ActBlue is to the Democrat party fundraising machine as WinRed is to the Republican side of the equation.
In a rather stunning outline by the New York Times [SEE HERE] the progressive outlet is reporting of serious concerns within the leadership of ActBlue related to their willfully blind reception of foreign sources of money to fund Democrat candidates.
The remarkable aspect is not just that ActBlue takes foreign funds, but rather the New York Times revealing internal legal discussions about it. According to the Times reporting, the Eric Holder law firm Covington & Burling, the primary legal mechanism for the ActBlue/DNC machinery, lies at the heart of the matter.
(NYT) […] The firm concluded that ActBlue’s chief executive had given a potentially misleading response to congressional Republican investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.
The letter from the chief executive, Regina Wallace-Jones, said ActBlue carried out “multilayered” screenings of contributions that helped “root out” those from overseas. In fact, the law firm found, some of the steps she had described were not always followed.
“This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue,” the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns. One memo raised the specter of a criminal investigation if prosecutors believed that ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions. (source)
To really appreciate the scheme that seems to be outlined by the internal documents, it is worth remembering that James O’Keefe previously did some boots on the ground research into ActBlue [SEE HERE – 2023] and found that multiple, perhaps thousands, of “donor” names and addresses were assigned to contributions the donors said they never made.
Put the two issues together and it appears that ActBlue may have been laundering foreign money into the DNC by using donor identities to cover the funding mechanism. Foreign funds, broken up into separate, smaller components and then attributed to Smurf donor identities.
As many surmised at the time, the donor IDs would be useful – only to launder the funds. That would explain why thousands of donors denied making contributions, yet FEC reports filed by ActBlue officials assign, falsely, their identity to donations.
Shortly before the 2024 federal election, on October 24th, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also submitted a criminal referral to the DOJ following his own investigation of this activity [SEE HERE].
TEXAS – Attorney General Ken Paxton made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) detailing the results of an investigation that revealed how suspicious actors seemingly use ActBlue’s political fundraising platform to make illegal straw donations. – SOURCE
Put the New York Times story together with the James O’Keefe investigation, and then overlay the Texas AG investigation and criminal referral, and there’s not just smoke -or fire- there’s an inferno ablaze.
[…] ActBlue is now all but declaring war on its own past lawyers, an extraordinary turn of events at a moment when President Trump has already ordered a Justice Department investigation into the organization. Democrats are nervous that any additional upheaval at ActBlue could destabilize the party’s critical fund-raising apparatus ahead of the midterm elections.
All levels of Democratic candidates, from incumbent presidents to school board aspirants, use ActBlue to raise campaign money from online donors. The platform has processed nearly $19 billion in contributions since its founding in 2004, building a donor database with millions of credit card numbers that is unmatched in American politics. Nearly 23,000 candidates and groups used the site in 2025, ActBlue has said, raising almost $1.8 billion from 52 million contributions, some of which recur every month.
[…] “It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” one memo states. “In addition, because ActBlue’s staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were ‘knowing and willful,’ a standard that both increases the penalties the F.E.C. might seek and gives the Justice Department jurisdiction for a potential criminal investigation.” (more)
It’s called, Money Laundering.
Who hasn’t known this for years NY slimes ?
And what has ever been done about it from the worthless FEC ?
Or any ethics committees laws or etc etc
Exactly. They all did nothing substantial except some talked, and some didn’t.
Need tar and feathers.
Government oversight is an oxymoron. This was planned way ahead. Somewhere in my data I saved a quote from someone who was in a high level union meeting and was told by the leader that billions of dollars would be flowing once Obama was installed.
Our politics are mostly a con job to keep us fairly quite while the insiders feast on our money.
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Obama’s campaign ravenously accepted donations without verification as a matter of principal.
Every news outlet knew it. Every repuglican knew it.
And what happened?
Bupkiss.
ACORN redux anyone? Now you see them, now you don’t.
USAID funds sent back.
