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Who is Cole Allen? California man named as suspect in White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:57:41 -0400

The man accused of opening fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been identified as Cole Allen, 31, a computer scientist from Torrance, California who went from designing first-person shooter games to becoming an alleged shooter himself.

According to his LinkedIn profile and online records, Allen’s life and career trace an accomplished path as a computer scientist, engineer and independent game developer, even building a shooter role-playing game called "First Law."

In September 2013, according to his online profile, he enrolled in the highly competitive California Institute of Technology, known as CalTech, to pursue a BS in mechanical engineering, graduating in 2017. CalTech confirmed to ӣ��Ƶ Digital that a student named Cole Allen graduated from the school in 2017.

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In the summer of 2014, he wrote that he landed another competitive spot as a summer undergraduate research student fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he said he contributed to astrophysics research.

That summer, his profile says, he created "First Law," a physics-based role-playing shooter game based on realistic two-dimensional space combat. At CalTech, he also built offensive and defensive robotic systems, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He later made "Bohrdom," a complex 2-D physics-based video game that he described as a "combination of a racing game with a bullet hell as experienced by self-propelled pinballs," released on the popular Steam gaming platform, according to his profile.

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Beginning in March 2020, his LinkedIn profile says, he joined C2 Education, a tutoring company, enrolling at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2022 to pursue an MS in computer science, graduating in May 2025. That school also confirmed that a person by the same name graduated with a master’s degree that year.

A Dec. 30, 2024 Facebook post from C2 Education congratulated "Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence on being honored as December teacher of the month." A photo matching that of Allen was attached to the post.

According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle.

During a news conference late Saturday night, authorities said that Allen rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner armed with multiple weapons. He then opened fire on a Secret Service officer, who was taken to the hospital after he was shot in his ballistic vest.

Agents fired back at Allen, who was not struck. He was also taken to the hospital.

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United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told reporters at the press conference that Allen has been charged with two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Pirro said that more charges are expected.

President Donald Trump was whisked away from the venue by the Secret Service along with first lady Melania Trump and other high-level Cabinet officials.

Trump described Allen as a "lone wolf" and a "very sick person."

No other injuries were reported.

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Lawmakers press for probe of Chinese diaspora groups alleged election interference

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:50 -0400

Top House lawmakers are pressing Treasury and the IRS to investigate U.S. tax-exempt nonprofits allegedly co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party to interfere in American elections and politics.

The nonprofits are called "hometown" organizations, formed by immigrants from the same towns or provinces in China to welcome new immigrants, organize parades and help members maintain social and cultural ties.

In recent years, the FBI investigated and raided the offices of the American Changle Association in New York City, alleging it housed an illegal "secret police station" run by China’s Ministry of Public Security. Two people were arrested for acting as unregistered foreign agents, with the "police station" used to harass dissidents and monitor citizens abroad. One man, Chen Jinping, of New York, New York, pled guilty to "conspiring to act as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China." The other man's case is navigating through the courts.

House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith sent a letter Tuesday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and IRS Commissioner-designate Frank Bisignano raising "grave concerns" that "hometown" entities linked to the CCP are exploiting the U.S. nonprofit system.

The lawmakers warned that the groups are part of a CCP "United Front" strategy, which a prior congressional memo described as "a unique blend of engagement, influence activities and intelligence operations" used to shape political environments and advance Beijing’s interests abroad. They noted that some of these groups are created under the guise of Chinese expatriates creating "overseas friendship" in the world.

Citing a New York Times investigation published last year, the letter states that at least 53 organizations "endorsed or raised money for political candidates, likely in violation of the rules," with at least 19 in "clear violation" of federal restrictions.

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The letter follows a February hearing by the Ways and Means Committee examining malign foreign influence in the U.S. nonprofit sector, including organizations linked to a tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, born in the United States and living in Shanghai, promoting the strategic interests of the CCP and the China.

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation tracked $278 million that Singham poured into a network of groups that fuel anti-American protests in the United States, support China and now back the Islamic Republic of Iran, a strategic partner of China and a major source of its oil imports, in nationwide protests today. Singham and the groups he has funded didn't respond to a request for comment.

The new letter from Moolenaar and Smith targeted another set of organizations formed in the Chinese diaspora but the wide scope of their concers -- from the far-left groups to the diaspora community groups -- speaks to a complex influence operations campaign by China.

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In the latest letter, the lawmakers warned the People’s Republic of China is "utilizing United Front organizations, proxies and intermediaries within the United States—many granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)—to engage in political activity that manipulates our democratic institutions."

The letter highlights concerns about so-called "hometown associations," community-based groups originally formed to connect Chinese diaspora communities but which lawmakers say have been "co-opted" by the CCP and incorporated into its broader influence network.

Lawmakers allege those organizations have engaged in political activity prohibited under federal tax law, which bars 501(c)(3) groups from participating in campaigns for or against candidates.

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The lawmakers also pointed to cases in which individuals and organizations were allegedly pressured or coerced by Chinese officials or affiliated groups, including efforts to block political candidates critical of Beijing from engaging with local communities. They further warned that networks linked to China's United Front can serve as "cover for other nefarious operations" tied to Chinese security agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of State Security.

Lawmakers requested a briefing by April 22 on what steps the IRS is taking "to address these threats to our political institutions."

Leo Briceno and Hanna Brennan contributed to this report.

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Far-left network activates to fly Iran's flag over America in victory and wage a 'smokeless war' on the US

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:12:14 -0400

Even as Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth declares a "historic and decisive victory" against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the U.S. still faces foot soldiers on another front: on America's streets.

There, a network of pro-communist groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in China, supporting the Chinese Communist Party and allies, like Iran, are flying the Iranian flag and declaring "Trump failed in his criminal war against Iran."

The rapid mobilization and quick narrative pivot illustrate how an interconnected protest infrastructure, spanning pro-communist political groups, pro-Palestinian advocacy networks and far-left activist organizations tied to international propaganda ecosystems, can coordinate demonstrations in U.S. cities within hours in a dynamic that national security experts call cognitive warfare, or a "smokeless war."

In the nation’s capital Tuesday evening, activists from the professional network of well-funded far-left anti-American groups pulled up to the curb at the corner of 16th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, unloading wagons with megaphones, pre-printed signs and protest-friendly arts-and-craft. Within minutes, they painted their hands blood-red and launched familiar chants, blurring one cause into the next, including a condemnation of "Trump’s war on Iran."

A few hours later, writers at the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a self-declared pro-China communist group in the Singham network, banged out a missive on their propaganda platform, "Liberation News," headlined, "Why Trump failed in his criminal war against Iran – and why we need to keep up the pressure."

The next morning, as Hegseth declared victory over Iran, officials in the Party for Socialism and Liberation's busy Atlanta chapter issued a call for members to meet at Marietta Street NW and Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW at 5:30 p.m. for a "National Day of Action" against the U.S., declaring the Trump administration "was compelled to temporarily step back from its genocidal threats," but its members have to "KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!"

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"U.S. out of everywhere!" shouted Olivia DiNucci, a regular on the protest circuit and Washington, D.C., coordinator for CodePink, a theatrical protest group that just sent a "caravan" to Cuba to support the communist party there. DiNucci pressed her hands into the red paint and smeared them across a banner, then raised her paint-covered hands in the air as she stood beside a smiling Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink.

DiNucci moved through the crowd with a wagon, handing out stickers, chatting with demonstrators and pausing with Benjamin to pose for photos.

Nearby, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation handed out their trademark signs with the group's brand along the bottom and messages in bold sans-serif font, this time reading, "STOP THE WAR ON IRAN!"

"Free, free Palestine!" shouted members of the Palestinian Youth Movement, as flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran flew overhead, beside Palestinian flags.

"Zionism will fall, brick by brick, wall by wall," another chant began.

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Nearby, Nadine Seiler, a regular on the protest circuit who sometimes dresses in costumes, including as a pink frog, stood with her spray-painted banner, raising a question about U.S. "war crimes." Recently, she acknowledged the performative nature of the protests.

"It is political theater," she told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, "and we need more of it!"

Experts say scenes like this are not simple expressions of dissent, but part of a broader geopolitical contest played out in cognitive warfare, where adversaries use narratives, imagery and street theater to shape how Americans perceive conflicts unfolding far beyond their borders, even after bombs stop dropping.

In cognitive warfare, experts note, the battlefield isn't territory, like the Strait of Hormuz, but the public mind, where propaganda, protests, social media messaging and ideological narratives are used to influence how citizens interpret events and pressure governments to change policy.

In this case, proxies for U.S. adversaries, including Iran and China, are pivoting to declare the ceasefire a "victory" for Iran.

Many of the groups, including CodePink, are part of the broader protest network funded by Singham, who has financed a global constellation of activist groups and media projects promoting narratives sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party, while depicting the United States as a "fascist" and "rogue" nation.

In 2017, as reported in a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation, Singham married a co-founder of CodePink, Jodie Evans, and started pouring a documented $278 million into a network of groups that fuel anti-American protests in the United States, support the People's Republic of China and now back the Islamic Republic of Iran, a strategic partner of China and a major source of its oil imports. Code Pink has waged a pro-China campaign for years under the slogan "China Is Not Our Enemy."

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U.S. Justice, State and Treasury officials, the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight Committee are investigating several of these groups for possible violations of federal laws, including statutes that require individuals and groups acting on behalf of foreign interests to register as foreign agents with the Justice Department.

Gordon Chang, an expert on China's global influence, has warned about an expanding anti-American campaign emanating from China, writing, "Now, the Chinese regime has help funding propaganda and protests in America. After all, it has Singham’s cash and world-spanning network."

In their call to action, organizers criticized Trump's Tuesday night deadline for Iran, writing: "Trump has given a deadline for genocide — either Iran surrender by 8 p.m. ET or the country’s ‘whole civilization will die tonight.’"

They added: "This is the criminal threat of a madman, but a madman who controls the deadly might of the Pentagon war machine."

Within hours, the same messaging began circulating across the network as additional organizations promoted similar protests nationwide.

Soon afterward, another cluster of organizations, including CodePink, joined forces with the Chicago chapters of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Palestinian Youth Movement, American Muslims for Palestine and Students for Justice, to announce an emergency protest at Federal Plaza in Chicago at 6 p.m. today.

Even as news emerged of the ceasefire, the protests remained scheduled because for these foot soldiers the war continued.

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Outside the White House, several self-described communist organizations, including "Refuse Fascism," the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, were among the crowd at the corner of 16th Street NW, unfurling their banners and unpacking their pre-made signs.

The coalition also included Muslim advocacy organizations such as Emgage Action and the National Iranian American Council, a pro-regime Iranian-American lobbying group.

By 8:02 p.m., the CodePink crew posted a fast film from its protest at the White House with the headline, "PROTESTING US WAR ON IRAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE."

Minutes later, at 8:09 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation's D.C. chapter published a hyperbolic message of success, declaring, "TONIGHT: While Trump threatens people with war and genocide abroad, the people of the U.S. call for a total end to endless imperialist wars!"

The political theater accomplished, most of the crowd, including DiNucci, with her hands still painted red, dispersed to ready for today's "EMERGENCY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION."

Sure enough, this morning, on cue, at about 6:53 a.m., allies of the Party for Socialism and Liberation's Florida chapter summoned their foot soldiers to the corner of East Colonial Drive and North Bumby Avenue in Orlando, to support the regime in Iran, issuing an urgent dispatch for "RAPID RESPONSE MASS MOBILIZATIONS."

Behind 'No Kings' St Paul protest: $250K production machine equal to a Def Leppard concert

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:00:04 -0400

When anti-Trump protesters took to the streets across the country in late March for rallies branded as "No Kings," CNN reported that anti-Trump protests had "popped up" nationwide, including at the Minnesota State Capitol.

But a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation reveals that nine vendors were paid an estimated $250,000 to build a professionally-sophisticated protest infrastructure behind the "flagship" event held in St. Paul, and a former Obama and Biden administration political and communications strategist, Roger Fisk, took credit for being the "Senior Advisor to the #NoKings flagship event," fine-tuning the "art and science" of throwing the protest, along with two other "No Kings" protests last year.

The machine behind the protest included deploying about 30 semi-trucks to deliver concert-level equipment, a massive mobile stage, nearly a mile of heavy-duty feeder cable used to distribute electricity throughout the rally site, scores of porta-toilets and folding chairs, eight jumbo screens, high-speed internet and bike-rack barriers to keep the crowds away from the stage, filled with bold-faced celebrities, including rock star Bruce Springsteen, actress Jane Fonda and singer Joan Baez.

The operation amounted to a massive buildout that resembled the setup for an outdoor music festival or Def Leppard concert, according to the event's vendors, most of whom requested anonymity.

The logistical details behind the event illustrate how modern protests increasingly resemble professionally produced public events rather than spontaneous grassroots demonstrations. The investigation reveals a rare behind-the-scenes view of the infrastructure, funding and logistics that power the modern day protest industry, details organizers rarely disclose.

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As ӣ��Ƶ Digital previously reported, about 500 organizations with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenues sponsored, endorsed and participated in the nationwide protest. The network includes stalwart Democratic nonprofits, including Indivisible, MoveOn and the ACLU, which have received millions of dollars over the years from billionaire George Soros and his Open Society philanthropies.

Another network tied to the protests includes pro-communist groups, like the People's Forum, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, backed by American-born tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai, promoting messaging aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping and the People’s Republic of China. Notably, anti-American rhetoric from China labeling the United States as "fascist," "rogue" and "autocratic" has been parroted by these groups and surfaced as a recurring theme in the St. Paul protest, where communist and socialist organizations flew the flags of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. Singham didn't respond to a request for comment.

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It's understood that Indivisible footed most of the bill for the St. Paul protest, sources said.

Nancy Snow, author of the book "Propaganda and Persuasion," told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that it's important to follow the money on all aspects of political communication, including protests.

"We are in an age of cognitive warfare, in which there is a competition to shape how people think, and it's always important to follow the money because it tells you who is setting the agenda and amplifying the message," she said. "Following the money doesn’t automatically invalidate the grievances of citizens who show up for a protest. Both things can be true at once."

About 24 hours before demonstrators arrived with signs calling the U.S. a "fascist" nation, a different scene unfolded on the Capitol grounds, with semi-trucks loaded with equipment rolling into the State Capitol.

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"You need a platform for people to stand on and a way for people to be seen and heard in order to reach everybody," Matt Svobodny, a production manager with Slamhammer Sound & Roadcase Co., a live-event production company based in nearby St. Louis Park, Minn., told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"And, in order to do that, you need professionals that know what they're doing and are going to do it also safe for all the people…," he said. "So you can't just have people with good intentions and no idea what they're doing."

A longtime professional, Svobodny provided a rare warehouse tour of the elements required to make the protest happen.

Svobodny said crews began physical setup around 8 a.m. Friday and continued working until after midnight, returning in early morning. Along with the mobile concert stage and cable, the system they assembled included about 100 speakers and extensive lighting equipment. Three vendors supplied eight large video screens across the Capitol grounds so people far from the stage at the far end near Martin Luther King Boulevard could see the speakers.

Additional delay speakers were positioned farther back from the stage so that speeches would remain synchronized across the large audience area, he said. For security reasons, the stage was partially fitted with ballistic bullet-resistant glass to protect the speakers.

"It has all the elements and infrastructure of a music festival," Svobodny said.

Permit records, obtained by ӣ��Ƶ Digital, identify the organizing entity for the event as the "No Kings Coalition and Indivisible Twin Cities." Indivisible is the brand name for several powerful Democratic groups: Indivisible Action, a political action committee; Indivisible Project, a 501(c)(4) with $10.4 million in revenues; and Indivisible Action, a 501(c)(3) with $5.2 million in revenues.

The permit application listed a local leader, Kris Ragozzino, as the applicant and described the rally as a program including "speakers, artists and musicians." The production itself relied on a network of specialized vendors, each responsible for a different component of the rally’s infrastructure.

Slamhammer Sound & Roadcase Co., based in St. Louis Park, Minn., was the main event vendor, handling the Stageline SL320 40-foot mobile stage, sound system with 100 speakers, lighting, 1,700-feet of 220-volt feeder cable and ballistic bullet-resistant barriers, while coordinating the overall production setup and contracting with subvendors. Estimated cost: $100,000
Fire Up Video supplied four large video screens placed along Martin Luther King Boulevard at the far end away from the protest. Estimated cost: $20,000
Algorithm, an audiovisual production company based in Minnesota, provided two additional jumbo screens positioned on the sides of the rally. On its Instagram page, Algorithm featured its screens, hauled to the protest by massive trucks, in a video from the day with the message, "Can you feel it?" Estimated cost: $25,000
Common World Productions Inc. provided two more LED jumbo video screens mounted directly on the stage. Estimated cost: $10,000
Warning Lites of Minnesota, a Minneapolis company that provides traffic control and event safety equipment, supplied crowd-control bike-rack barricades separating the stage from the crowd. Estimated cost: $15,000
E5 Energy, based in Savage, Minn., provided electrical power to the stage and screens with generators and distribution equipment. It also installed cable ramps to cover the high-voltage power lines as pedestrians crossed over them. Estimated cost: $15,000
Ultimate Events, based in Plymouth, Minn., supplied an estimated 10 large high-peak tents for staging areas and operations. It also provided "black plastic frame folding chairs," typically priced at $2.80 per chair on its website, and tables. Estimated cost: $30,000
On Site Companies, based in St. Paul, provided about 300 porta-toilets. Estimated cost: $25,000
Fast Kat Connects, based in Minneapolis, provided high-speed internet connection for the organizers. Estimated cost: $10,000

The estimated total for the logistical expenses was $250,000, sources said.

Svobodny said he worked mostly with Ragozzino and Fisk, a former advance man for presidential trips in the Obama and Biden administrations. In a post on LinkedIn after the protest, Fisk described himself as a "Senior Advisor to the #NoKings flagship event."

In the post, Fisk recalled the "complexity" of organizing the event, noting, "Add to that satellite trucks, cable runs, ballistic glass, road closures, most of the bike rack [sic] in North America, risk monitoring and threat analysis, bridge construction, Springsteen, a kaleidoscope of law enforcement, and staffs of elected officials, security details, and other celebrities that require specific care and respect. The final week was 4 am to 9-10-11 pm…"

Fisk added that "we have learned so much together in developing the art and science of these massive pro-democracy public engagements." Ragozzino, Fisk and Indivisible co-founders Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg didn't respond to requests for comment.

Fisk bluntly acknowledged the protests were staged for the cameras for maximum media coverage, which public relations officials call "earned media," a buzzword for free press coverage. "Earned media is my main metric," Fisk wrote, "and our content reached between a quarter and a half billion impressions in the 24 hours after the events, with our flagship event leading the way."

In his LinkedIn profile, Fisk writes that he worked this past year as a consultant to Indivisible and its two earlier "No Kings" protests, saying he "developed thematic strategies and program frameworks for Indivisible’s three pro-democracy mobilizations, engaging 15 million people across every state and 22 countries coordinating messaging across messaging networks." He didn't disclose how much he had been paid.

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Snow, the former director of the New Hampshire chapter of Common Cause, a progressive group, said that "sunshine is the best disinfectant" and encourages organizations to be more transparent about the obvious logistical heavy-lifting it takes to throw a protest.

In his company's warehouse, as crews cleaned the stage, Svobodny considered the event a success, in part because the vendors went unnoticed by the media. "Hopefully, most people didn’t even think about us," he said.

"I mean, in some ways, kind of, the goal of us or myself is to, like, not even be noticed."

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Hannah Brennan contributed to this report.

Communists, Democrats use #NoKings rally to call for May Day strike: 'Shut it down'

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:00:58 -0400

From Times Square to here in Minnesota's state capital, communist and socialist activists at the nationwide "No Kings" protests escalated their anti-America campaign and openly called for a nationwide economic strike on May 1, an international communist holiday known as May Day, as key Democratic activists joined their call.

At the rally here in St. Paul, organizers, speakers and activists distributed communist literature, waved flags from socialist governments and revolutionary movements, and urged demonstrators to transform the day's protests into a nationwide shutdown of work, school and commerce.

By early Sunday, Press TV, the propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran, leveraged news of the protests to tell readers, "Regime change begins at home’: No Kings, No War protests held across US."

As ӣ��Ƶ Digital reported, about 500 organizations with an estimated combined annual revenue of about $3 billion sponsored and organized the demonstrations, creating a centralized protest apparatus even while organizers tried to market the activists as "grassroots."

The network included traditional Democratic advocacy organizations, like Indivisible, MoveOn and the American Federation of Teachers, alongside openly socialist and communist groups such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization and local chapters of the Communist Party USA, including the Twin Cities Communist Party USA club, which endorsed the St. Paul rally.

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Offstage at the celebrity-filled "No Kings" protest in St. Paul, activists with the Party for Socialism and Liberation sold a manifesto, "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States," filled with Marxist teachings.

Yards away, near the main stage, Kevin Dwire a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the Socialist Workers Party, sold copies of the "Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the 1847 work that would transform the next century's global politics. The group says it is "part of the continuity of revolutionary Marxism," tracing back to Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

In the middle of the lawn, flags for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba flew next to a flag of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist group.

In the back of the lawn, a young man who identified himself only as "Mason" championed the teachings of the Revolutionary Communists of America. A young woman nearby sold copies of Socialist Alternative, which describes itself as a "revolutionary organization working to build a movement for a democratic, socialist society."

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Across the country, from Los Angeles to New York City, pro-communist Americans marched alongside traditional center-left Democrats in an alliance that many mainstream media outlets largely portrayed simply as anti-Trump protests.

The ideological adherents themselves, however, were not shy about their beliefs.

In Times Square, members of the Revolutionary Communists of America chanted: "There is only one solution — communist revolution," while waving red flags bearing the hammer and sickle.

The common refrain from these groups was a call for a nationwide strike on May 1, the traditional May Day holiday long embraced by communist and socialist movements as a day of mass political action.

At the St. Paul rally, that call received support from the stage.

Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisible, the protest's key organizer, joined the communist call for a national strike and urged protesters to prepare for economic disruption on May Day, similar to a shutdown that saw limited success in Minneapolis during protests on Jan. 23 against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"I want everyone here to put this on their calendar… It is a tactical goal, an escalation… It is an economic show of force, inspired by Minnesota’s own day of truth and action," Levin told the crowd.

Levin continued: "On May 1, on May Day, we are saying, ‘No business as usual.’ No work, no school, no shopping. We’re going to show up and say, 'We’re putting workers over billionaires and kings.’"

While Indivisible has participated in May Day coalitions before, the prominence of socialist organizations in the protest ecosystem illustrates the growing influence of the far left within networks that overlap with mainstream Democratic political organizing.

Indivisible Project, a nonprofit whose work is often marketed with just the first word of the group's name, has received $5 million in recent years from billionaire George Soros' Open Society philanthropy arm.

