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Prominent far-left figures, including livestream influencer Hasan Piker, are rallying astir a pro-China media outlet wrong nan sprawling web bankrolled by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham – casting caller legislature subpoenas arsenic starring a "McCarthy-style" witch hunt against nan left.
As Fox News Digital first reported Wednesday, nan House Ways and Means Committee sent subpoenas to 3 nonprofits, including media outlet BreakThrough News, arsenic portion of a wider investigation into alleged malign overseas power by China successful U.S. politics. The 3 groups person received astir $39 cardinal from Singham, who near nan U.S. respective years agone to unrecorded successful China.
The different 2 groups are nan People’s Forum Inc., a New York-based activistic and political-education hub, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a deliberation vessel that says its activity is anchored successful "national liberation Marxism."
The committee said it is examining whether nonprofit laws adequately protect against overseas power and whether Congress needs to fortify them. It besides accused nan 3 groups of failing to nutrient "a azygous responsive document" pursuing earlier requests for information.
Livestream influencer Hasan Piker, left, and Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. Piker joined far-left figures denouncing legislature subpoenas issued successful an investigation into much than $39 cardinal linked to Singham. (Sportsfile; Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)
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Piker, CodePink rally down subpoenaed outlet
Hours aft Fox News Digital reported the subpoenas, pro-communist influencers and organizations mounted a societal media defense of BreakThrough News, echoing similar-phrased attacks connected nan legislature investigation.
Among them were Piker, a salient Twitch streamer and governmental commentator, and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, a pro-communist, pro-China nonprofit that has received Singham money.
Piker called nan subpoenas "the McCarthy trials," invoking nan anti-communist Congressional investigations of nan 1950s, led by Sen. Joe McCarthy.
"They will travel for you," Piker warned connected X.
Responding to BreakThrough News big Rania Khalek entreaty for support and donations, Benjamin called nan move a "terrible onslaught connected independent journalism," adding, "We guidelines pinch you!!!"
On Friday, March 20, 2026. CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin speaks pinch nan property aft arriving astatine nan airdrome pinch different activists arsenic portion of nan "Nuestra America," aliases Our America Convoy, successful Havana, Cuba, supporting nan Communist Party of Cuba, which useful intimately pinch nan Chinese Communist Party. (Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)
Benjamin co-founded CodePink pinch Jodie Evans, who joined Singham successful 2017, nan twelvemonth he sold his exertion company, ThoughtWorks, for an estimated $785 million. He has subsequently poured money into a web of pro-communist, pro-China organizations.
In March, Piker, Benjamin and Evans traveled to Cuba to rally support for nan land nation’s communist government. Fox News Digital antecedently reported that nan Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is investigating whether they violated U.S. sanctions restricting dealings pinch Cuba, according to sources acquainted pinch nan inquiry.
Their warnings astir governmental repression travel contempt longstanding restrictions connected dissent and independent media nether nan communist governments of Cuba and China.
The 3 organizations inhabit different roles wrong nan Singham network.
Breakthrough BT Media Inc., which runs BreakThrough News, is based astatine nan People’s Forum W. 37th Street reside successful Manhattan. It serves arsenic a propaganda limb of nan network, producing media and protestation sum and "agitprop," aliases agitation propaganda. It’s often nan first connected nan segment of awesome hotspots, for illustration Glam Doll Donuts successful Minneapolis, wherever a section activist, Alex Pretti, was killed by U.S. migration agents earlier this year.
The People’s Forum organizes demonstrations and governmental programming, often nan first to get astatine protests, handing retired pre-printed signs from an affiliated group, nan Party for Socialism and Liberation. Tricontinental, led by Singham friend Vijay Prashad, supplies Marxist investigation and ideological worldly and hosts events for illustration a "Global South" convention past November successful Shanghai, wherever Singham spoke, expressing support for nan "new world order" of nan Chinese Communist Party and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The People’s Forum’s recently purchased building is seen among neighboring storefronts on West 14th Street successful Manhattan. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
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As Fox News Digital first reported, U.S. Attorney for nan Southern District of New York Jay Clayton from has separately launched a expansive assemblage investigation into alleged ligament fraud, slope fraud, money laundering and different financial improprieties by Singham successful financing these organizations. Meanwhile, nan State Department issued a study connected Monday, naming People’s Forum and CodePink arsenic "fellow travelers" successful Cuba’s overseas power campaign to waste communism.
The synchronized defense illustrates really organizations and personalities tied to nan Singham web tin quickly mobilize astir a communal message, conscionable arsenic they’ve done successful nan past to reason everything from information centers to President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the warfare pinch Iran, Israel and nan U.S. apprehension of Venezuela strongman Nicholas Maduro.