“From Kiev, with Love”🎶
The last Blue Dog Democrat Senator, Jim Webb from Virginia said that the Democrat party no longer represents the working men & women of (Heritage) America but is beholden to special interests groups (and foreign lobbies)
Ah yes, and I am old enough to remember ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Sam Nunn and those democrats that loved America and fought for America. Long gone, but not forgotten.
Zell Miller of GA.
Another rare not-insane democrat.
So, water is wet.
My question is – with the msm reporting this, especially the NY Times – which faction of the Democrat party is throwing the other faction under the bus, as in is it the Clinton or Obama wing of the Democrat party that is going down, or, is this a 3rd party coup (the Marxist wing of the Democrat party) going in for the final takeover of what once was the Democrat party?
Neither?
It’s the NYT -masquerading.
If NYT reports it, the cops are pounding on the door.
Eric Holders firm…..
NYT times is pounding on the FLOOR, making a lot of noise warning Act Blue to get a new gig b/c this one is exposed. It’s so obvious.
astute analysis, B2003, we shall see…
btw, what a gorgeous 🫏 in the graphic.
wish the dems would pick a more appropriate mascot – like a chunk of radioactive waste!
I can’t think of anything more appropriate than a jackass…… just saying!
Bessie I think the Commies took it over already. Everything they do is Marxist. All the propaganda they push on us is Marxist.
And they want to put all of us in gulags. If you did not take the shot, you must submit.
Very good point, as Democrats are generally shameless and will never turn on each other without serious motivation.
My question is, why is the NY Times doing this?
They probably have gotten wind that this is going to be exposed before the midterms and they are trying to get ahead of it to mitigate some of the damage in fallout.
More likely they are alerting those involved who may otherwise have not been aware of what is coming.
Every story O hear coming out of the DOJ makes my brain say “is this related to Pam Bondi’s firing. Can’t help but wonder if she was protecting a lot of interests adverse to the MAGA base and Trump. Guessing she’s interested in a career in politics post-Trump and has been hedging a lot of bets.
I bet she gets hired by Fox!
I hope so. I don’t watch Fox anymore!
Trying to avoid an October surprise!
…and Bondi is out. DT must have someone in mind.
Possibly someone in charge there is hoping to avoid prosecution?
What always happens with criminal cartels is that they appear invincible while unified, but once a blow is actually struck it all starts to fall apart and the individual criminals seek ways to avoid their just deserts (and he who doesn’t act in time gets the full weight of everything laid on them).
I suspect that quite a lot of President Trump’s operations have actually been about wiping out the funding and cheating mechanisms for America’s enemies (i.e. the Democrats and RINOs) ahead of 2026.
The recent EO requiring full tracking of all mail-in ballots for them to be accepted by the USPS is going to seriously curtail mail-in ballot fraud, the Venezuela raid may have taken the ability to use cheat-ware from enemy hands, USAID slashed down kills a lot of NGO funding, etc.
I have a feeling that, while President Trump would have liked to have the SAVE Act passed, that his plans don’t actually require it (i.e. nice bonus, but not really needed) and its main purpose was, like with the failure of our NATO “allies”, about highlighting the intransigence of Congress in getting an 80/20 issue where the only possible reason to not support is if you’re only there by cheating passed.
Someone at the NYT probably realized what is actually happening and that its essentially too late to stop, so they’re trying to get out ahead of it so that they don’t get swept up in the corrective acts President Trump will be taking.
“ The recent EO requiring full tracking of all mail-in ballots for them to be accepted by the USPS is going to seriously curtail mail-in ballot fraud . . . .” We can hope!
Maybe a hefty portion of that cash that disappeared in Somaliasota fraud went into Dem coffers.
My guess: CYA for any potential RICO or FEC Election charges.
I remember when they claimed they were going to be fair and balanced and lied once again.
Maybe they need $$$/subscribers… They are probably probably hemorrhaging cash.
Just the propaganda mouthpiece for the Globalist left. THAT’S IT!
They are probably involved and implicated and are trying to build up their defenses.
They have already pivoted to their next fundraising scheme, and will use this to portray their honesty and fairness in the mid terms. Misdirection
ACORN, ACT Blue, when found out, transitions to the left’s next scam org, courtesy of the NYT dog whistle..
