An elderly Michigan woman on a fixed income opened her mail one day to find she had somehow donated $150,000 to Democrat campaigns.
Now Congress has the internal memos ActBlue fought to keep out of the congressional record – and they are worse than anyone said.
What those documents show is exactly what ActBlue told its own employees to do when foreign money showed up.
House Report Reveals ActBlue Told Employees to Accept Fraudulent Donations
ActBlue is the Democrat Party’s primary online fundraising platform – the engine behind AOC, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and virtually every major Democrat campaign in America, processing $3.8 billion in the 2024 election cycle alone.
Since 2023, House Republicans have been investigating whether that machine was quietly letting illegal foreign money pour into American elections – and whether ActBlue’s leadership lied to Congress to cover it up.
A new interim staff report released this week by three House committees answered both questions.
Reps. Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Bryan Steil found that ActBlue changed its fraud prevention policies twice during the 2024 presidential election, each time making it easier for suspicious donations to go through.
Internal training documents instructed fraud analysts to “look for reasons to accept contributions” rather than scrutinize them.
When analysts flagged transactions anyway, supervisors overruled them.
One supervisor cleared a donation while noting the donor “sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong, but none of their other signals raise any eyebrows.”
Another approved a contribution with a note acknowledging the donor appeared to be Canadian but used a Missouri billing address – deciding a Twitter account was enough to confirm the person was real.
A third declared a transaction with a foreign credit card, a foreign IP address, and browser fingerprints tied to previously rejected users a valid donation – because the platform could not confirm with certainty that it was fraudulent.
That reasoning appears in an official ActBlue internal communication now in the congressional record.
So what actually gets a foreign donation approved at ActBlue?
A supervisor’s own words: “The donor is foreign, but correctly entered their billing address.” Approved. pic.twitter.com/lL9iC4uZyF
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 16, 2026
How ActBlue’s Fake Passport Verification Let Foreign Money Into American Elections
ActBlue publicly claimed it protected against foreign donations by requiring overseas contributors to provide a U.S. passport number.
The new report reveals what that verification actually checked: the number of characters in the passport number.
According to an ActBlue customer service document obtained by the committees, the platform stored whatever passport information donors entered and moved straight to processing – without checking it against any government database or confirming the passport was real.
It “merely stores the information and continues with the contribution flow.”
Between 2020 and 2024, the platform processed 1,900 flagged fraudulent transactions.
At least 22 active fraud campaigns ran on the platform during that period, with several traced to foreign sources including IP addresses in Hong Kong and contributions connected to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Colombia.
ActBlue’s own board chairwoman acknowledged in April that “less than 1%” of the $3.8 billion the platform raised in the 2024 election cycle showed signs of foreign origin.
Less than 1% of $3.8 billion is $38 million.
ActBlue Misled Congress on Foreign Donations and Its Own Lawyers Quit Over It
ActBlue’s outside law firm – Covington & Burling – reviewed the platform’s practices in early 2025 and sent internal memos warning that CEO Regina Wallace-Jones may have given a misleading response to Congress in a 2023 letter describing the platform’s fraud safeguards.
One memo raised the specter of criminal prosecution if investigators concluded ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its foreign donation screening.
Covington & Burling’s warnings were not heeded – the firm resigned.
Every member of ActBlue’s internal legal and compliance team followed – departing, according to the House report, because of the platform’s “knowing and willful” acceptance of illegal foreign contributions and the “subsequent cover-up.”
One internal attorney escalated concerns directly to ActBlue’s board and senior leadership.
Two days later, the director of compliance “either quit or was fired” after more than a decade with the organization.
Texas AG Ken Paxton made a criminal referral to the DOJ and filed suit against the platform, and Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing former AG Pam Bondi to make ActBlue a Justice Department priority – a designation AG Todd Blanche confirmed in April.
Through all of it, ActBlue kept processing donations for every major Democrat running for office.
ActBlue Raised $586 Million for Democrats While the DOJ Investigation Continues
With the midterm election quickly approaching, ActBlue raised $586 million for Democrat causes in the second quarter of 2026 alone – and the machine still powers the fundraising operation for every major Democrat on the ballot this November.
Meanwhile the Michigan woman living in a trailer on a fixed income – the one listed for 15,000 donations totaling more than $150,000 – says she never authorized most of them.
What Republicans don’t have yet is a single ActBlue official who answered a question under oath.
The CEO invoked the Fifth 22 times. The co-founder lasted less than 30 minutes in his deposition before doing the same. A board member followed. Five employees collectively pleaded the Fifth 146 times across depositions.
Not one of them offered a word that could help ensure American elections are decided by Americans.
The Justice Department has the referral, the new report, and three years of evidence that a Democrat money machine processing billions in donations ran illegal foreign money through a character-count password check and called it security.
The only question left is whether anyone goes to prison for it – or whether the machine just keeps running through November.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Elkind, “Dem fundraising giant ActBlue accused of fraudulent donation ‘cover-up’ in explosive report,” Fox News, September 16, 2026.
- Josh Christenson, “House GOP report details how Dem fundraising platform ActBlue allowed illegal foreign donations,” New York Post, September 17, 2026.
- Amy Curtis, “Explosive Judiciary Committee Report Accuses ActBlue of Major Fraudulent Donation Cover-Up,” Townhall, September 16, 2026.
- “ICYMI: ActBlue CEO Refuses to Answer Lawmakers’ Questions Under Oath,” House Administration Committee, June 11, 2026.
- “Another Top ActBlue Official Pleads the 5th Amid Congressional Investigation,” The Daily Signal, August 20, 2026.
- “Attorney General Ken Paxton Makes Criminal Referral to DOJ Concerning Widespread Suspect Political Donations,” Texas Office of the Attorney General.
- “ActBlue Employees Took the Fifth in House Depositions 146 Times,” House Judiciary Committee.