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Meanwhile, some of the openly pro-communist groups marching alongside Democratic activists are connected to a global activist network funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon now based in Shanghai, promoting messaging critical of U.S. democracy and sympathetic to China’s political model.

That network includes media and organizing hubs such as the People’s Forum, BreakThrough BT Media Inc.'s BreakThrough News, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which have received funding and support through the Singham network.

Over the years, Singham, who sold his tech company for approximately $800 million in 2017, has provided $22.4 million to People's Forum, $1.3 million to CodePink and $1.1 million to BreakThrough BT Media Inc. The ANSWER Coalition and Party for Socialism and Liberation have received support through their relationships with the People's Forum.

The network has funded conferences, media outlets and activist organizations promoting narratives that portray the United States as a "fascist" and "hyper-imperialist" power while defending the authoritarian governments of China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The theme echoed throughout the protests, where demonstrators warned of rising "fascism" in the United States.

In the hours after the protests ended, the activist networks celebrated the demonstrations online. In Los Angeles, CodePink posted video showing its banner in the middle of a protest where demonstrators chanted: "Hey, hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go."

BreakThrough News shared videos from protests in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Houston and Gainesville, Florida, declaring: "Massive demonstrations took place as part of the ‘No Kings Day.’"

The outlet blasted what it described as Trump’s "right-wing agenda of endless wars and deportations."

The ANSWER Coalition circulated video showing Indivisible, CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation marching together in Chicago, writing that the "people of Chicago take the streets to stand against Trump’s agenda."

Indivisible Chicago responded with three fire emojis, revealing the emerging synchronicity between traditionally Democratic groups and openly pro-communist organizations.

The ANSWER Coalition operates out of the People’s Forum in New York City, which also celebrated the demonstrations online with the caption, putting its stamp on the day: "No Kings Day NYC."

Leaders tied to some of these activist groups, including CodePink co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, have participated in delegations to Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and China, strengthening relationships with governments frequently at odds with U.S. foreign policy. Evans married Singham in 2017, as he started funding this network in the U.S.

Back in St. Paul, even some socialist activists expressed skepticism about those alliances.

Dwire, the Socialist Workers Party leader selling copies of Marx’s manifesto, shook his head when discussing China’s political system. "China socialism is capitalism," he said.

The young activist from the Revolutionary Communists of America also distanced himself from China’s government, describing it as a betrayal of communist ideals, while he openly embraced communist ideology. "We are against imperialism," he told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

As the rally wound down and crews dismantled stage equipment, the protest grounds began to empty.

A demonstrator propped a Party for Socialism and Liberation sign against a porta-toilet.

Nearby, two American flags lay discarded in the grass beside a heap of garbage bags, an emptied bag of Cheez-It visible among the trash.

Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution'

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:02:25 -0400

A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide "No Kings" protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a "revolution," according to a Fox Digital News investigation.

According to a copy of the permit for the "flagship" march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.

But ӣ��Ƶ Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.

Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

They are all sending members to the protests and one group said they plan to bring a message of "revolution" to the protests.

On Friday evening, at the corner of N. Fremont Avenue and N. 37th Avenue in Minneapolis, members of the Twin Cities chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation packed a car with stacks of bright red protest signs they had prepared at the Dream Shop for Saturday’s demonstrations. They are part of the Singham network and co-sponsors of the St. Paul protest.

The posters read "NO KINGS. NO WAR." with "PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION" printed at the bottom. Activists stacked the signs upside down with their wooden picket handles attached as they loaded them into the vehicle, preparing to distribute them at the next day's main protest at the state capitol in St. Paul.

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Across the country, similar preparations have been underway among socialist, communist and Marxist activist groups from the Singham network that have openly discussed using the demonstrations to spread what they describe as revolutionary organizing.

In New York, the People's Forum called on members to join the New York #NoKings protest. It's an organizing hub in the Singham network and sent Americans to Cuba in recent days to defend the communist regime there.

In Washington, D.C., Party for Socialism and Liberation called on supporters to assemble as part of a "Socialist Contingent."

In Grand Rapids, Mich., the Freedom Road Socialist Organization instructed supporters to gather at the Rosa Parks Circle stage at noon as part of what it described as the "Anti-Trump Contingent."

Freedom Road Socialist Organization activists have previously led aggressive demonstrations targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis. The group has an image on Instagram, using an upside-down triangle symbol that Hamas used to mark targets during attacks in Israel.

One message said, "People everywhere are becoming increasingly hostile to the Trump agenda, and more sympathetic to revolution. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines, it's the time to go out and join the people, get our revolutionary message in front of them, and turn a day of protest into long-term gains for the people's movements." Communist leaders talk about "people's movements."

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Posts circulating among socialist activist networks also explained "Why socialists should mobilize to the No Kings protests this weekend."

"It’s the time to go out and join the people, get out our revolutionary message in front of them and turn a day of protest into long-term gains for the people’s movement," one message said.

In Detroit, activists from Anakbayan, an organization aligned with communist movements in the Philippines, joined other groups within the Singham activist ecosystem.

Posts circulating from activists associated with the Denver chapter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization included imagery referencing the Red Army Choir, Soviet symbolism and historical figures including Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.

The Maine chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, working with activists connected to Democratic Socialists of America and the ANSWER Coalition, called on supporters to join what organizers described as a "Unified Leftist Contingent."

The message instructed activists to meet at the southwest corner of Montgomery Park, declaring that the contingent would stand against "imperialism, capitalism and state violence."

"These systems don’t fall without pressure," the message said. "We are here to organize, disrupt and build power to win something new."

The network’s messaging for the #NoKings echoes Singham’s own rhetoric describing the United States as a form of "fascism" and advocating organizing strategies rooted in Mao Zedong’s doctrine of a "People’s War," which calls for revolutionary movements to embed themselves inside broader political struggles and radicalize them from within.

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That strategy helps explain why the socialist groups are mobilizing inside the much larger demonstrations organized by mainstream progressive organizations, experts say. Large protests create massive audiences and national media attention, allowing smaller ideological movements to spread their messaging, recruit activists and build momentum for campaigns that extend well beyond a single day of demonstrations.

CodePink circulated graphics tying the protests to anti-imperialist messaging.

CodePink called for members to join demonstrations in cities including Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and New York, linking the protests to opposition to U.S. policy toward Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and Palestine. Actress Jane Fonda joined a CodePink protest some days ago, protesting the war in Iran, and she will be at the St. Paul demonstration today.

One CodePink poster reads: "NO WAR. NO IMPERIALISM. NO KINGS."

In recent weeks, the group has supported Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro, the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, President Xi Jinping.

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China's American Mao: Inside Singham’s blueprint to 'wage war' for a 'new world order'

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:56:26 -0400

Part 5 of a ӣ��Ƶ Digital series investigating the House of Singham investigates how an American tycoon built an "International Revolutionary Front," in the words of Mao Zedong, a global system in which ideology, funding, activism and propaganda converge. This reporting includes analysis using large-language modeling.

Last November in Shanghai, as American tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham took the stage at the Golden Tulip hotel for a conference endorsed by the Chinese Communist Party, he offered the clearest window yet into the ideology and strategy behind the global network he has funded over nearly a decade.

Clutching a 172-page report he had authored, Singham put forward a worldview that reframes history, challenges Western power and calls for a "new world order" promoted by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China, or CPC, as it's called in the country.

"If we want to, therefore, have a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II," he said.

The packed room of about 200 ideologues assembled for the Global South Academic Forum, applauded enthusiastically. And it was no wonder.

In the audience in Shanghai, Mao’s vision of an "international revolutionary front" appeared in real time, a cross-border network of academics, activists and organizers listening intently, many of whom Singham has helped fund over the past decade, a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation reveals.

The House of Singham, as ӣ��Ƶ Digital has uncovered, includes a network of about 2,000 organizations spanning the globe, from the People’s Forum in New York City to the Shanghai Maku Cultural Communication Co. that Singham has built after his 2017 wedding in Jamaica to Jodie Evans, a globe-trotting activist and co-founder of CodePink, a nonprofit that Singham also funded.

From their honeymoon in China and over the years, Evans has called Singham her "adorable troublemaker," her "darling Roy" and "adorable husband" in Instagram posts, while regaling his love of ping pong.

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Worldview Rooted in Mao: ‘Fascism is capitalism in crisis’

In new details that have not been previously reported, ӣ��Ƶ Digital uncovered material in Singham’s own writings that underscores just how he has positioned himself as China’s new American Mao, adapting Maoist doctrine for a modern era of global activism, media and ideological warfare against the United States.

In his study, "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War," Singham invoked the "truth" of Mao from the communist leader's book "On Protracted War," where he wrote, "The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people."

Singham's study revealed not just an interpretation of history, but a strategy.

"The war never strategically ended," Singham wrote. "It simply changed form."

At the core of his thinking is a rejection of the West and the United States of America and its system of free enterprise, or "fascism," as he calls it derisively.

"The liberal fiction of three competing systems — democracy, fascism and communism — obscures the truth," Singham wrote. "Fascism is capitalism in crisis, its mask dropped. The real struggle was never between three systems but between two: socialism and capitalism, with fascism as capitalism's emergency response to revolutionary threat."

The 71-year-old Singham funds his activism and lifestyle in Shanghai with a fortune estimated at nearly a billion dollars made on the 2017 sale of his American tech company, Thoughtworks.

While his language often seems dense and academic, the idea is clear: the defining conflicts of the 20th century collapse into a single ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism – with "fascism" recast as a form of capitalism — one that continues today.

In that framework, terms like "fascism" have become central to modern activism, appearing frequently on protest signs and messaging produced by nonprofit groups in Singham's network to describe U.S. policy, institutions, global influence and "hyperimperialism," a term Singham uses in his report.

In his paper and remarks, Singham advanced a sweeping reinterpretation of World War II, arguing that Western nations — particularly the United States — have falsely claimed credit for defeating fascism while imposing an illegitimate global system.

He dismissed the conventional framing of World War II as a battle between democracy and fascism, calling it a "fascist lie," and instead argued that socialist and "colonized" nations bore the true cost of defeating Nazi Germany.

"This was not their war. It was their profit," he wrote of Western powers.

From that premise flows a broader conclusion: that the post-World War II global order, shaped by the United States and its allies, lacks legitimacy.

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‘Propaganda as History’

In his writing, Singham makes clear that this is not just a disagreement over history, but a battle over who gets to define it.

Singham keeps coming back to the idea of propaganda, even as he accuses the West of using it. He argues that Western power was built by shaping how people understand history, calling it "manufacturing memory" and "propaganda as history." He writes that the modern global system is built on what he calls a "fascist lie" about World War II.

"The current global system… is the product of betrayal — planned from the beginning, executed with precision, covered with propaganda," he wrote.

At the same time, he lays out his own approach, describing an "ideological apparatus" powered by "money and methods." He argues that controlling the story — through media, institutions and movements — is a key form of power.

"The ideological apparatus requires both money and methods — institutions, media, education and organizing structures that can sustain and reproduce the narrative," he wrote.

The concept that conflict has shifted from battlefields to narratives and from armies to information mirrors the system ӣ��Ƶ Digital has documented across a five-part series about the House of Singham.

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‘Revolutionary Love'

Since his 2017 celebrity-filled "Revolutionary Love" wedding in Jamaica to Jodie Evans, the co-founder of a fiery activist group, CodePink, Singham has built a transnational network of nonprofits, media platforms and activist groups designed to operate across borders while appearing independent.

Singham and his wedding guests set about building an international revolutionary front to harness the power of "the masses of the people."

In a video interview with ShanghaiEye, a state-funded media arm of the Communist Party of China, Vijay Prashad, Singham’s friend — and wedding guest from the 2017 ceremony — explained the strategy was to tap the power of "the Global South." Singham is chairman of the international advisory board of Tricontinental Ltd., which Prashad established with Singham's money in 2017. Tricontinental was a key sponsor of the Global South Academic Forum.

As reported, a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation found that Singham poured $278 million into six nonprofits between 2017 and 2023, building a transnational network that now includes about 2,000 organizations in the House of Singham.

To understand the global reach of the House of Singham, ӣ��Ƶ Digital further analyzed the international operations of key nonprofits in its network, including the geographical distribution of 223 transactions that moved $591 million in total, including the Singham seed money, across five continents from 2017 through 2025.

The investigation also analyzed the geographical focus of 1,663 events the People’s Forum hosted between its first event in early August 2018 and its most recent gatherings early this year.

Singham and Evans used the nonprofit groups they had created, with Evans sitting on many of their boards with scant disclosure in IRS tax filings about where they spend their money.

The House of Singham "has a major transparency problem," says Robert Stilson, a senior research analyst at Capital Research Center, an investigative think tank based in Washington, D.C., following the money on nonprofits.

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‘International Revolutionary Front’ in Action

The People’s Support Foundation funneled $108 million across the world. It gave money to 43 mostly Marxist groups around the globe, from Brazil to Ecuador, Haiti, South Africa, Zambia and Scotland, to run film training, schools, organizing and even the Marx Memorial Library in Birmingham, Scotland.

Established in 2019 with a mailing address at a UPS Store in Madison, Wisc., the People’s Welfare Association named Eugene Puryear, a leader in the Party for Socialism and Liberation, to its board in 2024, according to its tax filing. It claimed to focus "principally" on "foreign communities with large marginalized populations."

The People’s Support Foundation gave the People’s Welfare Association $66 million between 2017 and 2024. In turn, the People’s Welfare Association pumped about $96 million from the United States to the world. The bulk of the money went to South America, where it sent $43 million, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where it funneled $41 million. It sent $2.4 million to Central America and the Caribbean, $9.5 million to Europe, including Greenland and Iceland and $307,150 to South Asia.

What did the People’s Welfare Association spend the money on? It only says on its tax forms that the regional donations are for "grant-making" and "grants."

Building a ‘United Front’

Decades ago, Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong wrote, "Without the united front, the revolutionary cause cannot succeed."

Tricontinental, funded by Singham and led by Prashad, has become an ideological anchor for the network, producing academic work aligned with the worldview articulated in Shanghai.

In February 2017, Prashad was a featured guest at the wedding of "Jodie and Roy," joining a panel on "The Future of the Left."

By year’s end, he was named a board member of Tricontinental Ltd., newly established in Northampton, Mass., on Sept. 12, 2017, with Singham funding. Tricontinental got $17 million over the next several years to proselytize the merits of Marxism and China’s economic and political regime.

Tricontinental became an ideological anchor for the House of Singham.

By September 2022, Prashad wrote the introduction to a new report from Tricontinental, framing the U.S. as a war-monger, waging a "new Cold War" in the world. He used China’s Belt and Road Initiative, "building human dignity," as a contrast to the "dangerous escalation" of the U.S. and the West against Russia and China.

There has also been rhetorical alignment between members of this network and far-left U.S. politicians, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, _Vt.; Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in statements critical of U.S. foreign policy. While the politicians have appeared at events supported by the House of Singham, no direct ties have been established between them and the Singham network.

Earlier this month, Vijay Prashad went to Havana as part of a "delegation of solidarity" to Cuba.

One of the red flags is that Singham and Prashad coordinate conferences, like the Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai last fall, with East China Normal University, which the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Education calls one of its "subordinate" institutions.

Mao's ‘International Revolutionary Front Against Imperialism'

In 1940, Mao called upon his followers to join "the international revolutionary front against imperialism."

By early 2018, a new organization stood up: the Justice and Education Fund Inc., with People's Forum executives Manola de Los Santos and David Sung Mo Chung on the board, along with Tings Chak, also on the board of Tricontinental.

Over several years following his 2017 wedding, Singham pumped $69 million into the Justice and Education Fund. Inc., with Box No. 203 at a UPS Store on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in New York City as its address. The funds were for a lofty mission of "community & human services."

The Justice and Education Fund also got a "non-cash" lease at the People’s Forum for office space.

The principal is listed as Sung Mo Chung, the full Korean name for David Chung, the organizing director at the People's Forum.

In 2024, in an example of the circular flow of money between these nonprofits, the Justice and Education Fund got a donation of $5.4 million from another nonprofit in the House of Singham: the People’s Support Foundation, with the address at a hotel in downtown Chicago.

Over the past several years, IRS records reveal that the Justice and Education Fund churned out $51 million – an important chunk of it outside the U.S.

It also served as a clearinghouse for money sent back into the core hub of organizations in the House of Singham, sending millions of dollars back into BreakThrough BT Media, CodePink, People’s Forum and People’s Welfare Association, one of the latest nonprofits with a UPS Store address.

It gave $3 million to another "People’s" arrival in the House of Singham: this one, the People’s Dispatch Ltd., a propaganda machine for Marxism in the world with yet another UPS Store as its mailing address. It had a familiar name as its president: Prashad, the wedding guest who spoke on the panel about "The Future of the Left."

Another favorite in the House of Singham: the Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc., also got a boost with an infusion of cash. One of its executives, De la Cruz, ran for president as a candidate from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and she has joined delegations to Venezuela to support communist leaders, like Nicholas Maduro.

Spreading Communism

At the People’s Forum, Tricontinental and other groups' programming includes Cuba solidarity campaigns, Venezuela advocacy, anti-Iran sanctions initiatives, opposition to NATO expansion and educational events on China, all framed within a broader narrative of "resistance" to U.S. influence.

Event flyers and social media posts repeatedly highlight Cuba, promoting teach-ins, cultural programming and delegations opposing U.S. policy.

That narrative aligns with Singham’s rejection of the Western system.

"The ‘rules-based international order’ means the same thing as the ‘civilising mission’: submit or be destroyed," he wrote in his 172-page report.

Not long ago, the People’s Forum organized 142 groups focused on spreading North Korea’s communism to South Korea.

The Alliance for Global Justice funded Samidoun, which the Treasury Department described last year as a "sham charity" that supports Hamas.

'Rise Up: A Song of Defiance….'

Critics say that these organizations should be forced to register as lobbyists for a foreign government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is monitored by the Justice Department.

What’s more, lawmakers have raised questions about whether these financial flows comply with U.S. nonprofit laws governing charitable expenditures and foreign influence. None of the entities associated with the House of Singham have been found to have violated charitable expenditure or foreign influence laws.

Amid criticism from lawmakers and the Trump administration, the People’s Forum issued a rare statement last month, writing defiantly, "By labeling our organizations as ‘agents’ of ‘foreign manipulation,’ the U.S. government seeks to demonize and suppress the legitimate grievances of people who are disgusted by the violent ICE raids and deportation of immigrant communities, the deployment of military forces and federal agents to cities and towns in the United States, the persecution of students protesting the genocide in Gaza and the endless military interventions and use of blockades and sanctions to create famines abroad."

The People’s Forum added a link for donations.

Nearly a decade after a wedding in Jamaica brought together activists, intellectuals and organizers, the network that formed there now operates across continents — funding organizations, shaping narratives and mobilizing protests.

What began as a network has evolved into a system.

And in Singham’s own words, that system is not simply reacting to the world as it exists.

It is working to redefine a "new world order," in the vision of the People's Republic of China, President Xi and the Communist Party of China.

Not long ago, the conference that Singham hosted released a video tribute to the ideologues and activists at the assembly, with a simple message: "Rise Up: A Song of Defiance…."

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Revolutionary Tourism: Inside the $600M marriage of dark money and far-left agitprop

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:03:33 -0400

Part 4 of a ӣ��Ƶ Digital series investigating the House of Singham explores how the House of Singham mobilizes "The Masses," a key element in Mao Zedong’s doctrine for a People’s War.

Nearly a decade after Jodie Evans tied the knot with tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham off the waters of Jamaica, the professional activist swept through Havana's José Martí International Airport last week in sandals and a flowing skirt, wearing a red and white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf over her shoulders.

Soon after, her friend, wedding guest and fellow activist, Medea Benjamin, joined her as part of the "Nuestra América Convoy" to protest U.S. policy toward Cuba.

It was another day at work for the jet-set professional agitators.

‘Revolutionary Love’

Since 2017, when Evans married Singham in a wedding called "Revolutionary Love" with activist luminaries in attendance, the structure that began forming beneath palm trees has appeared repeatedly at moments of unrest, from Minneapolis to Manhattan, operating through nonprofits, media platforms and activist centers that describe their mission as dismantling "the U.S. empire" from within "the belly of the beast."

Exclusive photos obtained by ӣ��Ƶ Digital from the Jamaica wedding show the network’s early cast of characters together in one place: Vijay Prashad, a central ideological voice; Liz Theoharis of the Kairos Center, whose organizing has intersected with protest movements including those tied to Columbia University; actor Danny Glover and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and her partner, Tighe Barry. Evans, Singham and their wedding guests didn't return requests for comment.

At the wedding, sessions and discussions foreshadowed what would follow, aligning activists, messaging and movements across causes and borders. Nearly a decade later, many of those same figures appear across protests, conferences and global campaigns tied to the network.

Over the next years, Glover would join CodePink, protesting U.S. military strikes against Yemen and making a film with director Oliver Stone and a media platform called "Belly of the Beast," the name many of the wedding guests call the United States.

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‘Revolutionary Tourism’

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation has uncovered how Singham and Evans activated a global network that now numbers an estimated 2,000 hard-left organizations that parrot anti-U.S. propaganda supporting autocratic regimes leading China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 million in total across five continents from 2017 through 2025, the latest year for which figures are available, and found the money flows through five concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda.

The investigation established a documented $278 million that flowed from Singham into organizations that "sow discord" in the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., put it recently at a hearing on foreign malign influence in the nonprofit industry.

Funds also financed about 100 overseas trips that CodePink has facilitated for agitators over the years, with 65 trips to hostile nations, including Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, China and Cuba, returning with talking points that mirror the propaganda of America’s foreign adversaries.

Last week's sojourn to Havana was just the latest in a dynamic that critics call "revolutionary tourism."

‘Seems to Hate America’

In the U.S., CodePink activists now parrot foreign talking points at protests that have included celebrities Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda.

Propaganda scholar Nancy Snow first met Evans in 1992 in Henniker, New Hampshire, when Evans was campaign manager for then-presidential candidate Jerry Brown. Evans had arrived with Brown, who was touting his flat tax proposal at a local town hall. Snow saw her again in the early 2000s in salons hosted by liberal publisher Arianna Huffington for guests to debate ideas.

"Over time, Jodie Evans' advocacy has moved into a transnational activist ecosystem where anti-American narratives are converging with the strategic messaging of authoritarian states," Snow told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"The Jodie I knew was a progressive anti-war, pro-environment and human rights activist," recalled Snow. At her home in Venice, California, Evans "was charming, cordial and accepting."

"I never heard any of the militancy and revolutionary rhetoric that she spouts today. She seems to hate America, which is quite the fashion today. Jodie has undoubtedly radicalized over time, fueled by the deep pockets of her Marxist husband, Neville Roy Singham."

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‘Propaganda…Disguised as Citizen Activism’

Snow, the author of a book, "Propaganda and Persuasion," said the tactics of the Singham network apply a specific strategy.

"The most effective propaganda looks like moral activism," said Snow. "It often arrives disguised as citizen activism. My advice: Follow the money, identify the sponsors.