Why is the NYT reporting on this now? Something bigger than mere shenanigans seems afoot…..are the rats trying to out each other first?
There’s way more going on behind the curtain than we can see now. I pray that all truth is revealed.
This is how Spanberger all of a sudden got so much money at the beginning of the Campaign.
She captured the all-important CIA Thumb-Drive Swing Voter demographic.
Stone-cold Sociopath.
Perhaps with a New AG this will get the scrutiny it deserves.
Or pretend like he’s investigating, but in the end, just making it look good. He is a Rino. He would never prosecute anyone on the left. No better than Bondi when it comes to accountability.
Perhaps we should all admit that when we expect accountability from the DOJ there is no there there. No matter who gets in as the director, seemingly it’s a dead in the water situation.
Sundance, thank you for making it clear to me to expect nothing from the DOJ. The CIA silo crew rules. Disgusting and as useless as the DOJ is, I intend do what I can to deal with this reality.
President Trump is working around it as best he can. It is the most amazing and miraculous thing that he ever got to be our president. We focus on a problem that may be there long after we are all gone, imo.
On thing about reality is that we can turn our attention to the serenity prayer and keep on keeping on.
Remember SD’s articles that detail how the I.C. is upstream of the DOJ.
Maybe, just maybe, John Ratcliffe has established a beach-head while facing the hostilities of the I.C. Maybe Ratcliffe has assembled enough of a team that is now “on our side”, inside the I.C?
There will still be rogue, anti-MAGA factions in the intel agencies, and in the DOJ.
Elsewhere in The Swamp, the US Senate GOP “leadership” (the donor class) is publicly nullifying Trump’s landslide election win, by only approving 14 of 93 US Attorneys, among other actions to hobble the Executive Branch.
D.C. is a wilderness of mirrors.
Opportunity for the Blanche DOJ to get some convictions here.
Tick tock.
All MAGA is asking for is ONE BIG SCALP before the mid-terms. Is that too much to ask for? Hopefully PDJT realizes this. How hard can it be to get one person convicted out of all those traitors out there.
Great. Another thing not to prosecute
They turned off the address verification, etc.. …we all knew this years ago. The “paper of record” is trying to regain relevance?
Avoid complicity?
Why now and why the NYT? Trying to get our front of it so ActBlue 2.0 can launch before midterms? Or so they can use the “this is old news” trope?
💯 I agree with this completely
So do I!
The Election Funding is just as crooked as the Election Tabulation.
I wonder if Bondi’s departure is linked to Maduro singing like a bird about all his SmartMatic/Dominion CheatWare partners in America. PDT needs a tiger, not a puddy tat.
Maduro was also funding Black Lives Matters, whose fundraising links went straight to ActBlue.
Tina Peters is still in a Colorado Rendition Site for exposing the Maduro/CIA Voting Machines.
She should call Maduro as a witness.
Crush Act Blue now and the midterms in November will be a disaster for the Democrats.
I mean, they do always have their propagandists in the MSM, but I like the way you think!
The DoJ prosecuted a lot of software developers for making crypto wallets that made your transactions private. Used money laundering facilitation by third parties as the excuse. Yet Democrats can do first and second party laundering to cheat elections? Happy No Kings day.
Yet no one will be held accountable. Book it, Dano!
What are the chances the boys in DC are told to bury this?
More like the DC district court judges.
“Put the two issues together and it appears that ActBlue may have been laundering foreign money into the DNC by using donor identities to cover the funding mechanism. Foreign funds, broken up into separate, smaller components and then attributed to Smurf donor identities.“
Follow the money trail and you’ll find that the money came from Ukraine as the grift and kickback of the billions sent to them.
Oooooh. You may be onto the catch! ActBlue takes a digger and leaders get knicked but the investigation stops there and doesn’t go further to see where the money actually came from!? And where it came from before that!
And WinRed is looking over its shoulder right now too…..But to be fair, I think the RINOs primarily use their PACs to launder money and have refrained from using WinRed as their main mechanism since it’s easier to scrutinize and follow the money trail, i.e., ActBlue.
