outside a kosher restaurant, apparently to insult Muslims and Jews at once.

This is where the racism in these events lives — it's not incidental, it's the organizing purpose. Staging religious imagery and symbols (a giant cross, a "Crusade," Roman salutes, pork left outside Jewish businesses) is done specifically to target Muslims and Jews and provoke a reaction he can film and post, then profit from — the grift, as always.

The Easter march itself was disrupted by a local counter-protester, "Anarchy Princess," who confronted Lang over a separate, serious controversy: screenshots had surfaced showing a sting operation, in which Lang allegedly exchanged flirtatious messages with someone posing online as a 15-year-old girl. Lang pushed back, claiming the messages were fabricated or misrepresented by online rivals attempting to entrap him, and no charges have been announced in connection with the exchange, albeit it drew heavy public attention and cost him standing within his own movement.

Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan — May 2026

Lang returned to Michigan for a "book burning" event promoted under the banner "Americans Against Islamification" — a group centered around Lang himself. He drove a rented U-Haul truck past the Islamic Center of America while blaring Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." and shouting "Christ is king." Dearborn police pulled him over for texting while driving and found psychedelic mushrooms in the truck. Lang claimed the mushrooms belonged to a fellow "crusader." He was charged with possession of a controlled substance.

The next day, Lang returned with a stolen Walmart shopping cart carrying a burn pit, books, and a Monster High doll he called a "Satanic whore." He managed to burn several books and briefly ignite a Quran before police extinguished the flames. Counter-protesters sprayed him with fire extinguishers and pepper spray.

Clarksville, Tennessee — May 2026

Lang traveled to Clarksville to support Dalton Eatherly, known online as "Chud the Builder," a far-right livestreamer facing attempted murder charges after shooting a disabled Black veteran outside the Montgomery County Courthouse. Lang disrupted the bond hearing, was held in contempt of court, and received the maximum 10-day jail sentence.

Frisco and McKinney, Texas — June 2026

Lang descended on the Dallas area to exploit the Karmelo Anthony murder trial, a case involving a Black teenager accused of stabbing a white classmate at a track meet. Lang posted that if the jury did not convict Anthony, he would "take care of it himself." During demonstrations outside the Collin County courthouse, Lang said Anthony should be "hanging from that tree" and threatened to deliver a "headshot."

On June 2, Lang was arrested on a criminal trespass warrant for breaking into the stadium where the original stabbing occurred. He was released on $7,500 bond. On June 9, he was arrested again — this time on a terroristic threat charge with bond initially set at $1 million. On June 23, his bond was reduced to $250,000 and he was released on the condition that he stay out of Texas except for court appearances.

Los Angeles, California — June 2026

Lang arrived at the BET Awards with signs reading "Black Parents Are Failures." He was surrounded, kicked, and pelted with bottles by the growing crowd until he retreated. The Los Angeles Police Department made no apparent effort to intervene on Lang's behalf.

Lang now faces pending charges in at least four states — Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, and Tennessee — plus a federal warrant in Washington, D.C. for missing a court hearing. Somehow, he remains free.

These are only only the major incidents in Jake’s tour of bigotry. This campaign of hatred and violence will continue until a judge grows a set and puts this man back behind bars where he belongs for good.

Jake Lang speaking to reporters after being released on bond from Dallas County Jail

The Man Who Would Be Senator

Lang announced a run for U.S. Senate from Florida in the Republican primary. His platform has included promises to deputize the Proud Boys to bounty hunt immigrants and to ban Islam entirely from America. He told a crowd he would deputize "the Proud Boys and the January 6 Patriots to bounty hunt illegal immigrants." His very first act as senator, he said, would be "to ban Islam!!"

By the end of 2025, his campaign had raised a total of $4,397. His campaign is not considered serious. But that may be missing the point — the campaign, like everything else Lang does, is content. It is grift. It is a vehicle.

In His Own Words

The documentation of Lang's rhetoric is extensive and damning. At a January 4, 2026 demonstration outside AIPAC headquarters in Washington, D.C. — where he threw chocolate coins and gave a Nazi salute —

Lang stated: "White people in America, you will be replaced, and your children will be Black Muslims if you don't stand up now." He called immigrant children "anchor babies sent in as chemical weapons by the Talmudic Jews" and declared: "White Christian men are not gonna sit around while you turn our children into a bunch of n****r lovers."

At a Frisco, Texas city council meeting on May 19, 2026, Lang said: "If I lived in Texas, I would burn down one of these...mosques." He claimed Hindus and Muslims were "teaming up to take over Texas" and told residents: "These people do not want to assimilate. They have not come here to become Americans. They have come here to drag their third-world culture over to our country."

