In a major victory for the GOP, the leadership of the key Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is being summoned to testify before House Republicans about evidence of fraudulent donations coming in on their watch, with a telling press release from the House Judiciary Committee revealing that new hires at the organization were pushed to accept donations while asking as few questions as possible.
For context, the House Committee on the Judiciary confirmed that Reps. James Comer (R-KY), Bryan Steil (R-WI), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) had issued subpoenas to a current and former ActBlue employee after they did not voluntarily agree to testify about the platform’s anti-fraud policies. In response, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones called the subpoenas “political theater.”
In a press release published on June 25, 2025, the House Committee on the Judiciary announced that it had issued subpoenas to ActBlue’s Former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey and another key official within the organization “for depositions regarding allegations that online fundraising platforms, including ActBlue, have accepted fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources.”
Furthermore, the press release confirmed that the two ActBlue officials had “failed to comply with the Committees’ voluntary processes, therefore warranting a subpoena,” adding, “The Committees have found significant evidence that ActBlue had ‘a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention'” during the period that Alyssa Twomey managed ActBlue’s fraud-prevention initiative, going on to point out that the platform “weakened its fraud-prevention standards twice in 2024.”
Adding to the dubious picture of Twomey’s leadership during her tenure at ActBlue, the press release clarified that the former vice president of customer service had dropped the platform’s fraud prevention standards “despite knowledge of significant attempted fraud on the platform, including from foreign actors.”
Moreover, even more suspicious was the House Judiciary Committee’s discovery that ActBlue’s training materials for new fraud-prevention staff “instructed employees to ‘look for reasons to accept contributions’ rather than assess potentially fraudulent donations with a skeptical eye.” The committee also determined that there were “several mechanisms” within ActBlue’s donation platform by which “bad actors could evade ActBlue’s fraud-prevention systems and make illicit donations.”
Importantly, the investigation into ActBlue was ordered by President Trump in a presidential memorandum on April 24, 2025, in which the president called for the DOJ to look into “evidence to suggest that foreign nationals are seeking to misuse online fundraising platforms to improperly influence American elections.” The president added an order to Attorney General Pam Bondi to report back “within 180 days of the date of this memorandum on the results of the investigation.”
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In response to the subpoenas, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones said that the House Judiciary Committee’s actions were “legal theater,” adding, “The Republican-led committees have also not addressed ActBlue’s legitimate concerns about the partisan and parallel inquiries by separate branches of the government being waged against President Trump’s and MAGA Republicans’ political opponents.”
Featured image credit: Rep. James Comer via X