Universal Basic Instinct

💰 FOLLOW THE MONEY. 🤯 WATCH THE MELTDOWN. $285 MILLION from a Shanghai-based communist tycoon. That’s what funded the network whose activists spent this week on Capitol Hill bird-dogging lawmakers. When I turned the cameras on them, they had a meltdown. Their operation illustrates cognitive warfare against American: the systematic use of money, media, protests, political pressure and propaganda to shape what Americans believe and feel. Earlier this year, I added up the numbers for a five-part @FoxNews Digital series: Neville Roy Singham, an American-born communist tech tycoon living in Shanghai, moved $285 million into a network of U.S. nonprofits that organize street actions, produce propaganda and lobby Congress — all while operating as tax-exempt charities. The result is a decade-long campaign of anti-American messaging that aligns with Chinese Communist Party priorities. On Wednesday, I spent six hours following the Singham network’s activists as they cornered members of Congress and demanded cuts to the U.S. military budget, an end to U.S. military ties with Israel and support for communist regimes from Cuba to China. This tactic is called “bird-dogging.” Watch their confrontations—and their efforts to obstruct my reporting—in the 🧵 I saw some of the network's msot promient organizers: CodePink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who married Singham in 2017; CodePink D.C. organizer Olivia DiNucci; CodePink activist Tighe Barry, Benjamin’s husband; and BreakThrough News host Rania Khalek, who says she lives in Lebanon. The money that reached their groups: 💰 People’s Forum: $22.44M 💰 CodePink: $1.33M 💰 BreakThrough BT Media: $1.098M All from Singham. This week, activists from these groups sought to influence specific legislation. Their funding matters because it helps sustain the organizing and media operations behind that political pressure. Three House committees — China Select, Judiciary, and Ways and Means — have investigated the network for allegedly operating as unregistered foreign influence that defends the Chinese Communist Party, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and communist regimes worldwide. They deny the allegations. CodePink’s Benjamin and Evans just returned from a propaganda junket to China. Rania had a long record of defending Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The People’s Forum has been a central hub for the anti-Israel, anti-U.S. protest wave, especially the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel. When I turned the camera on them and asked about ordinary questions about their funding and tactics, they blocked the lens, hurled insults, and tried to block my path through the public hallways of the People's House, as it's called. Rania had a Party for Socialism and Liberation activist film her confrontation as she lashed out at my questions. BreakThrough News later posted the clip, trying to shame me. In cognitive warfare, that tactic works if you aren't strong. I am very strong against such tactics because I have seen them deployed for so many decades now. One follower praised her “psychic militancy.” I've seen it 1,000x as I cover protests. Shouts by anti-ICE protesters to hardworking Americans, telling them: "Go kill yourself," because they dare to work in immigration enforcement. Bloody cries of destroying Israel "from the river to the sea." Condemnations of America as "AMERIKKKA." It's all meant to shame, silence and overwhelm the brain so that any level of nonsense can enter. Watch how the shouting and accusations overwhelm the exchange, pushing the original questions aside. As my @FoxNews Digital colleague @HannahBrennan99 brilliantly edited my footage, she had one word: WOW. The audience for these confrontations extends far beyond a lawmaker or a journalist in a hallway. These displays of rage are meant for an audience captured with a camera. Once posted online, they become messages aimed at the world. But what I learned: They can dish it out. They just can’t take it. Follow the money. Watch the meltdown. And thank you to all of you for your appreciation and support as I go into the trenches to bring dispatches like this one back to you for Fox News Digital. I do it because you have to see and feel the weapons of propaganda, intimidation and abuse hurled at someone to ever win the cognitive war and build an iron dome for your brain. I want to show you that you can face the cognitive war and win with truth, rational thought and clear thinking. 🔗 to the article in the replies.