{"id":2703835,"date":"2026-11-10T20:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassroots-single-mom-activist-behind-maryland-data-center-moratorium-had-a-helping-hand-from-marxist-leninist-group-tied-to-china\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:29:48","slug":"grassroots-single-mom-activist-behind-maryland-data-center-moratorium-had-a-helping-hand-from-marxist-leninist-group-tied-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassroots-single-mom-activist-behind-maryland-data-center-moratorium-had-a-helping-hand-from-marxist-leninist-group-tied-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grassroots\u2019 Single Mom Activist Behind Maryland Data Center Moratorium Had a Helping Hand from Marxist-Leninist Group Tied to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassroots-single-mom-activist-behind-maryland-data-center-moratorium-had-a-helping-hand-from-marxist-leninist-group-tied-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2703835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Taylor Frazier McCollum, credited with helping secure a moratorium on data-center development in Prince George\u2019s County, received major backing from the Party for socialism and Liberation (PSL). PSL-reportedly linked to Neville Roy Singham\u2019s China-associated activist network-amplified her petition and rallies, posting videos, supplying signs bearing its logo, and helping grow signatures from about 180 to over 20,000. Investigations and platforms have tied parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-denies-chinas-ties-to-anti-data-center-movement-in-us\/\" title=\"Trump denies China&#039;s ties to anti-... ... in US\">anti-data center movement<\/a> to China-linked networks, prompting calls for probes. McCollum has also appeared in PSL content on other issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><h2>Taylor Frazier McCollum\u2019s supposedly grassroots campaign against a data center in her community got extensive support from an experienced, China-linked activist group<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tTaylor Frazier McCollum (Instagram), Party for Socialism and Liberation logo (pslweb.org)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Taylor Frazier McCollum, the &#8220;grassroots&#8221; activist who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/11\/07\/nx-s1-6007770\/data-centers-activist-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">credited with<\/a> securing a moratorium on data center development in Prince George&#8217;s County, Maryland, had extensive support from a China-linked group that widely promoted her campaign and even provided signs with its logo for the on-site demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The group that collaborated with McCollum\u2014a struggling single mom with no history of activism\u2014is the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Marxist-Leninist group tied to notorious Beijing-based tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who has been accused of bankrolling an extensive Chinese propaganda network.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation is the latest evidence that the increasingly effective anti-data center movement can be traced, at least in part, to Chinese-tied funders. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btcpolicy.org\/articles\/foreign-influence-in-the-campaign-against-american-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation published earlier<\/a> this year by the Bitcoin Policy Institute linked several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-groups-orchestrated-china-funded-scheme-to-harass-seattle-data-center-developers-and-workers-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Soros ...s Orchestrated ...Funded Scheme To Harass Seattle ... Developers and Workers: Lawsuit\">anti-data center campaigns<\/a> to Chinese government-tied organizations, while the social media platform xAI <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GlobalAffairs\/status\/2093130747796148634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported in August<\/a> that its safety team had identified a network of Chinese &#8220;inauthentic accounts&#8221; that repeatedly spread anti-data center content. President Donald Trump has also <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/factbase\/trump\/transcript\/donald-trump-interview-laura-ingraham-fox-news-september-10-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested China is behind<\/a> the movement, while Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/doc\/61026blancheletter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for a federal probe<\/a> into the issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/political-party\/the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation-psl\/\">watchdog site<\/a> Influence Watch and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounder\/party-socialism-and-liberation-psl\">recent report<\/a> from the Anti-Defamation League, the PSL\u2014which is based in San Francisco\u2014is funded by, and shares staff with, Singham&#8217;s hundred-million-dollar pro-China Marxist network of activist groups. Specifically, Influence Watch reports that the PSL boasts funding and personnel overlap with the groups ANSWER Coalition, BreakThrough News, and the People&#8217;s Forum, which are key cogs in Singham&#8217;s influence network, which the Connecticut-born expatriate controls from China. <em>City Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/jim-fergie-chambers-neville-roy-singham-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported in June<\/a> that the PSL is central to that network, citing a prominent communist funder that Singham\u2019s organizations &#8220;redirect insurgent organizing into tightly controlled institutions&#8221; and that each of the network&#8217;s initiatives is designed to build up the PSL.