"Propaganda in the 21st century rarely travels through governments alone. It travels through movements," said Snow.

Immediately after its launch in 2017, the Singham network operated across continents. It accelerated protest mobilization around geopolitics, including anti-Israel activism and anti-U.S. military actions, and focused on creating a narrative of crisis and resistance.

Different city. Different cause. Same playbook.

From their headquarters on W. 37th St., Singham’s field marshals in the People’s Forum coordinate protests nationwide that chase the day’s headlines, including: #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel, #HandsOffIran after U.S. military strikes in the summer of 2025, #HandsOffVenezuela following the arrest of Nicholas Maduro in January and now #ICEOut, #HandsOffIran and #LetCubaLive.

Many of those field marshals were assembled around a garden nearly a decade ago. What is made to appear spontaneous follows a familiar pattern led by the same people.

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‘Agitation Propaganda’

"Instead of kinetic action that involves soldiers, guns and bombs, the dynamic of agitation propaganda, or agitprop, as it’s called, was pioneered by the Soviets as a way to destabilize enemies without firing a bullet," said Snow.

"It’s no coincidence that the U.S. has been rocked by constant agitprop over the past decade after the House of Singham came to fruition," she said.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital’s investigation has mapped the network of foot soldiers that the House of Singham unleashes on America.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation maintains 68 chapters nationwide and operates 23 Liberation Centers that serve as organizing hubs in major cities. The ANSWER Coalition maintains 13 chapters and so frequently partners with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in coordinated protests that the liberal New Republic calls the ANSWER Coalition its "front group." Their logos were visible on placards and banners in New York and Minneapolis, even as some national media outlets described demonstrators simply as "angry protesters."

This network accelerates protest mobilization around geopolitics — anti-Israel campaigns, opposition to U.S. military actions — and focuses on creating a narrative of crisis, chaos and resistance in the U.S., while China crushes dissent and stifles free expression among its citizens.

Most of the Singham network’s funding advanced a singular message: promoting Marxist-Leninist ideology, portraying China as a moral counterweight to the United States and supporting projects aligned with Beijing’s Belt and Road economic vision.

Smith, the House Ways and Means chairman, describes the House of Singham as a "network of non-profit organizations that serve as his conduits to spread pro-CCP narratives" through a fusion of media, research and commercial ventures.

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‘Mobilize the Masses’

In laying out his doctrine for the People’s War, Mao Zedong wrote that "the guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea," weapons are important in war but "it is people, not things, that are decisive."

His constant mandate was to "mobilize the masses."

Key to organizing the masses has been CodePink, the organization that Evans and Benjamin, her friend, established in 2008.

Singham’s philanthropy vehicle, GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc., pumped $1.3 million into CodePink after Singham’s marriage to Evans. The line item simply said, "General Support."

Suddenly, the rhetoric on China shifted.

After criticizing China for years for its repression of the ethnic Uyghur Muslim community, Evans made a pivot in August 2020 and hosted a webinar with Prashad and the People’s Forum, invoking the title of a new campaign CodePink launched, "China is Not Our Enemy."

By early 2021, she was openly praising China’s "extension" of the historical Silk Road. She highlighted China’s modern-day economic growth "under the leadership of the CPC," the country’s acronym for the Communist Party of China, and she lauded China for building the world’s second-largest economy "without resorting to warfare, colonialism or slavery."

According to ӣ��Ƶ Digital’s count, the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation and CodePink have organized at least 300 protests over the past decade.

‘Dismantle the U.S. Empire’

Within minutes of a headline event, the network moves.

There is a call to action by the organizing wing of the Singham circle: People’s Forum, the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and CodePink.

Then, the action is amplified by the Singham-funded groups in the propaganda wing: BreakThrough News, People's Dispatch, Tricontinental Ltd.

A scripted one-hour rally follows with a circular march, followed by days of footage from the protest, building the narrative of an "angry," "grassroots," "organic" "resistance" to the latest headline. Media amplification follows, glossing over the protests as socially-engineered.

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, less than four hours after the killing of an anti-ICE agitator Renee Good, by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, at about 10:38 a.m. a signal went out from the People’s Forum Inc., a Singham-funded nonprofit headquartered in an innocuous building off W. 37th St., between a storefront for a psychic and a dry cleaner.

At 2:35 p.m., Manolo De Los Santos, the group’s executive director, published a social media post on X, writing, "The cold blooded killing of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis and Trump’s bombing of over 100 people in Venezuela are connected acts of the same brutal machine..

"We must dismantle the U.S. empire, or it will dismantle us."

Protests followed a regular sequence: public message, rapid protest call, coordinated signage, media amplification.

At 5:11 p.m., the People’s Forum summoned citizens to a 9 a.m. protest the next morning at Foley Square, near ICE offices in lower Manhattan.

By 8:41 a.m. the next morning, David Chung, the director of organizing at the People’s Forum arrived at Foley Square, pushing a shopping cart packed with a speaker, microphone and megaphone, a sticker from the Party for Socialism and Liberation slapped on the side.

Signs were printed. Narratives were set. Talking points were scripted.

A man trailed behind Chung with a pile of freshly-printed black-and-white posters stapled to cardboard tubes and the message, "JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD," with a photo of Good plastered on every poster.

Foot soldiers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the street wing of the People’s Forum, handed the signs out to bystanders as the clock ticked close to 9 a.m.

BreakThrough News broadcast the marchers in closeup and sped-up footage, a tactic designed to signal size and urgency.

The signs included the latest rage-bait messaging, invoking familiar communist tropes about "liberation," "resistance," "genocide" and "fascism." The signs follow a rhetorical script to "free" the "oppressed," "stand up" to "oppressors," "shut down" systems and, most lately demand "hands off" the outrage of the day, be it, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba.

Nearly a decade after the Jamaica wedding, the same network that gathered beneath palm trees has grown increasingly visible on streets from Havana to New York and Washington, D.C., fueled by the hundreds of millions of dollars provided by Singham.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation has expanded to organize teen students in walkouts at K-12 schools, protesting ICE operations.

As Benjamin and Evans returned to the United States this week, they geared up for the next action: the "No Kings Rally" on Saturday.

Organized by a wider group of traditionally Democratic organizations, including Indivisible, the far-left Singham network has succeeded in entering the center-left Democratic ecosystem.

The call went out this week. The machine kicked into action for the next anti-America protest.

Evans and Benjamin posted a message on Instagram, telling their followers to "join CodePink" on Saturday: "No War. No Imperialism. No Kings," The Party for Socialism and Liberation instructed its members to join the "Socialist Contingent" at the protest Saturday.

And the ANSWER Coalition shared a signal for its members to meet them at the Northeast corner of Jackson and Columbus streets in downtown Chicago at 12:30 p.m.

Hannah Brennan contributed to this report.

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Shanghai sabotage: Inside Singham's secret strategy to demonize America

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:56:14 -0400

Part 3 of a five-part ӣ��Ƶ Digital series investigating the House of Singham documents the "Propaganda Work" that Mao Zedong taught as critical to winning the People’s War. This reporting includes analysis using cutting-edge technology, including large-language modeling.

Early Tuesday, CodePink professional activist Olivia DiNucci raised her fist as she stood on the deck of a boat renamed "Granma 2.0," in a tribute to the yacht Fidel Castro’s guerrillas used to launch the Cuban Revolution in 1956.

Standing behind a banner reading "LET CUBA LIVE" as the boat arrived at the port of Havana, DiNucci, who normally organizes protests in Washington, D.C., mugged for the cameras with her fellow revolutionaries, chanting and pumping their fists in the air, as camera crews rolled.

Luis De Jesús, who writes for a site called BreakThrough News, recorded the arrival, part of days of coverage promoting the cause of pro-communism activists, including the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, and packaging the week's activities not just as activism, but as revolutionary political "resistance" against the U.S. "empire."

By afternoon, BreakThrough News posted a video of De Jesús' report on the boat's arrival, with a beaming DiNucci on board. Other pro-communist media platforms turned the staged event into a media moment, from the Cuban News Agency to Brazil de Fato.

The scene offered a real-time glimpse of how a network built by an American-born, China-based tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, turns activism into propaganda and then propaganda into political and psychological weapons. In this case, the story of the Granma 2.0 framed Cuba as a victim of the imperialist U.S., and Cuba's communist benefactor and trading partner – China – as a liberator, providing rice to a hungry citizenry.

As he fought the People’s War in the late 1930s in China, infamous communist leader Mao Zedong emphasized the importance of "Propaganda Work" and "the practice of changing reality."

Decades later, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced a strategy of "telling China's story well."

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Last fall, pro-China academics, like Vijay Prashad, a trusted communist in Singham's inner circle, spoke at a conference of the Global South Academic Forum about creating a "New World Information and Communication Order," an idea popularized in the 1980s by Third World countries now called the "Global South."

The conference was co-sponsored by Singham, Prashad's Tricontinental Ltd. think tank and the Shanghai-based East China Normal University, and administered by the Chinese Communist Party. The university features a School of Marxism and teaches "Marxist journalism." Singham, Prashad and conference attendees closed the conference, standing at attention as "The Internationale," a communist anthem played, attendees pumping their fists in the air in solidarity.

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation found that the "new information" strategy operates through a network of organizations that produce, fund and amplify messaging across borders.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has identified at least 200 organizations in Singham's network of about 2,000 organizations that directly work on propaganda that parrots the anti-American messaging of the Chinese Communist Party but is dramatically homegrown in digital shops from New York City to Los Angeles.

The investigation found that three Singham-linked U.S. nonprofits sent a total of $9.1 million in seven payments to a pro-China propaganda firm, Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. Ltd. The payments haven't been reported before.

Using large-language models, ӣ��Ƶ Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 million in total across five continents from 2017 through 2025, the latest year for which figures are available, in the Singham network and found the money flows through five concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda.

Eleven U.S. nonprofit organizations form a core hub of the work that pumps pro-China, anti-America propaganda into the world, with a total of about $401 million flowing from Singham and his network into these organizations. The organizations didn't respond to requests for comment.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital previously documented $278 million that flowed directly from Singham into organizations that "sow discord" in the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith put it recently at a hearing on foreign malign influence in the nonprofit industry. The rest went through layers of funding.

The 11 nonprofits and their total revenue from within the Singham network, including direct contributions from Singham himself, make most of these organizations well-funded:

BreakThrough BT Media: $3.5 million, with $1.1 million directly from Singham
CodePink Women for Peace: $1.8 million, with $1.3 million from SIngham
Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc.: $420,000
Justice and Education Fund Inc.: $74.2 million, with $68.7 million from Singham
People's Dispatch: $1.9 million
People's Forum Inc.: $28 million, with $22.4 million from Singham
People's Support Foundation: $181.8 million, with $167.5 from Singham
People's Welfare Association: $70 million
Progress Unity Fund: $442,524, with additional revenues from other sources
Tricontinental Ltd.: $16.8 million from Singham
United Community Fund: $21.8 million

Mao’s strategy relied on embedding revolutionary actors within social, cultural, labor and educational organizations to shape public consciousness, normalize radical narratives and gradually erode the legitimacy of the state from within.

Similarly, experts say, Singham's network cultivates activist ecosystems, using nonprofits and advocacy groups as force multipliers and framing local political and social conflicts as part of a broader systemic struggle.

That same dynamic is visible in real time, as protests, trips and political events are filmed, packaged and circulated as part of a broader narrative. DiNucci is a key figure, for example, regularly getting filmed and then broadcast on Singham network social media channels, interrupting the dinners, hearings and events of Trump administration officials.

In this model, disruption and polarization aren’t incidental but strategic, designed to weaken societal cohesion and authority over time, precisely the conditions Mao argued are necessary for victory against a stronger adversary.

"There is a war waging for the brains of Americans. It’s critical that America shore up its defenses before the nation is hijacked by confusion, manipulation and malign narratives," psychologist Orli Peter told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

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‘Information Laundering Operation’

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation, scouring scores of financial filings, writings and social media posts, shows not only money moving from Singham-funded entities into U.S. nonprofits, but these nonprofits in turn funding media production, political education and organizing campaigns that promote the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. nonprofits pushing the anti-America agenda benefit from tax-exempt status and tax-deductible donations.

What begins as content — videos, livestreams and commentary — often feeds directly into organizing and protest activity, creating a feedback loop between messaging and action.

"Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans are running an information laundering operation," said Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, a multidisciplinary lab in Princeton, N.J. "It’s a narrative laundering operation that is selling China’s story to the world and sowing discord in America."

A wedding in Jamaica in February 2017 between Singham and Jodie Evans, co-founder of CodePink Women for Peace, brought together ideologues who would later appear on the boards, funding streams and public messaging of this network. Tax filings document the transfers. The emergence of a network of "Liberation Centers" document the physical infrastructure.

That network has matured into a transnational protest and media machine. Nearly a decade later, its infrastructure is visible on American streets, coordinated, funded and amplified by groups built quietly, deliberately and in plain sight. Singham and Evans didn't respond to requests for comment.

Last week, BreakThrough News broadcast DiNucci outside the White House protesting to support the regime that the U.S. and Israel are targeting with missile strikes in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co.

Part of that system operates overseas, where funding supports media production aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives. Significantly, there are a series of two line items that reveal just how closely this supposed charitable network works with organizations tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

Buried inside the tax filings are the receipts on how three U.S. nonprofits from the Singham network sent seven payments totaling $9.1 million in money back to Shanghai to pay a pro-China propaganda firm, Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. Ltd., housed in the same luxury building as Singham’s operation. It’s not far from the university where Singham’s sister holds an academic position.

Guo Xiao, a former executive at Thoughtworks, the tech company founded by Singham and sold in 2017 for nearly $800 million, sits on the board of Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications, according to company records. Xiao didn't respond to a request for comment.

Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. identifies itself as producing content aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives.

Beginning in 2021, according to ӣ��Ƶ Digital analysis, three organizations from Singham's network sent over $9 million directly to Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. in seven payments for "production of online news program," according to its tax filing.

BreakThrough BT Media Inc.

One of the key organizations inside the broader transnational media apparatus in the Singham network is BreakThrough News, whose reporter met the Granma 2.0 at the port in Havana.

In a letter he sent to BreakThrough News last month, Smith said the House Ways and Means Committee is concerned that BreakThrough News is "part of a larger multipronged effort from the CCP to sow discord in our country" and that it has been "funded and influenced by Mr. Singham’s CCP affiliations."

In early December 2019, BreakThroughNews.org was registered online. Early the next year, in early March 2020, "Breakthrough / BT Media Inc." was registered in Delaware as a new company. It got IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in June 2020 as Breakthrough BT Media Inc.

Singham gave a total of $1.1 million to BreakThrough BT Media Inc. over two years with the purpose of the tax-deductible donations written simply as "public service" and "medical / public services" in IRS Form 990 filings.

In its first IRS filing, documenting its 2020 work, Breakthrough BT Media Inc. listed familiar names among its three-person board of directors. Ben Becker, the son of another trusted Singham adviser, Brian Becker, was the chairman of the board. Today, Becker is on the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s "Central Committee." Becker was also in Cuba this week to support the communist regime.

Another director was Claudia De La Cruz, a leader at the Party for Socialism and Liberation with Becker and a wedding guest.

Finally, a socialist leader named Karla Reyes was on the board. She is the daughter of immigrants from El Salvador and rose in the ranks from joining Occupy Wall Street protests to landing a spot on the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is today an active member of "ICE Out of New York," started by the People’s Forum, its protests filmed regularly by BreakThrough News.

In his letter to Reyes, Smith demanded records related to the organization’s ties to Singham and the Chinese Communist Party. He requested that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remove the nonprofit status of organizations in the Singham network.

While BreakThrough News doesn’t usually name the Chinese Communist Party directly, it regularly lauds Xi's regime. In 2021, BreakThrough News’ host Rania Khalek promoted the "Chinese government" and its "eradication of extreme poverty within its border." She co-hosted the session with Tings Chak, a researcher at Tricontinental, the arm of the House of Singham that pumps out pro-China academic work.

The Singham network functions like a coordinated unit. In 2022, People’s Forum gave BreakThrough a "non-cash" lease worth $318,596 for studio space at its W. 37th Street address.

BreakThrough’s mission statement claims to be "unbiased towards any political candidates," but the far-left outlet even created videos during the 2024 presidential election highly critical of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris as wanting to "out-Trump Trump."

What began as a small, ideologically driven news platform became a broad multimedia machine producing documentaries, podcasts and social media content that amplified protest movements, international solidarity campaigns, especially around Palestinian issues and "anti-imperialist," anti-America narratives.

It’s a member of the International People’s Media Network, another part of the global House of Singham and a coalition of media platforms often publishing anti-America, pro-China content and sharing personnel with Tricontinental.

In 2023, BreakThrough News sent representatives to a conference hosted by the School of Communications at the East China Normal University, the public institution funded by the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Education. Singham’s sister, Shanti Singham, and his friend, Prashad, work closely with those institutions.

Following the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, groups in Singham's network organized protests within hours. BreakThrough News posted videos from the demonstrations. It did the same with protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

NewsClick

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has also tracked $10.5 million the Justice and Education Fund sent to New Delhi-based PPK NewsClick Studio Pvt. Ltd. in five payments from 2019 through 2023 when the government of India shut the operation down for allegedly using donations improperly to run an anti-India, pro-China propaganda media outlet.

The government of India has sent Singham a criminal summons for alleged election interference, money laundering and terrorism, alleging he engaged in schemes to sow discord in India. The NewsClick case is still awaiting a trial date.

National security experts say it is critical to understand the big picture to fully value the command control of this global propaganda war with a tech tycoon as the motherlode.

Back in Havana, as DiNucci stepped onto the dock and cameras rolled, the moment reflected more than a single act of activism.

It showed how the Singham network’s messaging system works in real time, capturing events, shaping narratives and distributing them to audiences far beyond the street or, in this case, the dock.

In Mao’s terms, it is "Propaganda Work," not just reporting on the news, but helping define it.

From the dock in Havana, DiNucci played her role, shouting, "Viva la Cuba."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Brooke Caruto, Nikolas Lanum and Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

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Red wealth, dark money: How an American tycoon deploys Mao's playbook against the West

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:00:16 -0400

Part 2 of a five-part ӣ��Ƶ Digital series investigating the House of Singham examines the "United Front," a key element of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong’s "People’s War" strategy.

As CodePink co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin ended their activist group's pilgrimage to communist Cuba yesterday, their sojourn reflected a strategy years in the making: a "united front" aligning far-left, socialist and communist revolutionaries across borders.

In late October 1944, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong delivered a speech, outlining a strategy to unite disparate groups under a shared ideological framework, telling followers: "For this struggle a broad united front is indispensable."

More than two decades later, in 1966, Cuban leader Fidel Castro convened revolutionaries in Havana for the Tricontinental Conference, where he pledged "support to any revolutionary movement in any corner of the earth,"

And more recently, an American-born Marxist businessman named Neville Roy Singham sold his technology company, Thoughtworks, for an estimated $785 million in 2017, and a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation reveals that he set about building his own version of Mao's united front.

The investigation, using large language models to analyze hundreds of pages of tax records, organizational messaging, online content and historical records, found Singham pumped at least $278 million into a layered network of 2,000 nonprofits, think tanks, activist groups and media organizations with shared messaging and ideology matching the communist ideals of Mao and Castro, operating across borders while appearing independent. What emerges isn't a loose coalition but a tightly-knit system.

At the time of the sale, Thoughtwork’s chief scientist, Martin Fowler, acknowledged the proceeds would fund Singham’s "activist work." The sale created a war chest that would flow into the constellation of nonprofits that now comprise the "House of Singham."

Policymakers and law enforcement officials have gotten a glimpse into pieces of Singham’s influence, from anti-Israel protests in the U.S. to a propaganda machine in India and the hijacking of a labor union in South Africa. But the broader picture is more expansive: a transnational network buried in layer upon layer of companies entangled with shared leaders, shared addresses and a shared mission to spread Marxism and promote China as a global counterweight to the U.S. in a new Cold War.

IRS records show that three entities transferred $278 million from 2017 through 2023 into six core U.S. nonprofits in Singham's network, but those six nonprofits haven't operated in isolation. They have functioned as hubs in a broader system, receiving and redistributing funding, and coordinating activity across a widening network of affiliated groups.

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‘United Front’ of Friends and Family

In 2017, when Singham married Evans, he relied on many of their wedding guests as lieutenants, consiglieres, strategists, propagandists and field marshals to mobilize thousands of foot soldiers to promote China’s interests. One recurring theme is promotion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure and trade effort designed to expand China’s economic and geopolitical influence.

Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C., told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, he wasn't familiar with "the specifics of this particular case."

Pengyu added that China "welcomes and hopes that more people in the United States will view China in an objective and fair light, and lend their voices to the sound and stable development of China–U.S. relations."

Rep. Jason Smith, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, has described Singham as "an individual who lives in Shanghai, maintains business ties with companies and individuals linked to the CCP, works with and physically alongside a foreign propaganda company, and attends CCP forums on how to promote the party abroad."

According to people familiar with the transactions, Singham used GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc., affiliated with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., to anonymously direct tax-deductible donations to a new tranche of nonprofits established after his marriage to Evans. Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto said that the company’s philanthropy arm "terminated" Singham’s donor-advised fund in February 2024.

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Shell-Like Companies

ӣ��Ƶ Digital also identified two fly-by-night companies – Likewise Conceptions LLC and Mutod LLC – that appear in the network's financial architecture.

Likewise, Conceptions listed an address outside Chicago, while Mutod used the address of a hotel in downtown Chicago. Two other organizations linked to Singham used a hotel and a cocktail lounge as addresses. ӣ��Ƶ Digital reviewed incorporation papers, state registrations, property records and other open-source materials but couldn’t identify meaningful public footprints for either entity. Singham and Evans didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Those entities functioned as conduits, moving large sums into nonprofits that would then redistribute funds across additional layers of the network.

Over months of reporting, ӣ��Ƶ Digital built organizational charts tracing the network's structure. At least 18 guests from the "Jodie and Roy" wedding of "One Love" in Jamaica appear within a wider network of about 80 people serving in core leadership across about 15 central organizations.

The network includes members of Singham’s family, including his son Nathan Singham, his niece Alicia Singham Goodwin and his sister, Shanti Singham, who has academic ties to East China Normal University in Shanghai. The university, which is administered by the Chinese Community Party (CCP), co-sponsored the Global South Academic Conference where Singham appeared last fall, lambasting the U.S. as a "fascist" nation. East China Normal University didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The wider circle of wedding guests included actor Danny Glover, playwright Eve Ensler, now known as V, and "Democracy Now" TV host Amy Goodman.

Another guest, Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, has more recently appeared, getting arrested with CodePink activists as he interrupted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during a congressional hearing over Gaza and then called for the defunding of ICE earlier this year.

