For years, the indoctrinated on Capitol Hill held that the chaos in American streets — the choreographed anti-ICE blockades, the “spontaneous” anti-police flash mobs, the encrypted command structures that materialize within hours of every federal enforcement action — was simply the organic expression of left-wing passion. That polite fiction is collapsing.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of War have now joined an interagency investigation into a network of American nonprofits whose money trail leads to a Shanghai-based Marxist tech mogul named Neville Roy Singham, and whose tactical playbook reads less like grassroots activism and more like a foreign intelligence operation.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed to Fox News Digital that he is coordinating directly with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and the intelligence community to map the funding streams and digital infrastructure of organizations “trying to stir up discontent.” The Treasury, State, and Justice Departments were already involved.
The addition of DHS and the War Department signals something important about how Washington has begun classifying this activity. What was once treated as a campaign finance curiosity is now being examined as a national-security threat with a domestic battlespace.
This is a significant escalation, and it is overdue.
- DHS and the Department of War have joined a multi-agency probe into nonprofits allegedly tied to Shanghai-based Marxist tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who has reportedly funneled $278 million into the network since 2017.
- Treasury, State, and Justice were already investigating the same network for malign foreign influence, FARA violations, and possible financial improprieties.
- Mullin says agitator groups are coordinating online — including through encrypted Signal chats — to organize anti-ICE actions in cities like Minneapolis and New York.
- Recipients of Singham money include The People’s Forum (over $22 million, plus a recent $5.55 million Manhattan headquarters), Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and BreakThrough News.
- Singham is married to Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans and lives in Shanghai, which has shielded him from congressional subpoenas.
- House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith has described Singham as a man who “attends CCP forums on how to promote the party abroad.”
- Mullin invoked Stalin in explaining the strategy: stir distrust in government, sour relations between police and the public, fracture families, and target “the Christian mindset.”
- Assaults on ICE officers have surged 830 percent, according to DHS, with some people killed in confrontations linked to organized agitator networks.
The Money Has Always Been the Story
Singham is not a typical philanthropist, and the groups he funds are not typical 501(c)(3) charities. He sold his consulting firm Thoughtworks for roughly $785 million in 2017, then relocated to Shanghai. From there he has poured an estimated $278 million into a constellation of American nonprofits — The People’s Forum, Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and others — each of which has, with remarkable consistency, surfaced as an organizer or amplifier in the street actions roiling American cities.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith has described Singham bluntly 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.”
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel in April 2025 warning that the evidence suggests The People’s Forum and Code Pink “have engaged in covered political activities that directly advance the communist Chinese government’s political and policy interests” and should be investigated under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Singham is also married to Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, who has personally recruited Americans for “curated” trips to China that celebrate the Communist revolution and Mao’s Long March. The State Department, in a recent report on foreign information manipulation, named Code Pink, The People’s Forum, and “groups linked with the notorious Singham network” as vehicles through which Beijing pushes its narratives into American discourse.
None of this is a secret. The New York Times exposed the architecture in a 2023 investigation. Multiple congressional committees have demanded records. What has been missing — until now — is the recognition that this is not merely a tax-exemption scandal or a campaign-finance puzzle. It is a sustained influence operation that uses American legal protections to subvert American civic order.
The Streets Are the Product
What the money buys is visible in any city where federal immigration enforcement now operates. Mullin pointed to the Minneapolis demonstrations earlier this year, where anti-ICE agitators used the encrypted Signal app to coordinate movements, surveillance, and rapid-response propaganda. After ICE agents shot and killed demonstrators Renee Good and Alex Pretti during enforcement operations the agency described as resisting arrest, the Singham-funded nonprofits — by Mullin’s account and Fox’s reporting — mobilized within hours.
The ANSWER Coalition, The People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and BreakThrough News all moved as if reading from the same script, because in a functional sense they were.
The pattern is consistent. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, an openly Marxist-Leninist organization, has been a central player in anti-police and anti-ICE demonstrations stretching back years. The People’s Forum runs a campaign called “ICE Out of New York” from its Manhattan headquarters — a building the nonprofit just acquired for $5.55 million, an upgrade financed by Singham money while federal agencies investigate where that money actually originates.
