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Part 4 of a Fox News Digital series investigating the House of Singham explores how the House of Singham mobilizes “The Masses,” a key element in Mao Zedong’s doctrine for a People’s War.

Nearly a decade after Jodie Evans tied the knot with tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham off the waters of Jamaica, the professional activist swept through Havana’s José Martí International Airport last week in sandals and a flowing skirt, wearing a red and white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf over her shoulders.

Soon after, her friend, wedding guest and fellow activist, Medea Benjamin, joined her as part of the “Nuestra América Convoy” to protest U.S. policy toward Cuba.

It was another day at work for the jet-set professional agitators. 

Since 2017, when Evans married Singham in a wedding called “Revolutionary Love” with activist luminaries in attendance, the structure that began forming beneath palm trees has appeared repeatedly at moments of unrest, from Minneapolis to Manhattan, operating through nonprofits, media platforms and activist centers that describe their mission as dismantling “the U.S. empire” from within “the belly of the beast.”

Exclusive photos obtained by Fox News Digital from the Jamaica wedding show the network’s early cast of characters together in one place: Vijay Prashad, a central ideological voice; Liz Theoharis of the Kairos Center, whose organizing has intersected with protest movements including those tied to Columbia University; actor Danny Glover and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and her partner, Tighe Barry. Evans, Singham and their wedding guests didn’t return requests for comment.

At the wedding, sessions and discussions foreshadowed what would follow, aligning activists, messaging and movements across causes and borders. Nearly a decade later, many of those same figures appear across protests, conferences and global campaigns tied to the network.

Over the next years, Glover would join CodePink, protesting U.S. military strikes against Yemen and making a film with director Oliver Stone and a media platform called “Belly of the Beast,” the name many of the wedding guests call the United States.

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A Fox News Digital investigation has uncovered how Singham and Evans activated a global network that now numbers an estimated 2,000 hard-left organizations that parrot anti-U.S. propaganda supporting autocratic regimes leading China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza. 

Fox News Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 million in total across five continents from 2017 through 2025, the latest year for which figures are available, and found the money flows through five concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda.

The investigation established a documented $278 million that flowed from Singham into organizations that “sow discord” in the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith put it recently at a hearing on foreign malign influence in the nonprofit industry.

Funds also financed about 100 overseas trips that CodePink has facilitated for agitators over the years, with 65 trips to hostile nations, including Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, China and Cuba, returning with talking points that mirror the propaganda of America’s foreign adversaries. 

Last week’s sojourn to Havana was just the latest in a dynamic that critics call “revolutionary tourism.” 

In the U.S., CodePink activists now parrot foreign talking points at protests that have included celebrities Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda.

Propaganda scholar Nancy Snow first met Evans in 1992 in Henniker, N.H., when Evans was campaign manager for then-presidential candidate Jerry Brown. Evans had arrived with Brown, who was touting his flat tax proposal at a local town hall. Snow saw her again in the early 2000s in salons hosted by liberal publisher Arianna Huffington for guests to debate ideas.

“Over time, Jodie Evan’s advocacy has moved into a transnational activist ecosystem where anti-American narratives are converging with the strategic messaging of authoritarian states,” Snow told Fox News Digital.

“The Jodie I knew was a progressive anti-war, pro-environment and human rights activist,” recalled Snow. At her home in Venice, Calif., Evans “was charming, cordial and accepting.” 

“I never heard any of the militancy and revolutionary rhetoric that she spouts today. She seems to hate America, which is quite the fashion today. Jodie has undoubtedly radicalized over time, fueled by the deep pockets of her Marxist husband, Neville Roy Singham.”

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Snow, the author of a book, “Propaganda and Persuasian,” said the tactics of the Singham network apply a specific strategy.

 “The most effective propaganda looks like moral activism,” said Snow. “It often arrives disguised as citizen activism. My advice: Follow the money, identify the sponsors. 

“Propaganda in the 21st century rarely travels through governments alone. It travels through movements,” said Snow.

