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House Panel Subpoenas Far-Left Groups Linked To China-Based Marxist Financier Neville Singham

The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed the People's Forum, a New York-based far-left NGO; BreakThrough News, a far-left propaganda media outlet; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which can be described as anchored in "national liberation Marxism."

These organizations are part of a broader investigation into more than $39 million in funding linked to Marxist China-based tech financier Neville Roy Singham, who has pushed for revolution in America.

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This is the product of a well-developed protest infrastructure coordinated by the ANSWER Coalition and run through allied groups like The People’s Forum, NIAC, Palestinian Youth Movement,… pic.twitter.com/KnsL2wDddb

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) March 7, 2026

Fox News first obtained letters showing that the Republican-led panel ordered the People's Forum, BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research to produce financial records by Aug. 7.

The committee is examining whether Singham routed money through shell companies and donor-advised funds in ways that obscured its origins, as well as whether U.S. tax-exemption laws adequately protect nonprofit organizations from foreign influence.

Fox News reporter Asra Nomani has reported that Singham-linked funding included $22.4 million for the People's Forum, $16.8 million for Tricontinental, and about $1.1 million for BreakThrough's parent organization.

🚨 Neville Roy Singham’s Billionaire Money Is Fine If It Funds the Revolution

This is Madeline Pendleton, who went on the Cuba convoy with The People’s Forum youth brigade, casually explaining the new rules.

Singham funding this ecosystem?

“He does fund some stuff… and also,… pic.twitter.com/TRWJ0f9VpO

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) March 29, 2026

The committee, led by Chairman Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, said the Singham network has yet to produce a single document despite earlier requests for information.

Attorneys for the nonprofits have challenged the committee's jurisdiction and legislative purpose, raising First Amendment and press freedom concerns. The panel said its inquiry is focused on financial arrangements and organizational structures rather than the groups' political views.

An earlier report by Nomani's team said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, with authorization from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, is examining whether Singham, the nonprofits he funded, or their leaders committed wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, or other financial crimes. No charges have been announced.

FIRST ON FOX: A federal grand jury is investigating China-based tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham over alleged financial improprieties involving $278 million that investigators say moved through his financial network over the past decade.

Federal investigators are examining… pic.twitter.com/cqqt9QthU6

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 29, 2026

Nomani's team reported that Singham routed $285 million through a Goldman Sachs donor-advised fund and shell entities before the money flowed into U.S. nonprofits. A broader review found that $591 million moved across five continents from 2017 through 2025.

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🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath

On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code… pic.twitter.com/0zpYhJbPV2

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) May 25, 2026

Nomani's report also said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently met with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon to discuss the bank's philanthropic arm and its role in this mess.

Bessent has focused on the fiscal-sponsorship loophole. Under these arrangements, a nonprofit can sponsor another organization, allowing the sponsored group to operate without obtaining tax-exempt status or publicly disclosing its finances. This structure creates a black box that conceals the funding map of far-left NGOs that seek to destroy the West.

The Treasury Department could address the issue by revising Form 990 disclosure requirements and directing the Internal Revenue Service to hold organizations accountable for any violations.

The House Ways and Means Committee is now moving to support that effort and close the fiscal-sponsorship loophole.

The concern is that networks aligned with hostile foreign governments can use donor-advised funds administered by major financial institutions to obscure the original donor's identity. The money can then flow through established nonprofits to fiscally sponsored activist groups involved in anti-Western demonstrations and unrest across the country.

Last Thursday, at the State Department's "Rise of Far-Left Terrorism" meeting with delegations from 65 nations, Bessent discussed Treasury investigations into illicit nonprofit funding allegedly used to support political violence and advance Marxist revolutionary movements across the West.

At President Trump’s direction, @USTreasury is bringing the full weight of our authorities to defend the integrity of the U.S. and global financial systems.

We will identify illicit funding, however artfully it is concealed. We will dismantle the networks that sustain political… pic.twitter.com/oS1ri4kZeX

— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) July 16, 2026

Separately, the State Department released a report Monday claiming that Cuban influence networks are fueling far-left violence in the US and abroad.

For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.

The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.

The American people deserve to know.…

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 20, 2026

The broader takeaway is that the Trump administration and allied governments are coordinating efforts to disrupt nonprofit funding networks allegedly connected to far-left violence.

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Bill Maher on ABC: 

Bill Maher: “I’m not living in Communist America… I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing.” pic.twitter.com/grWslcyxD9

— America (@america) July 19, 2026

The American people are beginning to piece together the puzzle and understand that the past decade of riots, burned streets and businesses, toppled statues, and attacks on America's cultural heritage ...