Busted.
Why woupd the NYT do this article? Keep in mind how far LEFT the times has shifted in the last 15 years.
This article by the NYT is to get rid of the old guard within ActBlue, in order to usher in a series of Democratic Socialists.
Money laundering it has been, but why would a far left rag like the NYT go after one of its own?
Regime change, knowing the DOJ wont do anything.
I expect 95% of Democrats, 70% of Independents, and 40% of Republicans to exclusively vote Blue for at least the next 15-20 years. It’s already happening.
Democratic fundraising should be the least of Republicans’ concerns.
Lol 🤡.
That’s literally some of the dumbest !!!! I have ever heard. Yeah, there might be some loss of the staunchly anti-war coalition if the Iran operations don’t wrap up and/or prices at the pump remain high. But your assessment is totally absurd.
If we cannot fix how ballots are counted for elections, headlines in the future will report such things as “truth”.
Absurd? LOL
I think your level of denial is absurd.
Dumbest? This commenter is a “Master Genius”! Just ask him!
USAID money, aka our tax dollars.
I am also wondering if additional ‘donations’ can be processed just using the credit card id data?
just set up user accounts to pay off the resulting cc bills to card issuers with other generous donor $$$
For the NYT to put this out you know it’s gotta be bad.
Now, eliminate all voting machines and let’s have an honest election for the first time in 80+ years. There’s no way in hell the congress should be as divided almost equally if elections were honest.
Again, refer to any electoral map….
And yes, I know there weren’t machines 80 years ago, but there was cheating.
Cheating without computers is a lot messier. You end up with more ballots than voters, or a “dead heat” election where someone wins by 30 points, etc. The computers keep minute by minute tabs on how much you need to just barely win, but not trigger any automatic recounts. You still have to manually stuff the paper, but you know exactly how much to stuff and in which precincts you have the margin to do it.
Yes, and I find it astounding that Newsom won in CA 2018 by 61.9% of the vote and beat the recall by EXACTLY the same percentage, 61.9%.
One more piece of the puzzle:
Remember when the Uniparty used to tell us that Dems outfundraise GOP by 10x is because “they have popular democratic support (D) / conservatives donate to charity not politics (R)”. Well the USAID funding dried up, ACTBlue got put on the hot seat, and lo & behold one year into Trump 2.0 and the GOP is outfundraising the Dems by 10x – $110m to $15m according to article below.
This isn’t a country divided 50/50. It’s 2% radical TDS hiding behind 30% of the population that is apolitical – heads buried so far into the sand they don’t know that USAID beneficiaries are donating to Dems in their name; homeless people signing idiotic liberal ballot initiatives in their name; and God only knows what else!
I hope the GOP in California shows up in June. This could be the year we shrug off our 2% dictators!
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/24/rnc-rakes-in-109m-while-dnc-scrounges-for-change-democrats-call-it-strategic-n2200570
Same old story: corruption exposed, nothing done about it.
After what they did to President Trump with just the false allegation of Russian involvement we’d better see arrests!!!!!
And find a way to make those arrests somewhere other than NY or DC
Excuse me for I have to wash some money…clean it up so to speak!
Democrats believe in globalism (open borders), socialism with a heavy sprinkle of communism, supporting the hatreds within Islam toward nasty non believers–especially Christians, abortion up to birth (selective baby killing for the mother’s health of course…a hidden narcissism at play there), group think including active racism as they define it…gosh, this list just goes on and on, does it not?
How do they get the power to effect such hard core beliefs? Look at those who wish to run for political office–those mellifluous talkers, better than any used car salesman/saleswoman/salestransgender person (let ‘s add salesalien here)!
Their most recent godfather is Barack Hussein Obama, the greatest liar I have ever encountered. Perhaps a real Judas in so many ways, perhaps. Cleaned up money rises again, just like that minaret of Obama’s in Chicago where the Iranian Valerie Jarrett will offer the “calls to prayer” on behalf of her master B. Hussein Obama. It’s right there, out in the open demanding your allegiance (and worship).