FBI agents arrested another wedding guest, Ibrahim AlHusseni, last year for alleged securities fraud and he later entered a guilty plea. Late last year, Evans allegedly helped pay his $3 million bail, according to court-related reporting. He is scheduled to be sentenced in July.

Within this period, the People’s Forum’s organizing work and BreakThrough News coverage became central to nationwide demonstrations, coordinated through the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition.

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US Nonprofit Dollars Tied Up in China's State Investment Firm

One of the nonprofits Singham funded immediately in 2017 with his newfound wealth was Tricontinental Ltd., based in Massachusetts, led by his friend and wedding guest, Vijay Prashad. It was named for the 1966 Tricontinental Conference.

In a letter to one of the Singham organizations, Tricontinental, Smith warned that "interlocking ownership and management roles" across the entities suggest a strategy to embed CCP propaganda "under the guise of independent scholarship and commerce." Tricontinental hasn’t made any public responses to the letter, but it posted a video from Brazil last month on Instagram, inviting followers to read the "Communist Manifesto" for "Red Book Day."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital found that one nonprofit that Singham funded, the People’s Support Foundation, reported investments for years in the China-U.S. Industrial Cooperation Partnership Parallel LP, an investment vehicle tied to a partnership between Goldman Sachs and the China Investment Corporation, the state-sanctioned investment arm of the Chinese Communist Party.

In its 2019 tax filing, the People’s Support Foundation disclosed a $75,165 holding. By 2024, the holding had grown to $410,484, according to tax records.

The amounts were modest. But they placed a Singham-linked nonprofit inside a financial structure designed to blend U.S. private-equity management with Chinese state capital during a time of heightened national security scrutiny. While the records do not prove coordination or intent, they reveal overlapping interests at a sensitive geopolitical intersection.

In 2019, that partnership purchased Boyd Corporation, a California-based manufacturer.

Fratto said those investments were legal and "intended to increase foreign direct investment in the United States." He added the investments "don’t confer any control over the companies by an individual investor."

People’s Forum – A ‘United Front’ at W. 37th Street

Less than three weeks after the Singham-Evans wedding, on Feb. 27, 2017, the People’s Forum was registered in New York state, according to state records.

Singham initially funneled $2.5 million into the People’s Forum. It had some familiar names on the board: Evans and Claudia De la Cruz, a wedding guest and a leader in two organizations that would become critical in sowing mayhem on the streets of the U.S., the People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Another key board member was Manolo De Los Santos, a self-avowed Marxist born in the Dominican Republic. Outside the People's Forum headquarters in New York City recently, he refused to answer questions from a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigative team.

De Los Santos has publicly posted photos of himself with Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Fernando Gonzalez, one of the "Cuban 5," Cuban intelligence officers arrested in 1998 in the U.S. for spying and later convicted.

Brian Becker, a longtime Marxist organizer, also became a key figure around the People’s Forum, turning it into a base for expanding protest infrastructure he'd already cultivated with the ANSWER Coalition and Party for Socialism and Liberation, organizing anti-American demonstrations as the son of an American Marxist leader from the 1960s. He also refused to answer questions from ӣ��Ƶ Digital, calling a journalist a "terrorist."

Ismail Royer, a former extremist imprisoned for supporting the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group in Pakistan, remembers Becker and his socialist crew taking over protests and telling Muslim groups to step aside.

"They told us, ‘Just show up. We’ll take care of everything,'" Royer told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Over the following years, Singham doled out a total of $22.4 million to the People’s Forum, according to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's analysis.

The organization operated not just as a physical space, but as a coordination hub in the emerging Mao-style united front, linking funding, messaging and protest activity. It was also moving money into protest infrastructure, including funding tied to large demonstrations.

‘Build Unity…’

In its first year, the People’s Forum said it spent $428,470 developing a space to "foster collaboration and exchange between diverse social movements," to "build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad" and "nurture the next generation of visionaries and organizers who believe that through collective action, a new world is possible."

In late 2021, the People’s Forum hosted a day-long conference on "China and the Left," featuring Singham’s friend, Prashad, the Qiao Collective and Tings Chak, Prashad’s colleague at Tricontinental with close ties to academic institutions in China.

Sessions included "Poverty Alleviation in China," China "as a Model for Third World Development" and "China as a Challenge to Capitalism."

The day’s speakers blasted "The U.S. Hybrid War on China," "Anti-Asian Violence" in the U.S. and an American bias they dubbed "yellow peril."

In 2023, the People’s Forum gave the ANSWER Coalition’s fiscal sponsor, Progress Unity Fund, $26,400 it raised at the anti-Israel "National March on Washington" on Nov. 4, 2023, less than a month after the Oct. 7 attack. It wasn’t a lot of money, but the payment reveals the way these organizations work in lock-step with each other.

The next year, Progress Unity Fund reported a $267,756 payment to the ANSWER Coalition for "mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people in a [sic] mass actions in Washington, D.C. and around the country," according to its tax filing.

It gave $35,000 to BreakThrough BT Media Inc., which broadcast the anti-U.S. protests to the world.

Not long ago, according to property records, the People’s Forum purchased a multi-million dollar building on 14th Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Overlapping Funds, Personnel and Agendas

ӣ��Ƶ Digital found that Singham allegedly used two mystery companies to pour money into another new nonprofit, the People’s Support Foundation Ltd., again with Evans on the board, along with former Thoughtworks executives.

IRS filings show that in 2017, Mutod LLC, just established on Sept. 11, 2017, in Delaware, transferred $160.2 million into the People’s Support Foundation. In IRS filings, Mutod used the address of a hotel on E. Wacker Drive, suite no. 256.

Meanwhile, Likewise Conceptions LLC, which shared an address with a FedEx store on Liberty Road in Crystal Lake, Il., north of Chicago, poured $3.5 million into the People’s Support Foundation. And Mutod LLC put another $3.8 million into the organization in 2018.

The People’s Support Foundation then became a funding source for another tier of entities with generic names, including the People’s Welfare Association and the United Community Fund.

Both were registered as 501(c)(4) political nonprofits. Both used UPS Stores as mailing addresses. Both included familiar names from the House of Singham on their boards.

They repeated a recurring pattern in the network: new nonprofit layers appear with generic names, limited public footprints and overlapping leadership, as money continues to move outward.

The United Community Fund listed its tax code as "Q01: International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security Alliances and Advocacy."

The United Community Fund had some strong anti-American voices on its board: Layan Fuleihan, a fiery Palestinian American leader at the People’s Forum who has led virulent anti-Israel protests; and Chak, a trusted figure in the Singham inner circle and Tricontinental official with ties to Chinese universities.

The money flowing from the People’s Support Foundation into the United Community Fund followed a familiar pattern: one layer funding another, with overlapping personnel and funding.

A question hangs over the structure ӣ��Ƶ Digital traced: why does the House of Singham rely on multiple nonprofit layers, recurring addresses and recycled leadership to move money and organize activity?

As the network expanded across nonprofits, media platforms and activist groups, it promoted the old ideas of Mao and the "United Front." In February, at the launch of a new book, "Tricontinental, Havana 1966," filled with speeches and documents from the conference, Prashad and De Los Santos regaled an audience at the People's Forum with stories of the global communist "revolutionaries" at the conference led by "our commander Fidel," as Prashad described Castro. De Los Santos noted the participants "weren't armchair leftists," who were "shifting from one hotel to the other doing international left tourism."

"We believe strongly that communism is the actual movement of history," Prashad said.

Cognitive Warfare

Earlier this month, the State Department identified the People’s Forum and CodePink as vectors of threat because of their alignment with the People’s Republic of China. The State Department said the groups "denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for narco-terrorists like {former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas] Maduro while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party."

Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee and House Oversight Committee are investigating the Singham network for potential violations of nonprofit law. Justice, State and Treasury Department officials are also investigating Singham and the organizations he has funded, according to people familiar with the investigations.

Last September, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.), and the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to conduct a "comprehensive evaluation to determine whether federal sanctions, civil remedies or criminal penalties—including asset freezes or seizures—should be applied to far-left entities organized and funded by Mr. Singham."

The Trump administration has precedent to act. The Justice Department prosecuted a nonprofit in USA v. Babakov, ECF for serving "as a front for a global foreign influence campaign to advance Russia’s foreign policy objectives." That case didn’t have any connection to Singham or his network.

Smith said at a recent hearing, "This is something every American should care about." The investigations are ongoing, and no one in the Singham network has been charged with any crimes nor has any action been taken against any organizations or individuals in the Singham network. No one from the Singham network has been found liable for any legal violations.

The White House recently created a new National Security Council position, called the "Director of Cognitive Advantage," held by Shawn Chenoweth, to address what officials describe as information warfare, a critical element of a nation’s "soft power."

In public remarks, Chenoweth has described the job as putting the "I," for "information," back into a national power framework known as DIME: diplomatic, information, military and economic power.

The Singham network sits at that intersection, and as Evans' and Benjamin's CodePink delegation departed Cuba, the convoy reflected the outward expression of a structure built over years, following Mao's strategy of connecting international travel, coordinated messaging and on-the-ground activism in a "United Front."

"Viva Cuba!" Benjamin shouted from the airport, as her fellow radicals flashed "V" for victory signs.

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Up next in Part 3: How the House of Singham funds and distributes pro-China, anti-America "Propaganda Work" through media ventures, content networks and transnational messaging platforms.

Power Couple of Chaos: How a tycoon and activist built a 'Revolutionary Base' at the House of Singham

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:00:59 -0400

Part 1 of a five-part ӣ��Ƶ Digital series investigation follows the money that created the "Revolutionary Base" for a transnational network of organizations allegedly waging cognitive warfare on U.S. citizens on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

As far-left American activists flood Cuba to support its flailing communist regime, U.S. officials have opened a sprawling investigation into an anti-America, pro-China nonprofit network forged during a wedding celebration in late February 2017, off Runaway Bay on Jamaica’s northern coast.

There, beneath a canopy of palm trees, an elite cadre of activists, intellectuals, celebrities, political organizers and comrades in a global Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movement assembled to celebrate the "Revolutionary Love" of two luminaries, both 62 at the time: Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, and Jodie Evans, a red-haired veteran activist and co-founder of CodePink Women for Peace.

Like the opening scene of "The Godfather," where powerful families consolidate power, the wedding celebration was about much more than the union of two people.

Over four days of dancing, lectures and late-night conversations in venues from the Flavor Beach Bar to Sharkey’s Seafood, celebrating the bond of "Roy and Jodie," alliances were formed that would shape protests, unrest and political agitation over the next decade, from the fiery 2020 scenes in Minneapolis to demonstrations today supporting the regimes in Cuba and Iran.

That weekend, Vijay Prashad, an academic described in the official wedding itinerary as a "Marxist intellectual," spoke on a panel, "The Future of the Left." Medea Benjamin, Evans’ friend and CodePink co-founder, danced barefoot at the wedding in a bright Indian outfit.

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Mao’s Blueprint for the ‘People’s War’

According to sources, the wedding attendees invoked the teachings of Mao Zedong, the 20th century Chinese Communist Party leader who ruled China with an iron fist, inspired by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and they discussed how to mobilize the masses to wage a Maoist "People’s War."

"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses," Mao said in 1934.

Many were themselves relics of the Cold War, growing up before the Soviet Union was dismantled in 1989.

A monthslong ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation pinpoints the Jamaica wedding as a starting point for launching a network of organizations that is today waging a new "People’s War" on America, aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s geopolitical ambitions to eclipse the U.S. as a superpower through economic programs like the "Belt and Road" initiative, realizing the vision of China’s ideological godfather, Mao, through trade partnerships, economic deals and pro-China propaganda.

National security experts call it cognitive warfare.

Over almost a decade, ӣ��Ƶ Digital has learned, Singham and Evans have activated a global network that now numbers an estimated 2,000 hard-left organizations that parrot anti-U.S. propaganda supporting autocratic regimes leading China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza. Within activist circles, far-left critics refer to leftists who align with authoritarian regimes as "tankies." Many groups and leaders from Singham's network, including Evans and Benjamin, are part of the pro-communist convoy now in Cuba.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has established a documented $278 million that flowed from Singham into organizations that "sow discord" in the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith put it recently at a hearing on foreign malign influence in the nonprofit industry.

According to the data, Singham created a base from which the U.S. is now one of the world’s most prolific exporters of radical pro-China communist ideology. Singham and Evans didn't respond to requests for comment.

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‘Mao’s Dream for a People’s Army’

Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese American who survived Mao’s purge of innocents during the Cultural Revolution, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that Singham and Evans are following the communist dictator's playbook.

"Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jody Evans, are bringing into the 21st century Mao’s dream for a People’s War," Van Fleet said.

Mao’s doctrine of the People’s War emphasized long-term struggle through decentralized networks, ideological indoctrination and the mobilization of civilian institutions rather than direct military confrontation.

"They are bringing to the streets America’s worst nightmare of a Red Army that is seeking to destroy the United States and make China more competitive on the world stage," said Van Fleet, the author of "Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat."

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‘Adorable Troublemaker’

Singham grew up familiar with Mao's dictates.

He was born in mid-May 1954 in Middletown, Conn., the son of Archibald Singham, a Marxist-Leninist scholar of Sri Lankan heritage, and Shirley Hume, who also adhered to far-left ideology. By his own account, he joined the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as a teenager and worked at a Chrysler assembly line in Detroit.

FBI agents once attempted to interview him at the Chrysler Eldon Avenue Plant, noting in their report that he was "potentially dangerous" because of his "background, emotional instability" or role in groups involved in harmful activities "inimical to U.S.," according to a copy of the FBI report released by the House Ways and Means Committee.

According to the FBI report, Singham told the agents, "I don’t want to talk to you," and walked away.

Singham quietly built his Thoughtworks technology company through the 1990s. Meanwhile, Evans was campaign manager for Democratic politician Jerry Brown's losing 1992 presidential race.

After they exchanged vows in Jamaica, Evans called Singham her "adorable troublemaker," her "darling Roy" and "adorable husband" in Instagram posts.

5 Rings, 2,000 Groups

ӣ��Ƶ Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 million in total across five continents from 2017 through 2025, the latest year available, and found the money flows through five concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda:

Level 1: Singham allegedly set up a system to funnel tax-exempt dollars through two apparent shell corporations and a donor-advised fund, GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc., which is closely associated with Goldman Sachs. Wealthy patrons can hide donations as anonymous, experts say. Revealed here for the first time, Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto said the company’s philanthropy arm "terminated" Singham’s donor-advised fund in February 2024.
Level 2: Singham poured a documented $278 million from the three organizations into six nonprofits – five created virtually overnight with Evans on the board of several and the sixth being Evans' longtime agitation project, CodePink. The six organizations are BreakThrough BT Media, CodePink, Justice and Education Fund Inc., People’s Forum Inc., People’s Support Foundation Ltd. and Tricontinental Ltd.
Level 3: Those six nonprofits have pumped about $163 million into 52 organizations – including themselves – and, importantly, five regions identified only by geography.
Level 4: Over this period, 11 groups have distributed $150 million into four nonprofits and five geographic regions, including $23 million to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Level 5: The network doesn’t stop where the money trail ends, because 67 core groups partner with hundreds of groups worldwide, creating a network of about 2,000 organizations worldwide.

Singham Emerges

Last November, Singham walked through the doors of the Golden Tulip hotel in Shanghai for one of his rare public appearances, a two-day "Global South Academic Forum" conference blessed by the country’s ruling Chinese Communist Party, which the government officially calls the Communist Party of China, or CPC.

Videos and images from the conference provide a rare public window into the messaging, symbolism and participants of a network that otherwise operates opaquely.

The opening talk featured Prashad, Singham's wedding guest, releasing a 172-page treatise written by Singham, chairman of the "International Advisory Board" of Tricontinental, a think tank Singham had funded and one of the conference sponsors. Another co-sponsor was the East China Normal University, which is administered by the Communist Party of China.

In the report, "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth," which ӣ��Ƶ Digital has uncovered, Singham rewrote the history of World War II to elevate the role of China and the "Global South" in defeating Nazi Germany.

On page 61, Singham blasted the West but held out hope it could be defeated.

"Socialist peoples and leadership can defeat imperialism in any form – fascist then, hyper-imperialist now – despite every material disadvantage," he argued. "That victory required genius, courage and unimaginable sacrifice. It also proved something imperialism cannot accept: ordinary people, organised and led with brilliance, can defeat any empire."

Singham then quoted Mao, saying that the brutal leader "crystallized this truth" in his book "On Protracted War," when he wrote, "The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people."

In the paper, Singham diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and service members, writing that the Soviets and China really won the war with, "59.8% socialists dead, 13.1% colonised peoples dead – only 1% Anglo-Americans dead."

He also condemns British leader Winston Churchill’s "genocidal impulses."

About 23 minutes into his remarks, Prashad welcomed Singham on stage with two other colleagues and Singham took a bow to the applause of the audience members and said, "Thank you, comrades, friends."

In a video of the event, unearthed by ӣ��Ƶ Digital, Singham railed against "the fascist lie" of the West that "there is a battle between fascism, democracy and communism."

Singham articulated a view of global power that challenges the Western understanding of World War II and the postwar international order.

"Fascism is actually a face of capitalism and imperialism, as is colonialism. These are the three faces of a system that is quite now becoming very dangerous for us."

He didn’t identify "us."

In the clip, Singham describes a "rules-based international order" that he argues is built on a "lie" about democracy. The excerpt is included for the purpose of reporting and analyzing the content of his remarks.

He talked about the Americans and "their" failure to hold fascists accountable from the "anti-fascist" war.

He ended by recognizing Soviet and Chinese fighters who died during World War II, and he urged the group to "honor" them for their underappreciated sacrifice.

"China has a very important role, and we, in this forum, have a very important role," Singham said, "that to envision a new order, a new multi-polarity order, requires, quite frankly, the deconstruction, a restorationist history of what really happened, who really suffered. Of those who died, almost 70% of the people who died in World War II were in China and the Soviet Union."

The comments reflect a broader ideology that reframes historical events and positions China’s communist system as the better alternative to Western "democracy."

Asked about Singham, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C., told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, "I am not familiar with the specifics of this particular case."

Pengyu added, "As a matter of principle, however, China consistently upholds the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries."

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Asymmetric War Machine

As part of this investigation, ӣ��Ƶ Digital tracked street protests from New York City to Berkeley, Calif., and built a database with thousands of pages of IRS tax filings, corporate records, social media posts, website content and other material.

The investigation analyzed 1,663 events the People’s Forum hosted from early August 2018 and its most recent gatherings early this year. The events included academics and researchers from at least 225 colleges and universities that are being analyzed separately.

The scale of what the couple built goes far beyond anything previously documented, revealing a network that acts like a transnational, asymmetric propaganda machine. It features a central headquarters, substantial war chest, defined command structure, propaganda wing and street-level foot soldiers. Its operations extend beyond the United States into multiple overseas theaters.

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‘Terrorist’

At a protest in Lower Manhattan in early January, David Chung, organizing director at the People’s Forum, and Hannah Priscilla Craig, art, culture and communications director at the People’s Forum, walked away from requests for interviews.

When approached by ӣ��Ƶ Digital at the People’s Forum offices in Manhattan, Brian Becker, a founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition, with operations at the People's Forum, called the inquiries "witch hunting" and referred to a reporter as "a terrorist."

Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of the People’s Forum, compared the scrutiny to the era of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who conducted congressional hearings into communist infiltration in the U.S. in the 1950s.

Becker’s son, Ben Becker, editor-in-chief of BreakThrough BT News, a propaganda wing of Singham's network, watched silently.

Soon after, in mid-February, the Global South Academic Forum released a video, "The World Is Small, The South Is Vast," featuring highlights from last fall's conference at Shanghai's Golden Tulip hotel. The video underscores how the Singham network has created a "Revolutionary Base" in which academic discussion blends with historical symbols tied to revolutionary communism.

In the last seconds of the video, Singham stands at attention as a global communist anthem, "The Internationale," plays, his comrades punching the air with their fists in solidarity.

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Bloody NYC Khamenei vigil reveals anti-US protest network linked to Iran

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:26:54 -0400

A small group of New Yorkers lined candles beneath a portrait of Iran’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a recent "vigil" in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, and within minutes, a confrontation turned violent, then viral.

As Jewish rapper Rami Even-Esh approached the March 6 vigil, he noticed something was missing in the pro-regime gathering, which drew only a few dozen people from five far-left groups, including the socialist "Workers World Party."

"I looked around for images of the regime’s victims," Even-Esh told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, referring to tens of thousands of protesters the Iranian regime reportedly killed earlier this year. "I looked for Iranians who supported the regime, and I didn’t see any."

Slowly, Even-Esh, who performs under the moniker "Kosha Dillz," picked up the Khamenei photo, video footage shows, prompting several vigil organizers to quickly tackle him, punch him in the head and kick him as he fell to the ground. He emerged bloodied, and New York Police Department officers arrested both him and one of his assailants.

Video of the confrontation quickly spread online, generating widespread attention, with pro-regime groups framing the event far beyond the park as a symbol of widespread "resistance" to the war in Iran. The incident also offered a telling glimpse into a wider influence campaign now drawing scrutiny.

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A new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute, a think tank based in Princeton, New Jersey, finds that the vigil — along with a follow-up "Al-Quds Day" protest a week later on March 13 — was organized, promoted and amplified by a well-connected network of far-left U.S. activist groups with documented ties to Iranian state media.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump warned that Iran is pursuing an aggressive disinformation campaign, accusing the regime of using artificial intelligence and coordinated narratives to shape perception beyond traditional battlefields.

Drawing on leaked internal records, dating from 2019 to 2022, from Iran’s state-owned Press TV propaganda network, researchers identified repeated direct contact between Press TV officials and organizers of recent pro-regime protests, as well as patterns of coordination and amplification that helped transform small local gatherings into widely circulated global flashpoints.

The report identifies a structured ecosystem linking U.S. activist groups, intermediary media platforms and Iranian state outlets to a campaign of malign foreign influence, which is defined by the Directorate of National Intelligence as "subversive, undeclared, coercive, or criminal activities by foreign governments, non-state actors or their proxies to affect another nation’s popular or political attitudes, perceptions or behaviors to advance their interests."

Organizers tied to the New York vigil also coordinated follow-up protests for Al-Quds Day, the Arabic name for "Jerusalem Day," promoted through the same network of social media accounts, organizations and leadership.

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ӣ��Ƶ Digital has identified at least 75 organizations that have protested in support of Iran’s regime since the conflict began, including 50 that identify as far-left, Marxist, socialist or communist groups, and 22 that are Muslim organizations aligned with forms of political Islam, or Islamism. The remaining organizations fall into overlapping ideological categories.

Many of these groups are connected through a broader activist network linked to American-born tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who is based in Shanghai. Lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee and House Oversight Committee have launched investigations probing whether Singham and the organizations he funds should register as foreign agents, promoting the interests of the Chinese Communist Party.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has reached out to Singham and the groups organizing the pro-regime protests.