Immediately after its launch in 2017, the Singham network operated across continents. It accelerated protest mobilization around geopolitics, including anti-Israel activism and anti-U.S. military actions, and focused on creating a narrative of crisis and resistance. 

Different city. Different cause. Same playbook.

From their headquarters on W. 37th Street, Singham’s field marshals in the People’s Forum coordinate protests nationwide that chase the day’s headlines, including: #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel, #HandsOffIran after U.S. military strikes in the summer of 2025, #HandsOffVenezuela following the arrest of Nicholas Maduro in January and now #ICEOut, #HandsOffIran and #LetCubaLive.

Many of those field marshals were assembled around a garden nearly a decade ago. What is made to appear spontaneous follows a familiar pattern led by the same people.

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“Instead of kinetic action that involves soldiers, guns and bombs, the dynamic of agitation propaganda, or agitprop, as it’s called, was pioneered by the Soviets as a way to destabilize enemies without firing a bullet,” said Snow.

“It’s no coincidence that the U.S. has been rocked by constant agitprop over the past decade after the House of Singham came to fruition,” she said.

Fox News Digital’s investigation has mapped the network of foot soldiers that the House of Signham unleashes on America. 

The Party for Socialism and Liberation maintains 68 chapters nationwide and operates 23 Liberation Centers that serve as organizing hubs in major cities. The ANSWER Coalition maintains 13 chapters and so frequently partners with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in coordinated protests that the liberal New Republic calls the ANSWER Coalition its “front group.” Their logos were visible on placards and banners in New York and Minneapolis, even as some national media outlets described demonstrators simply as “angry protesters.”

This network accelerates protest mobilization around geopolitics — anti-Israel campaigns, opposition to U.S. military actions — and focuses on creating a narrative of crisis, chaos and resistance in the U.S., while China crushes dissent and stifles free expression among its citizens.

Most of the Singham network’s funding advanced a singular message: promoting Marxist-Leninist ideology, portraying China as a moral counterweight to the United States and supporting projects aligned with Beijing’s Belt and Road economic vision.

Smith, the House Ways and Means chairman, describes the House of Singham as a “network of non-profit organizations that serve as his conduits to spread pro-CCP narratives” through a fusion of media, research and commercial ventures. 

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In laying out his doctrine for the People’s War, Mao Zedong wrote that “the guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea,” weapons are important in war but “it is people, not things, that are decisive.” 

His constant mandate was to “mobilize the masses.” 

Key to organizing the masses has been CodePink, the organization that Evans and Benjamin, her friend, established in 2008.

Singham’s philanthropy vehicle, GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc., pumped $1.3 million into CodePink after Singham’s marriage to Evans. The line item simply said, “General Support.”

Suddenly, the rhetoric on China shifted.

After criticizing China for years for its repression of the ethnic Uyghur Muslim community, Evans made a pivot in August 2020 and hosted a webinar with Prashad and the People’s Forum, invoking the title of a new campaign CodePink launched, “China is Not Our Enemy.”

By early 2021, she was openly praising China’s “extension” of the historical Silk Road. She highlighted China’s modern-day economic growth “under the leadership of the CPC,” the country’s acronym for the Communist Party of China, and she lauded China for building the world’s second-largest economy “without resorting to warfare, colonialism or slavery.” 

According to Fox News Digital’s count, the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation and CodePink have organized at least 300 protests over the past decade.

Within minutes of a headline event, the network moves. 

There is a call to action by the organizing wing of the Singham circle: People’s Forum, the ANSWER Coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and CodePink. 

Then, the action is amplified by the Singham-funded groups in the propaganda wing: BreakThrough News, People’s Dispatch, Tricontinental Ltd.

A scripted one-hour rally follows with a circular march, followed by days of footage from the protest, building the narrative of an “angry,” “grassroots,” “organic” “resistance” to the latest headline. Media amplification follows, glossing over the protests as socially-engineered.

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, less than four hours after the killing of an anti-ICE agitator Renee Good, by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, at about 10:38 a.m. a signal went out from the People’s Forum Inc., a Singham-funded nonprofit headquartered in an innocuous building off W. 37th Street, between a storefront for a psychic and a dry cleaner.