In March 2026, at a January 6 fifth-anniversary event in Washington, D.C., Lang threatened Metropolitan Police commander Jason Bagshaw, telling him he should be "put down like a dead dog," hanged in front of the Capitol, and "dragged out by his ankles" and thrown "in the Potomac."

On January 6, 2026, he told NPR: "I'm very proud to have done what I did on January 6, and I think that it was just the beginning of what America needs to cleanse itself."

The Jewish Heritage He Renounces

Here is where the story takes a turn that should alarm every journalist in America.

Jake Lang has a Jewish mother. He was raised with at least some connection to Judaism. There is a photograph of him as a child holding his bar mitzvah certificate at the Western Wall in Jerusalem — one of the most significant rites of passage in Judaism, performed at one of its holiest sites. His sister reportedly served in the Israeli Occupation Forces.

Lang now says he renounces all ties to Judaism and Israel. He posted a video of himself burning a copy of the Talmud alongside a Quran and a book promoting Christian Zionism — performing what the Jerusalem Post called a "clean break from every religious tradition at once." He presents himself as a white Christian nationalist, a "Christian Crusader."

The far-right is not fully buying it. Dan Bilzerian and Nick Fuentes have both slammed Lang as a "Jewish operative" and a Jew "larping as a white Christian." But the more important question is not whether Lang's Christianity is genuine — it's whether his entire operation serves a purpose that has nothing to do with Christianity, white nationalism, or any of these ideologies at all. If true, what ideology is he serving??

Who Is Paying for This?

Consider the logistics. Lang is a former vape salesman with $4,397 in campaign contributions who travels across the country staging demonstrations that require rented trucks, purchased props, camera crews, legal representation in multiple states, and bond money in amounts reaching $250,000. He appeared at Gracie Mansion with 20 supporters and a camera crew. He has been represented by attorneys in Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. His Blessed News Network operates as a media platform. He has published books and produced films from prison.

Where is the money coming from?

While incarcerated, Lang helped raise significant sums through GiveSendGo for January 6 defendants and their families. Reports suggest hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed through these campaigns. Reddit users familiar with the J6 defendant community have alleged that Lang and his family "grifted 1.2 million from the J6 patriot nonsense."

But crowdfunding only explains so much. The travel, the legal fees, the media infrastructure, the camera crews, the props, the U-Haul trucks, the coordinated provocations across a dozen states in six months — this requires sustained, organized funding that a failed vape salesman with 400,000 social media followers does not generate organically.

Nobody in the mainstream press has followed the money. Nobody has filed the financial disclosure inquiries. Nobody has traced the donor networks behind Lang's operation. The Pocono Review, an independent outlet that has done some of the deepest reporting on Lang's background, put it plainly: "A guy running a one-man provocation operation that requires travel, logistics, legal support, and media infrastructure is something that a bankrupt vape salesman couldn't fund with a GoFundMe."

The Cellmate's Warning: "He's a Plant"

Tim Hale shared a cell with Lang in federal detention after January 6. His assessment was blunt and has been largely ignored by national media: "He's a plant. His family served in the IDF. Antifa member and BLM rioter years ago. He's a stalker, con artist, and junkie. He pretends to be a white Christian so he can incite racial and religious conflict with blacks and Muslims. He's a rat and a fraud."

Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson initially supported Lang's claims about Sharia law in Dearborn. He visited the mosques. He talked to residents. He came out saying: "We've all been lied to with the propaganda. Everything you've been told or taught about Dearborn is a complete fabrication." When Hudson called Lang out publicly as a Zionist agitator, Lang responded by spray-painting his bus.

The Pocono Review drew a chilling historical parallel. During the 1990s, a German national named Andreas Strassmeir embedded himself in the white supremacist movement in rural Oklahoma. He talked openly about bombing federal buildings, was connected to Timothy McVeigh in the weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, and was photographed with senior Israeli generals. He spoke fluent Hebrew, served on a kibbutz with an Uzi, and was described as "a very staunch Zionist." He was never meaningfully investigated by the FBI and was ultimately flown out of the country by a CIA-connected pilot while agents looked the other way.

The legislative aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing was used not to target white supremacist terrorism but to designate Palestinian organizations as foreign terrorist groups. A bombing by white extremists became a legal weapon against Palestinians.

"Now look at Jake Lang," the Pocono Review wrote. "A guy with a Jewish mother, a bar mitzvah celebrated at the Western Wall, a sister in the IDF, and documented Israeli connections, performing as a white Christian nationalist while traveling the country manufacturing confrontations between Christians and Muslims. He creates the exact conditions under which a violent incident can occur."

