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A wave of support has emerged from prominent left-wing personalities and organizations for BreakThrough News and two affiliated nonprofits after the House Ways and Means Committee issued subpoenas Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged Chinese foreign influence operations targeting U.S. politics. The three organizations—BreakThrough News, People’s Forum Inc., and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research—have collectively received approximately $39 million in funding from Neville Roy Singham, a technology entrepreneur who relocated to China years ago and sold his company ThoughtWorks for an estimated $785 million in 2017.
Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker characterized the congressional action as “the McCarthy trials,” drawing a parallel to 1950s anti-communist investigations led by Senator Joe McCarthy. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, called the subpoenas “a terrible attack on independent journalism,” while BreakThrough News host Rania Khalek launched coordinated fundraising and petition efforts across multiple platforms requesting donations and legal support.
The committee’s investigation examines whether nonprofit laws adequately safeguard against foreign influence and whether congressional oversight requires strengthening. Officials indicated the three organizations failed to produce responsive documents following earlier information requests, prompting the subpoenas to obtain records concerning foreign-linked funding sources, overseas financial projects, foreign contracts and communications involving Singham.
The financial architecture under scrutiny involves Singham’s money flowing through shell companies and donor-advised funds before reaching the tax-exempt organizations, a structure the committee said obscures the original source of contributions by design. Documentation reviewed by Fox News Digital previously traced $278 million from Singham to six core nonprofits spanning media operations, activist groups and ideological institutions across multiple countries.
The coordinated defense began Wednesday evening when People’s Forum launched a petition and fundraising campaign, followed within hours by similar appeals from BreakThrough News and subsequent endorsements from Democratic Socialist congressional candidates and international figures. By Thursday, the campaign had expanded globally to include statements from Iranian government officials and former United Nations human rights personnel characterizing the investigation as political persecution and censorship.
Separately, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton has initiated a grand jury investigation into alleged wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and other financial improprieties by Singham in financing these organizations. The State Department also issued a report Monday designating People’s Forum and CodePink as “fellow travelers” in Cuba’s foreign influence efforts to promote communist ideology.
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