A Marxist party with a Chinese Communist Party-linked funder is deciding whether America builds AI infrastructure.

Reporting based on original investigation by BTC Policy Institute, "Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI, Part II: The Singham Ground Game"

A Marxist party with a Chinese Communist Party-linked funder is deciding whether America builds AI infrastructure. Congress hasn't caught up to it yet.

Neville Roy Singham sold his software company for $785 million. He lives in Shanghai. He shares an office with a Chinese state media firm whose job is to "tell China's story well," the Communist Party's own phrase for its overseas propaganda operation. Singham calls himself a Marxist. His own colleagues call him a Marxist. A banner in his office reads "Always Follow the Party." A plate on his shelf depicts Xi Jinping.

That is the biography. The money is the evidence.

Tax filings trace roughly $278 million from Singham controlled entities into six American nonprofits between 2017 and 2023. The New York Times mapped his network across four continents in 2023 and found shared staff, shared offices, and messaging that lines up with Beijing's talking points. Congress noticed. House Energy and Commerce, Senator Tom Cotton, House Ways and Means, House Oversight, Senate Judiciary. All of them have opened inquiries.

None of them have caught the part that matters most, the part BTC Policy Institute's investigation lays out in detail.

The Party

Singham's nonprofits fund the messaging. The Party for Socialism and Liberation runs the ground troops. The PSL's platform is explicit: "capitalism cannot be voted out of power, it will take a revolution." It calls for disbanding the police and the military in favor of "the armed people."

This is not two separate movements that happen to agree. It is one roster of names.

Claudia De la Cruz co-founded The People's Forum and ran as the PSL's 2024 presidential nominee. Her running mate Karina Garcia directs a Singham-linked grantmaking fund. Ben Becker edits the Singham-funded BreakThrough News and sits on the PSL central committee. His father Brian Becker runs the Singham-funded ANSWER Coalition and co-founded the party itself. Garcia is married to Becker. Singham is married to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans.

A former Singham collaborator, Jereme "Fergie" Chambers, broke from the operation and said publicly that The People's Forum is "wholly funded, staffed, and controlled by PSL." He produced an organizational chart putting the party at the center of the entire network, BreakThrough News, the International People's Assembly, and Cuba delegations included. When a fellow Marxist is the one blowing the whistle, the coordination is not a theory.

The foreign alignment is documented, not implied. One PSL-aligned commentator hosted a show on Sputnik, Russian state media. A People's Forum co-director was personally received by Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel. CodePink's Medea Benjamin is under Treasury subpoena over a 2026 convoy to Cuba.

The Ground Game

Here is what the party actually does with that funding. It runs door-to-door canvassing. It fills city council chambers. It organizes petitions. BTC Policy Institute documented PSL activity across 21 campaigns in 14 states, connected to 10 data center moratoria, one permanent ban, and four rejected or scrapped projects. Total AI infrastructure blocked or delayed: roughly $23.6 billion.

The pattern repeats city to city:

• Charlotte, North Carolina. PSL canvassers went door to door on a data center most residents had never heard of. The council voted 11 to 0 for a 150 day moratorium in June 2026
• Prince George's County, Maryland. PSL trained organizers helped kill a $5 billion tech park. The county executive later admitted the permitting law that enabled it "was a huge mistake"
• Tucson, Arizona. PSL joined a coalition that sank a $3.6 billion Amazon linked campus through a rezoning defeat, then blocked construction vehicles directly
• DeForest, Wisconsin. PSL organizing helped scuttle a $12 billion Blackstone backed QTS project. Officials called it "not feasible"
• Denver, Colorado. A PSL organized push secured a unanimous one year moratorium against a CoreSite joint venture worth more than $250 million

The report grants that the underlying anger over water use, electricity costs, and grid strain is real. That does not change the second fact sitting next to it. A revolutionary organization with undisclosed funding has been systematically converting that anger into policy outcomes that slow America's AI buildout relative to China's.

No 990. No Disclosure. No Way to Check.

Here is the line that should stop everyone reading this. The PSL is not registered as a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4). It files no Form 990. It has no standing national committee with the FEC. The only federal donor disclosure that exists at all covers presidential campaign committees during election years. Everything else, the year round organizing, the Liberation Centers, the travel, the local canvassing, runs through channels that produce zero public donor record.

The party says it runs on dues and small donations. It says it takes no corporate or foundation money. That claim cannot be checked against a single public filing. Whether Singham himself, or a foreign government, is funding the people showing up at zoning hearings in Georgia and Wisconsin is, right now, unknowable.

The Verdict

The PSL's own literature describes the data center fight as "a struggle for who controls the future." That sentence reads differently once you know the party's platform subordinates American interests to a "global working class," that its leaders have defended Assad's Syria and Maduro's Venezuela, and that even other socialists accuse it of reflexive loyalty to America's adversaries, a habit they call campism.

Whether any single moratorium happened because of PSL organizing or simply alongside it is not the question anymore. The pattern spans 14 states. A party with revolutionary aims, unregistered funding, and documented alignment with Beijing's interests is helping decide whether $23 billion in American technological infrastructure gets built.

The question left standing is who decided that fight should happen in the first place, and why nobody with subpoena power has followed the money all the way to the end.

Source: BTC Policy Institute, "Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI, Part II: The Singham Ground Game"