The Extremist Network

Lang does not operate alone. He moves through a well-established ecosystem of far-right extremism:

• InfoWars: Lang has appeared on InfoWars with both Alex Jones and current host Harrison Smith
• GoyimTV / Goyim Defense League: Lang has appeared on the neo-Nazi platform with Jon Minadeo ("Handsome Truth"), leader of the Goyim Defense League
• Proud Boys: Lang has met with Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys chairman, to call for pardoning Derek Chauvin, the officer convicted for murdering George Floyd
• Joey Mannarino: Lang co-hosted the "Golden Age" podcast with Mannarino, who has connections to the white nationalist Identitarian movement in Europe
• James O'Keefe: Lang has met with the founder of Project Veritas, who was removed from the organization amid allegations of financial malfeasance with donor money
• NAPALM leadership: The armed militia Lang founded from prison includes Ann Vandersteel (QAnon promoter), Couy Griffin (Cowboys for Trump), and Stew Peters (antisemitic podcaster who has called for political opponents to be executed)
• David Freiheit ("Viva Frei") and Hayden McDougall ("Woman Propaganda"): Both appear regularly on Lang's media platforms

This is not a lone wolf. This is an infrastructure.

The Pattern: Manufacture, Provoke, Escalate

In every city Lang visits, the formula is identical:

1. Announce a provocative event targeting a specific community (Muslim, Black, immigrant)
2. Arrive with minimal supporters but maximum props and camera equipment
3. Provoke a confrontation by burning religious texts, wielding racist signage, or making terroristic threats
4. Get confronted, pushed, sprayed, or chased — always on camera
5. Play the victim on social media, claiming he was "nearly murdered" or "lynched"
6. Fundraise off the outrage cycle
7. Leave before any real accountability attaches, heading to the next city

The victim's father in the Frisco case told Lang directly: "You're trying to create more race divide than bridging the gap. I do not condone anything you do." Lang responded: "That's white guilt, you're creating more Austin Metcalfs with your weakness, sir."

This is not about justice for victims. This is about fanning flames.

The Two-Tier Justice System Lang Exploits

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Lang saga is the judicial leniency he continues to receive despite an escalating pattern of criminal behavior. Since his January 2025 pardon:

• February 2026: Felony property damage charges in Minnesota (bias enhancement added in April)
• March 2026: Misdemeanor charge for threatening a police officer in Washington, D.C., followed by a bench warrant for missing his hearing
• May 2026: Possession of a controlled substance in Michigan, contempt of court in Tennessee (10-day sentence)
• June 2026: Criminal trespass in Frisco, Texas; terroristic threat charge in Dallas County ($1 million bond, later reduced to $250,000)
• July 2026: DUI arraignment pending in Pennsylvania; trial for Minnesota felony set for July 27

Each arrest generates headlines. Each release generates more content. The cycle feeds itself. Judges issue bond. Lang pays. Lang travels. Lang provokes again.

Compare this treatment to the experience of the Black, Indigenous, Immigrant, Jewish and Muslim communities Lang targets. Compare it to the treatment of protesters at Standing Rock, at George Floyd demonstrations, at Gaza solidarity encampments. The contrast is not subtle. It is the two-tier system Lang claims to oppose — weaponized by the very man who claims to be its victim.

The Question That Demands Answering

Edward Jacob Lang is a man with Jewish heritage, family ties to the IOF, a history of political cosplay (his own former cellmate says he was previously involved with Antifa and BLM), and no visible means of supporting a cross-country tour of racial and religious provocation that has now lasted 18 months.

He arrived at every city with a camera crew. He manufactured confrontation at every stop. He exploited a Black teenager's murder trial for racial agitation. He burned Qurans in front of mosques. He waved Nazi salutes outside AIPAC. He called for the public hanging of a Black defendant. He disrupted court proceedings. He threatened police officers. He vandalized veterans' memorials. He showed up at the BET Awards to tell Black America their parents are failures.

And through all of it, he has faced no consequences that stick. No prosecutor has sought to connect the dots. No journalist has followed the money. No federal agency has asked whether a man who built an armed militia from prison and now travels the country trying to ignite a race war might be operating under direction.

ThePocono Review asked the question that should haunt every newsroom in America: "Who is paying for Jake Lang?" Untelevised is dedicating to answering that question.

Until then and likely after, Lang will keep rolling. City after city. Community after community. Sign after sign. Camera after camera. Feeding the divisions that weaken America from within while the people he targets — Muslims, Black Americans, immigrants — bear the real cost of the chaos he manufactures.

The evidence is public. The pattern is clear. The funding is shadowed. The purpose will be exposed.

Where the mainstream media fails, we will pick up that torch.

A special thanks for Ford Fisher of News2Share, Ford has documented nearly all of Lang’s stops on his campaign of hatred. These videos and live streams can be found on his YouTube channel.