Organizations associated with Singham's network include the People’s Forum, the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink Women for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and while they didn't organize the Khamenei vigil, they participated in Al-Quds Day protests.

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The scene at the vigil reflected the mix of political messaging and symbolism that has defined "intersectional" activism of far-left politics in recent years. Organizers draped the table with Khamenei’s image with Palestinian checkered keffiyeh scarves and stocked it with pamphlets framing global conflicts — from Gaza to Haiti and apartheid South Africa — as part of a shared "anti-imperialist" struggle. A copy of the Quran sat alongside revolutionary communist literature, blending the kind of ideological and theological messaging that defines the so-called "red-green" alliance of socialists, represented by red, and Muslim theocrats, represented by the color of green for Islam.

Organizers and affiliated groups include a coalition of activist organizations connected to the "United National Antiwar Coalition," the Workers World Party, the "Bronx Anti-War Coalition" and the ANSWER Coalition, networks of socialists and communists who have organized protests across the United States on foreign policy and domestic issues.

The report’s strongest evidence centers on a history of direct contact between Iranian state media and activists from the groups.

The leaked internal records from Press TV, which is sanctioned by the U.S. government, showed hundreds of communications with the small group of organizers tied to the recent protests, including 83 calls to one senior figure. Researchers found that outreach far exceeded contact with other individuals based in the U.S., suggesting sustained engagement rather than routine media interaction.

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The analysis also identified a pattern in which that outreach appeared to happen before protests from 2019 to 2022. According to the report, spikes in contact from Press TV personnel often occurred in the weeks leading up to increased protest activity in the United States, indicating a level of synchronization that researchers say is unlikely to be coincidental.

The report also documents a broader amplification loop: activists appear on Iranian state broadcasts, sharing and reposting state media content and promoting protest activity later picked up by outlets aligned with Iran’s messaging ecosystem.

A separate media platform, "Vox Ummah," is identified as an intermediary linking U.S.-based activists with Iran-aligned narratives in the "ummah," an Arabic term for the global community of Muslims, promoting the vigil and Al-Quds protests while republishing content from Iranian state outlets.

The report stops short of asserting direct operational coordination, but it concludes that the overlap of communication and messaging reflects a "repeatable influence pipeline" capable of turning local protest activity into widely distributed political narratives of malign foreign influence.

"A strain of moral confusion has taken hold where a growing number of people in our communities protest America while excusing regimes that jail, torture and silence their own people," Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "That’s not justice. It’s a psychological contagion causing these people to lose sight of what evil actually looks like."

The report also notes that messaging tied to the vigil, such as references to Khamenei’s "martyrdom," opposition to U.S. and Israeli policy, and alignment with the "Axis of Resistance," a term invented to describe opposition to U.S. foreign policy, mirrors themes promoted by Iranian state media following Khamenei's death.

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On the edge of the Khamenei vigil, Iranian American Reza Ebrahimi, founder of a group called Lion Sun NY, watched the scene unfold with Even-Esh emerging bloodied and handcuffed.

Ebrahimi told ӣ��Ƶ Digital he is immune to pro-regime disinformation and propaganda. He was emboldened to see that Even-Esh also didn't succumb to the intimidation.

He later told him, "I’m proud of you that you’re supporting us."

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With dogs, dance and uncovered hair, Iranians defy 'unholy alliance' of socialists, radicals: ‘Hypocrites!’

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:05:56 -0400

"You’re hypocrites!"

The shout cut across H Street NW last week as about 500 Iranian Americans supporting regime change in Iran marched toward a smaller group of pro-China socialists gathered two blocks away across from the White House, backing the radical clerics leading Iran.

"We are here for freedom of Iran," Jay Gorbani, an Iranian American, explained as he held his Labradoodle puppy, Bella, while other members of a fledgling group, the National Solidarity Group for Iran, marched by.

"We are against the religious mafia regime of Iran."

The far-left activists they confronted had assembled under bright green and yellow signs pulled out again this weekend that said, "STOP WAR IN IRAN." But the organizers aren’t simply "peace" activists, a ӣ��Ƶ Digital analysis of scores of pages of communications by protest organizers revealed.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has identified at least 75 organizations that have protested in support of the regime in Iran since the war began, including 50 organizations that are far-left, Marxist, socialist or communist; 22 that are Muslim organizations that support Islamism, or political theocracy; and the remaining three that are socialist-Islamist adjacent.

They parrot the pro-regime messages that the Chinese Communist Party has expressed in recent days as China sends military equipment to Iran, according to national security experts.

Last weekend, they coordinated demonstrations in 63 cities across 29 states and Washington, D.C., using identical signs, chants and protest infrastructure, which are available now in a digital toolkit, and they are replicating the protests this weekend and in the coming days.

The main organizers are funded by an American-born tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who is based in Shanghai, and lawmakers in the House Ways and Means Committee and House Oversight Committee have accused the network of promoting the interests of the People’s Republic of China.

Singham didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

The Singham-funded network includes the People’s Forum Inc., the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink Women for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement, which has helped organize these protests.

The Democratic Socialists of America, which helped elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, also co-sponsored the protests. The organizations didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Global defiance

The confrontation in the nation’s capital reflects a broader struggle unfolding not only in Iran but also in the West.

From Phoenix to Dallas, Indianapolis, Toronto and Manchester in the U.K., members of the diaspora are increasingly challenging far-left activists they accuse of amplifying propaganda that favors the clerical rulers Islamic Republic.

This weekend, Gorbani and other Iranian Americans took to the streets again. They argue their advocacy for a secular democracy — and rejection of Islamism, or theocracy — offers the strongest response to rising acts of extremism by Muslim ideologues.

In recent days, incidents of violence in Austin, Texas; New York; and Norfolk, Virginia, have been punctuated by shouts of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great."

‘Unholy alliance’

These tensions reflect a political dynamic with deep historical roots.

In 1965, Time magazine published an article, "Unholy Alliance," bluntly describing "the Communists and fanatical Moslems" working together to oppose Iranian leader Shah Reza Pahlavi’s efforts to "modernize and Westernize Iran" as a secular democracy.

Time quoted Pahlavi warning of "an unholy alliance between two extremist wings," communist revolutionaries that he called "unpatriotic, destructive Reds," and radical Muslims, many wearing black robes, turbans and headscarves.

"This is the very familiar, what we call, unholy alliance between the black and the red that is the communists and the very reactionary people or strata. We always see it because they are both against the progress and happiness of the country," Pahlavi said years later.

It's an alliance now called the "red-green alliance," with green symbolizing the color of Islam.

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‘Freedom for Iran’ v. the regime

Last weekend, an Iranian American woman with another nascent group, DCProtests4Iran, faced off against women in black robes from the Manassas Mosque in northern Virginia, where mosque leaders support the Iranian theocracy. Her hair loose in the wind, she flashed a "V" for victory and shouted, "Down with the Islamic regime!"

Staring down H Street NW at the socialists, Reza Rezavi, an engineer from Rockville, Maryland, and a volunteer with DCProtests4Iran, said his group supports Pahlavi’s son, Reza Pahlavi, as the leader of a new transitional government that would realize a "democratic Iran."

"Freedom for Iran!" screamed another Iranian American woman, holding her Lhasa Apso dog, Cocoa, rescued in 2019 from Tehran, where the regime has ruled dog walking illegal in many cities.

At protests from London to Washington, D.C., Iranian diaspora activists say they are confronting far-left groups they accuse of stealing democracy from them dating back to 1979, when they defended radical clerics who came to power in 1979, overthrowing Pahlavi.

"It’s cultural warfare," said Paul Mauro, an attorney, former New York Police Department counterterrorism inspector and a current ӣ��Ƶ contributor.

"Marxism is probably the most malevolent single idea ever devised," Mauro said. "And our culture has now become infected with a tolerance for Marxism that is being translated into a very dangerous political energy that is working with Islamists to undermine America as we know it."

‘Would you like a sign?’

LIke clockwork, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and other socialist organizations had arrived at 2:28 p.m. last weekend at the corner of 16th and H Street NW. One woman sipped an iced coffee, while another pulled a red wagon piled with megaphones. A third pushed a grocery cart filled with a marching drum and fluorescent yellow signs that said, "STOP THE WAR ON IRAN!"

A young woman dragged a dozen or so signs, asking, "Would you like a sign? Sign? Anyone like a sign?"

Tourists looked away as far-left activists, including CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and DC coordinator Olivia DiNucci arrived with a new protest banner. Ignoring the approaching crowd of Iranian Americans, Benjamin posed for a photo with Korean Americans who support China, Iran and North Korea’s communism.

Soon, the group broke into familiar anti-American chants heard at protests for years, but this time they were muffled by the chants of the Iranian protesters, chanting, "USA! USA!"

Asked about Singham’s funding of the protest's socialist sponsors, Benjamin said, "I’d rather not talk about it."

Dancing in the streets in defiance

Minutes later, the Iranian American groups rounded the corner from L Street NW and stopped about 200 yards from the far-left activists on 16th Street NW. They blasted Iranian music and danced.

In defiance of strict interpretations of Islam, families walked pet dogs near Bella and Cocoa as women shouted with their hair in the wind, and men and women freely danced beside each other to Iranian pop music, acts mostly banned in Iran. The scene stood in defiance of the strict religious rules imposed by Iran’s clerics, who have barred pet dogs, forced women to cover their hair and suppressed music, dancing and dissent.

An Iranian American woman smiled and slowly raised her middle finger at the socialist activists, their chants of "Down, down with the USA," drowned out by music blaring in Farsi.

Across the police line, field marshals from the Party for Socialism and Liberation corralled elementary-aged girls swaddled in black headscarves to the microphone, filming them close up as the children stumbled over their words, reading chants from a phone as activists egged them on.

When a girl got in the shot, the field marshal filming the canned chanting tried to shoo her away.

"Those people are supporting terrorists," said one Iranian American with the reform-era Iranian flag draped over his shoulder like a cape that featured a lion emblem. "We are against them."

"We do not support the regime," said Siamak Aram, an organizer with the National Solidarity Group for Iran, as Iranian Americans marched behind him, chanting, "USA! USA!"

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Soros-backed, pro-China network fuels protests against US tech firms

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:04:42 -0500

As the U.S. and Israel continued joint military strikes against Iran earlier this week, a woman pounded on a piñata resembling President Donald Trump as a small crowd cheered and clapped.

But the scene wasn’t in Tehran.

It was Aventura, Florida, outside Miami, near the new headquarters of Palantir Technologies, a government contractor that is supporting U.S. military and immigration enforcement operations, including "Project Maven," an enterprise that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze large amounts of data quickly for military targeting and surveillance.

There, hammering away at the piñata was Britney Cooke, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, a pro-China group that openly says it wants an "international socialist revolution."

It has railed against "US hegemony" and the "American empire" and advocated for an "anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement" in the U.S. from within the "belly of the beast."

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While local coverage framed the gathering as "a crowd" of "protesters" with "plenty of passion," a ӣ��Ƶ Digital review of nonprofit filings, grant records and organizing materials indicates the event was orchestrated by groups operating within a sophisticated, donor-backed protest network with ties to far-left tycoons George Soros and Neville Roy Singham.

The findings raise questions about how coordinated activist campaigns — led by organizations, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that openly oppose U.S. "imperialism" and praise foreign adversarial regimes — are mobilizing against American military contractors amid escalating conflict abroad and intensifying technological competition with China. A spokesperson for Palantir declined to comment. Singham hasn't responded to requests for comment.

"This type of fake activism disturbs me," said Chuck Flint, president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability and a former assistant prosecutor in Florida. "These groups are helping China and hurting the United States."

"This is certainly not grassroots activism," Flint told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "It looks more like a foreign influence operation that is actually weaponizing American tax laws to undermine American national security interests."

He noted, "It's coming at a time when U.S. troops are relying on Palantir technology in active combat right now."

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation found the protest campaigns operate through several hubs that bring far-left groups together, forming an ecosystem of organizations targeting technology firms on multiple issues, from immigration enforcement to predictive policing, military technology and healthcare data systems.

The operations behind these campaigns reflect what experts describe as a professional protest infrastructure, including tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, digital messaging tool kits and coordinated protest actions across multiple cities, with shared leadership, research, messaging and organizing.

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In recent years, this network has organized protests against companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft over their work with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies.

As China wages an AI race with the U.S., the network has also supported regimes with well-documented histories of aggressive surveillance of their citizens and suppression of human rights.

The Florida demonstration was co-organized by the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a protest arm of a network funded by Singham, an American-born, self-described Marxist based in Shanghai, openly supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Another group leading the protests against technology companies — and the demonstration in Florida this week — is Phoenix-based Mijente, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has received $1.6 million in funding since 2020 from one of the Open Society philanthropies established by Soros.

Open Society Foundations has supported Mijente's advocacy for "civil and human rights." In 2023, Open Society said its grant to Mijente was to "support the grantees [sic] social welfare activities." It didn't respond to a request for comment.

In its last tax filing, Mijente reported $2.6 million in revenues. Mijente leads campaigns called #NoTechForICE and "Take Back Tech," which plans its third conference in mid-April in Atlanta to map its strategy for a "winning movement" against the "Tech Oligarchy."

Its "Take Back Tech" cosponsor is the Center for Media Justice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, Calif., with $4.3 million in revenues, according to its most recent tax filing, and donations from traditionally Democratic philanthropies, including $2 million over the years from Soros' Open Society network.

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Outside the entrance to the Aventura Mall, one of the Mijente leaders, Cathy Carrillo, handed the microphone to Romeo Umana, a leader with the Miami chapter of Party for Socialism and Liberation, for his remarks, as Cooke, from the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, stood in the flanks.

These groups have protested together against Israel, ICE and the Trump administration.

In its coverage of the Florida protest, one media outlet only described Umana as an "activist" with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Cooke by her role with an innocuous-sounding group, the Climate Organizing Hub.

For years now, the Party for Socialism and Liberation has dispatched its members to be foot soldiers at anti-U.S. protests, wearing distinct bright red shirts with the group's name across the front.

Reading his talking points from a cellphone, Umana said, "We refuse to let Miami become the Silicon Valley of surveillance repression, so we say really clearly, ‘No to mass surveillance! No to mass deportation! And no to genocide!’"

The Party for Socialism and Liberation works closely with other socialist organizations funded by Singham, including the People’s Forum Inc. and CodePink Women for Peace, which have lauded the autocratic governments leading China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Gaza and Venezuela, while calling the U.S. "fascist."

The Party for Socialism and Liberation runs a financially opaque operation, but the People's Forum, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that hosts many of its events, reported $7 million in revenue in its last tax filing.

TK, the former prosecutor now leading IRS Accountability, said that the IRS should investigate the nonprofits in this network to remove their nonprofit designations, and he said that the Justice Department should investigate the organizations for possible violations of laws that require groups and individuals that represent foreign interests to register as foreign lobbyists.

"You should not get a federal tax subsidy to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party," he said. "This is just disguised activism that's really foreign influence. It's not grassroots activism."

In late 2024, the People's Forum hosted an event with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, blasting the "American empire," writing: "War, genocide and exploitation of labor and resources are sowed into the fabric of the American empire, irrespective of which ruling-class party holds presidential office."

The promotion, advertised on a Democratic platform, Action Network, continued: "The US is an enemy to Africans and Palestinians alike. It is of necessity that we colonized and oppressed peoples in the belly of the beast, whose fates are tied to our homelands, build a unified anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement to consolidate our power and put an end to US hegemony."

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As Tuesday's protest came to an end, the event's leaders gathered their pre-printed signs, speaker system and remnants of the piñata. The TV crews pulled away after documenting the group's "passion" off U.S. Route 1.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

Network funded by pro-CCP tech tycoon targets Palantir amid anti-US protests that support the regime in Iran

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:37:11 -0500

EXCLUSIVE: As communist leaders in China oppose U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran, a pro-China network funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist American tech tycoon based in Shanghai, is moving to sabotage America’s war footing against the Islamic Republic.

A coalition of far-left organizations, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is planning a protest against Palantir Technologies’ new headquarters outside Miami on Tuesday. As reported, ӣ��Ƶ Digital has hired Palantir to build newsroom tools.

In recent years, Palantir has been working with the U.S. Defense Department in an initiative called Project Maven, which is using machine learning and artificial intelligence in military and intelligence operations. A Palantir spokesperson declined to comment. It's understood U.S. officials used intelligence from Project Maven in the recent military operation in Venezuela and also this weekend's joint U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is part of a wider network funded by Singham that includes the People’s Forum, a New York-based "incubator" for far-left groups, including chapters of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink Women for Peace, co-founded by Singham's wife, Jodie Evans, and the ANSWER Coalition, which is led by self-described communists.

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While many media outlets continue to report these protests as "organic" and "grassroots," ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigations have chronicled that they are well-coordinated and well-funded as part of a wider anti-U.S. strategy in the Singham network.

Lawmakers on the Senate House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight Committee have opened investigations into how this network is parroting the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party as it jockeys with the U.S. for power in Asia, Europe, South America and the world.

At 2:34 a.m. ET Saturday, 10 minutes before Trump announced that the U.S. and Israel had launched an offensive against Iran, the ANSWER Coalition announced, "EMERGENCY NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION TODAY, SAT. FEB 28 — STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!"

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All weekend, the Party for Socialism and Liberation sent its foot soldiers onto the streets from Boston to Los Angeles to coordinate the protests against the U.S. and supporting the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Then, the Miami chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined other socialists in the area Monday to again protest the U.S., this time assembling on West Palm Beach.

Now, for Tuesday, the Miami chapter is promoting the anti-Palantir protest, along with other organizations, putting an "X" over Palantir’s logo and branding the demonstration the "Florida Unwelcome Party," with the message "Palantir Out," or "Pa’ Fuera Palantir" in Spanish, as the company moves its headquarters to the Miami area from Colorado.

The protest, scheduled for Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Aventura, at the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and NE 195th Street, near Palantir's new Florida headquarters, represents an escalation in the pro-China group's attacks on the U.S. Other groups involved in the action include self-described communist organizations, including the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and the South Florida Anti-War Action Committee.

After the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas in Israel, this network targeted U.S. defense contractors for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas. It has targeted Palantir for months in Denver, New York, Washington, D.C., Palo Alto, California, and cities in Europe, with CodePink protesters once crashing a talk by founder Alex Karp. Its network includes groups that self-describe as socialist or communist, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

In recent months, protests by the Singham network have widened to include demonstrations against contractors that support Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in Minneapolis and around the country.

Now, the network's focus has expanded to include companies they allege are supporting U.S. military actions on Iran, with new pre-printed signs, again echoing talking points also expressed by Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing, opposing the U.S. "empire."

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Chasing the apocalypse: Radical Shiite clerics on American soil preach prophetic showdown with US

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:00:25 -0500

FIRST ON FOX: For many, the war with Iran — and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — might seem like the climactic end to a long, brutal reign of terror by the theological clerics who have run the country since 1979.

But a ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation reveals that, for certain hardline Shiite ideologues, including in the U.S., this is not an ending but a prophetic showdown that will usher in the arrival of the "Mahdi," a messiah, according to Islamic eschatology, or the theology of end times.

In this prophecy, Mahdi will emerge to battle Dajjal, the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist, in a final battle of Armageddon. For many of these ideologues, President Donald Trump is Dajjal.

At a recent Friday sermon at a local Shiite mosque in northern Virginia, an imam closed prayer with an earnest plea, before war broke out in Iran: "May Allah destroy all the nonbelievers – or kafiroon or munafiqoon," he said, using Arabic words that refer to "nonbelievers" and "hypocrites."

He asked for this victory "before the arrival of Imam Mahdi."

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ӣ��Ƶ Digital observed the sermon and also witnessed a special table of honor in the middle of the mosque’s main prayer hall, featuring framed photos of Khamenei embracing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah, also killed by Israel for orchestrating terrorist attacks.

The Friday service at the Manassas Mosque reveals a theological dynamic that Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned about in early February, noting that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leaders are guided not merely by geopolitics and national security considerations, but by "pure theology."

"We have to understand that Iran ultimately is governed, and its decisions are governed by Shiite clerics — radical Shiite clerics — who make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology," Rubio said.

In its investigation, ӣ��Ƶ Digital conducted a digital analysis of hours of sermons and scores of pages of pro-regime protest slogans, messaging and social media posts, using large-language models, and found clerics, community leaders and media platforms in the U.S. framing tensions with Iran in explicitly apocalyptic terms rooted in eschatology, or Islamist end-times theology.

The investigation found that precepts shaping Tehran’s worldview, from its clerics to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are also being preached on American soil by proxies for Iran’s propaganda.

From the mosque in northern Virginia to religious institutions in Michigan and Texas, clerics aligned with the Islamic Republic are advancing a doomsday interpretation of faith that casts geopolitical and military confrontation with the U.S. as part of a prophetic destiny tied to the return of the Mahdi.

After war broke out Friday night, ӣ��Ƶ Digital witnessed pro-regime chats on messaging platforms, like Telegram, filled with prayers, awaiting "the arrival" of Mahdi.

"We need Al Mahdi…His return with Jesus will be the final win permanently," one read.

"The saviour the warrior the dominator ‘ imam mahdi ’ [sic] will arrive," read another.

Last summer, the Manassas Mosque co-organized a White House protest with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, CodePink and other far-left groups to support the Iranian regime. The groups are now again protesting Trump’s military action against Iran.

One demonstrator, wearing a black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh scarf over her face, carried a flag last summer that read "Labayk ya Mahdi" in Arabic, meaning, "At your service, oh, Mahdi."

In Farsi, Arabic and English, the flag also had the message, "I dedicate every single of my steps to your reappearance."

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Pro-regime mosques, K-12 schools and local community organizations in the U.S. are "producing messaging that mirrors Tehran’s talking points almost word for word," warned Andrew Ghalili, policy director at the National Union for Democracy in Iran, an advocacy group led by Iranian Americans who oppose the theocratic regime running Iran.

In an upcoming report, "The Ayatollahs’ Influence Network in the United States," reviewed by ӣ��Ƶ Digital, the group's researchers conclude the Islamic Republic of Iran spreads "Tehran's messaging" in a network of institutions it supports in the U.S., for example, pitting Trump as the Dajjal fighting defenders of the Mahdi, like Khamenei and now his successors.

"What we're seeing is years of deliberate investment by the Islamic Republic inside the United States," Ghalili told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"This is happening on American soil, and it's just another way in which the regime poses a direct threat to the United States, this time not with missiles but through infiltration," he said.

A gunman just killed three in Austin, Texas, wearing a sweater that said, "PROPERTY OF ALLAH." According to media reports, law enforcement officials found the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran and photos of its leaders in his home.

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After the recent Friday service, two community leaders at the Manassas mosque declined to speak for attribution but told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that the rhetoric of destroying "nonbelievers" and the photos of Khamenei and the terrorist group leaders are meant to challenge "injustice" before the Mahdi appears.

A Harvard University report on "The Hidden Imam and the End of Time" recognizes the world’s two billion Muslims hold a range of beliefs regarding eschatology and many reject strict or literal interpretations.