... was nothing less than a cultural Marxist revolution, culminating in members of the Democratic Socialists of America preparing to "destroy America from within."

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Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds A Bonanza For State Outfits

Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations,

For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy.

All that changed after the Biden administration and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to provide "a more equitable, low-carbon, and clean energy economy." In fiscal year 2024, Colorado's state energy office was slated to receive $157.5 million from the energy department, along with another $156 million from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Biden team's defeat in the 2024 election didn't stop the gusher, either, as an additional $60 million in funding was allocated after voters elected Trump and his promise to halt the spending.

A RealClearInvestigations search of government data shows that the Colorado Energy Office was just one of many agencies and groups across the country that received exponential increases in federal grants during Biden's last two years as part of the unprecedented attempt to refashion federal agencies into the finance engines that would transform the U.S. energy sector to a renewable, Net Zero future.

The Treasury Department's database suggests that after Congress passed the unprecedented funding to fight climate change, it looked for outfits that could disperse that money at the state and local level. In response, it turned to many organizations in the public and private sector with no track record for handling such vast sums, as well as state energy offices and agencies.

"Biden-era climate policy sometimes prioritized sending money out the door first, and worrying about logistics and oversight second," said Jeremy Portnoy, an investigator with OpenTheBooks who seeks to make all government spending public. "Money went to groups that were receiving grants larger than they had the capability to manage."

Although they represent only a sliver of Biden-era spending on green energy, the sudden promise of $9.5 billion in awards to state and county energy programs beginning in FY2024 and the Trump administration efforts to claw back some of that money highlight how shifts in White House policies can make long-term planning hard, especially regarding partisan policy issues.

In response to Trump's efforts to halt much of the spending, a coalition of 13 Democratic state attorneys general filed suit in February seeking to have all the approved grant money dispensed. They argued the Trump administration unfairly targeted states controlled by Democrats, and that without the money those states' "ambitious climate goals" may not be reached.

"Since the first day of President Donald J. Trump's second term, his Administration set out to reverse and undermine the historic energy and infrastructure funding measures enacted by Congress in the preceding years," according to the lawsuit. "Its true purpose was to give the Administration thin bureaucratic cover to eliminate congressionally established energy and infrastructure programs and rescind their funding, for no other reason than a fundamental disagreement with the programs' policy underpinnings."

The legal challenges have scored some successes; last month the Energy Department agreed to reinstate 11 grants, although the largest of them remain in limbo.

Three Huge Beneficiaries

While most states received some portion of the climate splurge, RCI's analysis focused on three of the biggest beneficiaries: Colorado, California, and New York, which were poised to receive more than $1 billion.

Like the Colorado Energy Office, the New York Energy Research and Development Institute and the California Energy Commission were started as energy conservation initiatives in the 1970s when the U.S. was reeling from the oil embargo shock, and the economy's blood seemed dependent on the wills of foreign actors. In more recent decades, all three have also focused on renewable energy, with a special emphasis on social justice equity. Today, the New York institute has nearly 500 employees with an average salary of $127,220, while the California Commission enjoys regulatory powers over siting energy plants and sets state energy policies.

In addition to state funding and, in New York and California, money from ratepayers, these three state agencies routinely received federal grants for relatively small amounts, according to the Treasury Department's usaspending.gov.

But then Biden's Investment Infrastructure and Jobs Act and his Inflation Reduction Act kicked in, and the Energy Department began to approve enormous sums for the state agencies. The grant bonanza went on for roughly 18 months beginning in 2023 and was capped by a post-election frenzy in December 2024 and January 2025, records show. Suddenly, the three Democratic state agencies were receiving grants 10 or more times bigger than anything they had gotten previously.

An RCI review of the FY2024 data showed both the unprecedented size of the grants and the rapidity with which they were greenlit:

• The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority got an average of $5.2 million a year in Energy Department grants from 2015 to 2021. In 2024, however, it was slated to receive $335.38 million. Even after Trump's 2024 election, $30 million was approved in three grants.
• The Colorado Energy Office averaged $6.7 million from 2015 to 2021. Its 2024 grant haul was on top of almost $60 million in fiscal year 2023, and post-2024 election grants to the office were for nearly another $60 million.
• The California Energy Commission averaged $3.1 million for the seven years between 2015 and 2021, a figure that increased by more than a hundred-fold in 2024. After the 2024 election, another $630.5 million grant was approved, one of seven post-election grants.

And the grants came in rapid procession, records show. In California's case, there were four grants totaling $1.4 billion in the last six months of the 2024 calendar year, while the Energy Department and the EPA combined to greenlight more than $400 million in July and August of that year.