Rather than addressing nan committee’s allegations astir foreign-linked funding, financial transparency and compliance pinch legislature archive requests, galore of nan network’s astir salient voices characterized nan investigation arsenic governmental persecution, invoking themes of nan "red scare," "McCarthyism," "censorship" and a broader "war connected nan left."
Messaging and fundraising push spreads
The wider campaign began Wednesday evening pinch a coordinated petition and fundraising push, earlier spreading done nan Singham-linked web overnight and into today.
At 5:40 p.m. connected Wednesday, nan People’s Forum launched nan messaging counterattack, sharing a caller petition and a fundraising entreaty connected nan level Give Lively LLC, requesting tax-deductible donations to finance its ineligible consequence and "mass organizing work."
A fewer hours later, astatine 9:44 p.m, Khalek, nan BreakThrough News host, urged her societal media followers to "sign, share, donate" to nan outlet’s caller fundraising run connected nan GoFundMe level and motion a petition, "Tell Congress: Drop nan Witch Hunt Against BreakThrough News!"
The petition is hosted connected Action Network, a large Democratic Party organizing platform. BreakThrough News said it sought "emergency costs to conflict back."
"We’re not going anywhere," Khalek wrote connected X. "We’re going to conflict this battle connected our journalism. The only authorities we person are nan ones we’re consenting to defend."
According to Breakthrough BT Media’s taxation filings, Khalek received $101,449 successful 2024 and $108,160 successful 2023 for "consulting."
Khalek hosts nan outlet’s "Dispatches" programme and co-hosts "The Freedom Side." Fox News Digital antecedently reported that she promoted nan Chinese government’s claimed "eradication of utmost poverty" during a 2021 programme pinch Tings Chak, a China-based interrogator astatine Tricontinental, linking nan media output of 1 subpoenaed statement to nan ideological activity of another.
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About an hr later, astatine 10:52 p.m, Hartzell Gray, a legislature campaigner successful Missouri supported by Democratic Socialists of America and CodePink’s Benjamin, declared: "Truth isn’t partisan. Journalism isn’t a crime."
Soon after, astatine 11:45 p.m., Benjamin replied to Khalek, expressing her support, and astatine 11:51 p.m., Piker posted his condemnation of nan subpoenas.
By 2:11 a.m. nan adjacent day, socialist legislature candidate Kshama Sawant, a erstwhile Seattle City councilwoman, shared Khalek’s connection and told followers she had signed nan petition supporting BreakThrough News. She described nan subpoenas arsenic a "shocking summation successful repression of independent media and near activists."
Later that morning, astatine 9:34 a.m., nan run had dispersed to propagandists for nan Islamic Republic of Iran. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a University of Tehran professor and erstwhile advisor to Iran’s atomic negotiating team, shared BreakThrough News’ consequence and declared: "The US is an intolerant and authoritarian regime."
Marandi’s accusation comes against nan backdrop of Iran’s ain crackdown connected dissent. A United Nations fact-finding ngo said nan Iranian authorities had intensified its repression successful a "concerted effort to crush dissent," while Reporters Without Borders classed Iran 177th retired of 180 countries for property state successful 2026.
About an hr later, astatine 10:39 a.m, Craig Mokhiber, a erstwhile elder U.N. human-rights charismatic who antecedently directed nan New York agency of nan U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, called nan subpoenas an "outrageous attack" by nan "US-Israel Axis." He said they threatened state of opinion, look and information.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American world often identified arsenic a authorities "mouthpiece," declared: "The US is an intolerant and authoritarian regime." (Akila Jayawardena/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Foreign-linked backing astatine bosom of probe
At nan bosom of nan committee’s enquiry is nan network’s layered financial architecture.
The sheet alleges that Singham’s money traveled done ammunition companies and donor-advised costs earlier reaching nan 3 tax-exempt organizations. Such arrangements, nan committee said, tin move foreign-linked backing done layers of intermediaries that "by design, obscure nan original root of nan contribution."
Fox News Digital antecedently documented $278 cardinal flowing from Singham into six halfway nonprofits successful a wider transnational web spanning media operations, activistic organizations and ideological deliberation tanks. The committee’s existent investigation focuses connected astir $39 cardinal it says reached BreakThrough News, nan People’s Forum and Tricontinental.
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The committee requested records concerning foreign-linked backing and projects whose finances nan groups managed. It besides sought contracts involving overseas individuals aliases organizations, communications pinch Singham astir nan groups’ finances aliases operations, contacts pinch different overseas interests, accusation astir overseas donors who contributed much than $5,000 and records of grants sent overseas.
By Thursday night, nan counterpropaganda run went world pinch nan World Socialist Website, a pro-communism platform, parroting nan rhetoric of nan Singham web and blasting nan "anti-communist witchhunting" to its readers.
Michael Dorgan is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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