In the majority Sunni sect and the minority Shiite sect of Islam, clerics describe the Mahdi’s army traveling from modern-day Iran to Damascus, Syria, where Jesus would appear at the Umayyad Mosque and pray behind the Mahdi. The Mahdi’s forces would battle Dajjal in Syria and kill him in Lod, Israel, conquering the world.

Days ago, Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency repeated the end-times narrative, quoting Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem, claiming the regime is the "government of Imam Mahdi" and its anti-U.S. "resistance is the path to hastening his reappearance."

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For women’s rights activist Sara Ghorbani, a writer who fled Iran’s rigid theocratic rule in 2010, the regime's death grip on power is disturbing.

"We’re fighting an evil that the world doesn’t truly comprehend in its belief that it has a divine mandate to usher in a day of apocalypse," Ghorbani told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"Our brave people in Iran are fighting a tyranny that believes it is God’s salvation for this earth when, in fact, it is a cruel and ungodly regime that is actually their own prophecy of Dajjal," added Ghorbani, who created a short video of children the Iranian regime allegedly killed in recent weeks.

In Dearborn, Michigan, Usama Abdulghani, imam at the Hadi Institute, recently posted a controversial video on a YouTube channel for "Light of Guidance," which says on its YouTube page that its content isn’t connected to any other organization.

Before war broke out, he warned congregants that "the empire is now right outside the door" of Iran, in the form of U.S. forces. The Hadi Institute and the Light of Guidance didn’t respond to requests for comment about the cleric’s statements.

In another lecture, he reassured congregants, "Iran has been waiting for the mother of all battles for 47 years," since 1979. He said Americans shouldn’t fight "for this empire."

He urged congregants to engage in a "clarification jihad" and convert Americans to Islam "before Imam Mahdi returns."

In its report, the National Union for Democracy in Iran alleges that the Hadi Institute is a "rhetorically aggressive node in the pro-Iran ecosystem." It has a publishing enterprise that says on its website that its staff "deliver an unfiltered message in promoting an Islamic worldview in preparation of the Mahdi." The Hadi Institute and its publishing initiative didn’t respond to questions about the criticisms about its work.

The National Union for Democracy in Iran alleges anti-U.S. propaganda, like the doomsday scenario, is often expressed at venues supported by a pro-regime New York-based 501(c)(3) organization, the Alavi Foundation, which it alleges has built "durable, institution-based influence networks operating inside the United States through religious, educational and nonprofit structures."

In its latest IRS Form 990 filing, the Alavi Foundation, headquartered on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, reported $58 million in assets. The Alavi Foundation didn’t respond to a request for comment about the allegations that it promotes propaganda that supports the regime in Iran.

At one point, Abdulghani reassured his congregation that Iran would defeat U.S. forces, saying, "Iran has something for these guys. Don’t be worried about Iran. Iran has been waiting for the mother of all battles for 47 years. They’ve been waiting for this. Iran is prepared. Don’t worry about that. Iran’s going to be able to handle its business."

In a new report, researchers at the National Contagion Research Institute, based in Princeton, N.J., analyzed regime narratives alleging the CIA and Israel's Mossad spy agency, fomented January’s protests against the regime, an allegation that Abdulghani repeated. They found "decentralized influence networks," including in the U.S., "operationalize and amplify" pro-regime narratives.

The pro-regime messaging even invokes the end-times narrative to children. In late December, the "Muslim Student Association Persian-Speaking Group of North America" shared a video showing children coloring paper masks, swords and shields labeled "Ya Mahdi, Labayk," or "Oh Mahdi, come." The children staged mock attacks with their paper weapons amid Legos and glitter.

A few years ago, a video from the Islamic Education Center of Houston went viral in Iran, featuring students saying they would be soldiers for Imam Mahdi, singing, "I make an oath to be your martyr." The center didn't respond to requests for comment, but an academic told the local media the video was metaphorical allegiance to a religious figure.

The messianic messaging also extends to pro-regime media platforms. Earlier this month, a media website, TMJ News Network, published an article headlined, "The Promise of Justice Amid Corruption," featuring an image of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein alongside a green-cloaked silhouette and images of other figures referenced in documents released by the Justice Department. Only Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell has been implicated in illegal conduct in connection with the Epstein case.

The article stated that "against this backdrop, the Mahdist movement represents a promise of justice."

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On the anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, the pro-regime Light of Guidance hosted an assistant imam, Hassan Salamey, who invoked "the Epstein list" to denounce "the Satanic" West.

"The Islamic Republic is the system that is working to prepare the grounds for the saviors who will come side by side: Jesus, the son of Mary, and the Mahdi from the final prophet's line," he said. "This is the transitional government that will lead the fight to save us all."

Back at the Manassas Mosque in northern Virginia, congregation members closed their prayers seeking to "destroy all the nonbelievers," the portraits of Khamenei, Sinwar and Nasrullah over their shoulders.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Hannah Brennan, Tessa Hoyos and Nikos DeGruccio contributed to this report.

Anti-US protesters funded by pro-China tycoon mobilize as first bombs fall on Iran

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:27:12 -0500

In the dark of the night, 10 minutes before President Donald Trump even announced that the U.S. and Israel had attacked Iran, a network of U.S. nonprofits aligned with China, Russia and Tehran activated foot soldiers to hit America's streets.

Groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based, American-born tech tycoon, which regularly parrot messaging from America's adversaries, swung into action even as the initial bombs were dropping. The nearly instantaneous response was the latest salvo in an information war on the U.S., with foot soldiers called upon to converge in protests and echo anti-U.S. talking points.

At 2:34 a.m. ET, the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit project whose leaders describe themselves as Marxist and communist, announced, "EMERGENCY NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION TODAY, SAT. FEB 28 — STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!"

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It announced its network of groups that have long supported the regime in Iran, including the National Iranian American Council, 50501, American Muslims for Palestine, the People’s Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement and CodePink. The organizations haven't responded to requests for comment. Singham did not respond to a request for comment.

The network set the language for its anti-U.S. messaging, calling the war an "unprovoked, illegal bombing of Iran." It even set up a website domain for the coordinated actions at http://ANSWERCoalition.org .

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Ten minutes later, at 2:44 a.m., Trump posted a video, confirming the attack on Iran, telling the world, "A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.

Eight minutes later, at 2:52 a.m., the People’s Forum, a New York-based activist hub funded by Singham as an "incubator" for socialist groups, issued an "emergency" call to action for a protest in Times Square.

"🚨 EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION IN NYC TO STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN: TODAY, 2/28 at 2PM in Times Square," the People's Forum announced.

The ANSWER Coalition runs operations out of the People's Forum headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The People’s Forum statement mirrored the messaging in a new video released overnight before the attacks by the Chinese Communist Party, framing the U.S. as an imperial and colonial power.

The People's Forum said, "This war serves no one but a tiny elite and oil executives and is a continuation of more than two years of genocide in Palestine and US-Israeli aggressions throughout the region."

The same network has mobilized rapidly in past high-profile national security incidents. It previously rallied in support of Nicolás Maduro after U.S. authorities arrested him and his wife, Sylvia Flores, Jan. 3 for alleged involvement in narco-terrorism.

Earlier this month, when the State Department sent a report to the U.S. Congress raising concerns about this network, it stated, "Organizations like Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for narco-terrorists like Maduro while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party."

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Last summer, the same coalition, including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, rallied outside the White House under the banner "Hands Off Iran." That protest was coordinated alongside the National Iranian American Council and amplified by BreakThrough News, which broadcast images of children holding anti-war signs at the White House fence.

Through the night of the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, field marshals immediately readied printed signage, standardized messaging and coordinated media amplification, according to people familiar with the organizations. They linked anti-Israel activism, anti-ICE protests and anti-Trump messaging into a single narrative framework opposing what organizers call the U.S. "empire." Their messages aligned with the messages of pro-regime protests in Iran.

By 4:31 a.m., BreakThrough News, a project of BreakThrough BT Media, a nonprofit funded by Singham, promoted the day of "emergency" protests as "BREAKING" news. It shares the same address as the People's Forum, and its editor-in-chief, Ben Becker, is the son of Brian Becker, a co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition.

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At 7:19 a.m., BreakThrough News circulated a video of an alleged U.S. strike on a school, which the network's organizations repeated and amplified to portray the U.S. as an unbridled aggressor. The U.S. hasn't commented yet on that alleged strike.

By 9:09 am., China's Foreign Ministry called for an end to the strikes, its language aligning with the rhetoric of the U.S. protest infrastructure, calling for the defense of Iran's "sovereignty" and "territorial integrity."

By then, as many Americans were just awakening to the news, the protest infrastructure was fully engaged with social media graphics circulating, local chapters alerted and Times Square positioned once again as a stage for the rapid mobilization of foot soldiers who would have their images broadcast around the world with the predictable language of Americans mobilizing a "grassroots" campaign against the U.S. war on Iran.

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At 11 a.m., the protests had spread to 16 hubs for the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation: Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Akron, Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio; Asheville and Charlotte in North Carolina; Boston; Burlington, Vt.; San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis and Los Angeles in California; Providence, R.I; Tucson, Ariz.; and Eugene, Ore.

A network of pro-regime organizations in Chicago issued its own press release, parroting the messaging against "the U.S. empire."

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Left-wing groups defiant as GOP sheds light on groups tied to China

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0500

As House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith dropped the gavel at 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday opening a hearing on "malign foreign influence," the groups under scrutiny did not retreat, apologize or go silent.

They escalated.

Inside Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building, Smith warned that the U.S. nonprofit sector had become a vulnerability exploited by foreign adversaries. Outside the hearing room — across social media — far-left organizations tied to Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, born in the U.S. and living in Shanghai, pressed forward with rhetoric vilifying the United States for its alleged "colonial policies" and "imperialism" and amplifying narratives aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, and communist allies like Cuba.

"This is not politics. It’s about national security," Smith said, as he opened the hearing titled "Foreign Influence in American Nonprofits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing." He said the committee was investigating "money trails" behind tax-exempt groups accused of "sowing chaos, fueling antisemitism," and interfering in elections.

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During the hearing, Smith sharpened the warning.

"The CCP is taking advantage of our tax-exempt sector," he said.

For any organization allegedly breaking nonprofit tax laws, he said: "We’re coming for you!"

Breaking the fourth wall, ӣ��Ƶ Digital examined how the Singham network positioned itself outside the hearing room. A flurry of social media posts reveal that, even as Smith's words echoed in the hearing room, the ecosystem he described was aggressively putting forward their own rhetoric of defiance.

On Tuesday, during the hearing, CodePink, co-founded by Singham’s wife Jodie Evans, was circulating a narrative accusing the United States of enabling atrocities abroad. On its X social media account, CodePink shared an article claiming Israel had "evaporated" Palestinians in Gaza, concluding: "Horrors beyond comprehension — made possible by the United States."

The message mirrored language long pushed by U.S. adversaries, including the terrorist group Hamas.

While CodePink activists often crash hearings, screaming interruptions and heckling Republicans, they didn't show up for this hearing, where their name was invoked several times for scrutiny.

In his opening remarks, Smith waved letters he had sent the night before to BreakThrough BT Media, a multimedia nonprofit, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a think tank – both media entities funded by Singham – demanding records on their ties to Singham and alleging they promoted propaganda aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.

Online, the groups gave no indication they were retreating. BreakThrough News posted protest footage from San Francisco, even with drone video of teachers picketing, one of them carrying a bold yellow-and-black sign from the Party for Socialism and Liberation that read, "MAKE THE BILLIONAIRES PAY."

BreakThrough News showcased anti-U.S. narratives, one demonstrator shouting, "Enough is enough!"

The far-left groups persisted as Network Contagion Research Institute co-founder Adam Sohn testified, "This is engineered subversion," describing how foreign-aligned narratives move through U.S. nonprofits and activist networks.

The response from those networks was more performative "agitprop," a Soviet-era tactic for agitation propaganda.

As lawmakers questioned witnesses about fiscal sponsorships and donor-advised funds, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is also part of the Singham’s network, promoted street protests and posted videos declaring victory.

One post from the Party for Socialism and Liberation from San Francisco racked up likes during the hearing, emblazoned with the words: "WE WILL WIN!"

That posture — aggressive, unapologetic and public — is exactly what experts warned about regarding the influence operation that U.S. adversaries are able to wage against the nation.

"They don’t need spies anymore," Sohn told lawmakers. "They can use nonprofits," like a Trojan horse, to "launder" their propaganda.

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By late morning, Democratic Socialists of America, which has 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, added their own signal of defiance. As lawmakers debated foreign narrative laundering, Democratic Socialists of America widely shared a post where it praised the Super Bowl halftime performance by the Puerto Rican sensation Bad Bunny as "a damning critique of the harms of U.S. colonial policies."

"As socialists in the U.S.," Democratic Socialists of America declared. "It is our duty to support the struggles of peoples across the world suffering from the full weight of U.S. imperialism."

The rhetoric landed as Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, testified that "foreigners abuse this sector in order to hide their influence ops."

"This committee is investigating money trails," Smith warned. "This is about national security."

Still, the messaging outside the room intensified.

The People’s Forum shared content praising communist Cuba and circulated a "Call to Conscience demanding an end to Trump’s assault on Cuba," even as Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick called the groups out for "digital laundering operations," the process of repackaging the narratives and rhetoric of foreign adversaries to make them appear organic from inside the U.S.

Inside the hearing, Smith warned, "If you are an American, you should be extremely concerned." He asked witnesses to walk through Singham’s "web" of nonprofits.

Outside, that web responded in kind.

Students for Justice in Palestine, a nonprofit ally of the groups in the Singham network, urged Americans to "END ALL OCCUPATIONS," whatever that meant, "from Palestine to Minneapolis."

By 1:45 p.m., Smith dropped the gavel again.

"The committee stands adjourned," he said.

Online, the campaign never paused. Democratic Socialists of America pushed a "Call to Conscience" to end the Trump administration’s "cruel blockade on Cuba." The People’s Forum, an "incubator" hub for Marxist groups in the Singham network, based in New York City, moved ahead with its Tuesday night event for "comrades."

It hosted an evening discussing the "Hidden Histories of Rebellion in the US."

What to know about Tuesday's House hearing on foreign influence in American nonprofits: 'Follow the money'

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:31:30 -0500

The Republican-led House Committee on Ways and Means is set to hold a hearing on Tuesday morning digging into foreign influence in American nonprofits, with several NGOs and far-left funding networks expected to be on the hot seat.

At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, House Committee on Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith will oversee a hearing, "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The hearing will be broadcast online at the committee’s website.

Witnesses at the hearing will include Capital Research Center president Scott Walter, Americans for Public Trust Executive director Caitlin Sutherland, Narravance CEO Adam Sohn, Dubinsky Consulting founder Bruce Dubinsky and Public Citizen co-founder Robert Weissman.

In a press release, the committee said the hearing will focus on the "ways foreign actors have funneled millions of dollars through networks of tax-exempt organizations to create, support, and fuel disruption and illegal activity across the country."

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The hearing is expected to examine a network of nonprofits, including organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon and self-styled Marxist-Leninist, living in Shanghai. Singham has funded nonprofit groups, including the People’s Forum, CodePink, BreakThrough BT Media, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which have worked closely with Democratic Socialists of America in dispatching socialist, Marxist-Leninist and communist foot soldiers into the streets to disrupt federal immigration law enforcement agents and stoke chaos.

"For too long, foreign actors have gotten away with abusing our tax-exempt sector to [sow] division and chaos in our country," Smith posted on X on Tuesday morning. "Today, we’re putting them on notice. Going to be a late night in China for Shanghai Singham!"

Over the past year, ӣ��Ƶ Digital has documented a pattern of coordinated protests by socialist, communist and Marxist groups, revealing a synchronized ecosystem of funding, media amplification, ideological framing and street-level mobilization that aligns with the strategic interests of hostile foreign governments, including the People’s Republic of China.

"Tax-exempt status is a privilege not a right," Smith told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Nonprofits must remain accountable and refuse to act as instruments of hostile foreign governments."

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The Ways and Means Committee "continues to investigate how foreign money and foreign-linked networks are funneled through tax-exempt entities to sow discord and unrest in our society," he said. "That’s why we’re demanding answers from Tricontinental and BreakThrough about their funding streams, activities and communications with CCP-linked individuals, including Neville Roy Singham."

Hours before the hearing, ӣ��Ƶ Digital reported that Smith escalated his investigation into Singham, who has allegedly been "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, possibly in coordination with a foreign government."

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In separate letters, Smith demanded records from BreakThrough and Tricontinental, warning that both tax-exempt organizations may be operating outside their lawful purpose as possible unregistered foreign agents, while helping to fuel domestic unrest under the guise of journalism and academic research.

Congressional investigators say the Singham network sits at the center of a malign foreign influence operation that allegedly exploits U.S. nonprofit laws to inject anti-American propaganda into domestic protest movements and sow discord from within the United States.

The letters describe a full-spectrum operation, with funding aligned with foreign interests flowing into tax-exempt nonprofits that produce ideological research, media narratives and social media messaging, which are then deployed onto U.S. streets through tightly choreographed protests.

"If the evidence shows these groups are acting as conduits for CCP-aligned propaganda or functioning like foreign agents while enjoying U.S. tax benefits, their tax-exempt status should be revoked immediately," Smith said. "We’re going to follow the money and demand accountability to put a stop to Beijing’s exploitation of our tax-exempt sector."

Far-left nonprofits in the hot seat as lawmaker exposes them for 'sowing chaos' in US

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:00:06 -0500

FIRST ON FOX: Hours before banging the gavel to commence a hearing Tuesday to investigate the dynamic of "malign foreign influence," House Committee on Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith escalated his investigation into the China-based, American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has allegedly been "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, possibly in coordination with a foreign government."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has obtained copies of letters that Smith sent on Monday night to two U.S. nonprofits – BreakThrough BT Media Inc. and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – demanding records of their ties to Singham and alleging they are promoting propaganda aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.

At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Smith will chair a hearing called, "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The hearing will be broadcast online at the committee’s website. Singham, Tricontinental and BreakThrough BT Media, which publishes articles as "BreakThrough News," didn't respond to requests for comment.

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"Tax-exempt status is a privilege not a right," Smith told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Nonprofits must remain accountable and refuse to act as instruments of hostile foreign governments."

The Ways and Means Committee "continues to investigate how foreign money and foreign-linked networks are funneled through tax-exempt entities to sow discord and unrest in our society," he said. "That’s why we’re demanding answers from Tricontinental and BreakThrough about their funding streams, activities and communications with CCP-linked individuals, including Neville Roy Singham."

In his letter to Karla Reyes, chair and director of BreakThrough, Smith wrote that he was "disturbed by the connections between BreakThrough and Chinese Communist Party linked organizations" and launched an inquiry into whether the outlet deserves its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

Smith emphasized that the investigation is not about suppressing speech but about whether nonprofit protections are being abused. He wrote that, under federal law, "if more than an insubstantial part of an organization’s activities is not in furtherance of a tax-exempt purpose…the organization is not operated exclusively for such exempt purpose." He cited Supreme Court precedent stating that "the presence of a single nonexempt purpose, if substantial in nature, will destroy the exemption regardless of the number or importance of truly exempt purposes."

In the letter, Smith warned that receiving funding from "an individual who lives in Shanghai, maintains business ties with companies and individuals linked to the CCP, works with and physically alongside a foreign propaganda company, and attends CCP forums on how to promote the party abroad" raises "serious questions" about whether BreakThrough qualifies as an "agent of a foreign principal" under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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Since its inception, he noted that BreakThrough has produced and distributed content that "aligns with pro-CCP rhetoric across both the United States and the globe." Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, Smith wrote that BreakThrough News "dramatically shifted their coverage in a way that suggests its intent on sowing division within the United States," while portraying China in an "overwhelmingly positive light."

As reported, BreakThrough was one of the first social media accounts to publish the video of the killing of anti-ICE demonstrator Alex Pretti.

The investigation places BreakThrough within a broader network that includes Tricontinental, the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition, groups that ӣ��Ƶ Digital has documented working alongside organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America to mobilize protests, train "rapid responders" and flood social media with coordinated narratives during flashpoint events, from immigration enforcement actions to the arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

BreakThrough was also one of the first social media accounts to publish video of the U.S. strike over Caracas when Maduro was arrested.

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In his letter to Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, Smith said that he was "disturbed by the connections between yourself, Tricontinental and organizations linked to the CCP." He described Tricontinental as an organization that has been "responsible for spreading Marxist and anti-American rhetoric across both the United States and the globe," and possibly "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, possibly in coordination with a foreign government."

Committee investigators tied Prashad directly to Chinese state-linked institutions, noting his role as a senior fellow at a think tank connected to China’s Ministry of Education and his participation in conferences hosted by universities funded by the Chinese Communist Party. He also detailed Tricontinental’s financial relationship with Maku Group, a Chinese media company whose stated mission is to "tell China’s story well," and disclosed that Tricontinental paid the firm more than $2.1 million for "research, analysis, and translation services."

The committee also documented Tricontinental’s deep financial and structural ties to Singham, noting that the organization received millions of dollars from entities linked to him, employs his son as a researcher and lists Singham as chair of its international advisory board. Multiple reports, Smith wrote, have found that Tricontinental is "part of Mr. Singham’s network of non-profit organizations that serve as his conduits to spread pro-CCP narratives," including media outlets where Prashad appears regularly.

Researchers say the nonprofits under scrutiny engage in a dynamic known as "narrative convergence," echoing the propaganda of foreign adversaries. In a new report, the Network Contagion Research Institute, based in Princeton, N.J., documented how the Democratic Socialists of America sent delegations to China, Cuba and Venezuela and then, upon returning to the United States, deployed slogans at protests that mirror the anti-U.S. rhetoric of those governments.

The institute concluded that the Democratic Socialists of America "exhibits multiple indicators" warranting scrutiny as a foreign lobbyist. Democratic Socialists of America didn't return a request for comment.

Smith echoed those concerns in his Tricontinental letter, warning that the People’s Forum and allied groups "continued to organize protests aligned with Chinese talking points," including demonstrations that "turned violent in Minnesota."

National security analysts say the hearing represents a critical moment in what they describe as a new cognitive war, in which foreign adversaries seek to weaponize outrage, protest and information to weaken the United States from within.

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Far-left group with foreign ties undermining US under guise of protest, report warns

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:12:46 -0500

Late last month, after the killing of local Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by federal agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, MS NOW interviewed a protester identified as "Andrew" who said he flew in from Colorado to help drive the feds out of the city.

Hours later, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) framed the killing as a "murder," identified "Andrew" as "DSA National Political Committee member Andrew, @andrewized who "joined community members in Minneapolis today, to protest the murder of Alex Pretti. ‘We are going to beat the Trump administration.’"

Soon after, in a rhetorical stab at law enforcement officials, the local chapter organized a training on personal protective equipment to use against what "the pigs are using."