The Treasury Department has rarely disbursed these grants in full. Unlocking that money is the main goal of a February lawsuit brought by the attorneys general. And, as RCI previously reported, totals on usaspending.gov do not always match those from other agencies, reflecting the complexity and scale of federal spending.

But the extraordinary amounts and compressed timeline reflect a blizzard of approved spending that the inspectors general of the respective federal agencies warned would make effective oversight of the money nearly impossible.

Nebulous & Questionable

The grants were designed to pay for tasks such as improving the resilience of the grid in the face of disasters or the integration of renewable energy into the grid, or for reducing methane emissions. Yet another purpose was for programs such as home weatherization, a federal operation dogged by allegations of fraud and shoddy work, as RCI reported in 2022.

Some of the biggest grants were for nebulous-sounding work. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act was the source of funding "to provide initial guidance for the planning, administration or technical assistance for future distributions of formula awards through the home energy rebate programs."

Such "initial guidance" would not come cheaply. The Colorado Energy Office was set to get two separate $70 million awards for such work, records show, while the California Energy Commission would get $580 million for the same task and the New York energy institute more than $310 million.

The weatherization of low-income households began with the Obama administration's 2009 spending bill, and it got a big boost under President Biden. For example, two grants, for $70 million each, were earmarked for the Colorado Energy Office's weatherization projects in fiscal year 2024, records show.

As with other stories RCI has done on Biden's climate change spending, the Department of Energy did not respond to requests for comment. But current White House officials maintain that the grant binge ended during President Trump's second term.

"While the Biden administration threw taxpayer dollars at Green New Scam ideological pet projects, the Trump administration is focused on reshoring critical supply chains and safeguarding our national and economic security - all while ensuring the best bargain for taxpayers in every deal," White House spokesman Kush Desai told RCI.

The Colorado Energy Office declined comment, and NYSERDA did not respond to RCI's questions about the grants.

The California Energy Commission, on the other hand, said much of the grant money was tied to formula spending, such as "clean energy retrofits" in residential homes.

"California is meeting growing electricity demand by rapidly building out affordable clean energy infrastructure, increasing grid resilience and transmission capacity, and electrifying new and existing buildings with energy efficient appliances that help lower energy bills," a Commission spokesperson told RCI. "Federal grant funding is critical for California and other states to quickly meet growing energy demand and to do it in the smartest way possible - with clean renewable electricity."

There was one FY2024 grant to the CEC specifically labeled as "formula;" however, an $11.7 million grant was fully disbursed by Treasury.

New Priorities

In the grand scheme of federal spending, the amounts may not seem huge. They are dwarfed, for instance, in comparison to the grants Washington has made for interstate highways.

"Biden wanted to jumpstart the green energy economy so it's not surprising to me a couple of billion dollars were spent," said John Joseph Wallis, an economics professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in public finance. "They just decided to make that a priority, and there are hundreds of examples of that kind of thing over the last century."

But as the renewable energy grants began to flow, inspectors general at the Energy Department and the EPA warned the unprecedented amounts would make oversight next to impossible.

"The EPA's inspector general Sean O'Donnell warned Congress that money would be lost to fraud and waste if the EPA went ahead with its plan to spend billions in Inflation Reduction Act funds in a short timeframe, but the money was funneled out anyway," Portnoy said.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has made several moves to reorient the Department toward Trump's policy goal of increasing affordable and abundant energy, a shift the administration in a first-day executive order labeled "unleashing American energy," and Wright's Department calls the "Energy Dominance Financing Program."

Over the past year and a half, the administration has slashed away at what it considers Biden's fanciful push toward a Net Zero future. Within two months it had put together a so-called "kill list" of recent renewable energy initiatives, and last October, the administration canceled $7.6 billion in Biden-era energy grants, with White House budget director Russell Vought saying the money had been designed to "fuel the Left's climate agenda."

Wright told a House committee last month that politics were not behind cuts at Energy, but the February lawsuit insists that they were, pointing to the hit list drawn up by the Department in 2025. "The list was intended to further the Administration's goal of eliminating renewable-energy programs created by Congress through the duly-enacted 2021 IIJA and the 2022 IRA - programs the Administration derisively calls the 'Green New Scam,'" the lawsuit alleged. It's not clear how many of the grants that were approved in Biden's final year are tied to that lawsuit, although the California Energy Commission said its major grants are not.

The suit makes various arguments as to why this money should still be spent. Chief among them is that the money flows out of statutes duly passed by Congress and signed by the president. And in some cases it also says that without these huge infusions of federal funds, some states will not be able to hit ambitious targets they set to combat global warming.

