A protest organization bankrolled by a Shanghai-based millionaire with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party just dropped $5 million on a three-story building in Chelsea, Manhattan — and Congress finally wants to know where all that "grassroots" money is really coming from. The People's Forum, the group behind anti-ICE demonstrations and campus protest organizing across the country, quietly purchased the building at 137 W. 14th Street back in December 2024, and they've been renovating it with the windows blacked out and the doors covered in paper ever since.

Nothing says "organic people's movement" like a multimillion-dollar real estate acquisition funded by a guy who consulted for Huawei for seven years.

According to RedState, the money trail leads straight to Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based millionaire who has funneled a staggering $285 million to far-left nonprofits — with approximately $22.5 million of that going directly to The People's Forum. Singham's wife, Jodie Evans, co-founded CODEPINK, because of course she did. The FBI has been examining Singham's ties since 1974, and Huawei — the Chinese tech giant he consulted for — was flagged in congressional testimony back in 2012 as a national security threat.

But sure, this is totally a legitimate charitable operation serving "the people."

The People's Forum claims to have served over 200 organizations, hosted more than 6,000 events, and pushed 40,000 people through their "political education programs." Their executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, had the audacity to frame donations as acts of revolution. "Your contribution isn't just a donation, it's an investment in our collective future of freedom," De Los Santos said. "It's a direct act of resistance." Resistance funded by Communist China. How inspiring.

Now Congress is getting involved, and it's about time. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) sent a letter making the situation crystal clear: "The evidence presented in this letter makes it abundantly clear that The People's Forum has been directly funded, as you admit, and influenced by Mr. Singham's CCP affiliations." Smith set a September 18, 2025 deadline for the group to produce documentation — and we're still waiting on answers.

Meanwhile, the building itself tells you everything you need to know. Reporters who got a look inside described it as "just a shell" — exposed wires, structural damage, $20,000 in city building violations. They've raised $570,000 toward a $5 million renovation goal. So the CCP's favorite protest outfit can't even get the drywall up on schedule. Shocking.

Let's connect the dots here because nobody in legacy media will. This is the same organization that, after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, posted in support of the attackers. New York Governor Kathy Hochul herself called rally rhetoric from groups like this "abhorrent and morally repugnant." They've organized at Columbia University, in Times Square, and in Los Angeles. Every single time you see one of these "spontaneous" anti-ICE protests or campus takeovers, there's a decent chance the organizational muscle traces back to a guy living in Shanghai who made his money consulting for Chinese intelligence fronts.

Between 2017 and 2022, Singham and Evans pumped $20 million into these operations. That's not grassroots. That's astroturf with a CCP logo on the underside.

And they still have their tax-exempt status. Let that sink in. A CCP-funded protest machine that celebrated the murder of Israeli civilians, that organizes against American immigration enforcement, that pushes Marxist "political education" on tens of thousands of Americans — and the IRS lets them operate tax-free.

We spent four years being told that "foreign interference" in American politics was the greatest threat to democracy. Funny how that concern evaporates when the interference is coming from Beijing and the beneficiaries are on the left.