A week later, media outlets reported that "demonstrators" were protesting at a Target store in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis, demanding the company stop supporting the alleged "campaign of terror that ICE is waging" against area residents and workers.

Soon enough, the official Instagram account of the local DSA chapter published a post, boasting about how its members "hosted an ICE Out of MN action that shut down the Target in Dinkytown!" On camera, Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley proudly described herself as "minority leader of the Democratic Socialists caucus" and said openly she was "joining tons of socialists" to blast Target and ICE.

In Boston, as agitators compared ICE to Hitler's Gestapo, a demonstrator wearing a Democratic Socialists of America hat carried a sign depicting an eagle similar to the logo of the Nazis, only with "ICE" written on it.

Then, this weekend, as students skipped school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Los Angeles DSA chapter lauded how its adult members "stood in solidarity with" the students to "demand an end to ICE raids."

The messaging campaign against U.S. federal authorities isn’t coincidental, according to a scathing new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Princeton, N.J. The report found the DSA's rhetoric matches the anti-U.S. propaganda of foreign adversaries. The finding is important as the organization amasses more political power in the U.S., with wins like longtime member Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City.

"The same rhetoric used to attack America abroad gets recycled at home to attack American law enforcement. Different stage, same script," said Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, which has a staff of neuroscientists, computer engineers, data analysts, psychologists and open-source analysts doing deep analysis on "malicious narratives," threats and malign foreign influence.

"The language doesn’t stop overseas," Sohn said.

Sohn is scheduled to testify Tuesday at a 10 a.m. hearing before the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, titled, "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The hearing will be broadcast online at the committee’s website. Democratic Socialists of America didn't respond to a request for comment.

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According to the Network Contagion Research Institute’s new report, "Democratic Socialists of America: Policy, Advocacy and Narrative Convergence with Hostile Foreign States," the organization has been engaging in a dynamic called "narrative convergence," advancing narratives that stoke domestic unrest and delegitimize state institutions while advancing talking points aligned with "hostile foreign governments."

One of the messages it regularly puts on posters equates the Trump administration to "fascism," declaring, "Socialism Beats Fascism."

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For example, this network coordinated last month to demand a "National Shutdown," with a "General Strike," a typical communist tactic to force a state into economic failure. DSA is also actively engaged in the network that is training "rapid responders" and "observers" to trail, monitor and document law enforcement movements in at least 13 databases that military and intelligence experts call a serious national security threat.

In the report, the institute concludes that DSA "exhibits multiple indicators" that warrant registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It currently receives benefits registered as a nonprofit under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code.

The report cites "repeated foreign-facilitated engagements, receipt of apparent in-kind benefits, and subsequent U.S. political advocacy aligned with the interests of the Venezuelan, Cuban and Chinese governments."

The researchers say DSA applies "the same anti-legitimacy frame to domestic enforcement and to U.S. foreign-policy posture."

The demonstrations, the report finds, "explicitly link domestic immigration enforcement to broader U.S. foreign policy actions."

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The institute documents that chapters organized rallies using slogans such as "No ICE, No War," "ICE Out for Good" and "Hands Off Venezuela," framing ICE as "an instrument of domestic state terror that mirrors U.S. imperialism abroad."

It's also trained its members to also blow whistles as "rapid responders," tracking law enforcement officers.

Over the past year, activists affiliated with DSA and groups including the Singham network portrayed ICE raids as "extensions of the same hegemonic project that bombs foreign nations for resource control, while domestic enforcement terrorizes vulnerable communities."

According to the Network Contagion Research Institute, this rhetoric reflects a consistent ideological structure.

Its analysis found that DSA "employs a consistent anti-legitimacy and moralized resistance framing toward state enforcement across both foreign and domestic contexts," using "the same narrative structures to defend sanctioned foreign regimes abroad and to delegitimize U.S. enforcement institutions at home."

The report connects the domestic messaging to the organization’s extensive foreign engagement. It documents six delegations sent by DSA to Venezuela, Cuba and China since 2021, involving official invitations, government-linked hosts, luxury accommodations, transportation and meetings with senior regime officials, including Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

The report said that after the trips, the DSA engaged in "coordinated, time-locked advocacy and messaging that directly advanced foreign regime priorities, including anti-sanctions campaigns and electoral defenses."

After a trip to China, the report documented, the Democratic Socialists of America’s "International Committee" hosted an event in late 2021, headlined, "NO COLD WAR: OPPOSING…US ESCALATION ON CHINA." After a trip to Cuba, the report noted, the organization hosted an event to stop the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba, titled, "How to break the Blockade."

After the U.S. extradited Maduro to the U.S. in early June, DSA joined other groups in the socialist network with protests against the "kidnapping."

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Over months of reporting, ӣ��Ƶ Digital has documented how far-left socialist, Marxist and communist networks, aligned with foreign interests, have funded, organized and stage-managed street protests, using carefully coordinated messaging, social media amplification and nonprofit funding streams to allegedly launder ideological narratives into mainstream media coverage as if they are "grassroots" and "organic."

The DSA and allied groups, including the People’s Forum and other groups in the Singham network, have acted as logistical chiefs, field marshals, amplifiers and message disciplinarians, busing members to protests, creating digital tool kits and mass-producing pre-printed signs they hand out to demonstrators, shaping protest narratives for the cause célèbre of the day, according to reporting.

From Israel to Tesla, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), ICE, police, Venezuela or other headlines, researchers say these street protests and propaganda cast the U.S. as "terrorists," "genocide" enablers, the "Gestapo," "Nazi" and other smears that echo language used by anti-U.S. authoritarian regimes abroad to delegitimize the U.S. as "imperialist" "colonizers" that must be dismantled through a "resistance."

To assess whether this overlap was incidental, analysts at the Network Contagion Research Institute conducted a large-scale analysis of DSA communications using classifications based on "large language model."

The institute coded domestic anti-ICE activism and foreign-policy advocacy to assess "blame attribution," "legitimacy framing" and policy prescriptions, finding a "consistent pattern of blame convergence on U.S. institutions across all contexts."

It described it as evidence of a "shared narrative structure rather than issue-specific framing."

In its assessment, that convergence carries broader implications.

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The report concludes that "the anti-ICE movement, much of it under DSA direction, serves as a domestic front in a global conflict between states," and that the organization promotes a narrative vision that "absolutely converges with the interests of Venezuela, Cuba and China."

The Network Contagion Research Institute emphasized that its findings don’t allege criminal wrongdoing but state that the pattern of conduct, narrative alignment and foreign engagement "warrants further scrutiny," particularly as protests continue, and congressional investigators investigate a phenomenon known as "malign foreign influence" operating inside the United States.

The Tuesday hearing will feature testimony from multiple experts focused on malign foreign influence and nonprofit transparency.

With a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives, Republican lawmakers have five witnesses: Sohn; Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center; Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust; and Bruce Dubinsky, founder of Dubinsky Consulting. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, is scheduled to speak as a witness on behalf of Democratic lawmakers.

Illustrating its synchronicity with foreign adversaries questioning the legitimacy of the U.S. government, the DSA's local chapter in Minneapolis bragged in a new Facebook post on Sunday that "ICE’s legitimacy is dwindling" but cautioned "their terror continues."

It’s promoting a digital toolkit among members with pre-scripted messages, signs and "community letter" for another anti-ICE action on Feb. 11 against the "violent federal immigration enforcement surge" that has been "destabilizing communities, and is violating our freedom across the country."

The DSA's target: more Target stores.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Brooke Curto contributed to this report.

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'White saviors'' use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside anti-ICE movement

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:27:10 -0500

Immigrant groups have a message for their mostly White allies: Quit blowing the whistle on ICE.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has reviewed days of messages inside Signal chat rooms that reveal that a new internal feud has erupted inside the anti-ICE protest industry, pitting immigrant-led organizations against predominately White "rapid response" networks that have made whistle-blowing a dramatic part of anti-ICE protests.

In one dismissal, a "rapid responder" in Seattle reported back that "immigrant networks are being weird."

Groups from Seattle to Montgomery County, Md., are telling mostly White "rapid responders" to back off a dynamic described by activists as "White Savior," reminding them they are not cameo actors in an "action movie" against ICE.

This past weekend, the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network — known locally as "WAISN," a Seattle-based, immigrant-led organization, publicly rebuked the practice of whistles, setting off a backlash inside mostly White liberal activist "rapid response" circles.

"WHY WAISN RAPID RESPONSE DOES NOT USE WHISTLES," the group wrote in an Instagram post, emphasizing, "We show up with care and accountability, not noise or panic."

"It is not about being the loudest, the bravest, or the most visible person on the scene or confronting immigration agents. It is a commitment to non-violence, discipline and harm reduction, centering the well-being of the most vulnerable immigrant and refugee committees in Washington," the post continued.

The message amounted to a blunt directive: Put away the whistles.

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ӣ��Ƶ Digital reviewed internal Signal chat messages from Seattle-area rapid response groups showing that the rejection of whistles triggered open hostility.

"We believe in whistles, people want whistles. Nothing change [sic] no matter what WAISN says," one participant wrote in a group called "WA Whistles."

The dispute escalated when Snohomish County Indivisible in Washington state told followers this week it would follow the guidance and "pause distribution of whistle kits." The local group is a chapter of the powerful national nonprofit, Indivisible, which has received $7.26 million from 2018 through 2023 from billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, which is aligned with the Democratic Party.

In a striking admission, the Indivisible chapter warned against activists positioning themselves as rescuers, falling into a "'White Savior’ dynamic." It added bold-faced type to get its point across.

"The use of whistles is complex, and we recognize this decision may be disappointing," the Indivisible chapter said. "It is essential that we avoid falling into a ‘White Savior’ dynamic, centering ourselves as rescuers, acting on communities rather than with them, or prioritizing feeling helpful over building real, shared power."

For months, whistle-blowing has been a favored tactic among mostly white rapid responders in cities including Minneapolis, Chicago, New York and Seattle. Activists have used whistles to alert neighborhoods to the presence of federal immigration agents, disrupt operations and create public pressure.

In the Seattle group, a "rapid responder" dismissed the group’s concerns as "vaguely condescending," arguing that while whistles might be "traumatizing," they were surely "no worse than being actually kidnapped, or watching it happen in front of your house."

Others framed the immigrant-led nonprofit as self-interested and risk-averse. One person sneered at the "immigrant rights nonprofit business," while another complained about "careerists at nonprofits" who don’t put the "cause over their job."

The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network is a tax-deductible organization under 501(c)(3) of the tax code, raising $3 million in revenues in 2024, according to its latest publicly available tax filing. Indivisible Project is a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit that raised $10.4 million in 2024, according to its latest tax filing. It has a political 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Indivisible Civics Inc., that raised $5.2 million in 2024, according to its most recent tax filing.

A separate comment derided long-term nonprofit workers as drinking the "koolaid," labeling nonviolent, disciplined approaches as "fed coded."

WA Whistles told ӣ��Ƶ Digital the group "respects" the local immigrant organization's decision "not to use whistles in their rapid response." It added: "Individual comments made in our chats do not reflect WA Whistles as a whole. We respect everyone’s first amendment right to express themselves."

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Some activists, who referred to themselves as "print dwarves" for producing whistles on 3-D printers, said they would remove the group’s contact number from their materials. Only a few participants pushed back on the criticism, one saying she was "very uncomfortable" with the "derogatory remarks" directed at the immigrant organization.

Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, for its part, was explicit about the stakes. In Washington state, the group said, whistle tactics have "increased fear, drawn unwanted attention, and interfered with rapid response efforts." It didn’t respond to a request for comment.

"We are committed to taking direction from organizations with the longevity, trust and expertise in this work—experience we simply do not have, nor would we presume to know better," the statement said.

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The controversy also exposes ideological fault lines. Since last summer, groups including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Democratic Socialists of America have promoted whistles as part of a broader confrontation with U.S. law enforcement. They have borrowed from whistle-blowing tactics used by socialist and communist labor union groups in Europe.

The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai and supports groups that have made it their business to foment mayhem and protests in the United States, with a pro-China agenda.

In one post, the Party for Socialism and Liberation declared, "Hear a whistle? That just might be ICE!" The Seattle whistle group uses templates that the People's Forum distributes through a group, "ICE Out of New York."

The Washington state group echoed a warning from immigrant-led groups in Maryland who issued an anti-whistle edict last month, pointedly speaking to "white allies" who they reminded weren’t playing cameo roles in an "action movie," with their whistles as weapons of power and authority.

In an Instagram post, the Montgomery County Immigrant Rights Collective published an anti-whistle message — "WHY WE DON’T USE WHISTLES IN RAPID RESPONSE — with other local immigrant-led groups, including the Central Maryland Immigrant Rights Collective, the Prince George’s County Immigrant Rights Collective, the "Immigration Coalition," "Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid" and "UndocuRebels." The groups didn’t return a request for comment.

"Especially for white allies," they wrote, "whistles can represent a subconscious desire for authority, protection or control in moments of crisis, but rapid response is not about assuming authority. It is about showing up for your community with discipline, humility, and restraint when we question decisions made by those impacted, we risk centering our own comfort instead of impacted people."

They noted, "Loudness does not equal effectiveness."

"START WITH REALITY (NOT HEROICS)," they wrote, with the soundtrack of a popular protest song, "Que me devuelvan la tierra," which means "Give me back my land."

They wrote, "This is not an action movie. You are not in a one-on-one fight with ICE."

Adding bold emphasis, they noted, "And you are not the center of this situation."

They noted that its anti-whistle position was shaped by speaking to "120+ community members" with families who have "lived through ICE, detention, surveillance and state violence." After consulting community members, the conclusion was unanimous: do not use whistles.

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The Maryland coalition warned that whistles can "escalate already volatile ICE agents," "make it harder to document and capture information," "increase the likelihood of aggression toward bystanders or the detained person" and "create confusion" for community members and children.

They also pointed to disproportionate impacts on "Black and Brown communities" that are already "overexposed to chronic noise pollution," which they linked to PTSD, anxiety, sleep disruption and heart disease.

Perhaps most pointedly, the group rejected the symbolism itself. Whistles, it said, are historically associated with military and police operations, including "repression, raids and disappearances," especially in developing countries.

"They were not tools used by communities under oppression, they were tools used against them," they said, emphasizing their point in bold.

In the new clash between immigrant-led groups and mostly white activist allies, immigrant leaders warned that the tactics meant to signal solidarity can just as easily reproduce the sounds of "state power."

But in the trenches, the mostly White "allies" continued diminishing the guidance, saying they were going to continue, business as usual, blowing their whistles.

By mid-week, WA Whistles made its stubborn position public, posting a message on its Instagram, saying, "WHISTLES WORK."

"They are a call to courage and a decision to care out loud," it declared, laying claim to the moral high ground.

One user then asked for "more bright-colored whistles that can work around the neck as a symbol of resistance that everyone can see as they go about their day."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Kiera McDonald and Hannah Brennan contributed to this report.

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Anti-ICE 'digital Minutemen' use military-grade surveillance tactics against feds

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:25:26 -0500

Early last week, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau is investigating the use of the encrypted Signal messaging platform by "ICE Watch" activists to track and block federal immigration enforcement.

Just days later, Jill Garvey, co-founder of a group called "States at the Core," logged into a Zoom webinar to train a new crop of "rapid responders" on a military-grade intelligence gathering method called "SALUTE." An acronym for Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment, SALUTE is a mnemonic device that typically instructs soldiers how to systematically track details about enemies. Garvey framed the work as operational surveillance against agents she had called "mercenaries" in an interview days earlier.

"We are all ICE Watch!" declared Garvey, whose group is funded by the Hopewell Fund, a dark-money organization aligned with the Democratic Party. She added a boast that she's taught 40,000 "rapid responders" this past year.

Garvey is just one of hundreds of anti-government operatives training agitators to interfere with federal law enforcement. Last Saturday, Manola De Los Santos, co-founder of the People’s Forum – a Marxist-Leninist organization funded by a China-based tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, with documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party – hosted an all-day "People’s Assembly for ICE Out of NY!" at the group’s headquarters on W. 37th Street.

"Adopt a corner!" leaders urged, instructing attendees to conduct surveillance tactics at fixed locations.

That same day, at about 4 p.m. ET, a user on one of 37 Signal chats operated by the "Seattle Area Rapid Response" network shared a copy of the "Mini-Manual Of The Urban Guerrilla," a 67-page Marxist manifesto outlining the use of "mobile units," "surprise," "knowledge of the terrain," "occupation," "mobility and speed," a "clandestine press," "popular support" and "street tactics," such as "constructing barricades," "throwing bottles" and ultimately using lethal weapons, to wage a "revolutionary armed struggle" against the United States.

The user directed fellow "rapid responders" to page 35 for "security level questions." There, the manual advised recording a "daily information service" on "what the enemy appears to be doing, where the police net is operating and what points are being watched."

A ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation reveals these groups are part of a nationwide web of at least 200 anti-ICE organizations that are building a civilian intelligence-gathering and "rapid response" system that trains, mobilizes and activates civilians to act as on-the-ground scouts, using the SALUTE method to collect data on federal authorities they cast as the "enemy," raising serious national security concerns.

In intelligence circles, they would be called "collectors" in the craft of "human intelligence, or "HUMINT."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has established that these national operations feed data about the movements of law enforcement and immigration authorities into at least 13 sophisticated databases, storing highly sensitive information, including license plate numbers, timestamps, geolocation data, uniform details, photographs, behavior patterns and, in at least one case, the names, email addresses and phone numbers of federal authorities. The network operates through at least 18 hubs nationwide in largely Democratic states and cities, coordinating traffic, verification and reporting.

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"This is mind-blowing. We have an entire nation of collectors against our country’s law enforcement. It’s extremely dangerous," said retired U.S. Army Green Beret Eric Schwalm, who first learned the SALUTE framework as a newly enlisted Army private, later applying it during patrols in Iraq as he fought an insurgency and then in Afghanistan as he trained Northern Alliance fighters to defeat the Taliban government.

After reviewing the civilian training, operations and databases uncovered by ӣ��Ƶ Digital, he said, "If Iraqi resistance ran this level of operation against us, we couldn’t have stayed past 2007. They didn’t even need to shoot at us. Protests like this would have created a narrative nightmare."

Indeed, these stakeouts have not only become deadly, with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but they have led to many confrontations and most often put federal authorities on the losing end of a narrative war. On Tuesday, a group of "rapid responders" in "Minnesota Ice Watch" tailed ICE agents so closely with their vehicles that agents ordered them — at gunpoint — to stop their cars, before handcuffing and detaining them.

At a recent anti-ICE training webinar, Gabe Gonzalez, a co-founder of "Protect Rogers Park," a neighborhood anti-ICE group in north Chicago that pioneered the "rapid response" alerts, coaxed the webinar's attendees to take risks, complimenting them as "courageous." His group includes SALUTE in its "SOP," or standing operating procedures, to "protect targeted locations," like churches and food pantries, and organize "Remote Responders" stationed at "cafes and shops," "near windows of major throughways" and other "sensitive areas."

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Raising particular national security concerns, the network includes foot soldiers and leaders of the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, two professional protest organizations in the Singham network that openly support the People’s Republic of China as an ideal state and declare they seek to dismantle the "hyper-imperialism" of the "American empire" from inside the "belly of the beast." The organizations didn’t return requests for comment.

Several congressional committees are investigating Singham’s network, which now includes "ICE Out of New York." That group tells donors online: "Yes, your donation is tax-deductible. We are collecting donations through The People’s Forum which is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization. . . ." As part of its efforts, its leaders created a slick "Migra Whistle Instructional Zine," with the SALUTE method detailed under the header: "SPREAD INFORMATION, NOT PANIC."

"FORM A CROWD. STAY LOUD," the flyer instructed its scouts.

In upstate New York, Rafael Concepcion, a former assistant teaching professor of photography at Syracuse University, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital he plans to launch "a score" of new ICE tracking databases built from a mapping platform he published last year, called "DEICER" for "Diversity Equity Inclusion Community Engagement Reporter."

Concepcion said he wanted to build a "network of digital minutemen," the elite hand-picked rapid-deployment force who were part of the New England colonial militia, ready at a "minute’s notice" to scout British Army locations during the American Revolution, often times before skirmishes broke out.

In today’s scenario, U.S. federal authorities are the target. Concepcion said "the use of the SALUTE method" is to differentiate between local police and federal immigration officers.

"One of the things that our constitution has tried to be able to provide is an avenue for individuals to make sure that they are aware of any kind of tyrannical government," he said. "If we are supposed to be able to guard against foreign and domestic, there should be a mechanism for us to be able to identify that.

Already, Siembar NC, a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit based in Charlotte, N.C., with $2.5 million in revenue in its last tax filing, has launched the DEICER database in North Carolina on a platform called OjoNC. "Ojo" means "eyes" in Spanish. Further north, LUCE Immigration Justice Network of Massachusetts, a project of Neighbor to Neighbor MA Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has activated Concepcion's mapping database. In Chicago, he developed "Windbreaker" for local groups to use. The groups didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In a near-identical training last week, Garvey’s session unfolded like a field briefing. She pressed new recruits to assess whether they were observing "a tactical unit," identify "types of munitions and how much" and determine whether officers were moving in "four, two, four, or six-man formations." She emphasized the importance of corroboration, instructing participants to "gather more people to confirm what you’re seeing."

Garvey outlined three defined operational roles — recorder, supporter and monitor — and instructed participants to carry whistles with coded signals. Three blasts indicated an ICE operation in progress. Participants were told to wear the whistles visibly, so others would recognize that they were "part of the team." Garvey urged them to rehearse at home what to do if stopped by police.

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Unassuming in appearance, with well-coiffed blonde hair and a soft-spoken, timid delivery style, Garvey defended the surveillance during the webinar, saying the targets were "public officials."

A spokesperson for the Hopewell Fund said in a statement, "States at the Core provides training for people to lawfully and peacefully observe law enforcement in their communities, and Hopewell is proud to be their fiscal sponsor."

Some of the databases have drawn the attention of a counterforce of independent programmers and technology specialists — including anonymous X users with handles such as @astrarce and @b****uneedsoap — who have attempted to disrupt or shut them down. At least one database has gone offline. Others remain active and continue to grow.

The activities of these surveillance networks potentially violate multiple federal laws. Federal statutes, such as 18 U.S.C. § 115 and 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, protect federal agents from threats and stalking, and violations connected to obstructing, striking or resisting federal agents are felonies.

In Washington State, the Seattle-area rapid response network has spawned 35 separate Signal chats. In Minnesota, there are at least 20 Signal chats. In Rhode Island, the Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance sends out alerts over the WhatsApp messaging platform.

From there, the intelligence flows into databases.

Last June, Dominick Skinner, reportedly an Irish immigration activist based in the Netherlands, first published one of the most egregious databases, "ICE List," documenting the names, photos, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of ICE and Border Patrol agents, in a bid to hold them "legally accountable." The list has grown to an estimated 4,500 entries.