At 2:35 p.m.. Manolo De Los Santos, the group’s executive director, published a social media post a X, writing, “The cold blooded killing of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis and Trump’s bombing of over 100 people in Venezuela are connected acts of the same brutal machine.. 

“We must dismantle the U.S. empire, or it will dismantle us.”

Protests followed a regular sequence: public message, rapid protest call, coordinated signage, media amplification.

At 5:11 p.m., the People’s Forum summoned citizens to a 9 a.m. protest the next morning at Foley Square, near ICE offices in lower Manhattan. 

By 8:41 a.m. the next morning, David Chung, the director of organizing at the People’s Forum arrived at Foley Square, pushing a shopping cart packed with a speaker,microphone and megaphone, a sticker from the Party for Socialism and Liberation slapped on the side.

Signs were printed. Narratives were set. Talking points were scripted.

A man trailed behind Chung with a pile of freshly-printed black-and-white posters stapled to cardboard tubes and the message, “JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD,” with a photo of Good plastered on every poster.

Foot soldiers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the street wing of the People’s Forum,  handed the signs out to bystanders as the clock ticked close to 9 a.m. 

BreakThrough News broadcast the marchers in closeup and sped-up footage, a tactic designed to signal size and urgency.

The signs included the latest rage-bait messaging, invoking familiar communist tropes about “liberation,” “resistance,” “genocide” and “fascism.” The signs follow a rhetorical script to “free” the “oppressed,” “stand up” to “oppressors,” “shut down” systems and, most lately demand “hands off” the outrage of the day, be it, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba. 

Nearly a decade after the Jamaica wedding, the same network that gathered beneath palm trees has grown increasingly visible on streets from Havana to New York and Washington, D.C., fueled by the hundreds of millions of dollars provided by Singham.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation has expanded to organize teen students in walkouts at K-12 schools, protesting ICE operations.

As Benjamin and Evans returned to the United States this week, they geared up for the next action: the “No Kings Rally” on Saturday. 

Organized by a wider group of traditionally Democratic organizations, including Indivisible, the far-left Singham network has succeeded in entering the center-left Democratic ecosystem.

The call went out this week. The machine kicked into action for the next anti-America protest. 

Evans and Benjamin posted a message on Instagram, telling their followers to “join CodePink” on Saturday: “No War. No Imperialism. No Kings,” The Party for Socialism and Liberation instructed its members to join the “Socialist Contingent” at the protest Saturday. 

And the ANSWER Coalition shared a signal for its members to meet them at the Northeast corner of Jackson and Columbus streets in downtown Chicago at 12:30 p.m. 

Hannah Brennan contributed to this report. 

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth defended U.S. military operations targeting Iran during a Cabinet meeting Thursday, praising the campaign as swift and decisive while criticizing media coverage of the conflict.

Hegseth took aim at the press early in his remarks, urging reporters to accurately portray the war effort.

“You wouldn’t know it if you listened to the dishonest, anti-Trump media,” Hegseth said. “These cameras… they have a choice. You’re either informing the American people of the truth or you’re not… My message to the media is: get it right.”

Hegseth framed the operation as a historic success, crediting President Donald Trump for authorizing what he described as a rapid and effective dismantling of Iran’s military capabilities.

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“Iran had a modern military, and never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and effectively neutralized,” Hegseth said. “This is not an endless war. It’s a decisive campaign with clear objectives… to destroy Iran’s offensive military capabilities and ensure they never obtain a nuclear weapon.”

The remarks come as the administration outlines its strategy following recent strikes on Iranian targets, describing the campaign as focused on defined military objectives rather than prolonged engagement.

Hegseth cited operational figures during his remarks, stating that more than 10,000 enemy targets had been hit, along with over 150 naval vessels and underground facilities.

“This is stuff for the books. This is stuff for legacy, Mr. President, to ensure future generations do not have to live under the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran,” he said.