Yet, here comes Easter once again. If one has read the King James Bible from cover to cover, who could not love Jesus? Jesus offers pure love for everyone who seeks it! Even for democrats…can you imagine that? Easter provides a moment to focus on Love by realizing what Jesus offered us…pure Love!
Don’t need any money for that, clean or dirty–no sir!
Is it possible they are arrogantly bragging about it due to thinking that the Statute of Limitations has expired?
Remember when they bragged about how they stole the election? They didn’t think they could be prosecuted.
Wait, what?!? The New Your Times committed journalism?!?
No. Protecting the Guilty.
Here is the site you can find out some crazy stuff. You can put in your own zip code and see what your neighbors are up to.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?data_type=processed&two_year_transaction_period=2026&min_date=01%2F01%2F2025&max_date=12%2F31%2F2026
I only put in -$.01 to +$.01 beginning 1/1/2026 and got 608 results. Recipients include the NRSC and of course ACT BLUE and a few others..
Drill down or export a spreadsheet etc. and I found one person, self employed lawyer, who contributed $.01 (one cent, a penny) to ACT BLUE, 31 times in 2026, sometimes 2 or 3 times in one day.
There are also similar contributors to NRSC. A retired contributor sent $ .01, 48 times in 2026. On more than one day he donated 5 times! Yes, one penny, 5 times in one day.
The vast majority in my search were unemployed or retired. Odd numbers too like $4.21 or $2.08. Who does that?
This has been out there since O’keefe first reported it 3 or more years ago. The data is so out of whack in believability I have a hard time understanding why it is still happening.
It downloads into spreadsheets if you want, so anyone that likes fiddling with data will find all kinds of strange things.
Why aren’t these one cent donations multiple times per day showing up on monthly statements? If they’re showing up, why are they going unchallenged?
This IS crazy! I put in my zip code and searched for donation between 1.00 and 10.00 to Act Blue…found several entries of the same name giving multiple small donations in one day, for several days in a row. Always listed as “unemployed”. Just under $50 per day, 10 days in a row, multiplied by dozens of people in every zip code and suddenly we’re talking about some real money!!
This is a great, thanks. I haven’t totally figured it out but I can’t believe someone in my town already donated 80x since January all small amounts. Never heard of them either. Actblue needs to go down! I wish!
Reporting such as this often has a ‘limited hangout’ aspect. All this, and what are they not telling us?
WinRed for one.
After James O’Keefe’s expose, it was found that WinRed also had a smurfing problem.
Yes, along with the NRSC. If I was setting up the laundering operation, I would include some republican orgs just to make it look like it’s not just democrats and if caught, republicans would get implicated and the media would focus on that, not just democrats. See my above post.
Anti-US funds funding US elections. HMMM! Isn’t that illegal?
Sounds like the Dems are in “trouble” whatever that means.
Wonder if those smerf donations can begin life as US Taxpayer $$ into fraudulent child care, autism care, hospice care, covid-related, medicare, snap, medicaid etc.
Good question to wonder about. Maybe we’ll find out.
“No, now Sundance! It’s for the children, democrats care so much.”
Good Lord, just start with fraud, the question how much with these swamp demons? It’s time for justice!
Was Bondi sleeping on this, too?
Anybody else get those annoying texts from Robert Reich, the sock puppet for ActBlue? During the 2024 election season, and again when Elon Musk was at DOGE. And typical of lefty projection, this particular fundraising arm is branded “Inequality Media”:
https://www.inequalitymedia.org/donate
Anyone with the slightest marketing savvy would know I am NOT in their targeted demographic. Perhaps a contribution was made from overseas on my behalf.
Look into Robert Reich. Bet he sings.
Ghost of ACORN. Perhaps the new AG will do something about it.
Can’t we just put Paxton in as interim AG, knowing it’s temporary, then he can still campaign with great notoriety.
If you check on line at: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?two_year_transaction_period=2026&min_date=01%2F01%2F2025&max_date=12%2F31%2F2026 you can see all your contributions. This goes back years. In 2010 it shows 50+ contributions made of exactly $2.08 to various Democrat politicians, which I never made. Easy enough to check and then report the fraudulent contributions.
