Jodie Evans gets most of the attention as the co-founder of CODEPINK and Neville Singham’s wife. But Medea Benjamin’s history may be more interesting.
While creating the linked thread below, I dived into Medea Bejamin briefly – who had an interesting history of speaking to Chinese media.
She co-founded Global Exchange with her husband, Kevin Danaher, which goes on a number of “Reality Trips” to various closed countries – Cuba, Venezuela, among others.
If you’ve followed me long enough … you know that’s a big red flag. State-facilitated exchange trips are one of the most common “soft power” tools that countries have in exporting their ideology to others.
🧵 THREAD: The history of Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODE PINK
Jodie Evans gets most of the attention as the co-founder of CODEPINK and Neville Singham’s wife. But Medea Benjamin’s history may be more interesting.
While creating the linked thread below, I dived into Medea… https://t.co/ifKjXFviwX pic.twitter.com/yonrnJCIED
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Benjamin, per SFGate, has been a career activist since her college years, spending much of her time overseas in Africa. The Wikipedia page says that she joined Students for a Democratic Society in college – if so, this makes her yet another homegrown career NGO-ist. pic.twitter.com/2rbic28KOY
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
In 1988, she co-founded Global Exchange. The SFGate article credits her father as having backed it with hundreds of thousands of dollars, despite them disagreeing vehemently on the issue of Palestine. pic.twitter.com/eq1ermCj92
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) was formed by Fidel Castro himself in 1960. So, Medea is literally taking people on Cuban tours to a state-linked institute formed by Castro himself. pic.twitter.com/SMP6gWqRQd
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
The Sandinistas are a left-wing political party which was once at the center of a CIA coup. It is the party which Daniel Ortega belongs to.
So, yes, Medea Benjamin’s Global Exchange took others on a trip to Nicaragua to meet the left-wing activists there. pic.twitter.com/86U8dZN0r4
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
In fact, the Global Exchange delegation to Iran was so unusual that Medea Benjamin came under FBI scrutiny for it. This was reported in Tehran Times, an Iranian state-controlled news outlet. pic.twitter.com/6ftov3KQAr
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Global Exchange also visited Venezuela – back then, Venezuela was promoting luxury people-to-people exchanges with the tourists meeting Chavez himself. pic.twitter.com/XFzLmKxGie
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Hugo Chavez himself actively worked through Medea Benjamin by creating its own mouthpiece, Venezuela Information Office, and tapping into Global Exchange for activism. pic.twitter.com/oac7JZAODc
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
Perhaps a FARA investigation is in order.
And never forget: the Democratic party has a foreign subversive problem.
Thread end.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
I lied. Global Exchange is a 501(c)(3) – EIN 94-3066686. 26 U.S. Code § 501(c)(3) prohibits political activity for nonprofits. This includes foreign contexts as well. Looks like I’ll be writing another stern letter tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Om9nz4MvU1
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 26, 2025
CODEPINK’s financial ties to Neville Singham—a Shanghai-based figure funneling cash into pro-CCP narratives—expose a glaring hypocrisy. Their “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign parrots Beijing’s talking points, including denying the Uyghur genocide, which the State Department explicitly condemns. This isn’t activism—it’s a propaganda pipeline.
When 25% of your funding flows from a regime that jails dissidents and runs surveillance states, your credibility collapses. The real issue? D.C. allows nonprofits to launder foreign influence under the guise of “peace.”
Accountability starts with exposing these financial webs and demanding transparency. National security isn’t negotiable, and neither is the truth.
Follow the money and see how deep the influence runs:
CODEPINK’s financial ties to Neville Singham—a Shanghai-based figure funneling cash into pro-CCP narratives—expose a glaring hypocrisy. Their “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign parrots Beijing’s talking points, including denying the Uyghur genocide, which the State Department…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) June 26, 2025
Craig Newmark(Craigslist) and Neville Singham are/were both members/donors to Center for Constitutional Rights. https://t.co/6ntyd4qUt8 pic.twitter.com/pyBuZESbr2
— Lauren G 🇺🇸 (@lbc360) June 26, 2025
Makes me wonder if Craigslist is actually behind a lot of the paid protests. There are active ads on Craigslist to hire the paid protestors across the country. 🧐
— Lauren G 🇺🇸 (@lbc360) June 25, 2025