Leftist environmental groups have calculated the difference between the closure of renewable energy projects in the Biden and Trump administrations, according to a New York Times column in May. Their figures show Biden "canceled, closed or downsized" 25 such projects worth $3.5 billion in 2023 and 2024, while last year, Trump's first back in office, saw 61 such projects crimped or shuttered with a value of $34.76 billion.

But Larry Behrens, spokesman for the conservative Power The Future energy advocacy group, said there is no reason taxpayers should finance coastal states' efforts to shift their economies from traditional energy sources to renewables.

"Working families in Louisiana, Florida, or Ohio should not be forced to bankroll the out-of-touch climate goals for politicians in New York, California, or Illinois," he said. "Every one of these grants should be scrutinized for fraud so taxpayers will stop being treated like an unlimited ATM for the green agenda."

Tyler Durden Wed, 07/22/2026 - 18:25

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Secret Service Official Sounds Alarm: "Threat Environment Highest Ever" As Assassination Attempts Explode

The threat environment facing individuals under U.S. Secret Service protection, including President Trump, is the highest the agency has ever recorded, a senior official said during a background briefing with reporters, according to CNBC.

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"What we're seeing now is something I've never seen before," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a public briefing.

The Secret Service has logged roughly 10,000 cases involving threats against government officials, including Supreme Court justices, so far in 2026 - a 40% increase from the same period a year earlier.

"They're increasing in volume and complexity," the official warned. The agency has also recorded a tenfold increase in mental-health commitments of individuals suspected of threatening protectees.

The remarks landed a week after Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a House subcommittee that threats against her and her colleagues on the Court have risen sharply.

Why They're Briefing Now

The timing is not incidental. The briefing came ahead of Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, which Trump is expected to attend.

It needed rescheduling because of what happened at the last one. In April, a man carrying a shotgun, a handgun and knives stormed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton during the dinner, with the president in attendance, before being apprehended. Cole Tomas Allen now faces charges of attempting to assassinate the president.

That was not an isolated event. On May 4, a man was wounded in a firefight with Secret Service personnel near the Washington Monument. Three weeks later, on May 23, a gunman approached the White House while Trump was inside the residence, drew a firearm and discharged multiple rounds before being fatally shot by agents. In February, Secret Service and local police shot and killed a man armed with a shotgun who had breached a secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago.

Four incidents in six months, at four separate protected sites. That is the ledger behind the 40% figure.

The Butler Problem

The current alarm builds on two assassination attempts in 2024. On July 13 of that year, gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing attendee Corey Comperatore and seriously wounding two others.

An Office of Inspector General report found that the Secret Service missed more than 100 radio transmissions from local law enforcement about a suspicious individual - now believed to be Crooks - armed with a rangefinder and rifle. Agents failed to relay critical warnings, establish proper joint communications, or secure the rooftop vantage point.

Those findings describe a catastrophic operational breakdown. They do not describe complicity, and the OIG made no such finding. But for the family of the man who died there, the distinction has offered cold comfort.

Comperatore's widow, Helen Comperatore, made headlines last week when she suggested the attempt on Trump's life was "an inside job."

"I believe he was working with somebody," she told NewsNation. "I believe it was an inside job, inside the government somewhere." No investigation has produced evidence supporting that claim, and the agency has attributed the failures to breakdowns in communication and planning.

Two months after Butler, a Secret Service officer fired at another gunman, Ryan Routh, who had concealed himself in shrubbery near the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was convicted in Florida federal court last September of attempting to assassinate the president, among other charges, and is serving a life sentence.

The Problem Above The Perimeter

The concern growing fastest inside the agency is one that walks past every countermeasure it has spent a century building. Drones approach from outside conventional security perimeters and cannot be screened, wanded, or turned away at a checkpoint.

The scale is no longer theoretical. The FBI said this week it seized more than 700 illegal drones and detected roughly 1,600 in total across the eleven U.S. stadiums hosting World Cup matches - venues holding tens of thousands of people at a time.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran has said the agency is examining "kinetic solutions - something that we haven't done before," and has pushed its technology division to move faster. The OIG's Butler review separately faulted the agency's counter-drone training and preparedness, a gap it has since worked to close.

The Foreign File

More recently, Israel shared intelligence with the U.S. indicating a fresh Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal. Iran has for years publicly vowed retaliation for the 2020 killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani, and the ongoing war has sharpened concern about foreign actors targeting the president.

U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran testifies during the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn building in Washington, April 16, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Image Tyler Durden Wed, 07/22/2026 - 18:00

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