CCP-Aligned Network Fields Marxist Candidates Across U.S. Midterms
PSL launches its broadest midterm electoral push as a major backer of its activist network faces reported federal grand jury scrutiny
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)—a Marxist-Leninist organization that openly defends China and characterizes Hamas terror attacks as “resistance”—is coordinating an unprecedented push into electoral politics this cycle. The party is fielding candidates for U.S. Senate in Ohio and Massachusetts, California statewide offices, and a congressional challenge in New York’s Bronx.
According to findings from a Neuron report on foreign influence in American politics, this represents the first multi-state congressional campaign the PSL has attempted in a midterm election cycle. The timing coincides with accelerating federal scrutiny.
Fox News reported that a federal grand jury was examining possible financial crimes involving Singham and organizations within his funding network. Public reporting has documented substantial personnel and operational overlap between several Singham-funded organizations and PSL.
The Neuron report documents that Singham has channeled more than $100 million through opaque intermediaries to groups that have organized coordinated protests, produced propaganda aligned with Chinese Communist Party messaging, and now are organizing electoral campaigns.
The 2026 Slate
The PSL candidates include Andre Easton (challenging Democrat Ritchie Torres in New York’s 15th District), Greg Levy (Ohio Senate), Joe Tache (Massachusetts Senate), and a California joint ticket of Ramsey Robinson (Governor), Eduardo “Lalo” Vargas (Insurance Commissioner), and Frank Lara (State Superintendent).
Easton, a Bronx teacher, explicitly frames his campaign around removing pro-Israel officials, calling capitalism a “system where billionaires bribe our politicians to fund genocide in Gaza.” He delivered remarks at The People’s Forum, a Manhattan organization at the center of Singham’s network, directly linking his candidacy to the primary funding infrastructure.
Levy’s platform calls for “cutting all aid to the racist, genocidal state of Israel,” lifting sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, and slashing the Pentagon budget by 90%. Tache has stated his campaign serves “primarily as a tool of building the movement,” and wrote for the PSL’s Liberation News that October 7 represented “Palestinian national liberation” and “resistance.”
Robinson, a San Francisco social worker, was a key organizer of post-October 7 anti-Israel rallies and pledges to mandate “full divestment of state retirement plans from companies enabling Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide.” Vargas organized with the Palestinian Youth Movement during a 2024 Los Angeles City Council run. Lara, vice president of the San Francisco teachers’ union, opposed California’s proposed antisemitism legislation, characterizing it as a free speech violation.
The Singham Network
The Neuron report details how the PSL operates within an interconnected ecosystem funded by Singham since at least 2019. The network includes ANSWER Coalition (which organized more than 1,700 anti-Israel rallies since October 7), The People’s Forum (described as a “movement incubator”), BreakThrough News (whose editor-in-chief is the son of PSL founder Brian Becker), CODEPINK, and 1804 Books.
A 2023 New York Times investigation reported that Singham had served as a strategic technical consultant to Huawei from 2001 to 2008, had attended a Chinese Communist Party workshop on international messaging, and at the time shared Shanghai office space with the Maku Group, a media company displaying pro-Xi messaging to which he had contributed nearly $1.8 million. The Times also found that Chinese state-media accounts had amplified accounts in Singham’s network at least 122 times since February 2020
From Streets to Ballot
In February 2026, a witness at a House Ways & Means hearing characterized the Singham-backed infrastructure as a “repeatable system for paralyzing American infrastructure on demand, financed through U.S. tax law, and aligned with a hostile foreign power.”
At a February 2026 House Ways and Means hearing, Narravance co-founder Adam Sohn testified that ANSWER and PSL mobilized protesters, The People’s Forum trained and coordinated activists, and BreakThrough News amplified messaging. He linked this system to demonstrations during which federal property was vandalized, flags were burned, police officers were assaulted and transportation routes were blocked
The Neuron report identifies the transition to electoral politics as a significant escalation. The organizations now fielding candidates are the same entities that orchestrated large-scale disruptions of American cities. PSL candidates embrace openly anti-American foreign policy positions—ending Israel support, lifting sanctions on adversarial regimes, dismantling NATO—positions aligned with documented CCP messaging priorities.
The 2026 campaign represents the Singham network’s shift from street mobilization to institutional politics while under federal investigation, testing whether American campaign finance regulations can constrain a movement that has operated largely unimpeded while distributing nine figures in funding through tax-exempt structures.