Yes, I check my own name every time I see some reporting on the issue. Although, it may be that the laundry checks voter rolls and only uses smurfs who don’t vote. The chances of them being in the Treehouse or checking their name for donations they never made are pretty low.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/acting-ag-todd-blanche-investigating-actblue-allegations-top-priority
“Investigating actblue is a top priority.”
~Todd Blanche
Empty promises.
Another job by Medusa McCord?
A year ago……
WTF has the Blonde Bimbo been doing all this time ?
And she was pleading to Trump to give her a little bit longer ???
He should have Dumped her between Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Better late than never.
Everyone I mean Everyone is on the take in this vicious game of Launder the $
My thoughts are,,, which ic branch is running this?
Oh, “The Wingman” strikes again.
The kind of guy the rank and vile of the DOJ want for AG.
Fraud in the money they take in for their politicians, fraud in the money they pay out to their voter base, and fraudulent elections to cover the difference in how many votes they need vs how many they can buy.
Wonder if this is the perfect opportunity for Ken Paxton to step in to the AG role? Cornyn will be allowed to run one more time in exchange for pushing through the SAVE Act immediately after their inexcusable “Easter” recess…Art of the Deal?
This is a YUGE deal Treeps. The fact that the NYT would divulge Act Blue lawyers memos and notes stating that they were accepting (likely) illegal donations is a giant signal. They are trying to get out in front of this story, 7 months before the mid-terms.
Todd Blanche named AG, next day NYT runs with this story? Everything about this says something bad must be coming out.
Of course we’ve all been down this hopeful road before, however when the Gray Lady points a finger at Dem’s questionable funding practices, we are somewhere we’ve never been. One can hope.
It’s not a mystery.
Obama and Holder are throwing the ActBlue Team under the bus to stay out of prison themselves.
Tina Peters’ 9 Year Prison Sentence Has Been Thrown Out in Massive Victory for the 70-Year-Old Election Integrity Advocate and for America
BREAKING UPDATE: Colorado Court Affirms Tina Peters’ Convictions But Reverses Sentencing Back to Trial Court, Ignores Trump’s Pardon and Supremacy Clause of Constitution – Joe Hoft
Dirty Cartel Judge Matthew Barrett, who threw away the key to begin with, gets to resentence her. Barrett called her a monster for alleging Election Fraud. Why have laws against stealing elections if it’s a crime to assert it? The Appeals Court said she had a right to her opinion. Imagine that.
Wray and Garland railroaded Tina in state court to stop PDT from freeing her. She is guilty only of preserving evidence after Obama/Soros Election Shyster Jena Griswold ordered all Election Evidence destroyed.
Think about it; if Tina was falsely asserting Rigged Elections, she would want the Election Evidence destroyed, not preserved.
Yet it was the Gender Goblin Griswold who was frantic to destroy evidence and silence Tina with the Dungeon Treatment.
In fairness, Sec/State Griswold and #FakeGovernor Polis also use Massive Mail-In Fraud and Rigged Registrations for their Push-Button Popularity, not just the CIA’s CheatWare Voting Machines, which they use for Regime Change worldwide.
Fun Fact: It was Fidel Castro who first grasped how Communism could be easily installed without messy revolutions and gunfire just by using shiny new Voting Machines. And EVERY SINGLE BRAND shares the same crooked SmartMatic DNA created in Venezuela.
Our election officials even sign non-disclosure proprietary agreements with the companies, even though Elections are the Sovereign Property of the People. That is called Obstruction of Justice and Conspiracy.
In reality, Tina is a CIA Political Prisoner within the United States, a patriot’s Patriot who has paid a high price to secure your Freedoms and mine.
We honor her and pray God, break her chains and bring her forth into the land of the living and let Your Justice come, in the Name of the Breaker and Avenger Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen!
Acts 16
Hallelujah!
Rest in the Vine: Our Decree: America and Tina are Free!
Just another division of the vote stealing industrial complex. So not only are foreigners allowed to purchase our congress critters, they get to vote for them too. National security? More like Grift security.