Hegseth also criticized press coverage of the operation, accusing outlets of failing to accurately reflect military efforts on the ground.

“You wouldn’t know it if you listened to the dishonest, anti-Trump media,” he said. “Behind every headline you write, there’s a helicopter crew in the air. Behind every news story, there’s a battalion on the move. Behind every so-called ‘fake news’ story, there’s an F-35 pilot executing a dangerous mission.”

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Drawing on past experience, Hegseth referenced public debates during the Iraq War, arguing that media narratives have historically conflicted with military objectives.

“I’m not a rookie in this realm,” he said. “In 2007, I helped lead the public fight when people stood in the Senate and declared the war was lost before it even turned.”

He maintained that current operations differ from past conflicts, describing the campaign as structured and effective rather than open-ended.

“This is not parody. This is not chaos. This is success… pure American success, on plan and ahead of pace,” Hegseth said.

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Hegseth also claimed Iranian naval capabilities had been significantly degraded, stating that the commander of Iran’s naval forces had been killed in a recent operation.

“They no longer have a navy, Mr. President,” Hegseth stated. “Their naval commander was killed overnight in operations.”

“If President Trump had not acted, you’d be screaming, ‘Why not?’ And now that he has taken decisive action, you’re asking why he did,” Hegseth said.

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Hegseth also referenced past U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, criticizing the Iran nuclear deal.

“Many of the military factories and bases that are now being destroyed were paid for by pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew to Tehran under the Iran deal,” Hegseth said.

“Make no mistake… we had to act,” he noted. “Our objective is the complete dismantling of their nuclear program.”

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Hotel fees are draining Americans’ wallets as expert reveals how to avoid paying hundreds extra

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Added resort fees still kicking up the cost of hotel stays for travelers and tourists — even as new rules aim to make them easier to spot.

A recent NerdWallet study of 160 hotels found that some resort fees average about $33 per night. The fees can range from roughly $15 to $50 a day. 

These mandatory charges, often labeled as “destination” or “amenity” fees, are typically added on top of the advertised room rate.

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The fees remain common in major tourist destinations such as Las Vegas, Hawaii and Orlando, according to a number of sources.

Many hotels state clearly that the fees cover access to amenities like Wi-Fi, pools and fitness centers.

Some hotel chains also have higher resort fees than others, NerdWallet said

The data compiled showed “the average cost of a resort fee, when present,” was $50 at Marriott, $33.80 at Hyatt, $33 at Hilton, $32.57 at IHG and $25 at Wyndham.

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Some hotel chains such as Hilton Honors and World of Hyatt waive the resort fees on bookings made with points, according to the study. 

Top-tier hotel elite status can eliminate resort fees entirely. Hyatt waives charges on both paid and award stays for its highest-level globalist members — a handy benefit given the brand’s relatively high fees.

Critics argue the charges are misleading, particularly when they’re unavoidable and not included in the initial price seen online, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says.

Federal regulators have recently stepped in to address that concern. As of May 2025, a new rule from the Federal Trade Commission requires hotels and short-term rental platforms to display the full price upfront, including mandatory fees, rather than adding them later on in the booking process.

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Still, the regulation does not eliminate resort fees — so travelers continue to pay them, even if they’re now more transparent.

Hotels have long used resort fees to keep advertised room rates lower in search results while still collecting additional revenue through mandatory charges, according to Travel Weekly and other industry reporting.

Christopher Elliott, founder of Elliott Advocacy, which provides mediation assistance for issues between travelers and airlines, cruise lines and hotels, said he’s skeptical hotels would reduce extra fees.

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“It depends where you are, but generally you have the right to pay the rate you were initially quoted,” he told Fox News Digital. He’s based in Spokane, Washington.

“If you can prove, in writing, that the rate is different, you can dispute your credit card charge,” Elliott added.

Travelers remain frustrated by the issue. 

“I see [fees] as an underhanded way to raise rates without paying commissions to travel agents/booking sites,” one traveler wrote on Reddit.

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It’s similar “to airline ‘fuel surcharges,’ as if anybody was ever buying tickets for an airplane with no fuel in it,” another traveler responded.

