Remember when Democrats spent four solid years howling about “foreign election interference” and demanding investigations into everyone within six degrees of Donald Trump? Turns out their own fundraising platform — ActBlue, the operation that processes virtually every Democrat donation in America — was funneling foreign cash from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Colombia straight into Democrat campaign coffers. And then they tried to cover it up.
One hundred and forty-six times. That’s how many times ActBlue employees took the Fifth when Congress sat them down and asked basic questions about it. Not once. Not a dozen times. A hundred and forty-six. That’s not “I’d like to speak with my lawyer” territory. That’s “I know exactly what we did and I’m not saying a word” territory.
A joint House report dropped on Sunday from three separate committees — House Administration, House Judiciary, and House Oversight — and the title alone tells you everything: “Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-Up Spur Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue’s Legal and Compliance Team.” Part *two*, by the way. They needed a sequel because there was too much fraud for one report.
Here’s how the scam worked. ActBlue processes over $16 billion in political donations — more than the GDP of some countries. During the 2024 election, when Kamala Harris supposedly raised $81 million in 24 hours after Biden shuffled off to the retirement home, ActBlue quietly *relaxed* its anti-fraud safeguards. They made it easier for unverified payments to slip through. Foreign money from overseas? Come on in, the water’s fine.
Harris went on to rake in $361 million in August alone. Over $615 million total by October. Numbers so absurd that even ActBlue’s own lawyers eventually warned the company that they “may have misled Congress.” That little gem came courtesy of the New York Times, of all places, back on April 2nd.
But here’s where it gets really fun. Within four months of the election, ActBlue’s entire legal and compliance team — you know, the people whose job it was to make sure donations were legal — either resigned, got fired, or mysteriously went on “extended leave.” Rats fleeing a sinking ship doesn’t begin to describe it. These people saw the evidence, realized what they’d been part of, and scattered like cockroaches when you flip the kitchen light on.
Five of those former and current employees got hauled in front of congressional committees. Every single one of them pleaded the Fifth to *every single substantive question.* Not “I plead the Fifth on that particular topic.” Every. Single. Question. That’s the behavior of people who know they committed crimes.
ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones — remember that name — had previously made what the report diplomatically calls “misstatements to Congress.” The rest of us have a shorter word for that. She got subpoenaed in July 2025, and ActBlue’s response was to suspend all cooperation with the House committees entirely. Nothing says “we have nothing to hide” like slamming the door in Congress’s face.
Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been on this trail since 2023. He filed a formal petition with the Federal Election Commission documenting “suspicious actors” using ActBlue for straw donations. And on Sunday — same day the House report dropped — Paxton filed a full lawsuit against ActBlue for misleading consumers about its donation processes.
Paxton didn’t mince words: “The radical left has relied on ActBlue as a way to funnel foreign donations and dark money into their political campaigns to subvert our laws and compromise the integrity of our elections. ActBlue lied to Congress and to the American people, and I will ensure justice is served.”
So let’s do the math here. Democrats screamed “Russia! Russia! Russia!” for years. They impeached a president over a phone call. They launched investigations, held hearings, wrote op-eds, and cried on cable news about the sacred sanctity of our elections being threatened by foreign money.
And the whole time, their own donation platform was taking unverified cash from Saudi Arabia and Iraq with the digital equivalent of a wink and a nod. They didn’t just fail to stop it — they *relaxed the safeguards* during the biggest fundraising blitz in campaign history.
(The projection with these people is truly something to behold.)
New York election law attorney Joseph Thomas Burns, who knows a thing or two about campaign finance, says ActBlue’s “legal troubles may have just begun.” He noted that ActBlue is “simply not taking the necessary steps to stop fraudulent and illegal political contributions from being made over its platform.” Understatement of the decade.
ActBlue, for its part, “consistently denies wrongdoing” and claims it has “always been forthcoming with Congress.” Sure. That’s why your employees pleaded the Fifth 146 times and your legal team fled the building. Very forthcoming. Extremely transparent.
Three House committees. A state attorney general lawsuit. Employees invoking the Fifth like it’s going out of style. Internal lawyers admitting they may have misled Congress. A mass exodus of compliance staff. Foreign donations traced to multiple countries.
This is the biggest campaign finance scandal in a generation, and the party that built its entire brand on “protecting democracy” is the one caught red-handed selling access to the highest bidder — including foreign bidders. Somewhere, a Russian bot farmer is reading this report and thinking, “Amateurs. We could never have pulled off something this big.”
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