DHS reports that assaults on ICE officers have surged 830 percent, with Democrats in some jurisdictions accused of doxing and physically harassing agents.
“You go all the way back to Stalin, who basically was appropriating this, so he’s going to destroy America from within,” Mullin told Fox News Digital. “You stir that up by causing distrust in your government, discontent on the streets, distrust between law enforcement and the public, breaking up the family units and going after the Christian mindset. This was all part of their plan to begin with.”
The reference to Stalin is not casual. The Soviet Union spent the better part of a century perfecting the science of what it called “active measures” — operations designed not to win arguments but to corrode the institutional and moral fabric of adversary societies.
The genius of the technique is that it does not require the target population to embrace communism. It requires only that they lose faith in their own institutions, their own police, their own neighbors, their own God. The chaos itself is the goal. The Chinese Communist Party, having read the same playbook, has refined it for the digital age.
The Shanghai Shield
One of the most galling aspects of the Singham operation is its elegant exploitation of American legal protections. Singham lives in Shanghai, which means he cannot be compelled to testify before Congress. His money flows through donor-advised funds and shell companies — vehicles legally designed for charitable opacity — into 501(c)(3) organizations whose tax-exempt status is underwritten by the American taxpayer.
The agitators on the ground are not registered under FARA, and neither, congressional critics note, is Singham himself.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida posed the question that ought to haunt every federal investigator on this case. “The real crux of the matter is the genesis of that money,” he told Fox News Digital. “Is [Singham] really that rich? Or is it a false rich that, yeah, he’s got a billion dollars, but the billion dollars came from communist China that they are actually funneling him?”
The distinction matters less than it might first appear. Whether Beijing wires the funds directly or simply ensures that a sympathetic American expatriate has the cash to do its work, the operational effect is identical. The First Amendment was not written to subsidize foreign hostile-state propaganda laundered through Manhattan nonprofits.
Christian Mindset in the Crosshairs
Mullin’s mention of “the Christian mindset” as a target of the destabilization campaign deserves more attention than it will get from most outlets. It is not a throwaway line. Communist regimes from Lenin’s Russia to Mao’s China to today’s CCP have consistently identified Christianity as the most resilient obstacle to total state authority.
A people who believe their rights come from God, who anchor their families in a moral order that precedes the state, who teach their children that Caesar is not Lord — such a people are stubbornly difficult to remake. So the assault on the church, the family, and the truth itself is not collateral damage in these operations. It is the objective.
The apostle Paul understood the texture of this kind of warfare two thousand years before encrypted apps and dark-money nonprofits. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
The men and women working agitator networks on American streets may not see themselves as participants in a spiritual contest, but the architecture of deception, the contempt for ordered liberty, and the targeting of the church reveal exactly what kind of contest it is.
What Comes Next
The federal investigation now spans Treasury, State, Justice, DHS, the War Department, and the intelligence community. That is the kind of cross-agency posture once reserved for hostile-state operations and major terrorism cases. The legal questions are real. FARA prosecutions are notoriously difficult.
The First Amendment protects a great deal of speech that critics find loathsome, and that is by design. But foreign-directed propaganda operations laundered through tax-exempt charities are not protected speech. They are a category of activity Congress addressed by statute almost ninety years ago, when it required foreign agents to identify themselves so that Americans could evaluate what they were hearing.
Mullin’s broader point is the more important one. Eighty percent of Americans want a secure border and criminals off their streets. The radical anti-ICE rhetoric, the choreographed riots, the Signal-coordinated harassment campaigns against federal agents — these are not popular movements.
They are products manufactured by a small, well-funded, and increasingly transparent network. Once the funding becomes legible to ordinary voters, the political theater loses its mystique. That, more than any indictment, may be what the Singham network fears most.
For too long the American response to foreign influence has been a combination of academic concern and bureaucratic shrug. That posture is changing. The investigations now underway may or may not produce convictions, but they will produce something arguably more valuable — a public record of who is paying whom to set American cities on fire. Sunlight, as Justice Brandeis said, remains the best of disinfectants. And on this story, the lights are finally being turned on.
