Jake Lang, born Edward Jacob Lang in 1995 in New York's Hudson Valley region, is a far-right activist and former entrepreneur who participated in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.[1][2][3] Prior to the event, he ran ventures like a vaporizer business, custom baseball hats, and Social Model Management, which aimed to boost Instagram followers for models; he later shared posts about sobriety struggles and religious interests, including "ChristEnergy" and kosher practices.[2] Lang faced 11 federal charges, including assaulting officers with a baseball bat, and spent four years detained awaiting trial before receiving a pardon from President Trump among about 1,500 January 6 participants.[1][2] Post-riot, he created a Telegram group to recruit for a militia—initially the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia, later renamed America First Constitutional Militia—growing it to nearly 200 members in a week to oppose the incoming Biden administration.[1][2] He raised nearly $600,000 via GiveSendGo for legal costs and founded the J6 Pardon Coalition.[1] A New York native now in West Palm Beach, Florida, Lang announced his Republican candidacy for Florida Senate in March 2025, challenging incumbent Ashley Moody in the 2026 primary; he frames it as electing a "January Sixer" and "1776 patriot."[1][4] FEC records show his campaign raised $28,767 by late 2025, mostly via candidate loans, with $1,829 in contributions and $1,828 cash on hand.[4] Lang remains active in protests, leading an anti-Islam demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan, where he carried crosses, threatened to burn a Quran, taunted with bacon, and stormed a city council meeting demanding ICE action.[1] In January 2026, he organized a permitted "March Against Minnesota Fraud" rally in Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside, drawing concerns from local leaders over potential anti-Muslim agitation.[5]