Meet GOP candidate Jane Adams

Jane Adams, a GOP candidate who unsuccessfully ran for Nevada’s Republican nomination in the 1st District House, has made Bitcoin an important part of her platform.

Known for amplifying damaging rhetoric in support of anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers and Putin, to name a few, little is known about Adam’s career before entering politics. Protos interviewed the controversial figure to learn more.

Adams has supported and continues to reinforce a number of problematic figures, among them the American industrialist and Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford. She tweeted a New York Tribune headline from December 4, 1921, entitled Ford wanted to replace gold with energy currency and stop wars.

Ford’s objection to gold as currency was part of his anti-Semitism. In his own newspaper The Dearborn Independent ran a series of articles under his name The International Jew: The World’s Problem in which he claimed that there was a global conspiracy of Jewish control of the currency and banks. Ford’s work was cited as an inspiration by Nazis including the head of the Hitler Youth, Baldur von Schirach.

During the Nuremberg Trials, von Schirach said, “I read it and became anti-Semitic.”

Hitler regularly kept the book versions of these articles by his side, and owned a large poster of Ford. The specific article shared from the New York Tribune even specifically promotes Ford’s conspiracies.

Last week, Adams tweeted that Kanye West “should get more involved [sic] in Bitcoin Activism» days after he made a series of anti-Semitic commentsand threatened with “death con 3”.

Adams tweeted encouragement for Putin’s call for a digital payment system, saying “Heck yeah!! Way ahead of the game.”

She regularly promotes other authoritarians who have embraced bitcoin, such as Nayib Bukele. As previously reported by Protos, Bukele has effectively imposed martial law in El Salvador and has made mass arrests – many without warrants.

She has also made a number of other problematic statements, including:

• Anti-vaccine posts like this one onewhich refers to those who did not receive the vaccine as “pure blood,” and asks whether “mixing” with those who received the vaccine is considered “eugenics.”
• Claiming the cryptocurrency collapse, which was a byproduct of irresponsible lending, speculation and fraud, was actual a “orchestrated by the Federal Reserve, CIA, academia, establishment politicians and legacy media.”
• Adams believes the US government should cut spending as soon as possible before the debt destroys Americans, and that it should use one trillions dollars by buying bitcoin.
• She described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “an American money grab”.

Furthermore, she is made financially illiterate about the nature of the banks’ derivatives tradingwith claim that: “a crash is imminent and the economic fallout will be terrible.” Adams told Protos that she knows this tweet is incorrect, but claimed she hoped it “would open a conversation.”

Broadly, she claims that her motivating factors for entering politics were to counter the potential harmful effects of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and to raise awareness of Bitcoin. She also believes that the US sanctions regime is weakening the dollar, and that it will eventually lead to its abandonment.

Who is Jane Adams?

We know some of Adams’ background from the Ballotpedia candidate affiliation survey she answered, which tells us she was a young child diagnosed with autism. Adams received a degree from St. John’s University for Biology and Computer Science in 1998. She also revealed that she worked briefly for Sony, but that she left to pursue her political ambitions. After this, it is unclear how she has spent her time.

Her worrying online presence has us asking: Who is Jane Adams? In a conversation with Protos, she provided additional context beyond the limited amount available online.

She says she has done a range of work, including “consulting and people management”, although she claimed she could not reveal anyone she had worked for – except to say: “I don’t work for companies.”

Adams worked as a field organizer for the Kelly Loeffler campaign. Loeffler was one of the senators who dumped stocks after being briefed on the coronavirus. Loeffler later helped attempt to overturn an election, announcing her intention to protest before the riot (she would ultimately vote to confirm after the rebellion). Her other political work has involved the local Republican Party.

Adams told Protos that she consulted on the campaign for Jack Polcyn when he ran for Nevada State Assembly in 2020. She claims to have consulted on several other campaigns as well, but would not disclose who.

She noted that she has only been involved in politics for the past five years. Before then, she traveled around the world, including to Myanmar where she helped a business that sold palm paper for cannabis. She explained that she had done a variety of other work in the cannabis industry, noting that one business she worked with produced 90,000 pounds of cannabis per year.

Beyond this, Adams was hesitant to reveal how she spent her time, but said she had “several failed businesses” in the past.

Adams on his ’22 and ’24 campaigns

In conversation, Adams described himself as “an ordinary person who decided to run for office.” She told the Protos that she didn’t think she could win, but that she was running to raise awareness.

Her Bitcoin-centric campaign was “all last minute.” Adams initially gained a following online by giving talks on the platform and giving away bitcoin to people. When Protos asked if she was concerned about potentially giving funds to her constituents, she said so she didn’t think anything was given to people in Nevada.

She also claimed that Jack Polcyn, for whom she had consulted, had wanted to give voters “gifts”. Polcyn has not yet responded to a request for comment on that matter.

She also told the Protos that she did not have a campaign managerbut is considering hiring one for her 2024 campaign.

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In the conversation it was clear that Adams sincerely and yet naively supports dangerous people and beliefs. Her last-minute run and future campaign have given her a growing platform – she speaks on podcasts and at conferences, and has become a household name among crypto enthusiasts. However, Adams was easily defeated in the 2022 GOP primary for Nevada’s 1st District, and the district as a whole went to Democrats by four points.

Adams faces a very challenging path to being elected in 2024.

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