He calls the database a new "journalistic" project of "Crust News," a Substack newsletter that has published articles against the "dictatorship" of "the USA’s fascist regime" and the "terrorism" of its "modern Gestapo."

In his "incident" report, Skinner specifically asks for "clear views of agents, uniforms, vehicles or locations."

Within minutes, Skinner responded to a request for comment but refused to answer any questions, including about his ideological motivation or funding sources, instead railing against the "fascist media sphere in the USA" and noting "your questions will be shared with the public."

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In Minnesota, the developers of the "MN ICE Plates" database use the language of socialist and communist networks to describe themselves as operating in "occupied Minnesota." It’s supported by "Defend the 612," the area code for Minneapolis, and its dispatchers sent "rapid responders," including local resident Alex Pretti, to the Glam Doll Donut shop on Nicollet Avenue, in the hour before his confrontation with federal officials and killing, according to ӣ��Ƶ Digital reporting.

Over the past week, since the FBI investigation launched into the backend surveillance tactics on federal officials, the database entries have almost doubled to 5,397 records of "confirmed" and "highly suspected" ICE vehicles and agents, with photos, locations, timestamps, and cross-referenced sightings. The database says it is "documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes," inspired by "movements towards liberation."

The data crisscrosses the nation. This past Sunday, at 7:03 p.m. ET, a user filed a "Critical" report on IceOut.org, a web-based reporting platform run by the Pueblo Project Foundation as part of its "People Over Papers" initiative, documenting "possible ICE activity."

Earlier that day, on Arnett Street in Elizabeth, N.J., a user alleged that "3 men took a female. There were 4 different cars," reporting the incident as "Immigration Enforcement" and uploading photographs of the vehicles and alleged agents. Pueblo Project Foundation didn’t return a request for comment.

The "RESIST" platform, whose developers say their database "flips the script on surveillance," using "facial recognition and biometric tracking."

"Mask or not, they can’t hide anymore," the platform promises, calling itself "civilian-powered intelligence" that "exposes bad actors" and "empowers direct action, public exposure and psychological disruption."

Another platform, ICEInMyArea.org, created by anonymous developers who didn’t respond to a request for comment, says it has 4,000 daily visitors with human reviews of new reports, making it "one of the most reliable tools for tracking ICE activity nationwide."

But its developers promise users "completely anonymous" privacy.

Under "Recent Reports" over the past 24 hours, it details "ICE sighted in New Britain, CT," on Corbin Avenue near a McDonald’s, "ice agents using the target parking lot" on Colorado Boulevard in Los Angeles "as a base" and a silver Ford Explorer with "no front plate, whited-out/covered rear plate" on N. Aviation Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

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On the East Coast, Ahmad Perez, a former Biden administration political appointee and founder of Islip Forward, launched "Long Island ICE Tracker" to document "individuals and vehicles" in public, with "no reasonable expectation of privacy." He "strictly prohibited" the use of the information to "harass, threaten, intimidate, stalk, doxx or interfere" with "any person" or their "lawful activities."

Thursday on the site, Perez bragged "574 Verified Sightings" in the database, with a new listing at 1 p.m. of a weathered black Ford vehicle on Nottingham Avenue in Patchogue, N.Y., a decal saying "POLICE INTERCEPTOR" on the rear back door.

"Attempts to label community transparency efforts as ‘illegal’ or ‘surveillance’ often reflect discomfort with accountability rather than genuine concern for ethics or safety," Perez told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Oversight, documentation and public awareness are not threats to democracy — they are foundational to it."

Online tools even generate QR-codes for SALUTE templates that standardize civilian intelligence collection nationwide.

In Minnesota, the Workers Defense Alliance of Twin Cities, a socialist group whose website features a graphic of Minneapolis police’s Third Precinct on fire, teaches SALUTE and a Spanish alternative, "ALERTA," for "Activity, Location, Equipment, Response requested, Time and date, Appearance." It pitches the framework as "community defense" while explicitly teaching structured surveillance. Its leaders didn’t return a request for comment.

"ICE Watch RI" and Alerta de Migra operate in Rhode Island with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, combining protest mobilization with logged sightings of federal officers.

The creator of another database — "Deportation Tracker" — said he puts in place "strict policies and moderation" so that any content that violates anyone’s privacy is "rejected immediately." Identifying himself as Sam Fletcher, a high school student, he said, "The platform does not represent any civilian intelligence and surveillance operation. Everything that is submitted must go through a human review before being posted to the site. We don’t allow any names, images or licence plates allowed on the site. Nothing that is personally identifiable to anyone."

"Any doxxing, harassing or stalking is unacceptable," he said.

Still, critics say, the database has the information for users to violate Fletcher’s "terms of service."

Meanwhile, in Portland, "Anti-Facist Aktion" hosts a "PDX ICE/DHS License Plates Community Surveillance Database," claiming to host 627 records. Its developers couldn’t be reached for comment. It notes: "WARNING: THIS INFORMATION IS DANGEROUS TO AUTHORITY."

Garvey, the blonde anti-ICE mom, leads new trainings every several days. In an interview with Wajahat Ali, the host of a podcast called "The Left Hook," Ali lauded Garvey’s strategy: "Your camera is your weapon."

Overnight, local residents in the Seattle Signal chats got alerts that they would have their first "Seattle rapid response drill" on Sunday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time.

The announcement will "follow the standard SALUTE format" to instruct responders where to go.

The alert warned: "don’t be running red lights to get there first, don’t be blowing whistles once you arrive."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Kiera McDonald contributed to this report.

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WATCH: Hardcore socialist groups stage-manage anti-ICE protest in Washington

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:46:22 -0500

A network of self-described socialist and communist organizations staged carefully coordinated protests across the country Friday targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but their call for a nationwide shutdown of work, school and commerce mostly fizzled out.

Several of the groups behind the demonstrations are linked to a constellation of nonprofits funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, according to an ongoing ӣ��Ƶ Digital investigation. Singham, who lives in China and has publicly espoused Marxist ideology, has used his extensive network to promote pro–Chinese Communist Party messaging.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital was on hand in Washington, D.C., as activists converged near the Gallery Place–Chinatown Metro station at 7th and H Street NW. At 2:49 p.m. A vehicle drove up to an alley near a Walgreens, where a small group of activists from the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation unloaded dozens of bright yellow protest signs stapled to wooden pickets.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a self-described Marxist organization that has played a central role in past anti-police and anti-ICE demonstrations.

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The foot soldiers handed out the signs near the Chinatown Metro station, next to a Planet Fitness.

At 3 p.m. sharp – the scheduled start time – one of the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s leaders carried a pile of signs to the corner and yelled instructions.

"Into the streets," she shouted.

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The protesters, with new signs in their hands, followed quietly behind.

The broader protest action was promoted as part of a "National Shutdown" scheduled for Friday, urging "no work, no school, no shopping" in opposition to ICE operations nationwide. Promotional materials accused federal immigration authorities of "terror" and demanded an end to ICE funding.

"STOP ICE TERROR NOW," one sign read in bold black letters, with the "PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION" in smaller letters below.

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Along with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, several of the organizations behind the protests were the People’s Forum, CodePink and BreakThrough News – all groups that are part of the communist ecosystem funded by Singham. CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham.

Other explicitly socialist and communist groups listed as endorsers or organizers included the Revolutionary Communists of America, Communist Party USA and its regional branches, Socialists Without Borders, Socialist Equality Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Socialist Alternative, Democratic Socialists of America chapters, Marxist student organizations, like the George Washington University Socialist Action Initiative, and revolutionary groups aligned with anti-capitalist causes.

Propaganda experts say these types of protests are meant to create a media narrative of a failed state, one of the key tactics of insurgencies, and a convenient narrative for U.S. rivals, such as China.

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In addition to far-left groups, the protest coalition also included organizations aligned with the Democratic Party. Notably, multiple chapters of Indivisible, a national activist network that frequently donates to Democratic political campaigns, endorsed the protest.

Other left-leaning civic and advocacy groups, including unions, with ties to Democratic politics also signed on, blurring the line between grassroots protest and partisan activism.

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Throughout the event, demonstrators took selfies, mugged for cameras and filtered away not long after, as the police returned the regular day back to the streets.

"Where do you want to go for drinks?" one protester was heard asking another.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Kiera McDonald and Hannah Brennan contributed to this article.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital analysis: How Minneapolis agitator networks use insurgency tactics to hinder ICE

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:00:25 -0500

The anti-ICE mobilization that unfolded around the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last week mirrored the methods used to overthrow governments and spark bloody revolutions around the globe, according to a ӣ��Ƶ Digital analysis.

Encrypted Signal chats, command-and-control centers, rapid-response propaganda and orchestrated tear-gas clashes with law enforcement have served to mobilize forces and manipulate public opinion in the ongoing conflict. Close analysis of guidelines distributed online by anti-ICE groups and the minute-by-minute events surrounding the Pretti's death reveal tactics and strategy well-known to military and intelligence analysts as the elements of global insurgencies.

"The violence and rebellion that we’re seeing on the streets of Minneapolis is like an insurgency," said Rick de la Torre, a retired CIA senior operations officer and chief of station.

De la Torre, who has tracked insurgency groups globally from Afghanistan to the Philippines for 20 years, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital he believes the effort is being directed and funded from overseas.

"All of the evidence I’ve seen indicates to me that the insurgency is funded by foreign adversaries who want to see violence and Americans fighting each other," said de la Torre, now founder of Tower Strategies, an advisory firm based in Washington, D.C.

Core U.S. government manuals, such as the "CIA Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency" and the U.S. Army’s "Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies," describe how decentralized movements embed within civilian populations, rely on rapid communications, exploit triggering events and sustain momentum through logistics, narrative control and persistent surveillance of their perceived adversaries.

In the case of the anti-ICE network, many of the organizations involved are self-described Marxist-Leninists, with the ANSWER Coalition, the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and BreakThrough News funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, living in Shanghai supporting the communist regime that runs the People’s Republic of China.

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"What these groups are trying to do is destroy everything that makes America great: our history, our belief systems, our freedoms, our family unit, our self, our religion, everything. In their minds, all that has to be destroyed so that the system they want to bring about can be progressed," said de la Torre. "That means the end of free enterprise and America as we know it."

Across anti-ICE guides circulated in Minnesota, several recurring tactical elements parallel those insurgency tactics with a clear "command and control" of the operation, another feature of insurgencies:

Enmeshment in local communities: Members are directed to embed hyper-locally, knocking on doors, building contact trees and activating neighborhood-level texting and Signal networks.
Audible mass alerts: Whistles and horns are used as immediate warning systems to alert communities to federal presence.
Target and environment identification: Guides train participants to identify "common ICE vehicles," track license plates and feed sightings into shared databases.
Material and logistical support: Mutual aid networks, supply staging and aftercare roles are emphasized to maintain operational tempo.
Narrative operations: Consciousness-raising, strategic framing and mass dissemination of imagery and messaging are treated as core functions, not afterthoughts.

"The usage of hi-tech equipment, communications, the tactics they employ to track individuals, to break things up into zones, to have a chain of command. Someone is in charge of communications, someone is in charge of moving people, someone is in charge of even medical help. This is all textbook violent revolution," de la Torre said.

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A new video by the News Movement captured Pretti cursing and spitting at federal agents on Jan. 13, 11 days before his death, as they arrived at a street corner. He kicked out a rear bumper light on the agents' SUV before a federal agent jumped out and tackled him as ICE Watch "rapid responders" blew whistles, took videos and cursed at agents. What appeared to be a gun was visible in the waistband of Pretti, who was carrying a handgun when his fatal encounter with Border Patrol agents occurred.

"This is not Martin Luther King sitting at a café counter," said de La Torre. "They didn’t throw things at cops. They didn’t bite cops or yell or blow whistles. They politely smiled and allowed themselves to get arrested. That’s peaceful protesting. What we’re seeing is violent insurrection. And we’re seeing violent insurrection promoted by many members of the Democratic Party. They know this."

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A timeline of events surrounding Pretti’s killing illustrates how those tactics were implemented in real time and how the incident functions as a window into a broader tactical strategy.

Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026

8:45 AM CT / 9:45 AM ET – Outside Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Pattern-of-life' intelligence

What happened: At 8:45 a.m, ICE Watch "rapid responders" added the first license plate and movement of suspected ICE vehicles and agents in an "MN ICE Plate" database. Reports continued throughout the day, revealing the sustained monitoring of their work.

ICE Watch tactic: The guides formalize patrol roles, including "foot patrol," "dispatch" and "mobile patrol / commuter," which is designed by the car and air 🚗💨 emojis. Mobile units have core tasks of license plate collection and vehicle pattern tracking.

Insurgency doctrine parallel: Military doctrine describes irregular networks as relying heavily on "pattern-of-life" intelligence, systematically tracking adversary movements to anticipate, disrupt and publicize government activity.

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8:50 AM CT / 9:50 AM ET – Glam Doll Donuts – Grievances

What happened: A Signal user, "Willow," posted a 22-second video from inside Glam Doll Donuts, followed by messages reading "26and 3rd" and "Outside Glam Doll," documenting federal agents at Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The day before, Glam Doll Donuts had closed its shop for business to join a protest, "ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA." In the video, someone shouted, "Get out of here!" to the federal agents.

ICE Watch tactic: The "Best Practices Guide for Neighborhood or Area Patrol / Monitors: 612" stresses the use of Signal group calls for live, on-scene reporting.

Insurgency doctrine parallel: Intelligence manuals note that insurgencies depend on dense local networks and rapid information dissemination to shape perceptions and mobilize supporters, often by exploiting a "population’s concerns and grievances."

8:53 AM CT / 9:53 AM ET – ‘Backup needed’ – ‘Command and control’

What happened: Another Signal user, "Salacious B. Crumb," escalated the alert, sending the message: "Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street," by Glam Doll Donuts, adding: "One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango."

ICE Watch tactic: The 612 guide coordinates "Dispatch - Live on the Monitor / Patrol group" with the ☎ emoji to alert members to heightened federal agent movements.

Insurgency doctrine parallel: Military analysts note that effective insurgent movements maintain something called "command and control" despite decentralization, relying on communications discipline and pre-assigned roles rather than formal hierarchies.

~9 AM CT / ~10 AM ET – Outside Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Triggering event’

What happened: Pretti and other anti-ICE activists stepped into the middle of Nicollet Avenue to direct traffic outside Glam Doll Donuts, with fellow anti-ICE agitators blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around.

ICE Watch tactic: The manuals explicitly describe the use of whistles and horns as rapid, low-tech alert systems to activate surrounding community members and draw attention to federal activity.

Insurgency doctrine parallel: Such immediate, visible mobilization aligns with "rapid response" techniques described in insurgency literature, where "triggering events" are used to quickly activate local populations.

~9:05 AM CT / ~10:05 AM ET – Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Kinetic action’

What happened: At least one federal agent shot Alex Pretti outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, killing him.

ICE Watch tactic: Manuals have been updated to direct members of ICE Watch patrols to avoid direct confrontation with law enforcement authorities, but the back-room message has been to instigate confrontations that can then be filmed and turned into propaganda for the effort.

Insurgency doctrine parallel: Military manuals emphasize that "kinetic actions" – or violent, physical and lethal actions – involving government forces often become catalytic moments and symbolic events that can be leveraged to accelerate mobilization and escalate a narrative of state-sponsored cruelty.

9:18 AM CT / 10:18 AM ET — ‘URGENT’ – ‘Information environment’

What happened: The signal network erupted with an urgent red-phone alert: "☎️URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet. an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing."

ICE Watch tactic: The guides instruct members to rapidly summon medics, establish perimeters and prepare for anticipated law-enforcement countermeasures such as gas deployment.

Insurgency doctrine: The U.S. Army manual emphasizes the importance of the "information environment" immediately after violence, noting that logistics, medical support and messaging function as force multipliers for sustained irregular activity.

9:48 AM CT / 10:48 AM ET – BreakThrough News – ‘Narrative amplification’

What happened: BreakThrough News, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, posted a video of the killing, filmed from inside Glam Doll Donuts, calling it "Another CBP Shooting…" It’s been funded by tech tycoon, Singham, living in China.

ICE Watch tactic: The field guides dedicate entire sections to cultural production, media engagement and rapid narrative dissemination following high-profile incidents.

Insurgency doctrine: Military analysts describe propaganda and imagery as core tools for shaping perceptions, reinforcing in-group identity and portraying government actions as illegitimate or repressive.

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11:24 AM CT / 12:24 PM ET – Nationwide – Government paralysis

What happened: The Party for Socialism and Liberation published a poster on social media, saying, "CPB MURDERS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS," with the message, "EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!"

ICE Watch tactic: The ICE Watch manuals include workplace-focused tactics and "non-cooperation," including ways to sabotage ICE activities and engage in noncompliance.

Insurgency doctrine: U.S. Army guidance identifies economic disruption and government paralysis as classic insurgent strategies designed to demonstrate power and force concessions.

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11:33 AM CT / 12:33 PM ET — Emergency protests – ‘Distributed nodes’

What happened: The People’s Forum posted an "EMERGENCY PROTEST" call for 4 p.m. ET in NYC.

ICE Watch tactic: The guides emphasize "city-wide/state-wide coordination" and "rapid response networks" through shared platforms like Signal and Action Network to rapidly scale actions beyond the original incident location.

Insurgency doctrine: Experts say effective insurgency movements synchronize "distributed nodes," like cells and chapters, to create the appearance – and reality – of momentum across multiple boundaries.

11:57 AM CT / 12:57 PM ET – ‘Abolish ICE Now’ – ‘Legitimacy contest’

What happened: Democratic Socialists of America posted a graphic calling the killing an "execution" and demanding "ABOLISH ICE NOW."

ICE Watch tactic: The manuals stress narrative shaping and mass communication that results in "consciousness-raising" and expanding resistance into "every home and every block."

Insurgency doctrine: Counterinsurgency doctrine describes this as a "legitimacy contest" with competing claims intended to erode confidence in government forces and institutions.

8:03 PM CT / 9:03 PM ET — ‘... Murdered …’ – Martyr narrative

What happened: The Party for Socialism and Liberation and other socialist, Marxist-Leninist and communist groups asserted that Pretti was "murdered" and declared later, "We will continue the struggle for justice in his memory!"

ICE Watch tactic: Sustaining morale through messages of reaffirmation is repeatedly emphasized in the manuals.

Insurgency doctrine: Experts note that martyr narratives and "commitment signaling" are used to sustain recruitment, cohesion and risk tolerance.

Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 through today

3:37 PM CT / 4:37 PM ET through today – Signal networks – Omnipresent resistance

What happened: Signal alerts continued into the following day, including reports of "2 confirmed ICE vehicles… at least 2 agents in each vehicle," indicating ongoing surveillance and situational awareness well after the initial incident.

ICE Watch tactic: The license-plate tracker, vehicle identification guides and persistent patrol roles are designed for long-duration monitoring rather than one-off responses.

Insurgency doctrine: Intelligence manuals describe sustained surveillance as a defining feature of mature insurgent networks, enabling anticipation of government actions and reinforcing the perception of omnipresent resistance.

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Mao's ‘International Revolutionary Front Against Imperialism'

Spreading Communism

'Rise Up: A Song of Defiance….'

Revolutionary Tourism: Inside the $600M marriage of dark money and far-left agitprop

‘Revolutionary Love’

‘Revolutionary Tourism’

‘Seems to Hate America’

‘Propaganda…Disguised as Citizen Activism’

Different city. Different cause. Same playbook.

‘Agitation Propaganda’

‘Mobilize the Masses’

‘Dismantle the U.S. Empire’

Signs were printed. Narratives were set. Talking points were scripted.

Shanghai sabotage: Inside Singham's secret strategy to demonize America

‘Information Laundering Operation’

Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co.

BreakThrough BT Media Inc.

NewsClick

Red wealth, dark money: How an American tycoon deploys Mao's playbook against the West

‘United Front’ of Friends and Family

Shell-Like Companies

US Nonprofit Dollars Tied Up in China's State Investment Firm

People’s Forum – A ‘United Front’ at W. 37th Street

‘Build Unity…’

Overlapping Funds, Personnel and Agendas

Cognitive Warfare

Power Couple of Chaos: How a tycoon and activist built a 'Revolutionary Base' at the House of Singham

Mao’s Blueprint for the ‘People’s War’

‘Mao’s Dream for a People’s Army’

‘Adorable Troublemaker’

5 Rings, 2,000 Groups

Singham Emerges

Asymmetric War Machine

‘Terrorist’

Bloody NYC Khamenei vigil reveals anti-US protest network linked to Iran

With dogs, dance and uncovered hair, Iranians defy 'unholy alliance' of socialists, radicals: ‘Hypocrites!’

Global defiance

‘Unholy alliance’

‘Freedom for Iran’ v. the regime

‘Would you like a sign?’

Dancing in the streets in defiance

Soros-backed, pro-China network fuels protests against US tech firms

Network funded by pro-CCP tech tycoon targets Palantir amid anti-US protests that support the regime in Iran

Chasing the apocalypse: Radical Shiite clerics on American soil preach prophetic showdown with US

Anti-US protesters funded by pro-China tycoon mobilize as first bombs fall on Iran

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Left-wing groups defiant as GOP sheds light on groups tied to China

What to know about Tuesday's House hearing on foreign influence in American nonprofits: 'Follow the money'

Far-left nonprofits in the hot seat as lawmaker exposes them for 'sowing chaos' in US

Far-left group with foreign ties undermining US under guise of protest, report warns

'White saviors'' use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside anti-ICE movement

Anti-ICE 'digital Minutemen' use military-grade surveillance tactics against feds

WATCH: Hardcore socialist groups stage-manage anti-ICE protest in Washington

ӣ����Ƶ Digital analysis: How Minneapolis agitator networks use insurgency tactics to hinder ICE

Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026

8:45 AM CT / 9:45 AM ET – Outside Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Pattern-of-life' intelligence

8:50 AM CT / 9:50 AM ET – Glam Doll Donuts – Grievances

8:53 AM CT / 9:53 AM ET – ‘Backup needed’ – ‘Command and control’

~9 AM CT / ~10 AM ET – Outside Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Triggering event’

~9:05 AM CT / ~10:05 AM ET – Glam Doll Donuts – ‘Kinetic action’

9:18 AM CT / 10:18 AM ET — ‘URGENT’ – ‘Information environment’

9:48 AM CT / 10:48 AM ET – BreakThrough News – ‘Narrative amplification’

11:24 AM CT / 12:24 PM ET – Nationwide – Government paralysis

MINN. 'ANTIFA' MEMBER CLAIMS HE'S 'ON THE RUN' AFTER CALLING FOR 'ARMED' MEN TO CONFRONT IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS

11:33 AM CT / 12:33 PM ET — Emergency protests – ‘Distributed nodes’

11:57 AM CT / 12:57 PM ET – ‘Abolish ICE Now’ – ‘Legitimacy contest’

8:03 PM CT / 9:03 PM ET — ‘... Murdered …’ – Martyr narrative

Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 through today

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