A U.S.-based pro-China media outlet subpoenaed in a Congressional probe of communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham's funding network mounted its public defense on Democracy Now!, a progressive news outlet that once paid millions of dollars to a software company Singham founded.BreakThrough News, one of three organizations subpoenaed by the powerful House Ways and Means Committee last month, used Democracy Now! to portray the investigation as an attack on journalism rather than what the committee said is a probe into its funding and alleged foreign influence.During an interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, BreakThrough News presenter Rania Khalek slammed the subpoenas as a McCarthy-style attack on free speech and independent journalism.She also warned investigators could eventually target Democracy Now! itself and encouraged viewers to financially support BreakThrough News as it fights the subpoenas.Amy Goodman attends Democracy Now!'s 30th anniversary event at Riverside Church in New York City on March 23, 2026.
Democracy Now! recently interviewed representatives from BreakThrough News after the outlet was subpoenaed by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of its investigation into organizations linked to Marxist tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham.(Rob Kim / Getty Images)‘MCCARTHY TRIALS’: HASAN PIKER, FAR-LEFT FIGURES ERUPT OVER SUBPOENAS IN $39M SINGHAM PROBE"They're attempting to criminalize dissent and an independent press because they're losing the argument," Khalek told Goodman.Khalek described the subpoenas as a "flagrant attack" on the First Amendment and argued lawmakers were reviving McCarthy-era tactics because they were losing the public debate.
She said the committee had cited the outlet's coverage of Israel and ICE's immigration enforcement.According to a previous Fox News Digital investigation cited by the House Ways and Means Committee, BreakThrough BT Media Inc., the parent organization of BreakThrough News, received about ...