“Congrats on discovering the American way of … squeezing the lemon for every last drop,” a third person chimed in.

Elliott said resort guests need to advocate for themselves. “If you catch it early enough, a polite complaint to a manager” can help, he said.

“If you’ve already checked out, and if the hotel isn’t responsive, [you can] dispute the additional charges on your credit card. I’ve seen that work.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the American Hotel & Lodging Association for comment.

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Harvard student says Jewish classmates feel ‘unwelcome’ as multibillion dollar DOJ lawsuit looms

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A Harvard student said Jewish students on campus feel “unwelcome” in certain classrooms amid a new multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the Trump administration over the school’s mishandling of antisemitism. 

Last week, Trump’s Department of Justice filed a 44-page lawsuit against the Ivy League institution for “[failing] to protect its Jewish students,” and Harvard sophomore Teja Billa told Fox News Digital that the university failed to implement all the steps to combat antisemitism the school said they would. 

“Jewish students and Israeli students feeling very unwelcome in certain courses to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict,” Billa told Fox. “More broadly, I don’t think all of the steps that the task force outlined to address it have actually been implemented. It’s great to come out with a task force report, but it really necessitates action on the part of Harvard.”

“I really hope that Harvard and the administration can reach some sort of negotiated settlement that keeps the research funding that is so important to Harvard while also addressing the really, really widespread and critical instances of bias and anti-Semitism that we found in the report and haven’t fully addressed,” Billa added.

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The Trump administration announced the lawsuit last week, with Attorney General Pam Bondi criticizing the rise in antisemitism and the universities that “allowed” sentiments to exist at schools across the country. 

“Since October 7th, 2023, too many of our educational institutions have allowed anti-Semitism to flourish on campus – Harvard included,” Bondi said in a statement. “[This lawsuit] underscores the Trump Administration’s commitment to demanding better from our nation’s schools and putting an end to discriminatory behavior that harms students.”

Robert Kennedy Jr. also weighed in on the suit, noting the significant amount of federal funding that is pouring into various educational institutions. 

“Every student deserves to learn without fear of harassment or exclusion,” the Health and Human Services secretary said. “When institutions take taxpayer dollars, they accept a duty to protect civil rights. We hold Harvard accountable on the principle that antisemitism has no place in any program funded by the American people.”

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Last April, the Ivy League school revealed the findings of an internal task force investigation into antisemitism at Harvard. Their findings showed that nearly 40% of Jewish students do not feel “at home” at the university.

The task force’s report also found roughly 26% of Jewish students felt “physically unsafe.”

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Harvard University President Alan Garber apologized following the report’s release, while acknowledging the antisemitism that existed on campus.

“I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,” Garber said in a letter. “The grave, extensive impact of the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel and its aftermath had serious repercussions on our campus.”

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During Billa’s interview with Fox News Digital, he said one potential solution could involve determining just how “left-leaning” the faculty at the top university really is.

“I think there should be a broader diversity of viewpoints that we see among the professors,” Billa explained. “We’ll do a faculty survey, and it will show that the professors themselves are overwhelmingly left-leaning, and that can’t possibly get every valid viewpoint to an issue.”

Billa also noted that students are fearful of speaking on hot topics because they are worried about conflicting opinions with professors impacting their grades. 

“On the other hand, a lot of students are feeling hesitant or afraid to speak up in class on controversial issues,” Billa continued. “Most of the graduating seniors actually reported that they would not speak up in class out of fear of being canceled or fear of perhaps grading impacts.”

A spokesperson for Harvard told Fox News Digital that they have implemented policies to combat antisemitism and said the university “cares deeply about members of our Jewish and Israeli community.”

“Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism and actively enforces anti-harassment and anti-discrimination rules and policies on campus,” the spokesperson explained. “We also have enhanced training and education on antisemitism for students, faculty, and staff and launched programs to promote civil dialogue and respectful disagreement inside and outside the classroom. Harvard’s efforts demonstrate the very opposite of deliberate indifference.”

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