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, McCollum, portrayed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/11\/07\/nx-s1-6007770\/data-centers-activist-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">credulous NPR profile<\/a> as a struggling single mom and waxing parlor employee &#8220;whose political awakening was triggered by data center development,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/stop-data-center-at-former-landover-mall-site?recruiter=1379887664&#038;recruited_by_id=9e0b1d70-6d82-11f0-879d-cffa007e3a82&#038;utm_source=share_petition&#038;utm_campaign=share_petition&#038;utm_term=b8291378566f4eeda0675e4b743d0c36&#038;utm_medium=copylink&#038;utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490623971_en-US%3A7&#038;redirect_reason=deprecated-url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started a public petition<\/a> in June 2025 calling on Prince George&#8217;s County leaders to block plans for a $5 billion data center on the site of a mall in the town of Landover that had been abandoned for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, the PSL&#8217;s D.C. chapter, which <a href=\"https:\/\/pslweb.org\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls for<\/a> the &#8220;socialist transformation of society,&#8221; posted a video of McCollum explaining the petition and accusing the developers of the proposed Landover data center of &#8220;environmental racism.&#8221; That video garnered hundreds of thousands of views and caused the number of signatures on McCollum&#8217;s petition to explode from 180 to more than 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to have been the start of a collaboration with the PSL, according to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> review. On Sept. 8, 2025, a week after that initial video, the group posted another video of McCollum asking locals to join an upcoming anti-data center rally outside a Prince George&#8217;s County public meeting. Days later, PSL posted a video of that rally with McCollum and other activists surrounded by protesters holding anti-data center signs emblazoned with the official PSL logo. &#8220;Stop big tech&#8217;s war on black communities,&#8221; one PSL sign stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message is clear, the people don&#8217;t want data centers and AI destroying their communities!&#8221; the PSL account wrote in a separate post.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum did not respond to a request for comment from the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> asking if she is being paid by PSL or another Singham group. The NPR profile said she and her daughter were evicted from their apartment in 2024, were living for a time at her grandfather&#8217;s house, and are still looking for a home. McCollum&#8217;s group, No Landover Data, meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1yjV-Fl6ASzen15LLebZajHv1TjVKZg_R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continues to distribute flyers<\/a> with PSL&#8217;s logo featured. One flyer states that data centers are &#8220;raising our power bills&#8221; and &#8220;allow ICE to terrorize our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the PSL has posted a dozen videos highlighting McCollum&#8217;s anti-data center activism and rallies led by McCollum since September 2025. The most recent video came in June, showing her calling for a permanent ban on data centers. &#8220;We want a ban. Full stop,&#8221; she said.        <\/p>\n<p>In July, the Prince George&#8217;s County Council <a href=\"https:\/\/marylandmatters.org\/2026\/07\/08\/prince-georges-county-extends-pause-on-hyperscale-data-center-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved a measure<\/a> to ban data center development for two years, at least temporarily blocking construction of the project McCollum had advocated against in Landover.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, McCollum <a href=\"https:\/\/chesapeakeclimate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/People-Over-Data-Centers-Conference-Program-11-4-2026-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivered remarks<\/a> at the &#8220;People Over Data Centers&#8221; summit in Baltimore, which was organized by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and featured Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). She spoke during a panel discussion titled &#8220;Grassroots Heroes &#8211; How Four Activists Achieved Success Against Big Tech on Data Centers,&#8221; an agenda of the event showed.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum, meanwhile, has also been featured in PSL videos unrelated to her data center activism.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in January, the group posted a video of her speaking out against D.C. youth detention centers, which she called a &#8220;jail for kids.&#8221; In April, it posted a video of her speaking at an anti-Iran war protest surrounded by Palestinian flags: &#8220;Trump and his war criminal buddies are telling us that this war is over but at what cost? We need a new system that puts people first and puts people over profits. Stand up and fight back and join the socialist movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The PSL has led dozens of rallies in D.C. over the last year protesting the Trump administration, the Iran war, the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and ICE.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCollum&#8217;s push backed by China-linked PSL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2703836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MixCollage-10-Nov-2026-07-43-PM-3003-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,544],"tags":[38161,87732,79179,87733,4837],"class_list":["post-2703835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-free-beacon","tag-china-ties","tag-data-center-moratorium","tag-grassroots-activism","tag-marxist-leninist-group","tag-maryland"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MixCollage-10-Nov-2026-07-43-PM-3003-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703840,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703835\/revisions\/2703840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}