Above: Jake Adkins, 44, of Coos Bay, Oregon, marches alongside Patriot Prayer at an August 4, 2018 rally in Portland.
Jake Adkins, 44, is the General Manager at the Coos Golf Club in scenic Coos Bay, Oregon.
He’s also a member of the Proud Boys– designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center– who frequently attends violent rallies alongside Patriot Prayer. As seen in the image above, he was present at the August 4, 2018 Patriot Prayer rally in downtown Portland, where members of the far-right group hauled firearms to the roof of a parking garage to establish a “sniper’s nest” overlooking the protest.
Above: Jake Adkins models a Proud Boy-branded “Fuck antifa” hoodie.
Though his social media is littered with selfies of Adkins in a Proud Boys-branded “Fuck antifa” hooded sweatshirt, he also supports other far-right causes.
Above: Jake Adkins posts a graphic from Anti-Communist Action, a far-right group linked to Richard Spencer, that traded bomb-making instructions in its Discord server.
On February 2, 2019, Adkins posted a graphic from Anti-Communist Action to his personal Facebook feed. Anti-Communist Action is a far-right group linked to Richard Spencer that traded bomb-making instructions in its Discord server. Its leader, Seth Vitco, went by “Haupstürmfuhrer Pepe” in their chats. (“Haupstürmfuhrer” is a reference to the paramilitary officers of the Nazi Germany SS troops.)
Anti-Communist Action members also frequently engage in neo-Nazi rhetoric. According to Unicorn Riot, “Anticom’s Discord chats contained a substantial amount of hate speech – server logs we received show 1,107 messages containing the word ‘n*gger’, 445 uses of the word ‘k*ke’ and 412 references to Hitler, sent over a span of seven months. The phrase ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ appears 21 times.”
Above: Jake Adkins jokes with fellow Proud Boy Rob Cantrall.
Adkins also has a personal association with some of the most violent members of these far-right groups. In the screenshot above, he can be seen joking with fellow Proud Boy Rob Cantrall, who stormed into Berkeley’s Revolution Books and livestreamed himself threatening to burn down the shop in front of the employees.
Above: Jake Adkins marks himself as “Going” to the April 6, 2019 ‘Resist Marxism’ rally in Providence, Rhode Island.
As indicated by his Facebook activity, he’s also planning on attending the April 6, 2019 Resist Marxism rally in Providence, Rhode Island. In May, a leaked chat log exposed that Resist Marxism had distributed antisemitic rhetoric inside a private chats, and had ties to both the far-right American Guard– a group the Anti-Defamation League refers to as “hardcore white supremacists”— and the openly neo-Nazi Patriot Front.
Above: Jake Adkins donates $20 to a fundraiser for Tiny Toese’s travel expenses to the April 6 rally in Providence.
At Resist Marxism’s most recent rally in Providence, RI, Proud Boys crossed a police line to attack protesters outside the State House. The attack was led by Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a Pacific Northwest Proud Boy known for his violence who was flown to the east coast by Resist Marxism organizers. As seen in the screenshot above, Adkins donated $20 to bring Toese back to Providence for the April 6 rally.
Above: Jake Adkins poses with a gun and a skull-shaped tactical mask.
And by recruiting violent attendees like Adkins, we can expect more of the same violence that Resist Marxism that they brought to Providence in October 2018.
So we’re asking you to reach out to Coos Golf Club in Coos Bay, Oregon, to tell them about the violent hate group associations of their General Manager Jake Adkins.
You can contact them via Facebook, their website’s Contact page, or by calling them at (541) 267-7257.
