A familiar playbook is emerging among anti-ICE agitators in Minnesota.
As reported on Wednesday’s AM Update, we are seeing whistles to signal law enforcement is near, spotters located around the city, and coordinated responses resulting in near-instant swarms of disruptors – all tactics that have played out in cities across the country.
During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested these people are not just organic activists. “When I watch some of the people that I’ve been watching over the last few weeks, these are paid insurrectionists, these are paid agitators,” he said. “These people aren’t normal, like, OG… How do you get incensed when you go into a state and you’re taking criminals out, you’re taking monsters out, murderers?”
Follow the Money
But who is fronting the money behind the madness? Fox News Digital reported that a review of rapid response messages circulating after Alex Pretti’s death on Saturday points to a “hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations working as key organizers of the resistance campaign against federal immigration enforcement.”
According to Fox News, many of those groups are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a “self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai.” And some of the organizations reportedly trace back to the People’s Forum, a non-profit incubator for socialist and communist groups funded by Singham. The Daily Wire has reported that the People’s Forum supports left-wing propaganda outfits like BreakThrough News, which creates a bevy of anti-ICE content heavily focused on Minneapolis.
Despite not being as well known as left-wing mega-donor George Soros, Singham is not new to the activist scene. In 2023, The New York Times published an investigation headlined “A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul” that reported Singham sits at the center of a vast, well-funded, influence network that blends progressive activism with Chinese Communist Party messaging, operating a web of charities and shell companies around the world.
According to the Times, Singham works closely with Chinese state-linked media outlets, though he denied it in an email to the paper. “I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives,” he wrote. “I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”
In 2017, Singham married co-founder of the CodePink activist group Jodie Evans. CodePink is known for staging sit-ins and protests, including repeated disruptions of congressional hearings. The Times reported that, since 2017, about a quarter of the group’s total funding came from groups linked to Singham.
Alex Goldenberg, a senior advisor at the Network Contagion Research Institute, told NewsNation in a 2025 interview that Singham has a footprint in India, South Africa, London, but he is “quite active” in the United States via “funding [of] a network of nonprofit organizations to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.”
Goldenberg said Singham is not just funding activism, but rather “funding and exporting an authoritarian-aligned ideology under the banner of American nonprofit legitimacy.” That is why he said he does not view what is being built as a “protest movement.” Instead, Goldenberg said he views it as “infrastructure for a deeply un-American campaign to destabilize the country from within.”
Possible Probe
Earlier this year, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Singham as part of a probe into possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires individuals to register with the Department of Justice if they are acting on behalf of a foreign entity to influence U.S. policy.
Singham has not publicly commented on the subpoena and his Shanghai address could complicate any potential enforcement or investigative efforts.
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