Last Tuesday, a few blocks from the White House, a former Special Operations advisor tried to talk about communist Cuba as a national security problem. She did not get far. Olivia DiNucci, a D.C. CodePink organizer and former college basketball player, jumped the panel at the Institute of World Politics with a hand-painted banner that screamed “SANCTIONS KILL IN CUBA.”
Then she started yelling the rest of the catechism. Global solidarity with Gaza. Solidarity with Cuba. Solidarity with whoever is fighting ICE. Security dragged the banner and the body out a side door. She kept preaching on the way out. Liberation, she said, is “rooted in our neighbors.”
That is the neighbor. A professional protester whose group has run caravans to Havana, posed with the regime’s friends, and drawn Treasury scrutiny over whether Americans broke the law doing business with a communist state sponsor of terrorism. CodePink calls itself anti-war. Christine Balling, the woman they tried to shout down, called it something older and more honest.
“CodePink – and other organizations like it – essentially act like Trojan horses. They burst in onto the scene, and they’re meant to disrupt and destroy from within.”
They do not argue with America. They try to convince Americans that the country itself is the lie, and that the enemies of the country are the victims. That is not protest. That is a political warfare script with a pink logo.
Congress Finally Named the Horse
On Tuesday the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia convened a hearing titled “Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America.” The question on the table is the one polite Washington spent a decade pretending was McCarthyism. How do American activists, tax-exempt nonprofits, media shops, and social media stars advance the interests of China, Iran, and Cuba without the foreign capital having to put its own name on the flyer?
Rep. Bill Huizenga, the Michigan Republican chairing the panel, did not bother with the usual throat-clearing. He told Fox News Digital that adversarial nations use influencers as proxies “to promote communism and push their false propaganda.” He named the most famous one.
Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer who has made a career of telling young men how much he hates this country, joined a CodePink delegation to Cuba earlier this year and smiled for a Havana photo with co-founder Jodie Evans. Treasury noticed him too.
Piker’s fans will call that a smear. The picture exists. The subpoenas exist. The ideology is not even hidden. He talks like a commissar and travels like one. Congress is late, not imaginative.
Follow the Shanghai Checkbook
The largest money machine in this story belongs to Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai and talks like a party pamphlet. Late last year he stood on a hotel stage at a “Global South” conference and praised the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, and Beijing’s “new world order.”
That is not a donor with a hobby. That is a man picking a side.
A five-part Fox News Digital investigation mapped 223 transactions totaling $591 million across five continents from 2017 through 2025, feeding an inner hub of groups that touch an estimated 2,000 organizations worldwide.
Starting in 2017, after Singham married Evans in Jamaica with Medea Benjamin and other communist dignitaries in the room, investigators documented roughly $278 million to $285 million flowing into six core nonprofits that preach anti-America, pro-China politics.
The ledger is not subtle.
- $167.5 million to People’s Support Foundation Ltd. in Chicago, with Evans on the board
- $68.7 million to Justice and Education Fund Inc. in New York
- $22.44 million to the People’s Forum, the Manhattan clubhouse for pro-communist organizing
- $16.76 million to Tricontinental Ltd., the Massachusetts shop run by Vijay Prashad, who lectured on the future of Marxism at the wedding
- $1.33 million to CodePink
The groups deny wrongdoing and cry “witch hunt.” Singham has not answered questions. House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith still subpoenaed the People’s Forum, Tricontinental, and BreakThrough BT Media after they refused to produce records.
The Justice Department, according to the New York Post, has a Manhattan grand jury looking at the money itself. Sen. Rick Scott has already asked the administration to strip CodePink’s tax-exempt status. Charity law was not written so a Shanghai resident could underwrite American street politics.
Cuba Trains the Chorus. Iran Gets the Verse.
This is not three separate scandals stapled together for a hearing title. It is one ecosystem. Fox’s reporting places most of these groups inside the red-green alliance — socialist and communist outfits working with Islamist formations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. Red for the revolution. Green for the banner of political Islam. Same enemy. The West.
Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation, a Cuban American and a witness at the hearing, has said Cuba is “100% operating a foreign influence operation in the U.S.” and called the island “ground zero for anti-American revolutionary organizing in the Western Hemisphere.”
CodePink, the People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, the ANSWER Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation all show up in the Cuba solidarity web and in the Singham money web. That is not a coincidence. That is a rolodex.
The State Department’s summer report on Havana was blunter than most newspapers wanted to print. Rubio’s department described Cuba as the capital of 21st-century communism, an espionage shop that funnels what it steals to China, Russia, and Iran, and a concierge service connecting foreign regimes to American activist movements.
Breitbart noted the chapter on Iran and Hamas. The New York Post reported that Cuba-linked groups had already sketched “coordinated nationwide actions” outside U.S. bases and ICE facilities if Washington ever moved on the island. China collects signals from Cuban soil ninety miles from Florida. The street theater in Washington is the civilian half of the same war.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
They Came for the Power Plants Next
The third witness, Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, is there because the same network does not stop at banners and campus chants. His research found the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 21 anti-data-center campaigns across 14 states.
About $23.6 billion in proposed AI and data-center investment was delayed, shrunk, or blocked in fights where that party was a major mobilizer. Chinese state media scolds America for building the servers. Beijing subsidizes its own. Social media, Lyman said, is “a gain-of-function for mind viruses” incubated overseas.
So the horse is not only in the nonprofit sector. It is in the energy fight, the AI fight, the immigration fight, and the Israel fight. One week the line is climate. The next week it is Gaza. The next week it is ICE. The target never changes. American capacity.
Huizenga said his goal is to raise the curtain. Good. The curtain has been a joke for years. Americans were told these groups were the conscience of the nation. They were a delivery system. Open society is a blessing. It is also a door. Enemies walk through it wearing tax exemptions, influencer contracts, and the language of peace.
Balling watched a young woman try to wreck a Cuba briefing in the name of solidarity with Havana, Hamas’s favorite talking points, and the campaign against immigration enforcement. Then Congress scheduled a hearing and used the oldest metaphor in the book. The wooden horse is not outside the gate. It has been parked in the courtyard, fundraising, livestreaming, and telling the city that the walls were the real crime.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Reprove them in public, with bank records, travel logs, and names. That is what a serious country does when it finally admits the horse is already inside.
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